Happy New Year

[clakclak]

Happy new year! May your toast always fall on the side with no marmalade, may you be able to apply a phone screen protector on the first try and, obviously, I hope non of you forget your washing in the washing machine over night!

You Sir have a strange mind

I'll say! Marmalade on toast? Eugh. What about vegemite, or even better, PROMITE!?

I think that is only accepted as food in places that have the Union Jack on their flag at least once.

[Alan Phipps]

In case anyone wonders about Vegemite, it's essentially similar to Marmite (love it hate it) but with added onion, celery and spices giving it a different flavour, colour and consistency. You can blame World War 1 for all this apparently. You can read more about it here.

Promite is another very similar product but with fewer vitamins and additives.

Although I would and do eat any of these, I prefer my brewer's yeast taste via the taste of a decent beer - maybe any potential deficiency in decent beer taste (it's often served far too cold to taste anyway) is why Australians love Vegemite so much? <runs away>

(In my local Aussie bar, they kept a slab of Victoria Bitter tinnies outside the fridge just for me - the Pommie who likes warm beer.)

[Usenko]

Confirmed, every Aussie has at least a rough idea of the story - our Marmite supplies from the UK were unavailable because it was being sunk by German U-boats!

(How DARE they touch our yeast extract!)

So we pulled together our own product, and by the time Marmite became available again, most Aussies had switched over.

Curious fact: Nowadays Australia's Marmite source is New Zealand. Although they cheerfully import some of our Vegemite and Promite, they never really cut Mum's apron strings and still prefer Marmite!