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From: "Kathy Quinlan" <kat-yahoo@kaqelectronics.dyndns.org>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Aussie Vegemite. How I fooled customs.


> Astria Nur Irfansyah wrote:
>
>> Uhmm.. i wouldn't consider myself as an Aussie, although the first
>> national anthem that i memorize as a kid was advance australia fair.
>> However, whenever i hear the word "down-under", i feel proud of being
>> here, in the real thing, THE 'down-under' :)
>>
>> And about vegemite, i wonder where it got its name from. Vegetables
>> and termites perhaps? Or is it vegetables and dynamites? Just joking.
>> I like it anyway, no matter how uggly it looks when you spread it on
>> your bread... :p (like grease, some people say :D)
>>
>> -irf-
>
> Maybe I am not Aussie then lol, I can not stand vegimite, marmite, 
> promite, I
> do not mind the base product (ie BEER (esp with a dash of lime juice)) but 
> the
> yeast residue from the top, is VERY IKKIES

I like Marmite. The recent UK adverts for it were quite funny, showing that 
some people hated it. There was one advert that showed people being 
swallowed up by a large brown blob (as in the film The Blob) that was pulled 
because it scared young children. 8-)

Leon 

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