Red Bull was developed in corporation with Chaleo Yoovidhya, the creator of Krating Daeng, and the Yoodvidhya family actually owns 51% of the Red Bull company. that's how they are "getting away" with it. both companies are simply owned by the same people. also, Krating Daeng means "red gaur" - a bovine native to South-East Asia.
Dietrich Mateschitz adapted it for the European/American markets but never changed the branding or really even the name since it's as close to a literal translation as possible. The thing he brought to Red Bull was the marketing, first as a party drink for students and then through extreme sports.
Vegemite has such a stronghold in Australia. There’s a classic line in the original puberty blues movie where the girl is home sick and the Mum’s instant reaction is to offer her “Vegemite toast and a cup of tea?”. We have cheeseymite scrolls (Vegemite and cheese) in our big chain bakery stores, and it’s offered as a condiment at every cafe or hotel brekky. Even on our hospital breakfast trays. We’re happy little Vegemites as bright as bright can be 🙃
Men At Work, "Down Under": Buying bread from a man in Brussels He was six-foot-four and full of muscle I said, "Do you speak-a my language?" He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
As a lifelong KitKat lover in the US, the quality of chocolate in ours has gone down hill in recent years. Hopefully the ones in other countries are still better quality.
I need you boys to know that when the marmite was revealed, me and my partner (both Aussie) immediately started chanting "VEGEMITE, VEGEMITE, VEGEMITE" and then cheered like our bloody sports team won a game when vegemite was revealed.
As an Australian, I applaud Ben for spreading the correct amount of Vegemite as opposed to every American late night show that eats entire spoon fulls.
So then was the Australian that introduced me to it fucking with me? Because she SLATHERED it on everything we tasted Vegemite on. I didn't hate it, but MAN was it too intense the way I had it.
@@kJ922-h3j We do - we just don't care and can't be bothered mentioning it. They're not quite the same - share some common ingredients and have the same flavour intentions, but they are distinctly different taste and texture wise.
There is a Marmite in NZ, it is very different to British Marmite. In NZ it contains caramel. In NZ UK Marmite is sold in the same jar and lable except it is sold as Our mate.
When my mom was a kid, she grew up in the extreme NW corner of Minnesota. At the time KitKat wasn’t available in the States. One of her aunts was the postmistress at a post office in a border town. In the summer when visiting her aunt, she would walk across the border into Canada and buy KitKats.
I don't bother spreading it thinly. I could eat it by the spoon. It has had a decades long absence from my life, because I moved to the Netherlands as a kid and could only get it whenever I visited the UK. It would take years for me to finish the bottle (it one of those things that never go off). Then I found a store in the Netherlands, but had to travel a bit. Luckily, there's an expat store now in the neighborhood and I can get it there.😋🤩
@@simbryce4475 Nope. We got nothin' like it. Or at least it's not popular. I'm sure there are yeast spreads here... somewhere, but not at chain grocery stores.
I love that KitKat is a goodlucks charm, cause Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ) sounds so cute but Japan basically has a flavor for every person which makes it that much more sentimental
I'm glad Barry mentioned soft cheese with Vegemite. A classic school sandwich, at least in the 80s, was a Vegemite and cheese sandwich, the cheese of choice usually being Kraft Singles. Sitting in the hot summer Aussie sun, the cheese melted slightly as well. Even today, at 51, I love a Vegemite and a Kraft Singles slice on hot buttered toast for brekky (breakfast).
American here. I've bought both Marmite and Vegemite to experiment with. Marmite spread on warm toast -- crucially, with butter! -- is a good breakfast, actually tastes good if you get over the childish impulse to spread it on thick. Both work as bouillon for broth or stock, but I like the Vegemite better that way. Mostly I would prefer to add nutritional yeast to my food over either, though.
As a New Zealander, I am so offended that you guys didn't try NZ Marmite which has a texture in between British Marmite and the Australian vegemite. However I still thoroughly enjoyed the video.
New Zealand Marmite is apparently different too. According to my Father UK Marmite has changed over the years as Lager became more popular. I do remember the London Pride Marmite being different. I love the stuff, so expensive in the US... (Even though so many chefs use ut in cooking)
If Spaff likes the experimental KitKat flavours, there's plenty to find (JP only usually, though). Apart from the sake one that Ebbers mentioned, I recall red wine, soy sauce, wasabi (not too spicy), strawberry + red bean, and a creme brulee one that was designed to be lightly toasted before eating.
If they are to do surströmming again they must first make sure that the can is transported cold - it is supposed to be refrigerated, and second that they eat it with the correct accompaniments.
Wow you just hit me with nostalgia! I went to Japan back in May last year and I also came back with a huge variety box of Japanese Kit Kats that I brought into work for everyone to enjoy. Suffice to say, they were VERY popular and the contents of the box was polished off in the space of a few hours! I asked our tour guide the best place to buy them and she recommended a place called “Don Quixote”. She was right and I had a bought a bunch of Kit-Kat products! I wonder if Jamie purchased his stash from there also.
Vegemite was re- named "Parwill" at one point in history in competition with Marmite. The catch phrase being "if Ma might, then Pa will" Terrible pun.😂
I was told there was a competition to fund the name of the Australian yeast extract spread, and "Parwill" was a strong contender, but "Vegemite" eventually won out.
@rachelwoodcraft3783 You may well be right. I just happened to be reading the Wikipedia page for vegemite last week, in reasearch for a video, and it said the name was changed for a period. Wikipedia's not always the best source of factual information though 😊
As a pom living in Australia for over 20 years, I was brought up on Marmite, there is a Australian version of Marmite called mymate. Great that you mentioned cheese going with vegemite as we have a version called cheesymite which is a combination of vegemite and cheese spread, also all bakers over here in Australia also do cheese andvegemite scrolls which are to die for.
What you need to try is Cenovis- the Swiss version of Marmite! It's gentler, softer, much less of a kick in the teeth. It always makes me think of the bottom of a ready-salted crisp packet. Comes in tubes or in pots, and it's ICONIC here. So good on bread with butter. Invented 1931.
As a Thai myself, I want to share the history of Red Bull. Red Bull was first started in Thailand since 1975 with the same product that you have in this video. After that, an Austrian billionaire founded a new company together with the Thai owner, Chaleo Yuwidraya. The export version in the aluminium can was created afterward for the international market.
The first time I tried Vegemite was about 25 years ago in a backpacker hostel in Turkey which was run by an Australian couple (and 99% of the guest were from Australia too). The breakfast consisted of just 3 items: slightly burnt toast, milk tea and Vegemite. I can't say that I liked it. Same goes for Marmite: I was introduced to this "treat" almost 40 years ago in the UK, when my girlfriend and I stayed at a B&B in Nottinghamshire and the lovely old landlady insisted that we should have it for breakfast because "it will help you with those things that young couples do when the light is switched off" (I will never forget her wink when she put generous amounts of Marmite on our toast). Lately I started to like Marmite (Vegemite is not so easy to find here in Germany) but I usually eat it with something fruity like quince jelly or lemon curd.
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 I don't know if it's still sold there but I found them in my local Edeka... And I think when it was still Real, that one had it, too. In my region it was Vegemite over Marmite in terms of availability. I like neither, so I haven't looked for it for a few years now..
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 either on amazon or in some of the world's cuisine type of stores / aisles. There are also some Australian food / items specialty stores in Frankfurt and Münster and probably in other cities, I imagine in Berlin or München you could find anything.
We had Macha and Raspberry Kit 10:17 Kat bars in the shop I work at. It was a limited time. Most of them expired and I was the one that had to destroy them all.🙂🇨🇦
I think you could make a whole yeast episode. In Germany I once bought a drink called Vitamalz. It tasted a lot like marmite. When it's room temperature it smells and tastes like a compost heap, when it's cold it's really sweet tasty and more-ish. Really fascinating!
When I used to live in Japan I would try to get all the new flavours of everything that would come out, specially Kit-Kat, my favorites were the ones that would come in easter, the banana flavour ones!
The vegemite/Marmite segment was so funny to me because when my Aussie friend brought me vegemite, she said the trick was, don't slather it on. Just use a thin layer, on buttered toast. Here comes Barry with that absolute schmear of Marmite 😅 But of course she meant for when you arent used to the flavor, so it was Jamie I was concerned for. I love to use it the way Sorted uses miso, to add a bit of umame depth to sweet things
Dunno if someone has mentioned this already, but the kitkats in Japan are also a regional thing. If you go to major railway stations across the country they will stock the kitkat flavour associated with their region so when you buy some to gift to your friends and colleagues they will probably expect that region's delicacy! Haha.
In Thailand there are dozens and dozens of energy drinks, all in bottles like the Thai Red Bull. Any 7-11 (are there are lots and lots of these) will have a whole section of the cold drinks section with at least a dozen different brands.
Awesome, a fellow extreme connoisseur. I did that with Cadbury Creme eggs. I think it was 48 in the box, you know the ones they always had on the counter top near the till of every paper shop. Took me 3 days to eat them. 🤢 Took me several years to eat one again after that. This was back in the 90's before Cadbury sold out and ruined their chocolate by making it cheap tasting crap. Kind of felt like the first time you get seriously drunk on cider or Thunderbird and vow to never drink it again. The thought makes your tummy turn over.
In Canada 7up and Pepsi are both sweeter and flatter than Sprite or Coca Cola. My favourite candy bar is a Coffee Crisp but I often default to a Kit Kat if I want a hit of stronger chocolate. We also have a local favourite chocolate bar called a Cuban Lunch which was discontinued for years until the recipe was bought and it is again produced for all of those that grew up loving it.
So Ben was right about the gift culture for kit kats in japan, but it actually has to do less with limited editions as far as time but more location! When traveling it is typical to return with Omiyage or souvenirs for family and friends and these tend to be local delicacies, there is a whole market surrounding this culture. Kit Kats have capitalized by having their flavours localized to specific prefectures, cities, and even train stations!
You should try New Zealand Marmite! It's much nicer than the UK version. A few years back the earthquakes in Christchurch damaged the production factory and there was a shortage of Marmite across NZ, so people started buying/selling Marmite online for hundreds of dollars. It was a national catastrophe!
Fun fact…back in the 1920s sales of Vegemite slumped so to get some of the Marmite eaters to change over they changed their name to PARWILL & the slogan was, “Marmite, but Parwill”.
The thai red bull used to be consumed by night bus drivers in Thailand, to keep them awake for the long overnight trip. After several still went to sleep, whilst driving (hence causing really bad accident), it was "banned".
@@_ashraya_ Did you really have to say it has to be consumed? I don't think anybody would think they would fail a breathalyzer by merely holding a unopened can in their hands.
the way barry eats the kit kat, he clearly needs ferrero duplo in his life! it is much easier and satisfying to eat the ends, sides and top part of the duplo first before eating the wafer part. this is why i never thought about eating a kit kat that way.
If mad scientist was a profession I feel Ben would be right at home with it. Just with the way he takes such delight with explaining things, while some of the things he says with such a straight face.
As an Aussie… I’m so shocked no one spat it out, the amount of times I’ve seen people eat it wrong or at all and just physically react to it is incredible. 😂 Granted… I am not eating it without butter, has to be on toast, and not the amount Baz had 🤯
2:50 "Chatpat ka taste" the "ka" directly translates to "of" so that statement essentially means "taste of chatpat" and "chatpat"is used to describe a tangy-spicy sort of taste.
I've never felt more vindicated in my weird eating habits than when Barry 100% nailed the way you're supposed to eat a kitkat. It makes the ratio in the last bites better. Frontload the sweet stuff, then have the less sweet stuff when it's done.
Fun fact: Vegemite was originally called 'Parwill' and used the slogan "Marmite... but Parwill". I'm an Aussie that's not a huge fan of Vegemite but I do enjoy cheesymite scrolls and will also say that Vegemite makes a great addition to gravy, really boosts the umami factor.
Could you do an episode on recipes for products differing between countries? Some companies for example use cheaper ingredients, or stuff that's forbidden in the EU. It's not only the nostalgia that makes things different, sometimes it's just money.
11:02 I swear it sounded like Ben said Mai Tai fighters. Now all I can think of is Mortal Kombat...But all the fighters are bartenders. The Mai Tai fighter probably won't fare too well against the Gin and Tonic fighter, but could probably kick the Cosmopolitan fighter's ass.
Here in South Africa we also have an alternative to marmite called Bovril, which is the meat version of Marmite but my family also has a sweet and salty dessert in marmite cake. Which is essentially a vanilla sponge cake with marmite mixed with melted butter poured over the cake while hot and then topped witb cheese.
I was wondering if you guys could do a electric tea kettle and maybe other appliances care episode. How do you clean them since you can't wash it in the sink and other items like that maybe a coffee machine and other basic kitchen equipment. ( Especially a tea kettle one for people who don't live in the UK that don't have as much experience with one )
Just stir a couple of tablespoons of citric acid (powdered) into recently boiled water in your kettle and leave it for 30-60 mins. It will disolve limescale better than practically anything. The fact it is a safe cooking ingredient, means that you don't have to do anything other than rinse it out. You can repeat the treatments as needed. The outside can just be wiped down. I've cleaned my kettles/water heaters like this for years.
When I was a child back in the 1980s; my Dad’s company had the contract to paint Rowntree Mackintosh factory in York every year. I used to eagerly sit in the car waiting whilst he priced up bits of the job just so I could get some misshape quality street. But one year I learnt about the new giant KitKit there - a supersized KitKat to be launched in the Saudi market. I rushed to school and no one believed me. Then a few years later the chunky KitKat was launched, a single finger of the giant KitKat prototype from all those years ago. Sadly; Rowntrees got sold to Nestles and they of course lied about closing the factory (which they said would never happen but did). They told all previous contractors that there services were no longer required, and all the short cuts came in. Those things would never have happened under the formidable Mrs Mackin!
1:59 I’m not a fan of Masala Thums Up/Soda but I like the Nimbooz as it is. Also, we used to have a brand called LMN (Lime Cordial meets Soft Drink) that was just brilliant.
I live in the US and in high school I went to a week-long band camp (yes, this is a ‘this one time, at band camp’ story!) a few states away. We had a group of students who came to the camp from Australia who went around all week daring the US kids to try Vegemite. They had a squeeze bottle of it, like a toothpaste tube, and we’d each take a swipe of it. It wasn’t bad actually, it kind of reminded me of soy sauce with how salty and umami-y it was. I’d love to give it another shot on some buttered toast!
Not true re Vegemite. It's interesting though - seems a lot of people think it is. A quick google search shows that it isn't and can in fact be bought there or imported.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sometimes eats KitKats like Barry does. Sometimes I eat them the regular way and other times I eat them like Barry does it. And occasionally I'll do what Barry does, then dismantle the layers and eat one layer at a time.
There’s some history between Marmite and Vegemite. Vegemite was called Parwill at first. The marketing people thought it would be a clever line: Marmite (Mother might) but Parwill (father will).
When I was a uni student in Indonesia c.1998-2002 I survived all nighters for revisions in exam weeks with 2 bottles of Krating Daeng. Years later I saw a Red Bull ad and thought to myself that looks oddly similar to Krating Daeng lol. Also I now live in NZ and think you guys might want to do yeast extract comparison including the kiwi version of Marmite, which is quite different than the UK one (and different than Vegemite!). There's also something else here I tried the other day called Promite. Maybe allow Jamie to sit the episode out 😁
Aussie here, the way I describe Vegemite to others, is like a Aussie Soy Sauce! Sucks by itself, but used with other things butter and toast, minced meat etc. And you GOT to have it super thin coated
In the US we get some of our own fun special edition flavors. Ones I have seen are blueberry muffin and pumpkin spice, which I enjoyed so much that I order a bag special
Vegemite is great as a beef flavour enhancer in stews and soups, and I eat it on toast as thick as Baz and its great with cheese. But my best one is buttered toast with vegemite, fried runny yolk egg on top and covered in baked beans. Best combo ever. Bit of cripsy bacon is nice as well.
Idea for a video - Cook dishes with things that Jamie hates and see if it changes his mind about them. We used Marmite a lot in our cooking in Malaysia. Marmite Fried Chicken or Pork Ribs is a common dish in many Chinese restaurants here. And it's AMAZING! I will be very surprised if Jamie doesn't like it at all 😂
Some of the flavors of KITKAT are made to be baked in an toaster over for 10sec like the sweet potato pie to give it a different taste and texture. While other are made to be freeze like there strawberry cheesecake ice cream flavor.
Marmite, an Vegemite, are best used as additives to soups, stews, bolognese, or other long cooked, wet dishes. It adds a lot of umami and salt without requiring meat products.
Red Bull was developed in corporation with Chaleo Yoovidhya, the creator of Krating Daeng, and the Yoodvidhya family actually owns 51% of the Red Bull company. that's how they are "getting away" with it. both companies are simply owned by the same people. also, Krating Daeng means "red gaur" - a bovine native to South-East Asia.
Also, the "UK" version is actually Austrian.
Exactly @@Zelmel
Dietrich Mateschitz adapted it for the European/American markets but never changed the branding or really even the name since it's as close to a literal translation as possible. The thing he brought to Red Bull was the marketing, first as a party drink for students and then through extreme sports.
Red Bull allows your grandchildren to get away with running down a policeman.
How did they not know that (or bother to google Red Bull's history before recording) 🤣
The comic timing of Ebbers telling Baz which way to vom swiftly followed by the impromptu 7UP explosion had me crying laughing 🤣
I came searching for this comment cause I just had to pause the video to deal with me literally crying laughing 😂🤣
Pretty sure Ben's comment didn't help either! It prompted just the tiniest bit of a laugh, which gave way to all the rest! 😂
I rewatched that moment so many times that I forgot what the video was supposed to be about.
I never usually laugh out loud watching anything. This made my head hurt.
Ben's mispronunciation of Muay Thai as Mai Tai has me picturing a martial art based on cocktails. 🤣
Hey, I've had a few too many Tiki drinks and gotten a little too rowdy.... maybe thats what they're alluding to?
A sport I could get behind😂
I believe that's called Flair 'Tending
martial art based on cocktails?
Drunken master Wushu? :D
Drunken kick boxing. Seen plenty of pissed idiots attempting that martial art after a night out.
Vegemite has such a stronghold in Australia. There’s a classic line in the original puberty blues movie where the girl is home sick and the Mum’s instant reaction is to offer her “Vegemite toast and a cup of tea?”. We have cheeseymite scrolls (Vegemite and cheese) in our big chain bakery stores, and it’s offered as a condiment at every cafe or
hotel brekky. Even on our hospital breakfast trays. We’re happy little Vegemites as bright as bright can be 🙃
you forgot also at Mc dolands with the free huney and jam till they stoped doing that
'm in canada now, and Cobbs (the Canadian Bakers Delight), does a pesto scroll (in place of vegemite). It's close but not the same
Men At Work, "Down Under":
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscle
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
i dont eat vegemite often, but when i do, i love a good cheese and vegemite sandwich.
And we have all sorts of Vegemite flavoured items, Kraft singles being the first that comes to mind.
It’s nice to see the casual sit down format again. I see that table and I’m assured no one’s under duress. Unless it’s their taste buds or something.
But can you be sure they aren't under dressed? They could be totally naked from the waste down and we wouldn't even know.
Jamie's evil lil laugh when he broke the kit-kat weirdly gave me such a good giggle given that's what I do when I cause chaos :'D
6:30 cheeky Ben sneaking a kit kat there 😂
I missed that, you’ve got some sharp eyes!!
I saw that too
I saw that too and was waiting for the boys to call him out, haha! I went back to check, I think it might have been the wheat one?
Benjamin "Fast Fingers" Ebberell
We all saw it Ben
As a Norwegian, I've never had a KitKat. It's simply not marketed over here, as the market was already taken by our own version Kvikk Lunsj.
As a lifelong KitKat lover in the US, the quality of chocolate in ours has gone down hill in recent years. Hopefully the ones in other countries are still better quality.
@@rachelp2468the kvikk-lunsj is miles better, always has been :)
I’ve had both kitkat and kvikk lunsj, but kvikk lunsj is just superior because we have better chocolate in norway!
Catchy name! Simply rolls off the tongue. ;)
@@MagikGimp It's in Norwegian 😂
😂😂😂 that spontaneous challenge failure from Barry was pure comedy gold.
I almost peed my pants laughing.
Everyone here must be 12.
I need you boys to know that when the marmite was revealed, me and my partner (both Aussie) immediately started chanting "VEGEMITE, VEGEMITE, VEGEMITE" and then cheered like our bloody sports team won a game when vegemite was revealed.
Funny how people think that caffeine is the only psychoactive in redbull.
As an Australian who loves Vegemite, I immediately noticed how much more liquid Marmite was. Vegemite is really nice with cheese or avocado on toast.
I hadn't realised (or remembered) how like Promite Marmite is.
As an Australian, I applaud Ben for spreading the correct amount of Vegemite as opposed to every American late night show that eats entire spoon fulls.
I seriously thought Aussies knew vegemite was a version of the British original…Marmite
So then was the Australian that introduced me to it fucking with me? Because she SLATHERED it on everything we tasted Vegemite on. I didn't hate it, but MAN was it too intense the way I had it.
@MissingmyBabbu I feel like with any unique food from another country you shouldn't introduce it in huge amounts.
@@kJ922-h3j We do - we just don't care and can't be bothered mentioning it.
They're not quite the same - share some common ingredients and have the same flavour intentions, but they are distinctly different taste and texture wise.
There is a Marmite in NZ, it is very different to British Marmite. In NZ it contains caramel. In NZ UK Marmite is sold in the same jar and lable except it is sold as Our mate.
Yes I wish they had done NZ marmite! I moved to the UK for a while and tried their marmite and was so confused
@@serenemolly What is the taste difference? the UKs one looks so runny
Aussie marmite is more closely aligned to vegemite, than British marmite
Yeah definitely need to feature some NZ marmite/NZ products. I think our marmite is really interesting and not often featured.
NZ marmite is just gross, sweet and gross. Vegemite is the best.
When my mom was a kid, she grew up in the extreme NW corner of Minnesota. At the time KitKat wasn’t available in the States. One of her aunts was the postmistress at a post office in a border town. In the summer when visiting her aunt, she would walk across the border into Canada and buy KitKats.
Vegemite (spread thinly) on toast (with butter), eaten with eggs-fried, scrambled, or poached.
Breakfast perfection at any time of day or night!
Mix with butter and use as a basting sauce for roast chicken. It's phenomenal 😍
Vegemite and peanut butter on toast is excellent too!
I don't bother spreading it thinly. I could eat it by the spoon. It has had a decades long absence from my life, because I moved to the Netherlands as a kid and could only get it whenever I visited the UK. It would take years for me to finish the bottle (it one of those things that never go off). Then I found a store in the Netherlands, but had to travel a bit. Luckily, there's an expat store now in the neighborhood and I can get it there.😋🤩
Vegemite, avocado, chicken and cheese toasted open face
It's great added to soups and stews too.
Barry's obsession with Marmite is magical. As a USA viewer (that didn't develop our own version) I appreciate Barry's love of Marmite.
Isn't Promite a US version of Marmite? It's a similar yeast/black breakfast spread type thing, but sweeter imo
@@simbryce4475 nah mate, promite is also Australian
@@simbryce4475 Nope. We got nothin' like it. Or at least it's not popular. I'm sure there are yeast spreads here... somewhere, but not at chain grocery stores.
I love that KitKat is a goodlucks charm, cause Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ) sounds so cute but Japan basically has a flavor for every person which makes it that much more sentimental
Even cuter, each bar has a little space on the back that you can write the person's name on it, just to personalize it that extra little bit
Ben really butchered the pronunciation. 😂
@@Qrofol That's uncalled for 😕
I'm glad Barry mentioned soft cheese with Vegemite. A classic school sandwich, at least in the 80s, was a Vegemite and cheese sandwich, the cheese of choice usually being Kraft Singles. Sitting in the hot summer Aussie sun, the cheese melted slightly as well. Even today, at 51, I love a Vegemite and a Kraft Singles slice on hot buttered toast for brekky (breakfast).
Me too. Vegemite and processed cheese - breakfast of champions.
Jamie’s reaction to Marmite is a silent movie in itself.
😂
Vegemite smells like burning tire rubber and dog food. Tastes...Like that, but with a ramen seasoning packet mixed in. Blech.
08:05 jamies reaction to „do, do“ is so hilarious😂😂
he's such a dad lol
I do the same thing every time. Childish amusement 😅 doo-doo
An old coworker of mine regularly visited Japan, and always brought back big packs of different kinds of Kitkats for everyone. It was the best
Jamie, the faces you made trying to eat the marmite and vegemite made me laugh out loud. 😂 Just perfect!
American here. I've bought both Marmite and Vegemite to experiment with. Marmite spread on warm toast -- crucially, with butter! -- is a good breakfast, actually tastes good if you get over the childish impulse to spread it on thick. Both work as bouillon for broth or stock, but I like the Vegemite better that way. Mostly I would prefer to add nutritional yeast to my food over either, though.
Vegemite does work well with Cheese.
Do a grilled Cheese but put vegemite on the bread. It's amazing.
A grilled cheese and some bouliion is nice, so I guess this would work as well.
It's also fantastic as a flavour enhancer in risotto. A tablespoon of vegemite in the pan as the stock is absorbing will do wonders
Or even better, through the Vegemite in the bin and use some of the proper stuff!
Watching this after eating a Vegemite grilled cheese ✌️
As a New Zealander, I am so offended that you guys didn't try NZ Marmite which has a texture in between British Marmite and the Australian vegemite. However I still thoroughly enjoyed the video.
New Zealand Marmite is apparently different too.
According to my Father UK Marmite has changed over the years as Lager became more popular. I do remember the London Pride Marmite being different.
I love the stuff, so expensive in the US... (Even though so many chefs use ut in cooking)
South Africa also has Marmite, but also another yeast extract spread called Bovril. It is a toned-down marmite. You should try it!
Would love a series on dishes that have been influenced by elsewhere or even come from elsewhere, but are now viewed as local to the UK
Tea, sugar, chips, kebabs, curry and even black pepper came to be British through conquest and genocide.
Wouldn't that just be all of Northern Indian food? 😅
If Spaff likes the experimental KitKat flavours, there's plenty to find (JP only usually, though). Apart from the sake one that Ebbers mentioned, I recall red wine, soy sauce, wasabi (not too spicy), strawberry + red bean, and a creme brulee one that was designed to be lightly toasted before eating.
Barry doing food challenges without throwing up series when?
Ohhhhh YYYYEEESSSSSSSSSSS - I SECOND THAT ONE! Full menu of Surstömming, 7up to down it and Durian for dessert....
Eat a banana then drink a Sprite and try to keep it down
If they are to do surströmming again they must first make sure that the can is transported cold - it is supposed to be refrigerated, and second that they eat it with the correct accompaniments.
@@mikeljenkswhen he said the 7 up challenge my mind went to the 2 banana and 2 litres of sprite that professional eaters do.
Because watching some be sick will make me sick as well, and i dont feel.like vomitting b.c you have some mental sickness for liking that content.
Wow you just hit me with nostalgia! I went to Japan back in May last year and I also came back with a huge variety box of Japanese Kit Kats that I brought into work for everyone to enjoy.
Suffice to say, they were VERY popular and the contents of the box was polished off in the space of a few hours!
I asked our tour guide the best place to buy them and she recommended a place called “Don Quixote”.
She was right and I had a bought a bunch of Kit-Kat products!
I wonder if Jamie purchased his stash from there also.
It’s always been interesting to me how brands have to slightly alter their products to suit the different pallets and tastes around the world
Same here! Super interesting.
Vegemite was re- named "Parwill" at one point in history in competition with Marmite. The catch phrase being "if Ma might, then Pa will" Terrible pun.😂
I was told there was a competition to fund the name of the Australian yeast extract spread, and "Parwill" was a strong contender, but "Vegemite" eventually won out.
@rachelwoodcraft3783 You may well be right. I just happened to be reading the Wikipedia page for vegemite last week, in reasearch for a video, and it said the name was changed for a period. Wikipedia's not always the best source of factual information though 😊
Omg I was watching this at the gym and tripped on the treadmill because I was laughing so hard at Barry! 😂
As a pom living in Australia for over 20 years, I was brought up on Marmite, there is a Australian version of Marmite called mymate. Great that you mentioned cheese going with vegemite as we have a version called cheesymite which is a combination of vegemite and cheese spread, also all bakers over here in Australia also do cheese andvegemite scrolls which are to die for.
My mate is the dick Smith knock off of vegemite
What you need to try is Cenovis- the Swiss version of Marmite! It's gentler, softer, much less of a kick in the teeth. It always makes me think of the bottom of a ready-salted crisp packet. Comes in tubes or in pots, and it's ICONIC here. So good on bread with butter. Invented 1931.
As a Thai myself, I want to share the history of Red Bull.
Red Bull was first started in Thailand since 1975 with the same product that you have in this video. After that, an Austrian billionaire founded a new company together with the Thai owner, Chaleo Yuwidraya. The export version in the aluminium can was created afterward for the international market.
There is a NZ Marmite that is different from both. The factory shut down in the Christchurch earthquake and lead to hoarding it like gold for a while.
As soon as Barry started describing how to eat a kit kat I felt so validated. That's EXACTLY how I do it. He's right, it's the best way. 😂
The first time I tried Vegemite was about 25 years ago in a backpacker hostel in Turkey which was run by an Australian couple (and 99% of the guest were from Australia too). The breakfast consisted of just 3 items: slightly burnt toast, milk tea and Vegemite. I can't say that I liked it. Same goes for Marmite: I was introduced to this "treat" almost 40 years ago in the UK, when my girlfriend and I stayed at a B&B in Nottinghamshire and the lovely old landlady insisted that we should have it for breakfast because "it will help you with those things that young couples do when the light is switched off" (I will never forget her wink when she put generous amounts of Marmite on our toast). Lately I started to like Marmite (Vegemite is not so easy to find here in Germany) but I usually eat it with something fruity like quince jelly or lemon curd.
How or where could one find Vegemite in Germany?
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 I cant answer that question. But if you are not far away from Switzerland, you can get cenovis there, which is like marmite.
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 I don't know if it's still sold there but I found them in my local Edeka... And I think when it was still Real, that one had it, too. In my region it was Vegemite over Marmite in terms of availability. I like neither, so I haven't looked for it for a few years now..
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 either on amazon or in some of the world's cuisine type of stores / aisles. There are also some Australian food / items specialty stores in Frankfurt and Münster and probably in other cities, I imagine in Berlin or München you could find anything.
@@erzsebetkovacs2527Amazon
We had Macha and Raspberry Kit 10:17 Kat bars in the shop I work at. It was a limited time. Most of them expired and I was the one that had to destroy them all.🙂🇨🇦
I think you could make a whole yeast episode. In Germany I once bought a drink called Vitamalz. It tasted a lot like marmite. When it's room temperature it smells and tastes like a compost heap, when it's cold it's really sweet tasty and more-ish. Really fascinating!
When I used to live in Japan I would try to get all the new flavours of everything that would come out, specially Kit-Kat, my favorites were the ones that would come in easter, the banana flavour ones!
07:03 Of course that's how Jamie eats a KitKat. That evil laugh. I had the exact same reaction as Barry.
The vegemite/Marmite segment was so funny to me because when my Aussie friend brought me vegemite, she said the trick was, don't slather it on. Just use a thin layer, on buttered toast. Here comes Barry with that absolute schmear of Marmite 😅 But of course she meant for when you arent used to the flavor, so it was Jamie I was concerned for. I love to use it the way Sorted uses miso, to add a bit of umame depth to sweet things
1:18 Barry is having problems there guys!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What gives you that impression? 🤣
@@SortedFood a hunch 🤣🤣🤣
@@danielsantiagourtado3430 your instincts are top notch😆
Now tell him Diet Coke and Mentos are a little known flavour combination
Gonna need this as a reaction gif
Dunno if someone has mentioned this already, but the kitkats in Japan are also a regional thing. If you go to major railway stations across the country they will stock the kitkat flavour associated with their region so when you buy some to gift to your friends and colleagues they will probably expect that region's delicacy! Haha.
Jamie: Breaks KitKat
Barry: *Weird noises that I have yet to decipher*
Pretty sure that was the sound of part of Barry’s soul dying
In Thailand there are dozens and dozens of energy drinks, all in bottles like the Thai Red Bull. Any 7-11 (are there are lots and lots of these) will have a whole section of the cold drinks section with at least a dozen different brands.
The correct way to eat a Kit Kat is take a bite getting a piece of all four sticks (across the grain) just to annoy your friends.
😡
Psychopath like my wife…
And eaten like a banana while most of it is still in the package. Only an animal touches food with their hands.
@@toolbaggersthis man eats bread with a knife and fork.
What sort of antisocial behaviour is this? Next you'll be telling me you bite into a mandarin like eating an apple.
I fell for the Mint KitKat HARD. To the point, I even ordered a retailer box of the things and that was me sorted for a month or two...
Definitely my favorite flavor of KitKat
Awesome, a fellow extreme connoisseur. I did that with Cadbury Creme eggs. I think it was 48 in the box, you know the ones they always had on the counter top near the till of every paper shop. Took me 3 days to eat them. 🤢 Took me several years to eat one again after that. This was back in the 90's before Cadbury sold out and ruined their chocolate by making it cheap tasting crap. Kind of felt like the first time you get seriously drunk on cider or Thunderbird and vow to never drink it again. The thought makes your tummy turn over.
I was unaware Japanese Kit Kats came in flavours like "Steak", "Bacon" and "Chorizo" to appeal to the Spaff demographic
8:04 J laughing at Ebbers saying "do do" lol he's such a dad
In Canada 7up and Pepsi are both sweeter and flatter than Sprite or Coca Cola. My favourite candy bar is a Coffee Crisp but I often default to a Kit Kat if I want a hit of stronger chocolate. We also have a local favourite chocolate bar called a Cuban Lunch which was discontinued for years until the recipe was bought and it is again produced for all of those that grew up loving it.
So Ben was right about the gift culture for kit kats in japan, but it actually has to do less with limited editions as far as time but more location! When traveling it is typical to return with Omiyage or souvenirs for family and friends and these tend to be local delicacies, there is a whole market surrounding this culture. Kit Kats have capitalized by having their flavours localized to specific prefectures, cities, and even train stations!
Episodes like this will always remind me of why Baz is my favorite. 😂😂 So chaotic. Also explaining the best way to eat a Kit-Kat! Yes!
Exactly, who doesn't eat a kit kat that way?!
In India, Nimbooz is also used as a cocktail mixer. Great with Vodka/Gin and lots of ice.
For the real story of Vegemite you have to read Terry Pratchett’s The Last Continent 😂
Fantastic comment! No worries, No worries 🦘
She'll be right. No worries.
No worries indeed. Btw, they got Nanny Ogg's Cookbook as a Christmas present. I'm looking forward to a video covering the book, perhaps?
@DizzyBusy I would absolutely LOVE that!
@@DizzyBusy That is great video idea. I want see that 😄
You should try New Zealand Marmite! It's much nicer than the UK version. A few years back the earthquakes in Christchurch damaged the production factory and there was a shortage of Marmite across NZ, so people started buying/selling Marmite online for hundreds of dollars. It was a national catastrophe!
Fun fact…back in the 1920s sales of Vegemite slumped so to get some of the Marmite eaters to change over they changed their name to PARWILL & the slogan was, “Marmite, but Parwill”.
The thai red bull used to be consumed by night bus drivers in Thailand, to keep them awake for the long overnight trip. After several still went to sleep, whilst driving (hence causing really bad accident), it was "banned".
That's super interesting!
I have also seen it used by many taxi drivers in Thailand.
It comes in 8 or twelve packs. After six my heartrate was a million a minute😂
Redbull in Nepal when consumed gives a positive result in the breathalyzer.
@@_ashraya_ Did you really have to say it has to be consumed? I don't think anybody would think they would fail a breathalyzer by merely holding a unopened can in their hands.
the way barry eats the kit kat, he clearly needs ferrero duplo in his life! it is much easier and satisfying to eat the ends, sides and top part of the duplo first before eating the wafer part. this is why i never thought about eating a kit kat that way.
If mad scientist was a profession I feel Ben would be right at home with it.
Just with the way he takes such delight with explaining things, while some of the things he says with such a straight face.
As an Aussie… I’m so shocked no one spat it out, the amount of times I’ve seen people eat it wrong or at all and just physically react to it is incredible. 😂
Granted… I am not eating it without butter, has to be on toast, and not the amount Baz had 🤯
2:50 "Chatpat ka taste" the "ka" directly translates to "of" so that statement essentially means "taste of chatpat" and "chatpat"is used to describe a tangy-spicy sort of taste.
Ah, someone who knows how to eat a KitKat. Ends, sides, middle. Exactly like the Coffee Crisp technique. Bravo Barry.
Barry's hubris gets him again 😂 "surely"
I've never felt more vindicated in my weird eating habits than when Barry 100% nailed the way you're supposed to eat a kitkat. It makes the ratio in the last bites better. Frontload the sweet stuff, then have the less sweet stuff when it's done.
In Switzerland, our "marmite" is called "cenovis" and you either love or hate it (I love it).
Interesting!
In Australia, cenovis is a kind of multivitamin tablet range lol
@@nikijade8317 Really interesting to know, thanks for sharing that.
Fun fact: Vegemite was originally called 'Parwill' and used the slogan "Marmite... but Parwill". I'm an Aussie that's not a huge fan of Vegemite but I do enjoy cheesymite scrolls and will also say that Vegemite makes a great addition to gravy, really boosts the umami factor.
Could you do an episode on recipes for products differing between countries? Some companies for example use cheaper ingredients, or stuff that's forbidden in the EU.
It's not only the nostalgia that makes things different, sometimes it's just money.
11:02 I swear it sounded like Ben said Mai Tai fighters. Now all I can think of is Mortal Kombat...But all the fighters are bartenders. The Mai Tai fighter probably won't fare too well against the Gin and Tonic fighter, but could probably kick the Cosmopolitan fighter's ass.
Lol, love this take!
Here in South Africa we also have an alternative to marmite called Bovril, which is the meat version of Marmite but my family also has a sweet and salty dessert in marmite cake. Which is essentially a vanilla sponge cake with marmite mixed with melted butter poured over the cake while hot and then topped witb cheese.
I was wondering if you guys could do a electric tea kettle and maybe other appliances care episode. How do you clean them since you can't wash it in the sink and other items like that maybe a coffee machine and other basic kitchen equipment. ( Especially a tea kettle one for people who don't live in the UK that don't have as much experience with one )
Just stir a couple of tablespoons of citric acid (powdered) into recently boiled water in your kettle and leave it for 30-60 mins. It will disolve limescale better than practically anything. The fact it is a safe cooking ingredient, means that you don't have to do anything other than rinse it out. You can repeat the treatments as needed. The outside can just be wiped down. I've cleaned my kettles/water heaters like this for years.
When I was a child back in the 1980s; my Dad’s company had the contract to paint Rowntree Mackintosh factory in York every year. I used to eagerly sit in the car waiting whilst he priced up bits of the job just so I could get some misshape quality street. But one year I learnt about the new giant KitKit there - a supersized KitKat to be launched in the Saudi market. I rushed to school and no one believed me. Then a few years later the chunky KitKat was launched, a single finger of the giant KitKat prototype from all those years ago.
Sadly; Rowntrees got sold to Nestles and they of course lied about closing the factory (which they said would never happen but did). They told all previous contractors that there services were no longer required, and all the short cuts came in. Those things would never have happened under the formidable Mrs Mackin!
1:59 I’m not a fan of Masala Thums Up/Soda but I like the Nimbooz as it is. Also, we used to have a brand called LMN (Lime Cordial meets Soft Drink) that was just brilliant.
I live in the US and in high school I went to a week-long band camp (yes, this is a ‘this one time, at band camp’ story!) a few states away. We had a group of students who came to the camp from Australia who went around all week daring the US kids to try Vegemite. They had a squeeze bottle of it, like a toothpaste tube, and we’d each take a swipe of it. It wasn’t bad actually, it kind of reminded me of soy sauce with how salty and umami-y it was. I’d love to give it another shot on some buttered toast!
Watching Jamie do the marmite/vegemite taste test was the highlight of the video for me 🤣
Kit Kats are gifted as good luck gifts for students at exam time in Japan.
Quote of the Day: “I have a feeling my relationship with 7UP now will haunt me for the rest of my life.”
Accurate 😂
Fun fact, Marmite hasn't been seen in Canada since the start of the pandemic and Vegemite is illegal in Canada
Not true re Vegemite. It's interesting though - seems a lot of people think it is. A quick google search shows that it isn't and can in fact be bought there or imported.
Lmao! You know it's going to be a fun video when it leads off with Barry going for it that quickly.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sometimes eats KitKats like Barry does. Sometimes I eat them the regular way and other times I eat them like Barry does it. And occasionally I'll do what Barry does, then dismantle the layers and eat one layer at a time.
6:30 Am i the only one who saw Ebbers hide a Kitkat in his Pocket from the others so he wouldn't have to share it? 😅
I noticed that as well 😂
@@srishtikhurana4487 but tbh he was pretty sneaky with it 😂
It’s not just Vegemite in Australia! There’s also Promite which is similar but quite different - definitely worth a try.
We actually had the original 7Up in India earlier! I *think* so, at least, from what I remember from my childhood. Nimbooz is definitely new though.
Nimbooz isn’t new either but I’m assuming it became a sub category of 7up in 2016
@@KaschitShah Yeah, I just meant it's relatively new to 7up, like you said!
You know something has to taste extraordinary horrifying if the makers name it after the dark glass jar they’ve hiding it in 😂
"Brondo has electrolytes. Brawndo's got what plants crave." When Ebbers said salts for electrolytes ...that is what went through my brain.
His nickname is Ebbers :) his name is Benjamin Ebberell, so that is where it comes from
Corrected. @@xGxPhantomZzz
@@DucNguyen-bd5ir I didn't want to be mean to you, but maybe you are new to the channel or don't see their names often :)
I just don't see their names spelled out often and I am American so sometime you mishear unusual names or phrases.@@xGxPhantomZzz
There’s some history between Marmite and Vegemite. Vegemite was called Parwill at first. The marketing people thought it would be a clever line: Marmite (Mother might) but Parwill (father will).
When I was a uni student in Indonesia c.1998-2002 I survived all nighters for revisions in exam weeks with 2 bottles of Krating Daeng. Years later I saw a Red Bull ad and thought to myself that looks oddly similar to Krating Daeng lol. Also I now live in NZ and think you guys might want to do yeast extract comparison including the kiwi version of Marmite, which is quite different than the UK one (and different than Vegemite!). There's also something else here I tried the other day called Promite. Maybe allow Jamie to sit the episode out 😁
Aussie here, the way I describe Vegemite to others, is like a Aussie Soy Sauce! Sucks by itself, but used with other things butter and toast, minced meat etc. And you GOT to have it super thin coated
In the US we get some of our own fun special edition flavors. Ones I have seen are blueberry muffin and pumpkin spice, which I enjoyed so much that I order a bag special
Vegemite is great as a beef flavour enhancer in stews and soups, and I eat it on toast as thick as Baz and its great with cheese. But my best one is buttered toast with vegemite, fried runny yolk egg on top and covered in baked beans. Best combo ever. Bit of cripsy bacon is nice as well.
Off to a great start with that 7up challenge
Fun fact - the chocolatey filling between the wafer layers inside of Kit Kats are actually just mashed up imperfect KitKats.
Idea for a video - Cook dishes with things that Jamie hates and see if it changes his mind about them. We used Marmite a lot in our cooking in Malaysia. Marmite Fried Chicken or Pork Ribs is a common dish in many Chinese restaurants here. And it's AMAZING! I will be very surprised if Jamie doesn't like it at all 😂
as an australian i was SO excited to see vegemite. an absolute staple of the country and the best spread ever!!!
Some of the flavors of KITKAT are made to be baked in an toaster over for 10sec like the sweet potato pie to give it a different taste and texture. While other are made to be freeze like there strawberry cheesecake ice cream flavor.
4:54 with you there Barry 😁
i love how those things bring out the kid in you
@@baxter1910 🤣
Marmite, an Vegemite, are best used as additives to soups, stews, bolognese, or other long cooked, wet dishes. It adds a lot of umami and salt without requiring meat products.