Is there any specific food you recommend to use it with?

Toast, with butter, and not too much! Melt some cheese over the top is good too!

Lightly toasted bread. Generous slathering of butter or margarine. Then, if you're a noobie, a very thin spread (but if you're an Aussie, an extremely thick spread) of Vegemite.

To me it tastes very similar to the burnt bits stuck to the pan after cooking a burger

It's not exactly the same thing, but it basically is that. It's the bits stuck at the bottom of a fermentation vat at a brewery.

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Hot toast, heaps of quality butter and a scrape of Vegemite. Can spruce it up by throwing on a slice of cheese and grilling it a bit. Ripper brekkie when paired with a hot brew and a durry.

You need it to be relatively "diluted" for the secondary flavours to be tasteable (ie thick dollops mean the primary caramelised salt taste overwhelms everything else).

Hot buttered toast is the traditional way to eat it - warmed by the toast and with melted butter mixed in you get primaries of fats, salts and umami. Cold bread works but isn't as good in my opinion.

We grew up with as kids so for most Aussies we are familiar with it from an early age. On toast, in soup, in a cup of hot water, a casserole etc. There are a lot of ways to eat it but I prefer it in a homemade vegetable soup.

Some god damn patriotism that's what!

Medium hot toast with a lot of melted butter and then a thin layer of Vegemite is the way to go.

It's nice on buttered toast, but personally I prefer Marmite, which is similar, but less bitter.

Vegemite is useful as a vegan beef bullion replacement, but I prefer marmite in that context as well.

It's just a pungent salty umami flavour. Like miso, doenjanj, or furu.

Some people have palates that enjoy intense flavours, some people prefer mild flavours. It's not better or worse than anything else one might add to a dish or spread on bread to accompany breakfast.

I prefer the flavour of furu personally, although the texture and smell are intense enough that vegemite often becomes the default by convenience.

As australia has no culture people just get up in arms about the little things. You could read about schismogenisis if you wanted a broader overview of how similar peoples amplify little things to differentiate themselves.

I like to do a peanut butter and Vegemite sandwich, from time to time - the creaminess of the peanut butter helps bring out some of the more complex flavours within it.

Avocado and/or cream cheese also work to augment the flavour in a similar way - so basically anything with a good dose of fat should do the trick!

We also had a limited edition Cadbury chocolate block with Vegemite here a few years back - I think the general consensus was that it was loathed, but I dug it.

I don't understand people who use it as anything other than a spread. There is always a better alternative. Like ketchup, it really only has one job and anything else is just wrong. I do like it with lots of aussie butter on bread or crumpets. It would probably be disgusting to someone raised on a diet of HFCS, bleach and preservatives. And kind of meh to someone exposed to decent home cooked food.

There are at least 20 things I would rather be having for breakfast if time, money and opportunity allowed which they generally don't.

It's very much an acquired taste kinda thing. I feel that most people use it wrong; spreading it way to thick or eating it out of the jar (good god). I think Vegemite is too strong/overpowering on its own and really meant to almost be a garnish.

I'm German, so not really certified to talk about it but I do like Vegemite. You toast some toast, spread butter on it, then a thin layer of Vegemite and then add a slice of cheese.

Im in the hate group.