At some point in our research of vegemite, we learned about this baked item/monstrosity called the Cheesymite scroll. Apparently it's popular both here and in New Zealand, so when Reid happened upon it at the supermarket bakery, he picked one up for us to try.
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| Ready for action. |
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| Divvying it up, or at least trying to. The cheese and vegemite combination made it gooey on the inside. |
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| Hmm... we're really going to eat this?! |
Okay, so it wasn't that bad, it was just salty. Really salty. It tasted like a salty roll with some miniscule amount of baked cheese on top and some more salt on the inside. Reid said he could feel it sucking the moisture out of his mouth as he ate it. It smelled to me like some kind of cheesy roll we might buy at an American bakery, but only substitute all the cheese flavor for saltiness.
In summation: once was enough, and let it be known I have no desire whatsoever to buy any vegemite, even if that means we'll be avoiding what could very well be the most quintessentially Australian thing. I know vegemite has a bad reputation. I was willing to try it with an open mind, and from what I can tell from the Cheesymite scroll, it's not really that bad. It's not that it tastes bad or it's gross... it's just too salty.
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