omg v3g3mit3 is leik s0 tr3ndy n0w

[AllWalker]

they really understand the young and cool people - look what they've named their new snack omgrofl.

Seriously, I'd type it out but it makes me cringe. Go see for yourself.

They said they had 48 000 suggestions. This competition has been running for months. I heard much better suggestions like "Tigermite" or "Liquid Arse Paste". But no, some 60 year old marketing execs think they know what "cool" is.

Hardly pitworthy, so I'm putting it here.

[BTW - why try and make Vegemite milder? What, so that dumbarse foreigners wont gag when they lay it on six centimetres thick on their first try? That's my favourite part!]

[Revs]

I'm confused now, is there a way to make vegemite good?

[Inner Stickler]

Not really. But we humor our australian compatriots because they are all descended from convicts and I would rather not get shived in my sleep thank you very much.

[AllWalker]

There are foreigners who humour us now? I've never met one, nor has youtube.

Basically if it tastes bad you are doing it wrong.

[Ice Wolf]

I suggest a sweepstake as to how long that "cool" name lasts.

[Inner Stickler]

What the fuck is that u doing in that word huh? STOP ABUSING THE VOWELS FOR YOUR SADISTIC PLEASURE!

[AllWalker]

Lower case i followed by a capital is the real vowel abuse.

[Revs]

Ok I figured it out. Vegemite is an Austrailian conspiracy. They just wanted to get in on the whole world foods trend but didn't really have anything to offer but there was a company at the time trying to market their new organic roofing tar.

So the marketing boys repackaged it, gave it a name so that it resembles food and then pushed it on our unsuspecting taste buds. I'm pretty sure that the Aussies think it's a huge joke like "I gave the tourists some vegemite, watch this!"

OTOH they are a bunch of convicts so maybe it's actually pruno mayo gone horribly horribly wrong.

[Zuul]

"Creamier"? "Easier to spread"? I would've thought Kraft had learned their lesson after the stupid Kraft singles/vegemite smash-up they'd tried.

Look, if you want to combine vegemite and cheese, fantastic. But you combine it on your sandwich. Not in manufacturing.

The winner of the contest, West Australian web designer Dean Robbins, 27, told The Sun Herald: ''It's been difficult to contain my excitement; I actually leapt out of my chair when I heard the news. To think that I could go down in Australia's history is overwhelming."

Oh, you poor moron.

[AllWalker]

What??? The guy who submitted that was 27? Not, I don't know, 12?

And to all you Vegemite saysayers, let me say this - it is concentrated yeast extract. Yeast is the manliest creature on Earth since that werebear that was crossed with a vampire shark lord. In regular form it brings us bread, it brings us beer. Concentrate it, you get the world's richest and most delicious source of vitamin, um, B? Yeah, that sounds right.

Go yeast!

[Revs]

I would have called it Chuzzwazzers

[Oliveloaf]

I am reminded of the current Miracle Whip campaign in which the much-maligned mayo alternative is made to seem cool and trendy.

Yes, non-conformist 20-somethings party with Miracle Whip. Much be replacing retro-cool beer brands like Old Style and Rolling Rock.

[Zuul]

Yes, AllWalker. Vitamin B as in beer.

[CatInASuit]

You wouldn't see this happen to Marmite

[Dangerously Unqualified]

I haven't tried the Vegemite yet, but I understand it to be similar to the Marmite.

I still remember the first healthy teaspoon sized glop of Marmite I jammed into my pie hole.

Dammit, we're American's. We're big and loud and rude and brash. You can't just go about giving us things that we need to use only a smidge of. Hells fire, my "smear" of cream cheese on a bagel is usually at least an inch thick. We took a simple hot beverage like tea, which is served in cup fulls and turned it into an iced down sugar loaded concoction that we proceed to quaff in gallons. Gallons I tell ya. We're Detroit steel, 8-cylander engines with 350 cubic inches (not liters, homo) of sweet gas guzzling displacement. We're Desert Eagle .50 caliper handguns on a Saturday night, just to make a little noise.

And you go about concentrating beefy, salty, yeasty goodness in a product that one must rub just the faintest dab onto a saltine to fully appreciate. We just don't have that kind of control.

[Hatshepsut]

Vegemite and cream cheese? Mixed together? That's appalling. I vote they call it "elf boogers."

[Zuul]

Oh, Dangerously Unqualified, how did you know that was my favorite gun?

[Glazer]

Oh, Dangerously Unqualified, how did you know that was my favorite gun?

Oh come on, everybody loves a .50 cal. Desert Eagle,

[AllWalker]

Hey DU, I lay my Vegemite on thick. Vegemite on toast for me is like laying tar on... whatever goes below roads. It's just if you're going to give a kid a gun, start him off on a pistol with low recoil - the assault rifle can wait.

If you want to dive in the deep end fine - just don't complain that it tastes like crap when you do. Might as well pour coffee on your eyeballs and complain about the lack of caffeine.

[Revs]

The saga continues

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...30/2701070.htm

[AllWalker]

"Australians and New Zealanders will shortly be invited to help us make a choice," he said.


Um... how about you pick one of the other 47 999 names submitted, rather than run the competition again? Are they really that clueless?

I'd threaten to boycott Vegemite over this issue, but I really don't want to do that.

[Inner Stickler]

Do it! Do your tastebuds a favor!

[AllWalker]

No. Go back to eating your mayonaise or cream cheese or whatever liquid fat spread you use.

[Higgs Boson]

Um... how about you pick one of the other 47 999 names submitted, rather than run the competition again? Are they really that clueless?
.

Seriously. Surely the vast majority of submissions will be people submitting the same name they did the first time anyway?

[Hatshepsut]

I haven't submitted "elf boogers," so I suppose I could participate.

[The Original An Gadaí]

This reminds me of when they renamed the venerable Dandy comic Dandy Xtreme.

[Higgs Boson]

They are giving people a choice from 6 names:

VEGEMITE CHEESYBITE
VEGEMITE CREAMYMATE
VEGEMITE SMOOTH
VEGEMITE SNACKMATE
VEGEMITE VEGEMATE
VEGEMITE VEGEMILD

Vegemite Smooth is the only one that doesn't make me want to die. Everybody go and vote for it so I don't have to encounter 'Creamymate' every time I go to the supermarket.

[threnody]

SHIV YOU, INNER STICKLER!

[Dangerously Unqualified]

Cool.

I have found that the oblong Pretzle Flips fit perfectly well into the opening of a Marmite jar.

No more spreading for me, no more sticky brown butter knives.

Dipping seems more American anyway.

[Zuul]

Are Pretzle Flips the ones covered in chocolate? And now...Marmite?

[Dangerously Unqualified]

Oops, I actually meant FlipSides Pretzle Crackers:

http://www2.kelloggs.com/Product/Pro...?product=11431

But now that you mention it, chocolate pretzle with salty Marmite.

Hmm...

[mbossa]

Looks like Cheesybite won.

I'm not too disappointed -- I reckon that was one of the "least bad" of the bad options. When I voted, Cheesybite was either my second or third choice (can't remember which), after Smooth and possibly Vegemild. All the options that ended with "mate" were far too...well...cheesy.

[Zuul]

Yeah, the -mate ending ones were a bit too cutesy. I suppose Cheesybite is tolerable by comparison.

[Higgs Boson]

Argh. The only remotely acceptable response was Smooth and even that made me contemplate several varieties of -cide. Goddammit Australia and possibly New Zealand. I'm disappointed in all of us. Except me, I'm still pretty great.

But the rest of you and your 'cheesybite'? Ugh.