Posted on 10/21/2006 2:50:29 PM PDT by naturalman1975
THE US has banned Vegemite, even to the point of searching Aussies for jars of the spread as they enter the country.
The bizarre condiment crackdown was prompted because Vegemite has been deemed illegal under US food laws.
The great Aussie icon -- faithfully carried around the world by travellers from Down Under -- contains folate, which under a technicality, the US allows only to be added to breads and cereals.
Australian expatriates in the US said enforcement of the ban had been gradually stepped up and was now ruining lifelong Vegemite on toast breakfast traditions.
Former Geelong man Daniel Fogarty, who now lives in Calgary, said he was stunned when searched for Vegemite while crossing the US border on a trip to Montana recently.
"The border guard searched our car and asked us if we were carrying any Vegemite," Mr Fogarty said.
"I was flabbergasted.
"The official said Vegemite wasn't permitted in the US."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Vegemite... no thanks. That said, Good God, what is wrong with this country?
Have you tasted it?
I looked it up on wikipedia. I found Marmite there too. "Mr Bean" spread that on twigs when he was having a party. I suppose making fun of British food. I have been to London on vacation and we found lots of great places to eat. The fish and chips at a pub were fantastic! I think vegemite would be fine for me. But my husband is very sensitive to too much yeast, so he should avoid it. I asked allergy clinic what foods he should avoid - they said anything that can ferment. So distilled water it is, for him! LOL But Marmite and Vegemite - I would love to try those. Lots of Vitamin B and Folic acid in them.
Dang...I only brought back four little jars last May...if only I had known, I could have cornered the Vegemite black market!
It's the most disgusting stuff I've experienced since I was a small child. Makes Spam exquisite. Not fit for Yanks.
Oh no! What's next, Spam?
Seems quite silly to me. And yes Aussies love it, it is their answer to peanut butter, which is not popular down under.
ewww no! it is a souvenir! unopened! the boy's mom brought some on toast for the international dinner and it didn't look appealing to me!
Folic acid is something a pregnant woman NEEDS in order to avoid having a baby with spina bifida. That is why I shudder when women tell me that they aren't taking their pregnancy vitamins. Vegemite would supply the folic acid.
We have a lot of really stupid laws.
"The border guard searched our car and asked us if we were carrying any Vegemite," Mr Fogarty said.
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We have terrorists trying to smuggle in weapons, dirty bombs, WMD, we have druglords smuggling in tons of illegal hallucinogen drugs, we have millions of illegal immigrants coming across the border and border security is spending time and effort to stop people from bringing in vegetable exract.
"Vegemite dates back to 1922 when the Fred Walker Company, which became Kraft Walker Foods in 1926 and Kraft Foods Limited in 1950, hired a young chemist to develop a spread from one of the richest known natural sources of the vitamin B group - Brewers Yeast.
Following months of laboratory tests, Dr. Cyril P Callister, who became the nation’s leading food technologist of the 1920s and 30s developed a tasty spreadable paste. It came in a two ounce (57g) amber glass jar capped with a Phoenix seal with the label "Pure Vegetable Extract".
http://www.vegemite.com.au/
LOL --- you can always give it to Matthews...lol...(anonymously) or did his daughter get one too?
Let's see, vegemite, mooselimb xtremists and cheep canadian drugs are in the same boat. Pretty stupid imho.
A brewing byproduct rich in B vitamins, kind of like brewing yeast sediment highly salted. Nice on toast with a little butter, and on crackers.
It's...well...BROWN...and looks....not that great...as a foodstuff.
(I have a big jar of it! Come and get me!)
Remember I was saying that there is very little I don't like?
This is it.
And with my high blood pressure I am not supposed to eat much salt. And I am also advised to avoid Bill, Hillary, Gore, Kerry, et al on television! Raises my blood pressure. LOL
Yup. And I think folic acid is needed for proper nerve functioning.
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said,
"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,
"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
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