I’m an American (sorry for ruining the world) and i just tried Vegemite. I was surprised to find that i neither love it or hate it. From the way people talk about it I thought it was this EXTREME thing that supposedly you love or hate. It’s certainly a strong flavor, but it’s not like wasabi level intense. To me it tastes very similar to the burnt bits stuck to the pan after cooking a burger.
I tried it straight and the first taste made me say “huh” out loud. The best thing I’ve tried it on is croutons (because i didn’t have bread to toast). I’ve tried it with a few other random foods and it doesn’t seem to improve anything.
Is it unusual for someone to have a neither love or hate opinion of it?
Is there any specific food you recommend to use it with?
You need it to be relatively “diluted” for the secondary flavours to be tasteable (ie thick dollops mean the primary caramelised salt taste overwhelms everything else).
Hot buttered toast is the traditional way to eat it - warmed by the toast and with melted butter mixed in you get primaries of fats, salts and umami. Cold bread works but isn’t as good in my opinion.