Posted on 12/02/2016 11:35:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
That must be where I went wrong...I used a spoon.Well,at least I can cross "try vegimite" off my bucket list.
Yes, that's true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bymKIPaTws
Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling talk on Vitamin C and heart disease at Standford Medical Center
Well,at least I can cross “try vegimite” off my bucket list.....Sorry, I have had to have a bucket REAL close when served Vegamite. YEESH! My own vomit tastes better!
Well,at least I can cross “try vegimite” off my bucket list.....Sorry, I have had to have a bucket REAL close when served Vegamite. YEESH! My own vomit tastes better!
I hear ya,bro! There are many,many fine things about Australia and her people but Vegimite ain't one of 'em!
Most people don’t think much of scurvy beyond using it as a piratical adjective and think the disease hasn’t been seen since that era. About all the science trivia most recall of it, if any, is the odd combo of us and guinea pigs being susceptible to it. Those of us who sought out historical tales of the long voyages of exploration, recall how devastating it can be. But, although I bet many Freepers fall in that group, government schooling these days looks down on such. The early changes of scurvy are subtle patterns of skin bruising, which patients think is ‘just a rash’ and which most physicians mistake for more modernistic scary rashes. At which point we Dermatologists tell them its the scary (fatal if never treated!) rash they’ve forgotten. Happily it’s the easiest fatal disease to fix. Some of these patients have been living on liquid calories, some have goofy food fetishes, but many are just old, set in their ways, and eating just those things they still like.
I spent six years in an Australian boarding school. As a result I absolutely despise Vegemite. Because it was seen as very healthy we were put under immense pressure to eat it, and they also used to slip it into things as an addon you didn’t discover until you took a bite.
The worst thing was I loved crumpets. Crumpets dripping with butter. Then I was told I had to add Vegemite to them. Took away my favourite part of breakfast.
CRUMPETS! CRUMPETS! I love them with marmalade!! I was given cranberry marmalade at Thanksgiving and I made flaky, light crumpets that were so delicious with cranberry marmalade. My girlfriend and her family are Dutchies, so they wouldn’t eat them.
That’s a sad story. On the other hand, you didn’t get pellagra.
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