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From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett)
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Subject: Vegemite Explained
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 09:30:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 09:30:09 1984
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Dark-green Vegemite should not normally be eaten, except by
Wombats.  Fresh Vegemite, however, exhibits a healthy dark
brown, almost black, hue, and sports a beefy, salty taste.
Consumption of this paste, from those little yellow jars,
is a patriotic duty to most red-blooded Australians.  More
so as it is quite apparent that no American can stomach its
particular combination of texture, flavor, and color.  A
point of National Pride.

A little known fact for you yachting buffs.  Australias team
began each day with a rigorous application of Vegemite on
toast: next to the Winged Keel, this is an almost unfair
advantage.  (It is believed the Americans were eating
Aunt Jemima blueberry pancakes, poor sods.)  Hence, the
Americas Cup is now lodged safely down in Vegemite Land,
where it may well stay, knowing the powers of the dark
paste.

A final note.  Marmite is beneath contempt.  It is, if not
a weak and pathetic imitation, then certainly a pansy Pommy
substitute.  I warn America NOT to pin it's hopes on reclaiming
the Americas Cup by undertaking a regimen of Marmite.  It
just won't wash.

...{allegra,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett