[WWI] Vegemite

[Stephen Campton-Jones]

Vegemite and Coopers Beer are some of the BEST FOODS available on this
planet. These are Australian products and can't be beaten.
The yanks did try to screw up vegemite and try to make us eat that awful
crappy 'new' vegemite, but that isn't going to happen, we are not that
stupid. We did grow up with cheese and vegemite sandwiches, but that was
adding the cheese to the vegemite sandwiches, not from a jar.
No one has tried to screw up Coopers yet, and as for Fosters, XXXX, VB
etc. you can have that, we send it out to the rest of the world so you
know nothing about Coopers.
Now you poor uneducated people that don't have the fortune to live here,
do yourself a favour and try a vegemite sandwich made with fresh bread
(from a bakery, not that woolworths %^$#), butter and a glass of real
milk not that watered down stuff they call low fat. The bread should be
bought UN-SLICED so you can cut it as thick as you like it, or thicker.
BLOODY DELICIOUS
I might forget about the lamb roast for tea tonight and have some
vegemite sandwiches
Stephen a proud Aussie vegemite eater


On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:08 +1000, Shane Weier wrote:
> Chris says
> 
> >with respect, Vegimite is a poor Ozzie imitation of the original,
> genuine Marmite.
>  
> Gross calumny. Vegemite is far superior, as a quick search of the
> archives of this site will show.
>  
> >Made from the by-products of beer-making, your climate is too warm to
> support the 
> >necessary hops. Which is probably why Oz beer is similar to Eurofizz.
>  
> Wrong again. It's ayeast extract, and warm weather yeast, like
> tropical infections, are more powerfull and invigorating.
>  
> >Vegimite put in a brief appearance in the UK about 30 years ago and
> hasn't been heard of since. 
>  
> Poms aren't brought up from babyhood on it, which is why they're
> generally weaker at all forms of sport, including Pommy baiting.
>  
> > It's big in Oz and has a following in NZ.  Kraft, its owners, do not
> attach their name to it other than in Oz and NZ.  
> >Yours to wonder why?
>  
> Because we know it's a US company, and that puts people off their
> breakfast?  Not because we're USophobes, but because it's our national
> food and Pommies, Kiwis, Yanks and other inferior types shouldn't be
> associated with it.
>  
> Case in point. Kraft decided to improve the product by mixing it with
> leftover crappy Kraft cheese and trying to tell us it was a new
> improved version. No-one bought the new name. They lied about the
> replacement name. No-one likes it except the (foreign) management who
> thought it was a great idea. And no-one is buying it. (Nor Marmite for
> that matter, except a few expat Poms.)
>  
> Interestingly a colleage here is a Cockney, recently naturalised, who
> eats more Vegemite than I do which is impressive considering that *I*
> have two jars in my desk at *work* just in case I run out at an
> awkward moment.
>  
> >Like many an ex-pat Brit, I miss Marmite and Heinz Baked Beans. 
>  
> Heinz BB are inflicted on us, but as we can get Watties (from NZ) we
> don't have to stoop that far.
>  
> >My own "third" has come true as a local supermarket is now stocking
> some Proper English Beer.
>  
> When I went to England for Telford in 2007 the pubs mostly sold
> Stella, VB, Fosters and XXXX on tap. I had to try three just to find
> an actual English beer, which annoyed *me*
>  
> OTOH I drank XXXX and Stella on every occassion afterwards.
>  
> >The world is a wonderful place, tra la.
>  
> Indeed. It has Pommies to bait, and WW1 modellers with a sense of
> humour. Many are Pommies ;-)
>  
> Shane
>  
> (PS - they recently sold the billionth jar of Vegemite)
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> quamvis humile, praeclarum 
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