MARMITE RULZ AND VEGEMITE SUX SHIT

yay, i can't wait to send vegemite off to be crowned winner, send your addresses!

If you haven't had British marmite how do you know it's different? Maybe marmite is always THE SAME. It could be the elusive universal truth.

emails sent

no no no i've been told it's different and i BELIEEEEEEEVE

ok i have your address already lxy, and now i jj's address. i just have to remember to post tomorrow.

estela, DON'T BE COUNTING YOUR CHOCOLATE EGGS BEFORE THEY HATCH.

ALSO: I THINK THIS SHOULD BE A BLIND TEST i.e. when you receive your antipodean products, you must get someone to put them both on toast and not tell you which is which, and then taste. in the spirit of fairness and impartiality.

i'm not putting toast in my drink

i have standards

not many, but still

The line has been drawn and it has been drawn at TOAST

put SAO in drink.

then it wld get SOGGY

^^very bad australian boarding school jk

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soggy+sao

but srsly vegemite on SAOs is the bisnis.

i am starting to fear that we are speaking a language that shares much of its lexicon with english but is in fact, full of wacky made up words like SAO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAO_%28biscuit%29

Acronyms are FUN

yay! address is sent, estela!

thank you for your generosity and thank you for your interest in science, friends.

i think marmite-covered toast fingers would make a nice garnish in a bloody mary

ok! got both yr addresses, will send as soon as i can, i must fly, i am late for work.

Can I send everyone concerned some Bovril so you all stop eating yr ridiculous thrush pastes and gets some meaty goodness* inside you instead?

*I understand there's no meat in it any more so vegetarians, your lifestyle choice need not be compromised!

Okay, wikipedia tells me they have re-stated beef in the recipe. Will this be a problem?

reINstated, gah

Hang on what the fuck?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bd/NZ_Marmite_Vegemite.jpg/180px-NZ_Marmite_Vegemite.jpg

"New Zealand-made Vegemite and New Zealand Marmite side by side"

MARMITE LOOKS LIKE THIS:

http://www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk/weblog/archives/images/marmite.jpg

thank you mark c., verynice! i will pass on the beef-bovril but jergins / lingerbert / remy might like to add that to the contest. one of y'all should speak up if you would like to accept this offer.

(i am developing a theory that eating this type of ...stuff... makes people GENEROUS!)

see i told you the britishes version was all different.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
I WINMARMITE WINS!!

THANK YOU, JORDAN, FOR YOUR DECIDING VOTE. THAT IS WHY I LOVE YOU.

i think seeing ruby's joy makes all of us winners.

conditional love granted as exchange for a false testimony makes nobody a winner, lxy.

this is my saddest, sternest itr moment yet.

ESTELA ;_;

ps. i can't mail the marmite for a few more days, sorry guyz

yay, i can't either, not until monday at the earliest.

sorry i made you cry, ruby, if you were here i would prepare you a delicious vegemite snack to cheer you up.

stop the fussin and the fightin

lxy and i and johnj and remy will judge and you two will shush until then. no more recriminations, no more tears

fairness personified

>_<

your eyes look puffy.

(i said that in a concerned tone, not in a 'next i'm going to pull your hair' tone, i don't even have such a tone.)

FUCK THIS

unhappy little vegemites

so basically anything edible that people want to send me, i will put it in a drink, fyi

ruby, i'm sorry our friendship got a yeast infection, please know i <3 you even more than vegemite.

oh i definitely <3 you more than marmite. marmite is not a daily thing for me, i eat it for awhile then i get sick of it then i eat it again. you and wilter, however, i like EVERYDAY <3 <3 <3

aw<3

THE END

(until the verdicts come in.)

ADDENDUM:

Australians in Hong Kong are finding expatriate life harder to cope with due to a shortage of one of their favourite foods - Vegemite, a news report said on Sunday.

Supplies of the popular spread have run out across the city of 6.9 million, where tens of thousands of Australian expatriate business people, diplomats and their families live.

Many families unable to do without Vegemite as a way of starting their day have resorted to getting relatives to bring in supplies when they come on visits, the Sunday Morning Post newspaper reported.

Schoolboy David Atkins, who attends the Australian International School, told the newspaper he was miserable after going for three weeks without his favourite spread.

"We have some now because Auntie Karen brought some up from Sydney, and they have plenty of Vegemite there," he said.

A spokeswoman for one of Hong Kong's two main supermarket chains Wellcome said suppliers had blamed the shortage on a change of the company that packages Vegemite for export in Australia.

But a spokesman for Vegemite's manufacturer Kraft told the newspaper the explanation seemed unlikely and promised: "Rest assured we will work to ensure Vegemite is back in Hong Kong as soon as possible."

British-made yeast extract Marmite, which looks similar to Vegemite but has a different taste, is still available in Hong Kong but many Australians refuse to accept it as a substitute.

damn straight

"We have some now because Auntie Karen brought some up from Sydney...

well that couldn't be cuter.

and thx ruby for posting

^^Sarcasm..