Perhpas I should call them for a cut of the copyright $...
Victor.
The real story of Vegemite
Now there is a lot of myths about the origins of this jewel of the south, this elixir of life, this separator of men and boys. We're talking Vegemite here folk. Come gather 'round an' I'll tell ya a yarn of the outback.
One account has it that a swagman was tramping from town to town during the depression years. Having been on the road for nearly 3 years, his clothes were wearing out, his skin is dried, dark and dirty, his hair is long and matted and his eyes are wrinkled and squinted from walking into the sun.
As our swaggie heads for the next property, where there might be the opportunity of a days work, or at least a little food, he comes up to an old neglected wagon. Woodern wagon, rotting planks, wheels with broken spokes and rusted iron. He decides to take a break, rolls the swag off his shoulder and leans up against the broken wheel of the wagon.
Undoing the drawstring of his swag slowly and deliberately, our man pulls out the last piece of damper from his kit, and slowly unfolds the soiled cloth that contains this morsel and its crumbs.
Ready for a bite, he brings the bread up to his mouth. But just as he does, a kookaburra flys down, startling him and causing his body to jerk involuntarily. As he does, the piece of damper, his last remaining ration, wipes against the greasy, oily join of the wheel and axle of the old wagon - smearing the damper with black grease.
Frantic, the swaggie jumps up and attempts to kill the kookaburra - who sits in the old gum tree laughing out loud - merry, merry king of the bush is he!
The swagman soon tires of this exercise and returned to his damper. Tears in his eyes, he realizes that the station is a good days walk away, and this is all the food he has to keep him.
So he did what we all would have done - ate it, grease and all.
And my wasn't he surprised. This grease had transformed itself into a beautiful, tasty, salty, complex and out and out nice concoction.
Years later, this swagman became the head of a multinational food conglomeration called Kraft. He vowed never to forget the life he had led during the depression years, and being a civil minded man decided that what was good for him to remember was good for the rest of the country to remember with him.
Through a subtle radio and talkie advertising and sponsorship campaign he saw to it that axle grease or Vegemite, as it was renamed by the marketing folk, would grace the table of every home in Australia and eventually the whole wide world, putting a "rose on every cheek"
[goes back to the jar from the fridge]
Vegemite - concentrated yeast extract
All Natural
115g NET
5g of this food contains: vitamin B1 0.55mg, Riboflavin 0.80mg, Niacin 5.50mg which are half of the average daily allowance.
Product of Australia
Ingredients: yeast extract, salt, mineral salt (508, 509), malt extract, natural colour (150), vegetable extract, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin.
Kraft Food Limited 162 Salmon Street Port Melbourne VIC Aust.
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At 07:44 AM 18/09/2002 -0500, cookie wrote:
I was watching JAG on TV last night while eating dinner.
A sonar operator on a US sub was eating this "stuff". One of the
officers asked him what he was eating. The sonar operator replied,
"... it's vegemite,... tastes like axle grease till you get used
to it ...".
I must disagree with his statement. I have tasted vegemite and can
honestly say that axle grease tastes better!
Cookie
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