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Tania...can't wait to see pics of Vegemite! (If you have posted them in another thread already forgive me...I haven't seen it yet. ) And also....I wish I could try some of this vegemite you speak of...I will try anything (food wise) once...as long as it isn't cooked bugs or something gross like that... ) I like cow tongue, Rocky Mountain Oysters, Calamari, etc...alot of things others don't like, so I would LOVE to give vegemite a shot!!! Can you get it in the U.S.?

My mother used to buy tongue all the time-for sandwiches. One day I asked what tongue really was. She said, "What do you think it is?" That's the last time I ate tongue. I couldn't believe it!

The Statler Brothers did a bit about food:

DON: do you like cow tongue?

HAROLD: Ugh! I'd never eat anything, that came out of a cow's mouth.

DON: Do you like tripe?

HAROLD: I'd never eat intestines.

DON: You like eggs, don't you?

HAROLD: Oh, yeah, I like eggs.

DON: Do you know where eggs come from?

HAROLD: Yep. (pause) Kroger's!

Originally posted by Jeanie G.
My mother used to buy tongue all the time-for sandwiches. One day I asked what tongue really was. She said, "What do you think it is?" That's the last time I ate tongue. I couldn't believe it!

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Okay this is what kills me...I have had people say to me, "How could you eat cow tongue??? I would never eat anything that the cow used to lick his butt with."...............but yet they eat rump roast. Any guesses what part of the cow that is???

I know that sounds like a childish question, but I was only nine or ten when I asked her! She made some sort of jellied, shredded roast beef and sliced it for sandwiches and called it "potted head." It had nothing to do with a head, so I thought it must be the same way with tongue. Hmmmm, rump roast, now where would you find that????

Mom was from Scotland, so she made some very different dishes. Tripe is not intestines. It is the lining of a cow's stomach. She made it with leeks and a buttery cream sauce. Believe it or not, it was very good. I'd be tempted to eat it again. I'm not going to hunt for the recipe, though!

Debbie, even though you know I don't believe in Vegemite, I have heard that it is a yeasty flavored spread that looks like molasses and has a similar texture. I understand it's one of those things you either love or hate.

OMG!!! I hope you don't think I was making fun of you, because I wasn't!!!! I understand totally not understanding what it was at the time!!!! Especially at that young of an age!

I wouldn't try tripe either...like I said, I will try any food once....but it LOOKED awful.....like a pale white honey comb...yuk....I may eat alot of weird things,... R.M. Oysters, Tongue, Calamari, etc....but when I resort to the LINING of the cows stomach....it's really time to cut me off!!

(PS....tried cow brains....they were mushy and tasted EXACTLY like you would think brains would taste......a little empty and not much substance! ) YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Debby...You crack me up, girl!

YES YES YES Vegemite Its nearly as good as coke

Well what I want to know is where can I get some of this Vegemite to try?

LOL Come to NZ or OZ .........LOL

I'm on my way!!! *packing bags* Hope you have a spare bedroom!!!

LOL Yes we have two BUT ( Yes theres a but ) you will have to share with a few cats ,

How did this thread go from talking about Vegemite, one of the best foods in the world, to COW TONGUES??? EEEEEEEWWWW!!!!!!

If anyone would like to PM me their address, I'd be happy to send out a little jar of Vegemite in exchange for a little toy for the kittens. There's one condition, you have to say it was delicious, scrummy and that you will never eat anything else ever again because all other foods just don't make the grade any more, compared with the wonderful Vegemite.

Awwww I see we share the same love of VEGEMITE
The Wonder Food MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I it !!!!!!!!

Debbie, I wasn't insulted at all! I just wanted to explain why I was so naive! I have to admire your courage, though. I would never try brains!

Poor Wellington Cat. You've been brainwashed! If there really was such a thing as vegemite, it would definitely used for tarri---Whooops, I'm not allowed to say that! Tania would tan my hide!

Is vegemite like marmite? If so then yup - it's delish but can take a while to acquire the taste (like 30 years)!!!!!!!!

Talking of yuk food - we drove to Italy a few years back and after driving down through France and Switzerland (including a gun-point brush with the border guards), we arrived back in a small French town and went to what looked like the only small hotel/restuarant there.

We checked in and went to eat - it was about 10.30pm by this time. Well, I don't speak a word of French, the language is a complete mystery to me. I ordered what looked like a stew - had a list of potatoes, carrots and some other bits in it. The owner asked if I was sure, and that it was a regional speciality (a guess alarm bells should've rung at that point).

Anyway the food arrived and it looked like soapy dish water with vegetables floating in it and some distinctly grey meat . . . I was so hungry I started eating it, but ended up just picking out the veggies as the meat was horrible. It was very soft and mushy and tasted of washing up liquid.

I went back to the room hungry and only then did Ken pipe up that he realised what the tete part of my meal translated as . . . cow's head (THAT was the grey meat).

Needless to say, I was even hungrier after that as I did not even have the carrots and potatoes to fall back on after that revelation!!!!

Yola, Please tell me that you love steak and kidney pie! I do. One thing I didn't like at all was the plum pudding my mother made for my father as a special birthday treat. It wasn't "yucky," but I was happy to let my father eat ALL of it himself! For our non-English friends, it's like fruit cake, but boiled (yes, boiled) in a bag!

(Don't tell Tania, but I would love to have that toy for my kitties, but look at the sacrifice I'd be making! No more teasing the Aussies about vegemite! Oh, what a predicament....) I hear it's the same as Marmite. Of course I'd have to admit that exists too!

Yola, have you heard of potted head, or pot'ed heed, as my mom called it. It was not head, of course. Good on a sandwich with mustard. She made molds of it in bowls and turned it out to slice.

Guess what I bought at the health food store while in Chicago? (They do have them here, but we were there....)

MARMITE!

And yes, Yola, Vegemite is just about the same thing as Marmite.

Debby - I've never seen Vegemite here in the States. But they do sell Marmite in health food stores and sometimes at the health food section in grocery stores...

VEGEMITE VEGEMITE VEGEMITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of cours it exsits....sheeeeeesh