Oh, wait, maybe it was a different vegamin I was thinking of....
Posted on 10/23/2006 4:49:40 AM PDT by Dundee
ULURULULULULULULULU! I call on my brother Australians to avenge this most grievous attack on our people and sacred beliefs. A phatwa upon the infidels and untasters!
Let it be known: the volatile Australian street is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very angry. Apologise now, pig monster American hegemen, or face our wrath.
UPDATE. In other regulatory news, Jules Crittenden slams the military’s dumb response to milbloggers.
UPDATE II. kisdm001: “Newsweek is reporting that a jar of Vegemite has been found in a toilet in Gitmo.”
UPDATE III. Regarding military dumbness, further from Michael Yon:
While our enemies have “journalists” crawling all over battlefields to chronicle their successes and our failures, we have an “embed” media system that is so ineptly managed that earlier this fall there were only 9 reporters embedded with 150,000 American troops in Iraq. There were about 770 during the initial invasion.
Many blame the media for the estrangement, but part of the blame rests squarely on the chip-laden shoulders of key military officers and on the often clueless Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad, which doesn’t manage the media so much as manhandle them.
UPDATE IV. Geoff on the Vegemite controversy: “This is the greatest outrage in all of history.” Hey, don’t talk it down, man!
UPDATE V. Felix K. emails: “Vegemite is sold in supermarkets here (I am an ex-pat Austrian living in Redmond, Wash., USA). Admittedly, the FDA has reason for concern—the stuff reminds me of toxic sludge—but as of August, Vegemite and Marmite are foods and freely sold at Larry’s and other places. If the supermarket can find a buyer, that is.” Thanks for that information, Felix. Of course, your vicious slurs now require that you be executed.
UPDATE VI. Reader Apostic calls urban legend; the Geelong Advertiser sticks by the ban claim.
UPDATE VII. Send your Vegemite complaints to the White House!
So for those who tend to post first and read later, chill. He's on our side and he's taking the mickey of the Religion of Pieces.
Amoung some of the comments is this gem:
Newsweek is reporting that a jar of Vegemite has been found in a toilet in Gitmo.
Jihad, Jihad, Jihad. Oi! Oi! Oi!
Well intentioned...
Better yet, make them eat it!
LOL.
"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."
Most Aussies only put a thin spread of Vegemite on their toast but I tend to put it on as thick as most Americans do with peanut butter.
Hot, fresh toast covered in a thick layer of Vegemite and washed down with a glass of cold milk. Mmmmm... The food of kings!
I think that this explains the great mystery of why so many of the worlds most dangerous and toxic creatures live in Austrailia. The vegimite gives you a tolerance to their venom! After all, if you consume enough of a poison in small doses over the years, you'll eventually become immune to it!
Mark
Maybe this'll get me back into the Herald Sun, and they'll get my name this time!
Oh, wait, maybe it was a different vegamin I was thinking of....
Vegimite tastes like sh*t. Horrible stuff.
The premise, however, is flawed: nothing can be said that would be insulting to Vegemite.
No, it's saltier.
Thinly spread on buttered toast, it can be quite nice, really. But it DOES look like the Real Thing.
My wife begged me not to eat it in front of here, as it reminded her of the Poodle Scene in "Pink Flamingos".
My friend in Adelaide sent me a huge jar of it.
I am posting though an anonymizer so the Food Police can't get me, but looking out the window I see tanks and Humvees. There is a tank heading towards the door now, with a long snouty thing in front with some kind of pilot light, and black-clad people are climbing the ba
*NO CARRIER*
I had an Aussie friend send me a jar of it. At first, I thought I had offended him. On further experimentation I found I loved the stuff and am eternally grateful for him turning me on to it. My only problem is finding it here in America. It is made by Kraft, but I can't find it anywhere. Guess I'll have to go to the Land Down Under to feed my habit...
Scrapple? Ick, Ick, and Ick.
I think I just threw up a little... :)
What's wrong with you? Cooked crispy on the outside, mushy on the inside and smothered in ketchup there's no better food in the world if you don't mind crunching on pig eyeball every now and again.
Try Marmite, it's available here, also better.
Two eggs, over-easy, and a side of scrapple. Mmmmmm!
So, is taste-bud masochism a particular sexual fetish for you, or just another form of autoflagellation? I ask for information only.
Seems to me there's a legitimate issue here. Mistreatment of prisoners is one thing, but we shouldn't be trying to poison them!
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