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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Nicholas Jordan

In a taste-test battle of supermarket mite-y bites, which will win? (Spoiler: it isn’t Vegemite)

Nicholas Jordan samples spreads as people hold up jars of Vegemite and rival brands around him
‘Having been born into a family of thick Vegemite spreaders, I want to be assaulted with flavour,’ Nicholas Jordan writes. Photographs: Teagan Glenane/The Guardian Photograph: Teagan Glenane/The Guardian

At the end of most taste tests, I have a clear idea of winners and losers, and I’m usually confident enough in the findings that I’d bet if I repeated it 100 times, with a different set of testers, the results would be similar. This is not a normal taste test.

After blind tasting eight yeast spreads, readily available at Australian supermarkets, I don’t even know what my favourite is, let alone which are the best and worst.

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