Hugh Jackman Converts Jimmy Fallon Into A Vegemite Fan, Restores Australia’s National Pride

Vegemite’s reputation has taken a battering in the United States recently; a couple of days ago John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight described it as tasting “like a kangaroo took a salty shit in a jar,” while last week Jimmy Fallon tried some on The Tonight Show and pulled this face:

While Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has been deplorably absent in answering these grave insults to our national yeast dish, Fallon and Oliver have not gone unchallenged; Karl Stefanovic heroically stepped up to the plate by spooning mouthfuls of Vegemite into his gob on TV in retaliation to Fallon’s antics last week.

But Vegemite’s true salvation has come in the form of a far more beloved Australian export: Hugh Jackman, who went on the Tonight Show armed only with a toaster, two slices of the cheapest white bread money can buy and enough charm to strip paint off the side of a house, and single-handedly rehabilitated Vegemite’s image with a lesson in how to properly enjoy Australia’s one true spread.

Bless you, Hugh Jackman. No wonder the US want to keep him when they send Rupert Murdoch and Mel Gibson back to us in a giant paper bag.