How about you organizing a group Vegemite purchase :-))))  for all
uninitiated!!   or should I wait till Friday to suggest this???  It
would help the Aussie dollar!

> If there is sufficient demand I could persuade someone here to scan
> in the 5-page 'Vegemite in History' document to distribute.

Only if it's on a web site.

> PS Australians wonder about Oreo cookies too!

Oh N0!,  another thread on Oreo cookies and vanagons?????

If one were to eat Vegemite AND Oreo cookies, could the resulting
gas be  passed back into the intake manifold??

My Friday's 2 cents worth.    Malcolm S

> Vegemite (correct spelling) dates back to 1922 and the Fred Walker
> Co, which became the Kraft Walker Co in 1926 and Kraft in 1951. Dr
> Cyril P Callister (Australia's leading food technologists in the
> '20s and 30s) developed a spread from brewers yeast (one of the
> richest know natural sources of Vitamin B).  The NAME was given
> after a competition for the best name (50 pound prizemoney). For a
> while, the name was changed to Pawill (to compete with the English
> Marmite(!! can you believe it!?).
>
> Vegemite was an important contribution to the war effort (WW II) -
> nutritional value was recognised.  (But I ALSO think it may explain
> why the US didn't enter the war until a bit later).
>
> If there is sufficient demand I could persuade someone here to scan
> in the 5-page 'Vegemite in History' document to distribute.
>
> Incidentally, Vegemite is a great addition to some soups, gravy, and
> spread thinly on bread used to make toasted cheese sandwiches.
>
> David Yates
>
> PS Australians wonder about Oreo cookies too!