On this day
 

In 1923, a very significant event ocurred with the launch of that delicious, health-giving eilxir of life, VEGEMITE.

So a great hurrah and three cheers to that versatile spread, 81 today.

PS If you haven't tried it yet, you have something special awaiting you.

Re: On this day
 

Keith what a great day this is for Australia and the world. For all vegemite lovers, have an extra slice to celebrate. Kathy had hers this morning, and she is looking beutifull today with the rose in cheeks.

Max

Re: On this day
 

SHAME ON YOU KEEFY ... posting THIS on our Canadian THANKSGIVING day of which the highlight is TURKEY (GOBBLER) DINNER!!!!

Pay attention yo :yappy: now Keefy
:teach: SPOTLIGHT TURKEY TODAY!!!


IN CANADA TODAY
Turkey YES
Vegemite NO

:bang: :D

Turkey
 

The flavour of turkey can be enormously improved with the application of a covering of vegemite.:p

Or follow this recipe:

Take one Turkey, two slices of bread, some butter and vegemite.
Carefully slice raw turkey, then toast bread, apply butter and vegemite to toast and enjoy this with a good cuppa while feeding the turkey to the cat or dog. Don't forget to discard the bones.:D

The vitamin B does wonders for the temper too.

Re: Turkey
 

Hmmm ... our Keefy ... :yappy: thinks you really DO like to live dangerously. You ARE aware, are you NOT, that you and I might well be face to face and it will be yore VEGEMITE angainst MY FRYING PAN? (actually I prefer Master Sunray's cast iron skillet frying pan he left here ... perfect ... it also did a bangup job of cooking my cheese-burger) A verra useful weapon it tis for the wee bittie likes of :yappy: me ... a weapon I can really cook in! :D

I'm not afraid to use it either you OZ-MANIAN :devil: you! YOTB does not get you off the hook.

lesson :teach: over. :P

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Oh yeah? You and whose army?

C'mere and say that!:D

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Oh my my my my my ... why the CANADIAN ARMY and :yappy: of course! :rolleyes:

:salute: (we'll be there soon)

History of Vegemite
 

:teach:

It appears it did not sell well initially and in 1928 was renamed Parwill and about 1934 it reverted back to Vegemite.

The slogan "Marmite, but Parwill" was used, refering to the similar British product that had been sold in Australia since 1910.

Thank goodness it is available in the supermarkets in England, don't know what breakfast would be like without a smear of Vege' on the toast !

History lesson over :D

Richard

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Are they travelling here by yellow submarines?:(

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Yikes ... I think I outta let the Canadian Soldiers in here answer THIS one Keefy :eek:

Besides ... we bittie :yappy: girl is a tad too busy lately to talk much at the moment. ReST for your eyes and heads then, it is!:salute: :cheers:

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Keith, that is really cruel, considering what's now going on with our bargain basement lemons...however, it's a valid "tongue in cheek" comment.

On another post, you said that Howard is a Liberal who is a Conservative.





:confused:

Conservative
 

Yes, our Liberals are, I think the opposite to your Liberals - they are the right wing conservative party.

Their main opposition is the Australian Labor Party who aren't hugely different in overall aims and terms, although they do tend to be more socialist and also get pernickerty about political correctness.

Then there are the Greens who are largely seen as the tree-hugging loony left (sorry, Greens voters) whose preferences go to the ALP.

Am I showing my colours here?:salute:

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I have to say there was some surprise here; Canadians and Murricans having the same festival ? Surely some mistake.

So, (a needle pulling thread) I had to Google the Canadian Thanksgiving Day.

Totally different animal even though the date and reason has moved about the calendar like a fiddlers elbow from some time in 1587 to April 15 1872 and Nov 11th after WWI. At last we understand you have gotten a grip of it and as from Jan 31st 1957 it has become fixed. 'Bout time too.

R.

Turkeys
 

Hey Keefy
Why bother rationalising with Canadian colonists. Remember turkeys gobble, enough said.
LONG LIVE VEGEMITE.
Bob

Hey, THERE's my BILLY-BOB :D ... I want you to know that I think of you and the Mrs. Billy-Bob every time I spot the T and BILLY and Jeep. And I also APOLOGIZE for forgetting to make some BILLY TEA for Master Sunray when he came calling :( I felt terrible for that (menopausal moment or blame it on Sunray ??? ... he's a very attention getting individual so that things like T are forgotten :eek: )

Gobbler, Turkey, Pheasant, Buffalo, Bear, whatever ..... did the Pilgrims really care what they ate as long as they ate?

ALTHOUGH... Interesting snippets of education for us Master :teach: R. And love the expressionabout "moving about like a fiddlers elbow"!!

That brought a :) to :yappy: 's wee bittie face!

Keefy ..... :p TURKEY YES, VEGEMITE NO!

Well, actually.....I think Marmite is a faaaaaar superior product!!!
Muahahahahaha!
Ducking to avoid the boomerangs.

Well, I have to admit, me too. . . . . . .
Yes. . . . . .perhaps best to get behind the parapet, I'll join you.

R.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Oh dear. Oh deary deary me.
This wont do; wont do at all.

:yappy: pay attention, GLOWWORM :teach:

A. Thanksgiving - American. Pilgrim Fathers give thanks for not starving to death after their first devastating winter of 1620 and for the help received from the 91 indigenous Indians, a friendship and trust later shown to be a bit misplaced.

B. Thanksgiving - Canadian. A harvest festival to give thanks for the bountiful crops et al safely gathered-in for winter sustinence. Based on events of 1578 with Martin Frobisher and so a whole 42 years before the "Americans" invented it.

Please note the difference.

:teach: ends.

R.

Marmite
 

Actually I have to agree that Marmite is most superior! In fact I would go as far as to say that my boots are far shinier now than when coated with a normal high gloss polish!

Rod

Re: Marmite
 

No no no no no, you can't take these Aussie dirt-bikers anywhere without apologising the second time. :bang:

You need Kiwi for your boots.

Invented by ex-Scot Aussie William Ramsay in 1906; he was married to Zealander Annie Meek. It arrived here in 1911; was ordered by the ton for the British army in WWI and we've never looked back since.

R.

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The Kiwis use Lanolin to shine their Gumboots, it's just the method they use to apply it that's frowned upon:confused: .The New Zealand sheep are constantly looking back in trepidation.

Deary Diery
 

Rod you must be a Republican. Just try packing your Rover wheel bearings with Marmite instead of Vegimite. You wouldn't last 50 miles.

Did you see the 3 Armoured Cars post?

Bob

Spelling
 

I love the stuff and one day I'll learn to spell it correctly.:mad: :mad:

Oh Canada Our home and Native land ... we were first we were first :D :p

I thank you kindly Oh Deary Deary You Master :teach: R. for the lesson (I told you I wasn't very edumacated! :rollseyes: )

Do be gentle with the pore pore pitiful wee bittie defenceless :yappy:'s self-esteem (NOT! :D )

PW/VD

Quite so. I really can't have the colonies misrepresenting their place in history.

We have more than enough trouble keeping the Hollywood kinematograph (British invention) outpourings at bay historically; a truly Sisyphean task.
Gosh! You'll be lucky, I'm hardly likely to change the habits of a lifetime at this juncture. . . . . . . . . . .

R.

Well now Master R., I COULD take that to mean either a couple of things.

BUT ... I'll pick my FIRST "thing" ... yore tellin' me yore a ruff dog a tuff dog a bayin at pore Little Miss :yappy: and it's too late to teach an old dog (your long tall self) new tricks ... a heady grumpy old fart then, and plan to not change a hair for me then Master :teach: R.? :D

That's ok. I have my frying pans and my own Pixie Witch ways. I shan't change a hair for you either :D :note: My worthy oponant? (be quiet HB Marko!)

Coffee and :smoker: time ... PW/VD

Hey ART ... who loves ya baby? ;)

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Ah, yes. I can see how the farm animals might be a trifle apprehensive.

But, wait a minute, GUMBOOTS!? :eek: :eek: GUMBOOTS!? (assume it spoken like Lady Bracknell's "Handbag?" question as epitomised by Dame Edith Evans)

How can we deny that original footwear designer and commander of the victorious British Army during the Napoleonic Wars; Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.

Please; wellington boots, or in the modern vernacular, welly-gogs. If you prefer just wellies then, but gumboots just wont do. Wont do at all.

I will have to severely chastise that frightfully nice Mr. Winningray-Suntonball who inhabits these parts, he really has to take a grip of the standards and propriety around here.

And indeed while we have The Duke of Wellington and the result of our victorious Battle of Waterloo to mind, it has come up in the media that some pressure is being exerted from across the channel to change the long established name of one famous railway station here.

To explain, that stunningly fast (but not in England), pointy ended and bespoke train called Eurostar, fairly zips people from London and Paris via that economic refugee drainpipe known as The Channel Tunnel, there is no problem here so far. However, some non-Albion people are allegedly complaining bitterly it is an affront to be deposited our end at the Waterloo Station terminus.

Well, Bollocks (capital B, two L's) to that and here's my bow fingers matey. Simple answer, backfill the drainpipe with concrete. (See also V3 high pressure pump)

Now what was that about leaning right?
Do they mean me?
Surely some mistake. . . . . . . .

R.

How about...?
 

We have a pub here near Sydney's main railway station called the Agincourt. How would your Fronch ami's like it if they had to hop off said train at Waterloo Station and then find the nearest watering hole called the Agincourt? Sacre bleu!
I cannot forget the French arrogance so accurately depicted in Monty Python's "Holy Grail".

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:eek: :eek: And sacred pink too. :D
I believe this is what is nowadays called a "double-whammy."
Ah, the well trodden territory of the expert, esteemed and revered Mr. Ballray-Suntonwinning.

Knowing the MP team though I suspect this inference was wholly intentional and well planned.

R.

And on this day your time
 

or whatever time, near enough to this the BBC started up around 1922 I hear.