U.S. news presenters amuse all of Australia by eating Vegemite live on air

The team at Fox 17 Morning News in West Michigan, U.S., has given Australia the greatest Australia Day gift — priceless reactions to an on-air taste test of Vegemite.

Meteorologist Jon Shaner presented the team with a jar of the quintessentially Australian spread, sent to him by a former exchange student, to mark the occasion

The first response offered a clue as to what was to follow: "crikey."

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"Vegemite is a somewhat national condiment, I suppose you could call it a spread," Shaner attempts to explain. "People compare it to peanut butter in the U.S., but it doesn't taste anything like peanut butter ... it is actually a barley yeast extract." Read more...

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