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(News.com.au) Interesting Vegemite changes its name to 'Australia', still tastes like a dead dingo's ass   (news.com.au) divider line 16
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Pants full of macaroni!! [TotalFark]
2012-01-05 08:40:05 AM
Is it still illegal in the US?

/gettin' that out of the way
 
JasonOfOrillia
2012-01-05 08:47:16 AM
Having never tasted a dead dingo's ass I'll have to take subby's word on that.
 
PanicMan
2012-01-05 08:50:11 AM
They ...they know that name is already taken, right? Right?
 
funk_soul_bubby
2012-01-05 09:24:18 AM
But how will future generations interpret Men At Work lyrics?
 
Kurmudgeon
2012-01-05 09:31:52 AM
Well, less risky than a live dingo's ass at any rate.
 
Publikwerks
2012-01-05 09:51:59 AM
funk_soul_bubby: But how will future generations interpret Men At Work lyrics?

He just smiled and gave me a Australian sandwich.

Wow, that changes the whole song.
 
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf
2012-01-05 10:07:33 AM
I wonder how many of those who speak badly of Vegemite have actually tried it. And of those who have and didn't like it, thought they may not like it before they tried it and therefore that expectation had an effect on whether or not they liked it instead of trying it without expecting it to taste good or bad.

/has not tried it, but wants to and does not expect it to taste good or bad
 
animal900
2012-01-05 11:02:42 AM
Kurmudgeon: Well, less risky than a live dingo's ass at any rate.

I totally read that in an Aussie accent.


Publikwerks:
He just smiled and gave me a Australian sandwich.


I had one of those in Bangkok years ago. Still taking antibiotics.
 
BigMevy
2012-01-05 11:25:24 AM
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: I wonder how many of those who speak badly of Vegemite have actually tried it. And of those who have and didn't like it, thought they may not like it before they tried it and therefore that expectation had an effect on whether or not they liked it instead of trying it without expecting it to taste good or bad.

/has not tried it, but wants to and does not expect it to taste good or bad

There's probably a certain percentage that are along those lines, yes. I tried it, and was not impressed. It wasn't the foulest thing I've ever tasted, but it was bad enough that I knew I wouldn't bother trying it again. I spent a year down under, and I'm convinced that the majority of the Aussies who claimed to enjoy it just did it out of a sense of civic duty.

Besides, most folks will eat anything when drunk enough.
 
BKITU [TotalFark]
2012-01-05 11:55:41 AM
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: I wonder how many of those who speak badly of Vegemite have actually tried it. And of those who have and didn't like it, thought they may not like it before they tried it and therefore that expectation had an effect on whether or not they liked it instead of trying it without expecting it to taste good or bad.

/has not tried it, but wants to and does not expect it to taste good or bad

I have tried it. It is awful. It's roughly 573% salt, smells like rotting vegetables, and looks like an infant's bowel movement. Spread it on your toast today!
 
Ghryswald
2012-01-05 12:41:28 PM
I've tried Vegemite. Not impressed. Certainly can't imagine people grabbing a spoon & sitting down with a jar of the stuff like we do with peanut butter, but some do.
 
brantgoose [TotalFark]
2012-01-05 03:25:46 PM
Their earlier sales campaign entitled "Vegemite--now with more mites in every bottle!" was not very successful. In fact, it ranked with the catastrophic Conquistador coffee campaign and the disappointing sales figures on the Rainforest Poisonous Crunchy Frog Rainbow Special Selection box of chocolates. ("In fact" here means, "in fiction".)

The frogs were certainly fresh, crunchy and colourful, but alas, they were also curare poison arrow frogs. Greens were expected to love the rainforest and rainbow-themed advertising, but somebody forgot that bright colours in Nature are often used to say "Noli me tangere" in no uncertain terms.
 
I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey [TotalFark]
2012-01-05 03:30:04 PM
Men at Work disappointed by the news.
 
D_S_W
2012-01-05 04:04:34 PM
Ghryswald: I've tried Vegemite. Not impressed. Certainly can't imagine people grabbing a spoon & sitting down with a jar of the stuff like we do with peanut butter, but some do.

Yeah right you 'tard, what TV show were you watching?.
Nobody in their right mind slathers it on bread with the same thickness as peanut butter. Unless you're a fat 'merican of course.
Scrape it over some toast with butter on it. It's actually quite good.
 
Mr Guy
2012-01-05 04:50:58 PM
Is this the point where an Australian basically pops in and suggest you are supposed to eat Vegemite homeopathically?

Every time we try and point out the stuff clearly isn't food, someone pops up and says something about coating bread in butter and waving it in the general vicinity of the Vegemite jar being the "right way".

Look, it's not food, no matter what you claim. I should know, I've lived my whole life in an area that thinks chemically treated corn waste is food if you put enough butter on it.
 
thisispete
2012-01-05 06:15:13 PM
Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: I wonder how many of those who speak badly of Vegemite have actually tried it. And of those who have and didn't like it, thought they may not like it before they tried it and therefore that expectation had an effect on whether or not they liked it instead of trying it without expecting it to taste good or bad.

/has not tried it, but wants to and does not expect it to taste good or bad

You can generally gauge whether an Aussie or Kiwi likes a foreigner by the way they prepare their first Vegemite on toast experience. If they spread it thickly, like peanut butter, they don't care for you. If it's spread thinly over hot buttered toast, then they at least hold you in some esteem and are giving you the opportunity to try it as it should be consumed.

A common debate in the playgrounds of my NZ youth was whether Vegemite or Marmite was better. But really, the taste for a yeasty spread is something of an Antipodean shibboleth.
 
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