I'll be honest. I'm terrified. I don't like Vegemite (and I've tried it properly with a friend who likes it fixing me a sandwich of it) and I don't like Marmite. Even my friends who like Vegemite don't like Marmite. But here these chips sit. Mocking me.
Bag open. They smell awful. They smell like Marmite I guess. Potent. It smells like an old shoe maybe? I'm trying not to be biased against these from the start, but the smell is really not helping here. Ok... here it goes nothin.
But what do they taste like?
I picked one without a lot of Marmite flavor on it and mostly tasted chip. Tolerable. A bit like eating weird tasting cardboard I'd imagine. Time to stop mucking about - I'm going to try one that's covered in flavor. It's not as bad as I thought, but it's not nice either. And the chips themselves weirdly disintegrate as you eat them. I'm actually shocked at how not awful these are. But, let's not kid ourselves here - I am never eating them again after this.
They're very salty for the first bit and then weirdly bland. Rarely eating Marmite, I can't verify if these taste all that much like it, but I don't think they do. I remember a strong dislike of Marmite and I can't even muster up the energy to dislike these. I really expected to have my socks knocked off with horrible flavors and these were just pretty meh.
Is it weird to be disappointed that chips weren't worse? Maybe. There's something very unappealing about the first bite - the way that weird cardboard-y flavor just hits you. They're not as bad after a bit though - it's mostly just a weird savory salt taste that's not particularly appealing. I could stomach eating more than one, so they don't get a 0, but barely.
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