BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!

Subject: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 03:15 PM

When I arrived home after a few errands today, I was greeted by my youngest saying a 'package had arrived and Mom said it was from the other side of the world.'

I dropped everything else and ripped opened the package. There it was. Lovingly packed, my very own Vegemite had arrived from Helen in Australia. Helen also enclosed a wonderful picture and a 4 page handwritten letter. )Ya' know, there is still something wonderful about a handwritten letter--adds a personal thing we miss on the 'puters)---I noticed that the Customs office had a sticker there too-----Anyway, I made toast while reading the letter and as per instructions, used the less is more concept while spreading. Helen noted that someone she knew had used it for rooting plants and when I sniffed it, I had to admit it smelled like rooting hormone!!! Properly spread, Karen and I each had a piece of toast.

Now truthfully, what I wanted to say here was a whole monologue on how awful this stuff is....you know, "Yeast my ass...THIS is Kangaroo shit"...that kind of thing. Well..............I don't know how to say it, but uh......I LOVE THE STUFF!!!! I had another 2 slices on the spot!!! I gotta' find some world food joint that has this crappola!!! What a neat flavor...with this really fine aftertaste.

Y'all were right. There is no describing it. I can't think of anything that's even remotely similar. Since you were right about the taste, I presume you're right about the noxious emissions which may be produced later. Time will tell, but I wanted to warn everyone downwind of Ohio.

Helen my dear friend, thank you so much for the experience and also the letter and picture. What a place this is......really amzing!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 03:18 PM

.........eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww in PA, downwind........

Send me some so I can PASS it on!

Or no! Party at Spaw's house! He's bringing the Vegemite! Par-TEE!

BEER. LOTS OF LOVELY BEER. BRING BEER.

~S~

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 03:18 PM

RUN FOR COVER!!! INCOMING FIRE!! HELP!!

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Mooh
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 03:22 PM

Oh sweet deadly sins, I envy the glutton! Mooh, I mean, mooooooh...

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 04:12 PM

Just had another slice of toast...DAMN...this stuff is really good!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 04:23 PM

I somehow knew that if there was ever an American who would like this stuff, it'd be 'Spaw.

Now you've got to try Marmite, which is the same but different. And if you can't get it at all, I'll send some to you, and drive the customs wild.

It's great mixed in with Baked Beans as well.

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 04:49 PM

it seems you CAN order it...

http://www.ausimports.com/

http://www.farawayfoods.com/ingredients.html

and there many alternative uses *grin*

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 05:23 PM

Congratulations Spaw!!!! You've passed the initiation. You are now an honorary Aussie. You might even learn to say "G'day".

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 05:30 PM

Just what you need Spaw ... to help you with your new career with the PLUMPER SOUNDS!

LL

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 06:01 PM

I truly messed up that link above.... go here for alternative uses of vegemite

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Zebedee
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 06:08 PM

Sorry if I'm hijacking the thread, but i have to say that Marmite is far, far superior to Vegemite.

OK, you Aussies can manage a wonderful Olympics, but when it comes to yeast-based spreads...

I can only say one thing:

Marmite

Zeb

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Barbara
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 06:39 PM

I know what you mean, 'spaw, I loved the stuff from the first taste m'self. Just wish the SO would keep the butter out of it. And I personally didn't notice any noxious southern breezes, but the kid won't hug me when I've been eating it.
I've had both the V stuff and the M stuff and they taste similar; I like the V stuff better, sorry Zeb.
Blessings,
Barbara
Sometimes we find it in the bigger Safeways out here.

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 09:32 PM

Spaw I live in Pittsburgh. This just ain't cool. Please take a roadtrip to Central PA before you finish the jar, I don't think they'd notice in Philly;-> LOL

Truth be told, I'm a vegetarian and tend to eat a lot of gassy foods. Among my favorites; hummus, black beans, lentils, broccoli and habanero sauce on everything. I probably can't compete with you, Spaw, but I've found myself in a few of those elevators with one other person where every one knows who to blame.

Rich

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 09:38 PM

Has anyone posted the Vegemite song and tune yet? There really is one. Regards, John

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Helen
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 09:45 PM

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

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Gary T
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 10:03 PM

Spaw, if you get a chance to share it with Cletus (hint hint), be sure to ask him to let us know what he thought of it.

(By the way, I'm happy for you, but kinda envious--now I'm dying to know what it tastes like.)

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: sophocleese
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 10:44 PM

Marmite is easy to find in many Ontario stores, so if it can cross the Atlantic to come here, maybe there are some places closer to you Spaw and Gary T. (I don't know where you are Gary T.) where you can get it. Definitely superior to Vegemite.

Sophy

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Troll
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 10:54 PM

I've tried marmite. It must be an acquired taste. I've never managed to acquire it. Maybe vegemite is better. Somebody once said that you should try anything except incest and folk-dancing so I guess I gotta try vegemite to be fair
God! I sure hope it's better than marmite!

troll

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 12:14 AM

Wait! Am I the only one who noticed that Spaw said he and Karen were properly spread?????

He MUST have lost his mind over the Vegemite, to have left us an opening like that.

I don't even know what to do with it, so go for it guys!

~S~

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Bugsy
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 12:42 AM

Why did I KNOW you were going to like it 'Spaw?

The next taste sensation is to add cream cheese to the toast on top of the Vegemite.

We're Happy little Vegemites
As bright as bright can be
we all enjoy our Vegemite
for breakfast, lunch and tea,
our mummies say we're growing stronger
every single week
because we love our Vegemite!
we all adore our Vegemite!
It puts a rose in every cheek!

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Dave Swan
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 12:57 AM

My dog's gas gets much worse when I eat Vegemite.

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 01:00 AM

Great line ES...LMAO!!!!!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Margo
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 01:11 AM

No Spaw, that should be FMAO, if you catch my drift.... :o)

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 01:13 AM

And who is ES?

~S~

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 01:17 AM

Dave Swan......the Great El Swanno, famed far and wide for his fartistic hi-dive where he leaps from a 90 foot tower wearing fishnets and half a gorilla suit, lites a fart and rockets down to a landing in a fire helmet filled with lime jello. Hell of an act.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 02:43 AM

Oh DUH, I had a brain fart and no Vegemite to blame it on. EL Swanno. I knew that, tho not the whole story, but after all, who does?

I thought you'd become an yptomaniac! (DS, see? D & E close on the keyboard...) Spaw suffering the further curses of over-Vegemitization!

Yptomaniac. Oh I think that's a keeper. OK?? OK?? I wanna make it a keeper! Huh? OK???

From binge-posting to yptomania in one day. The MudCurse! You two can be dylsexic AND yptomaniacal!

Next, a new Mudcat member, The YptoMan. Oh the terrifying stories I have heard about THAT one! (Start a thread, quick! Must eracidate The YptoMan! Call Amos and LEJ in! A new space thirller!)

Sleep!! I need lots of sleep!! And BEER! WHERE IS THE FOCKING BEER??? I NEED LOTS OF LOVELY BEER!

Unka Spaw!! Hep me! NO BEER OR SLEEP HERE!

Oh. Never mind. I remember now-- can do it myself. Sleep now, beer tomorrow. On a Sunday in this town? Sigh.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Lena
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 08:30 AM

Just to say that both of you(well,Helen had it already...)gained my eternal love for this story.
Love
Lena

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 11:31 AM

Please no falling out between Marmite and Vegemite. Brothers (and sisters) in arms against a host of barbarians who would hold both in equal disdain.

In any case when I say Marmite, I tend to mean some cutprice own-brand clone in a supermarket anyway, which tastes just the same. I haven't yet found a clone of Vegemite yet, and the real stuff is a bit more pricy, and I'm a scrimper. (And I like the Marmity taste better, since it's what I'm used to...)

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Llanfair
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 12:23 PM

MARMITE. you either love it or hate it, there is no middle road on this one. I love marmite, I was a marmite baby, and so were my sons.
I have tried vegemite, and there is no comparison.
Marmite rules!!!!!!
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: GUEST,SDShad
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 02:03 PM

Sure, share it with Cletus, Spaw, but for God's sake, don't give any to Cleigh.... *shudder*

Shad

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 02:04 PM

I think Cleigh is more in the production end of that food chain, Chris.

~S~

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Bernard
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 02:09 PM

I was amazed to see a jar of V'mite on the breakfast table at Pippin's B&B this morning. Llanstock has been a real eye-opener in more ways than my addled brain cell can comprehend...

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: GUEST,SDShad
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 02:19 PM

I doubly shudder trying to imagine ways in which Cleigh might be a source of yeast, Suse....

Chris

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 02:28 PM

I think the implication is that he drinks the beer.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 02:40 PM

My gawd this crap IS GOOD!!! Just had an afternnon fix.........Who'd a thunk it?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 05:08 PM

Spaw has found gawd at last. I prayed for that but apparently did not properly attend to details. Good onya, Spaw! Gawd by the jarful! E-vegemite-alization. I love this place! *G*

Chris, I hear you. The thing is, one need not let the mind run that far, once can let it stop just at what I said, for it leaves SO MANY possiblities open... all so deliciously nasty... all leading to [eeeeegheeeewwww....]

I generally cover that with this sort of reply: I do not need that level of detail.

'Course that's how the prayer musta went wrong.

LOL. Spaw, converted. (Kidding, Pat, honest!)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 05:46 PM

Yes, there really was Vegemite this morning on the breakfast table..... but there was also blackcurrant jam and apricot conserve, so you takes yer money....

Personally the only good thing about marmite is that a) it's a piece of pie when playing trival pursuit ~ as in what is a marmite.... and b) to get marmite you have to brew beer.....

LTS who hates the stuff.

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Bugsy
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 09:11 PM

So? Have ya tried it with Cream Cheese yet?
Have ha? huh? huh? huh?

Cheers

Baldy

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 09:15 PM

Whose Line Is It Anyway???

Well boys and girls, since we now have a home computer (albeit with some frustrating problems yet to debug), this time around I have parked it in the living room. Instead of upstairs dangerously close to the bedroom-- where I might find it too tempting when I can't sleep, or where we might regret the HearMe mic being so near the Sugar Dog Luhhhv Bed. 'Nuff said-- anyway-- what a boon this will be, I'm thinking, computer right at the autoharp table, by the big heavy metal amp, yeah!!!

So in case we ever get the bugs worked out, you know, we can do HearMe with both me and Hardi, and Artsy D Lemur too when she visits, and maybe our jam pals when they come over each month... Oh yeah, you will love them... me and Hardi are the NORMAL members...

Anyway! Hardi is over to my right in the recliner, the TV is on, it's muted (I forget why), and I am winding down my mudtime for the day, and out of the corner of my eye I see this loopy, slack-jawed, secret little smirk spreading into a full grin on tired old Hardi's Sunday face. (I have seen this grin on his dad's lookalike face watching Maidenform commercials. Gal's, I know you understand.) "What, honey?" I innocently ask. "You can turn up the sound you know...."

The TV is swiveled just out of my line of sight, even with eyes in the back of my head.... Hardi sez, "Well, it's an announcement from the University announcement screen, to come see the Wind Ensemble, and all I can think of is Vegemite!" We crack up.

Spaw, I used to think it was the music that made Mudcat the universal arena for world peace, so I geared up for HearMe. Now I realize, no, it's the condiments. So far yet to go.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: GUEST,John Gray / Australia
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 10:28 PM

Make sure you try the V on fresh crusty rolls with butter, not margarine. What a delight!

JG / FME

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 11:02 PM

Having spent the better part of the day at the ER....Karen had a bad crash on her bike while cycling with the kids....the "effects" of the V began to kick in and combined with last night's supper..........I gotta' tell ya', this about the foulest smelling poot fest I can recall. On our way home I stopped by a shoot-n-scoot to grab some Coke. AS I walked through I was in one continual silent rip.....like air slowly escaping from a balloon, and the whole joint stank by the time I got back to the front. As I left, the clerk propped the front door open!!! Karen and I cracked up. She's OK, after X-Rays, nothing broken, but severely bruised and scraped....AND of course she had to ride 40 miles in the van with me.

I notice this room is starting to smell real bad too. TOMORROW, the Cream Cheese!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: sophocleese
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 11:10 PM

Sorry to hear about Karen's crash and glad to hear there is no serious damage Spaw. Vegemite (and Marmite) is supposed to be rich in B vitamins though, so maybe if she ate some it would help her deal with the stress of the bruises and other upsets! in her local environment.

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Bugsy
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 11:11 PM

It's just as well we DO live on opposite sides of the world. Maybe one Spot just ain't big enough for champion "Windjammers" like us. LOL.

Enjoy the Vegi/cheese cocktail. By the way it's also brilliant with Cheddar cheese in sandwiches.

Cheers

Baldy

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Oct 00 - 11:15 PM

Crusty, all right, but not rolls, more like CRUSTY OLD FART, you wild man, thank God for this stinkin' thread!

Spaw, I'm totally destroyed, laughing so hard! Ambulances go by our house about 6 times a night, and I think this time they're coming after me! Swing low, flashing chariot! A band of white-coats, comin' after meeee.... comin' for to carry me straight to the third flooooor..... To the ward with her! Strait jackets for all! (I'm allowed to joke about it, trust me!) She won't quit that LAFFIN!

Hey! So what if you have gol-danged Vegemite! Who needs stinkin' Vegemite!!!!

LOL!! Exeunt, stage left!

Umm, before I go... in those, um, tender moments.... you know... if Karen's not too bruised... if she's had too much Power-Vee--- tell her I said (woman to woman) to go ahead and let fly. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

~S~

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 06:45 AM

Spaw, boss, did no one warn you of the side effects? You'll be wearing hats with corks, playing the didgeridoo and singing "Waltzing Matilda" and driving a campervan off to Earl's Court to work in a London bar after eating 2 or 3 jars!
RtS

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 11:56 AM

Please God, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... I live too close to Earls Court (well, in the same city) for that to be funny!!! I've been known to let rip a few fragrant botty burps myself (Micca, just don't even think about it......) and the act of going into shops and dropping little stink bombs was called retail cruising. I used to do it a lot and then look disgustedly at the person next to me, put down what I was looking at and walk off, fanning the air.... worked every time!!

Go for it Spaw, the ozone needs all the help it can get!! Besides, in Rotorua, NZ you'd be a great air freshener...... you have to have been there.

LTS

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: hesperis
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 12:20 PM

Praise - 'you two can'... Does that mean that we can all have Multiple Personality Disorder two?

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 12:34 PM

No, I think she is referring to the infamous #2 which the Vegemite seems to effect.

BTW, I just had a brunch and something my compatriots in OZ have never tried. I had a couple of eggs and some SCRAPPLE which you may remember from previous discussions and I spread my toast with Vegemite. A bite of each in your mouth at the same time is simply superb!!! Vegemite and scapple are made for each other!!!

Awaiting results from the other end.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 04:12 PM

No Spaw, that's just your warped mind again. I did not specifically mean that at all tho it is OK with me that you take it that way.

In fact I was making so many jokes at once on that line I can't quite explain it now. It had to do with catching Spaw up in his terrible typing due, I hope, to over-excitement about the V'mite. In my post I simply misspelled anything I thought I could that would leave a ot of joke possibilities hanging. MPD was included in there! I hadn't thought of the one Spaw said, but then that's the beauty of open-ended (hahaha) jokes.

Obviously he and I are still not QUITE on the same wavelength, because the Lord has apparently not seen fit to provide me with either V'mite or M'mite, and so I have to actually LEARN from Spaw instead of communing with him in the mystical fashion I think these products would induce. Just as well, trust me! And it's going OK, kinda slow. (but I'm coming along nicely, don'tcha think Unka Spaw?) Just as his conversion via the 'Mite Gawd seems to help him communicate with my ******ly a**.

What I would like to know is how these products change brain chemistry. Obviously it's an enhancement, but I want to know the mechanisms involved. I think we could cut way back on various meds in common use with a little more of these, and of course Limburger Cheese could not but help. Is 'Mite good on stinky cheese or is it better with a sweet, clean taste as foil?

I still don't see any beer, either. Bogarts the 'Mite AND the beer. Bet he shares with the possum!

~S~

Subject: RE: BBRRAAWWMMPP-Spaw GetsHisVEGEMITE!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Oct 00 - 05:57 PM

This vegemite stuff sounds just bloody awful. I actually don't like beer either, so I would have grave doubts about something made from its byproducts. I prefer Cuban rum and sun-ripened mangos.