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RE: Vegemite Question

From: GRAHAM.G.R.DOMBKINS@BHPMELMSM.BHP.bhpmel04.telememo.au
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 19:22:59 +1000
Subject: RE: Vegemite Question
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Hi all!

Jean Kirwin wonders...
>Just a question for those in Australia -
>just what is vegemite?  I remember it being mentioned
>in an old Men at Work song ("He just smiled and gave
>me a vegemite sandwich...)

     It's up there with the pavlova as one of Australia's greatest gifts to the
culinary world... -NOT- :-P If I remember my history right there was a
competition many years ago in Oz to try and come up with a use for all the yest
by-product being produced in the manufacture of beer. By the end of it a chap
had won by developing this "stuff" that looked like axle greese and tasted of
concentrated salt. It was marketed against an English product called Marmite
(created from vegitable extract) and call Parwill. The add read something like
"If Marmite then Parwill". The name flopped and after a little more market
research it was changed to Vegimite. Funny thing about the stuff is that most
Australians LOVE it and most everyone else in the world HATES it. A quick poll
around the office here shows me that I'm the odd one out in almost 40 people!

    Trick to play on people with vegimite: If you coat the outlet-manifold of
engine with the stuff it "burns" as the thing heats up and -stinks- like
nothing else on this earth. It also cakes on there and can't be got off without
a chissel. This wonderful trick was brough to you by my lovely sister, who
loves vegimite and cheese on toast.

     As an aside do any of our non-Australian friends know what a musk-stick
is?

>Thanks - please dont flame me!!  Jean Kirwin

    We'd NEVER do something like that! ;-)

PS. I'm Californian stuck in an Australian's body!! :-) ( thanks Anthony I
still haven't stopped giggling over that one :-) :-) <he he> )
    
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