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Vegemite came to the attention of many people outside the region in the lyrics of the 1982 worldwide hit song "Down Under" by Men at Work:

I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.

Australian Vegemite and New Zealand Marmite side by sideThe original 1986 lyric to the John Williamson song True Blue included the lines

"Is it standing by your mate
When he's in a fight?
Or just Vegemite?"
When Vegemite was sold to Kraft, Williamson changed the line "Or just vegemite" to "Or will she be right?"

In Terry Pratchett's 1998 Discworld novel The Last Continent, which is mostly set on an island parodying Australia and its culture, the character Rincewind accidentally creates a Vegemite-like concoction by allowing a number of vegetables, salt and beer mixed together in a tin can to boil dry on a campfire overnight.

The West End theatrical comedy The Vegemite Tales written by Melanie Tait tells the story of a group of young Australians living in a London flatshare. Performed every year since 2001, the production has built up a cult status and is has become an iconic brand in its own right.

In episode nine of the animated series Clone High, a teenage clone of Mahatma Gandhi is confronted by the 'stereotypical Australian dragon' Daniel Feldspar while on a quest to rescue the Princess Gremulon. Vegemite is at the center of Gandhi's tactic to defeat the dragon. See Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts.
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