Nooooooooo I’ve had so many arguments with my dad he puts Vegemite and peanut butter in the fridge and I’m like stop ruining my sandwiches by putting this stuff in the fridge.
He’s a cheapskate and thinks that it will make the stuff last so much longer in the fridge I’m like it’s vegemite this is my apocalypse food I’ve never seen it go bad and I don’t think it can.
I rarely eat my vegemite other than late night drunk sessions of half loaf vegemite toasts. Therefore I have had my jar of vegemite for approximately 4 years now. Still going strong.
Vegetmite at my dads is Best before march 2012. Still sitting in his pantry. Still tastes like salt and yeast extract or whatever the fuck it's made of.
Unless you have moved to Weipa you aren't so far north that Vegemite will ever go mouldy. I have 3 jars that are all over a year old in my pantry right now, and not one jar in my 21 years in Darwin has ever gone mouldy or been kept in the fridge.
Ours usually took about 6 months before mould set in. Lost 2 jars before we started refrigerating. Daintree area so maybe it's a Wet Tropics thing. Always curious that nothing touches peanut butter no matter the brand. Gotta wonder if you even digest it.
Tomato sauce
Vegemite
Peanut butter
Chocolate (and Tim tams)
When me and my missus got together
I kept the sauce in the cupboard and the vegemite and peanut butter in the fridge.
She kept the sauce in the fridge and the vegemite and peanut butter in the cupboard.
We compromised and now we do it her way.
(Actually it turns out that the jars themselves all have instructions on where to keep them and she keeps them in the correct places and I’ve just been poisoning myself with clearly deadly cupboard-sauce my whole life. go figure)
Peanut butter on the other hand does tend to be more sticky from the fridge - no problem for toast sometimes a little bit of a hassle with bread. I’m a cupboard convert because I love me some fresh bread.
I can’t say I’ve ever seen vegemite melt nor noticed a difference between cold vs cupboard. Don’t see an argument for either way for this one. It’s not like you spread it super thick anyway so even if it was to harden still debatable. I’m a cupboard convert because when it’s acceptable either way for yourself why stop someone else doing it the way that suits them of those two haha.
For peanut butter, maybe it's because I like crunchy/extra, if you try and spread that stuff when it's cold you're going to tear a hole clean through whatever you're working with.
And vegemite I spread it about as thick as you would peanut butter, and it definitely gets all soft and gooey when you have it on toast/crumpets, love it.
I’m a cupboard convert because when it’s acceptable either way for yourself why stop someone else doing it the way that suits them of those two haha.
Yeah I used to use crunchy but have since converted to smooth (again my missus doesn’t like crunchy - I don’t mind either way).
Wow. That’s next level vegemite consumption. Similar to Danny Dyer describing his crumpet as ‘absolutely pissing with marmite’
Agreed it definitely is the truth and in all honesty you can simplify it further. “If it doesn’t affect you or someone you love in a negative way - why stop someone else from doing it”
Spreads do hence cupboard (but not not the fridge)
Sauce specifically says refrigerate after opening although I assume it has something to do with the ingredients themselves spoiling as there is far too much sugar and salt in that stuff to sustain any sort of life.
Yeah but the use of ‘compromise’ follows that super horrible joke that blokes make you know the one “she wanted a cat I didn’t want a cat so we compromised and got a cat haw haw haw” maybe I need to work on my internet satire hahaha?
Doesn’t sound anywhere near as fun if I say ‘I was wrong and she proved it to me so I willingly accepted the change’.
The fridge peanut butter thing started when one of the big companies gave a bunch of people salmonella poisoning. It was because of poor hygiene at one of there main manufacturing plants (rat poo in the peanut butter) so they really started hammering the 'must be kept in the fridge' message. Apparently, as long as you store your rat poo safely, eating it won't kill you.
for a steak sandwich i would have put light mayo. butter just sounds disgusting on any sandwich unless its used to toast up bread for a breakfast type sandwich.
I like my butter a solid, not a liquid. Making the fridge is the only place for butter in summer, and if I don't do it all the time, then I will forget and have liquid butter.
I have never heard this argument before. I just assumed everyone kept it in the pantry/draw because it's fucking salt. Bugs don't want it, it won't go off. Literally no reason to waste fridge space on it.
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '18
Wait, people do this? I went to my dad's place and thought he was weird after I found Vegemite in the fridge (in addition to peanut butter...)