{"id":259,"date":"2009-10-13T08:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/?p=259"},"modified":"2009-10-13T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T23:06:00","slug":"isnack-20-vegemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Vegemite iSnack 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/users.on.net\/~dmccann\/images\/isnack.jpg\" alt=\"Vegemite iSnack 2.0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been eating <b>Vegemite<\/b> spread on toast (with butter) all my life, at least a few times every week. I had some this morning infact. I even took some away with me on holiday to the U.S.A last month too, that&#8217;s how dedicated to it I am. I didn&#8217;t want a repeat of the <b>Vegemite<\/b> withdrawals I had during my Europe holiday in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s all over the web&#8230; How could Kraft chose <b>iSnack 2.0<\/b> as the winner for the &#8216;Name Me&#8230;&#8217; competition, for the new cheese variety of <b>Vegemite<\/b>? It&#8217;s so lame.<\/p>\n<p>It has certainly generated a lot of talk and media attention, all focused on the horrible name though. It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if it&#8217;s all a big P.R stunt. I wonder what it tastes like? I&#8217;ve never liked\/understood the <b>Vegemite<\/b> with cheese thing myself. <\/p>\n<p><b>** EDIT ** 07\/10\/2009<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So with all that media attention, and public dissatisfaction, last week, Kraft dropped the <b>iSnack 2.0<\/b> name, and asked the public to vote from one of the following (much more suitable\/better) names&#8230; My vote is for <b>Cheesybite<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Vegemite Cheesybite<br \/>\nVegemite Smooth<br \/>\nVegemite Vegemate<br \/>\nVegemite Snackmate<br \/>\nVegemite Vegemild<br \/>\nVegemite Creamymate<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And today we have a winner&#8230; <b>Vegemite Cheesybite<\/b> it is! Although, thinking about it some more, calling it <b>Cheesybite<\/b>, for a smoother, creamy cheese version of Vegemite doesn&#8217;t really make sense.<\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/business\/story\/0,27753,26177222-462,00.html\">http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/business\/story\/0,27753,26177222-462,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still yet to taste this, I bought one of the &#8216;name me&#8217; jars last week, having a quick look\/smell I think I&#8217;ll be sticking to the original. I&#8217;ll report back on how it tastes.<\/p>\n<p><b>** EDIT ** 13\/10\/2009<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So I tried some of the new variety &#8216;Name Me&#8230;&#8217; <b>Vegemite<\/b>, soon to be released as <b>Cheesybite<\/b> and&#8230; I don&#8217;t like it. It doesn&#8217;t have that salty bite\/edge the original <b>Vegemite<\/b> has, which I think is what I most enjoy about it. I&#8217;m put off by the poo brown colour of the new variety, and it&#8217;s nowhere near as thick, sticky as the original. The new stuff spreads easier, but it feels\/looks like spreading Nutella, which I&#8217;ve never been a fan of. So, I&#8217;m sticking with the original, and best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been eating Vegemite spread on toast (with butter) all my life, at least a few times every week. I had some this morning infact. I even took some away with me on holiday to the U.S.A last month too, that&#8217;s how dedicated to it I am. I didn&#8217;t want a repeat of the Vegemite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}