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From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn)
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Subject: Re: Vegemite Explained
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Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 13:00:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 13:00:09 1984
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I have to disagree with Scott Plunkett that Marmite is a wimpish Pommy
substitute for Vegemite - my preference for the former is a matter of
individual taste, but it is Marmite, not Vegemite, that is found on
the breakfast tables at University House at the Australian National
University in Canberra, where I lived for two years and gained stature
and fortitude by drinking beer, playing cricket, and eating *Marmite*
thinly spread on heavily buttered toast.  No sign of Vegemite, and ANU
is an outstanding institution.  One has to admit a certain amount of
Pommy infiltration at UH, though - high table, Master intoning grace
("Gratiam tuam, Domine,...") while the kookaburra birds warble outside
in the hot February sunshine...