geeeziz, 'Spaw, if I thought you would like it so much I would've sent a *big* jar. I just thought it would be sitting in your food cupboard for the next 50 years as a curious artefact from the other side of the world. You'll reach the point where your body will just say that you have had enough, and then a few days later you'll get the urge again.

It's a tough way to become an honorary Ozzie but you've made the grade, mate!

I'm surprised it arrived so quickly - I sent it on Friday 6th October so that's not bad.

Tell you what, some American friends are coming over here this Friday (no I mean some friends are coming over from America - one American, one Ozzie) and they will be going back in about a month. They live in Florida, so if you can't get a supply I'll send a big jar over with them and they can post it to Ohio from Florida.

Of course, the Ozzie friend might get sorely tempted to run off with the big jar of Vegemite, and I'll just get this innocent sounding e-mail saying that he "can't understand how it got lost in the post on the way to Ohio, but you know, these things happen". He's been living in non-Vegemite land for 18 months now so the cold turkey must have been very traumatic for him.

I'm really pleased that you actually like it - it was worth the fun of packaging it up and sending it over, even if Micca did call me a "pillock" in another thread, and even if all the residents downwind of Ohio hate me for the rest of their lives. (The trick for stopping complaints is a lot like the garlic-eaters trick - just get everone else around you to eat it and no-one will be able to smell anything out of the ordinary.)

Helen