Hands off our Vegemite

[annette]

Annette, its not true that you don't have any daughters.

This vegemite stuff sounds like it stinks like bad cheese, uh uh, ain't going there!


...JP

[Lone]

Phil, it looks like Kraft is now an independently owned company, whatever that means, so you might not have to go on strike just yet. 
I'll send you a copy of our Dick Smith Foods correspondence privately.  They also sent me a product list, which mainly includes 5 kinds of peanut butter (also Kraft imitations), and the odd biscuit or cream cheese.  I suppose we have too high expectations on a company with Dick Smith in its name, but I reckon that even on a small scale, more can be done to utilize local australian produce other than peanuts, cereal, and the odd berry for the Bush Foods Breakfast Cereal.  A whole citrus orchard was cut down here because they couldn't get rid of the fruit.  A lot of our best produce goes overseas, and for some reason, we import the same kinds of fruits and vegetables we grow here.  I will say though that they are to be commended assuming they are using Australian packaging and plastics, and still keeping the price to the level of companies using plastics made in cheap labour countries.

Annette, its not true that you don't have any daughters.

This vegemite stuff sounds like it stinks like bad cheese, uh uh, ain't going there!


...JP

   

This reminds me the irish joke when Molly comes home in distress and her father asks her what is wrong; whatever it is, they can work it out.  So Molly says, "Fither, it is a terrible thing to tell you, but I'm pregnant".  Her father looks stunned for a moment, "Oh, that is not so good, Molly dear", then he says, "Well and are you sure that it's yours?"

Lone

[annette]

JP must know something I don't know

[JP]

JP must know something I don't know

Well, you keep bees right?


...JP

[Cindi]

Nettie dear, I think you have missed one very vital point.  Vegemite has many many health benefits, and you too will be sure to grow at least half a metre in height and probably grow hair on your chest.  Look at Barra as a shining example, how healthy and robust he has become.  If you carefully examine the label on your little jar, you will see it contains folate.  As everyone knows, this is good for pregnancy.  In short, if you don't have any children now, you soon will have.  Keep eating it 
Malvern Star

Annette, read the above, smiling.  I would certainly say that you must stop to eating this Vegemite, you are well past the age that you would want some little ones running around, what would your Husband say, AND....you don't want to grow another 1.5 feet high, now would ya, girl, stop eating the Vegemite.  Johnnybigfish has been awol for a while too, but he posted the other night, maybe he has new babies at his house too and he has been busy taking care of him  , my gracious!!!  Have that most beautiful day, of love and health.  Cindi

[SlickMick]

Just had a Vegemite sanger for lunch.. yum

Slicko

[annette]

The hair on the chest is the scary part. I don't mind the babies and the height (since I am shrinking anyway)

OK JP, yes my little girls. 

[SlickMick]

OK Nette, the hair on your chest you can hide, the ankle biters you, can't so be Vegie careful

Slicko

[philinacoma]

Lone,

Thanks for sending the letter. I think DS said in an interview a couple of years back, it was when I think another biscuit factory was closing down here in Melb and people were trying to get him to buy it up and keep it going, that he is not in the business of manufacturing, just in marketing. He contracts other (Aussie) companies to do the manufacturing.

It is not an attitude I am comfortable with personally and I would like to see a bit more innovation too.

Phil

[johnnybigfish]

Cant lay off the vegemite....I'm hooked.....Vegemite is the only thing I know of what makes me feel like a REAL MAN! That, and my testosterone injections!!....Just like in Oz, vegemite make me wanna fight, and testosterone make me wanna....uhhhhhh...You know!!!...I currently wanna do a walkabout to the edge of the world and toss this bottle over the edge!!..And then, blow on a didjeridoo( a vibrating pipe/flute I think!)

your friend,
john

[JP]

Cant lay off the vegemite....I'm hooked.....Vegemite is the only thing I know of what makes me feel like a REAL MAN! That, and my testosterone injections!!....Just like in Oz, vegemite make me wanna fight, and testosterone make me wanna....uhhhhhh...You know!!!...I currently wanna do a walkabout to the edge of the world and toss this bottle over the edge!!..And then, blow on a didjeridoo( a vibrating pipe/flute I think!)

your friend,
john

Alright, I have read this entire thread and have to confess my curiosity. JBF, what does this stuff taste like to you, and does it smell bad?

Now about the testosterone injections, not going there my friend, but hey, good for you and the Mrs!


...JP

[mick]

You have to get some salada biscuits. Id ship em over but they would just be dust by the time the baggage handlers were through.

In a Salada is:


Nutrient    Value per 100 g
Proximates
Energy    1734    KJ
Moisture    3.9    G
Nitrogen    1.51    G
Protein    8.6    G
Fat    13.6    G
Ash    2.0    G
Fructose    0.0    G
Glucose    0.0    G
Sucrose    0.0    G
Maltose    0.4    G
Lactose    0.0    G
Sugars, total    0.4    G
Starch    61.6    G
Available Carbohydrate    62.0    G
Total Dietary Fibre    3.6    G
Minerals
Antimony    0.2    UG
Arsenic    1.4    UG
Cadmium    0.8    UG
Calcium    20    MG
Chromium    6.0    UG
Copper    0.152    MG
Fluoride    25.05    UG
Iodine    1.0    UG
Iron    1.8    MG
Lead    0.2    UG
Magnesium    27    MG
Manganese    0.886    MG
Mercury    0.0    UG
Molybdenum    18.0    UG
Nickel    14    UG
Phosphorus    155    MG
Potassium    144    MG
Selenium    10.5    UG
Sodium    927    MG
Sulphur    70    MG
Tin    0.0    UG
Zinc    0.9    MG
Vitamins
Thiamin    0.19    MG
Riboflavin    0.18    MG
Niacin    2.6    MG
Niacin derived from Tryptophan or Protein    1.4    MG
Niacin Equivalents    4.1    MG
Vitamin B6    0.14    MG
Biotin    6.1    UG
Folate    37    UG
Dietary Folate Equivalents    37    UG
Pantothenic Acid    0.19    MG
Vitamin C    0    MG
Alpha Carotene    0    UG
Beta Carotene    13    UG
Cryptoxanthin    0    UG
Beta Carotene equivalents    13    UG
Retinol    4    UG
Retinol Equivalents    6    UG
Alpha Tocopherol    1.9    MG
Vitamin E    1.9    MG
Lipids
C4:0    0.00    G
C6:0    0.00    G
C8:0    0.00    G
C10:0    0.07    G
C12:0    0.62    G
C14:0    0.54    G
C15:0    0.06    G
C16:0    2.81    G
C17:0    0.10    G
C18:0    1.63    G
C20:0    0.02    G
C22:0    0.03    G
C24:0    0.00    G
Total Saturated Fatty Acids    5.9    G
C14:1    0.00    G
C15:1    0.00    G
C16:1    0.19    G
C17:1    0.00    G
C18:1    3.90    G
C20:1    0.06    G
C22:1    0.00    G
Total Monounsaturated Fatty Acids    4.1    G
C18:2 (undifferentiated)    0.84    G
C18:3 (undifferentiated)    0.46    G
C20:3 (undifferentiated)    0    MG
C20:4 (undifferentiated)    0.00    G
C20:5 (undifferentiated)    0    MG
C22:6 (undifferentiated)    0    MG
Total Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids    1.3    G
Total Long Chain Omega 3 Polyunsaturates    0    MG
Cholesterol    16    MG

BLOODY CHOCKA BLOCK FULL OF GOODNESS!

In Vegemite is:

Nutrient     Value per 100 g
Proximates
Energy    589    KJ
Moisture    40.5    G
Nitrogen    3.90    G
Protein    24.4    G
Fat    1.0    G
Ash    14.9    G
Fructose    0.0    G
Glucose    0.2    G
Sucrose    0.0    G
Maltose    0.0    G
Lactose    0.0    G
Sugars, total    0.2    G
Starch    7.9    G
Available Carbohydrate    8.1    G
Minerals
Calcium    48    MG
Copper    0.460    MG
Fluoride    410.00    UG
Iodine    4.5    UG
Iron    2.7    MG
Magnesium    160    MG
Manganese    0.260    MG
Phosphorus    940    MG
Potassium    2300    MG
Selenium    18.0    UG
Sodium    3000    MG
Sulphur    340    MG
Zinc    5.1    MG
Vitamins
Thiamin    18.50    MG
Riboflavin    22.00    MG
Niacin    130.0    MG
Niacin derived from Tryptophan or Protein    4.1    MG
Niacin Equivalents    134.1    MG
Vitamin B6    0.82    MG
Biotin    100.0    UG
Folate    1200    UG
Folic Acid    3250    UG
Dietary Folate Equivalents    6628    UG
Pantothenic Acid    2.60    MG
Vitamin C    0    MG
Alpha Carotene    0    UG
Beta Carotene    0    UG
Cryptoxanthin    0    UG
Beta Carotene equivalents    0    UG
Retinol    0    UG
Retinol Equivalents    0    UG
Alpha Tocopherol    0.0    MG
Vitamin E    0.0    MG
Lipids
Total Saturated Fatty Acids    0.2    G
Cholesterol    0    MG
Amino Acids
Alanine    1451    MG
Arginine    819    MG
Aspartic Acid    2110    MG
Cystine + Cysteine    214    MG
Glutamic Acid    2742    MG
Glycine    1076    MG
Histidine    554    MG
Isoleucine    1127    MG
Leucine    1552    MG
Lysine    1630    MG
Methionine    296    MG
Phenylalanine    909    MG
Proline    815    MG
Serine    1154    MG
Threonine    1143    MG
Tryptophan    242    MG
Tyrosine    745    MG
Valine    1396    MG

BLOODY BURSTING WITH GOODNESS!

Now butter!

Butter means a product derived exclusively from milk and products obtained from
milk, principally in the form of an emulsion of the type water-in-oil.
2 Composition of butter
(1) Butter must contain no less than 80.0% m/m milkfat.
(2) Butter may contain –
(a) water; and
(b) salt; and
(c) lactic acid producing micro-organisms; and
(d) flavour producing micro-organisms

Now you take ya Salada, put 3mm of butter on it, add 2mm vegemite, stick in freezer for 5 minutes to set, and voila, best fun you can have with clothes on. You can put butter and vegemite between two Saladas, or Saos, squeeze and make worms!

[SlickMick]

Now Micko dont go on with all that bullsjpt about what's in a salada just tell him what he needs to know. Vegemite is good with almost everything.

Now JP, for a vegemite sanger (sandwich) yoitu need a couplea slices of white bread, some butter andacourse vegemite. Ya dont want the butter to soak intathebread so its gotta be kinda stiff but not real stiff that ya cant spread it without tearing the bread apart. Gotit?

Then ya take a bit of vegie and spread it real thin over the butter, ya gotta see the butter through the vegie and also sometimes see only the vegemite

Then

Ya eat it.............................. yummo

Slicko

[Lone]

The hair on the chest is the scary part

Reckon you'll be right, Nettie mate.  Barra on the other hand will be at the stage of using a whipper snipper by now (refer to thread "Cindi's learning Strine").

In a Salada is:


Nutrient    Value per 100 g
Proximates

If a salada contains all that, I'd say cardboard would be just as nutitious.  By the way, they feed the goldfish on saladas here every second day.  They had some that were 16 to 20 years old.


I can see you're the next one wanting aussie citizenship, JP.

Lone

[JP]

Heck yeah, I'm ready to try vegemite, I think! I will try it for you guys and for Steve Irwin, I miss him something awful!

Do I have to eat it on white bread though, cause I stopped buying white bread, got a favorite multi grain bread I buy, will that work?


...JP

[johnnybigfish]

Hey JP!
I like it on a saltine too!
 Ok,.....It tastes like....Thick soy sauce sort of....When you smell it, it smells familiar....Like an old dark beer..Its salty, but in a different sort of salty way.
 My wife thinks its nasty...She thinks its just something that the ozzies use to tell Yanks to eat, then they laff at us!
I dont agree....For me, I was warned to take it lite...and I did....I HAD TO taste it several times before I could make up my mind..Its genuinely all its own!!!..Nothing like it!..When you spread it on a ritz, It looks like when you butter a toast and then spread cinnamon on it..Its dark! Like cake frosting!
Actually, I think youre gonna like it..Its strange, but good...Not spicy...Not too salty...Not too malty either...As for me, I can really slather it on a cracker now!..I havent tried it on buttered toast yet, But I'm sure I will!
Oh yeh....No aftertaste either..Thats why I think I had to try it several times(a sleeve of Ritz) till I could actually have the flavor in my mouth long enuff to decide what I thot!
 I would eat it constantly, but a case cost 60.00 with freight..And the jars are about the size of the jars that boulion cubes come in!
 Sooo,...Get it and spread it!...Then, give us a full report!

your friend,
Barra!

[JP]

Think I'll wait til Annette's next report. Salty, soy sauce, brew on a cracker, don't sound too appetizing, have to say.


...JP

[SlickMick]

Dont be such a woos JP.. be a MAN just like Barra

Slicko

[JP]

Dont be such a woos JP.. be a MAN just like Barra

Slicko

 

You know I'm gonna try it right? Just baitin' you guys a bit Mick!

Still wanna hear about Annette's latest try. Come on Annette!


...JP

[SlickMick]

Come on Nette dont let JP woos out

Slicko