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October 23, 2006
Vegemite Fatwa!
Tim Blair gets slightly over-excited about someone being stopped from bringing Vegemite into the United States. I could sort of understand if it was about something important like Marmite.
The thing is, you're not allowed to take (just about) any animal or vegetable products (in so far as Vegemite is or even resembles either) over the border into the US. As one commenter there has pointed out, it's still readily on sale in supermarkets within the country.
Anyway, what is this thing with Vegemite? It's only a bad copy of the original Marmite anyway.
The Marmite Food Extract Company was formed in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1902, with Marmite as its main product.
Food technologist Dr. Cyril P. Callister invented Vegemite in 1923 when his employer, the Australian Fred Walker Company, had him develop a spread from brewer's yeast after war had disrupted the supply of imported yeast spreads.
Pity Cyril didn't get the recipe right, eh?
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Here we go! is this what you call a 'reverse troll' :-)
more history info here:
http://www.vegemite.com.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=VegemiteDiscovery.welcome
Posted by: Forester | Oct 23, 2006 11:50:47 AM
Vegemite on toast, a little pepper, with a boiled egg. Yummy breakfast.
Posted by: Pete D. | Oct 23, 2006 12:34:49 PM
According to Vegemite history they were at first going to call it Pawill. (Many hits on the web to say they actually did call it this at first, but I remember reading - not at the time! - that it was never used.
Posted by: Marij Sak | Oct 23, 2006 3:40:46 PM
The real question is, when will they get around to banning that dreadful song by Men At Work?
Posted by: James Graham | Oct 23, 2006 5:48:58 PM
Vegemite makes sense for a nation raised on beetroot.
Posted by: dearieme | Oct 23, 2006 6:47:04 PM
