Hands off our Vegemite

[Kathyp]

Lol.  An Easter season resurrection of an old thread  :-D

It's a miracle!!

[Richard M]

Vegemite? Disgusting stuff.

Australians are pretty naive thinking they can persuade the Rest of The World to like Vegemite; it's a bit like Moroccans trying to promote roasted sheeps eyes as the next big thing in the kitchen.

[Honeycomb king]

Yum roasted sheep's eyes, smeared in Vegemite. Great idea Richard. What do you reckon mick?

[SlickMick]

HK that sounds like heaven on earth

Mick

[SlickMick]

Good to touch base again Kathyp  because Vegemite (as we know) puts a rose in every cheek

Mick

[little john]

Vegemite? Disgusting stuff.

Suggest you try Marmite (it's the REAL thing  ).  I could happily live on that stuff, if only it wasn't so expensive.

One reason the 'colonials' don't like it, is that most have never tasted real Marmite !  The antipodean variety which carries that name is a totally different formulation.  See Wiki for the history ...

Just love your Fosters, but Vegemite ain't for me.  Maybe it's been designed for a sunnier climate ?

LJ

[SlickMick]

LJ, OK marmite may have come out first, but it took Aussies to improve it to its present exulted position today and call it Vegemite

Remember the jingle "it puts a rose in every cheek" 

Mick

[Kathyp]

Good to touch base again Kathyp  because Vegemite (as we know) puts a rose in every cheek

Mick

Where have you been? 

[Honeycomb king]

How is this all for timing. A street in Melbourne was renamed "Vegemite way", today.
Cook street in port melbourne, just near the Vegemite head office is now Vegemite way in honour of its 93 year history and ..........we'll I think we all know the rest.

Anyone on this forum have any interest in beekeeping? Since this thread restarted not one new thread. How australian are we all.

[little john]

Anyone on this forum have any interest in beekeeping? Since this thread restarted not one new thread. How australian are we all.

Ok - some beekeeping ....

Although my earlier post was a bit 'tongue in cheek' - I'm being serious with this:

bees love anything salty ... and Vegemite is nothing if not salty (as is Marmite, but let's not go there) ... so - has anyone ever tried lacing sugar syrup or fondant with Vegemite ? 

It might even result in Vegemite-flavoured honey ... 

LJ

[Honeycomb king]

What if I spread some on the top of the frames first to see if they will eat it or at least remove it. Seriously I'll try it on a hive.I'll get back to you.

[SlickMick]

Seriously HK we could be talking big money here... imagine if it solved CCD or scared SHB away, we could be rich and we wouldn't let LJ know 

Mick

[Lancej]

Waiting to hear the results HCK.

[little john]

Well - for once, I'm ahead of you guys ...

Having made the suggestion ... I figured why not try it out myself (without letting those kangeroo-wrestlers in on it  - didn't know then that you'd been planning the same thing).
So - about 2 hrs ago I put a blob of Marmite (yeah, I know - but that's all I've got) about the size of my pinky's top-joint on a top bar underneath an empty jar feeder.

I've just checked, and that top-bar is now as clean as a proverbial whistle.  And that's the neat stuff !  To be honest I thought it'd be too salty for 'em - but no - they love it.

Dunno where to go from here with this one - be interesting to see how they get on with Vegemite - there might be a Nobel Prize going if it produces a super-bee which feeds on Varroa mites.

LJ

[Honeycomb king]

Makes sense 25% protein. That  puts it up there with the better pollens. It's a yeast extract, and lots of bee feeds (commercial and home made) use yeast of some description. It's just the cost that would seriously put it out of contention.

[Kathyp]

so...It's a yeasty salty thing?  Sounds like a disease   

[Honeycomb king]

Kathy I think your right.it's something you catch of your parents. And it spreads from there (pun intended).

[amun-ra]

some of our members put a thin spread in hive beetle traps it also attracts them to the oil trap

[SlickMick]

I put a dollop on the landing board yesterday and it was gone in a couple of hours

Mick

[iddee]

Hey, Mick, amun-ra makes it sound like you are feeding the SHB.