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Salty, dark, rich and malty, Vegemite is an Australian icon recognised around the world. A century after its creation, a museum has re-opened to celebrate the man who invented it.

Vegemite started out as a response to a wartime shortage of Marmite. It's now a symbol of Australia that's spread onto toast, added to curries and even churned into ice-cream.

A group of self-declared Vegemaniacs have built a museum honouring Vegemites inventor, hoping to make Beaufort to Vegemite what Parkes is to Elvis.

comments This story first appeared on Food52, an online community that gives you everything you need for a happier kitchen and home – that means tested recipes, a shop full of beautiful products, a cooking hotline, and everything in between! Cut off from the rest of the populated landmass of planet Earth for several millennia, Australia had plenty of time to develop some natural quirks. Take marsupials (pouches, hopping), for example, or the duck-billed platypus (duck-bill, poison spur), or t...