"Michael Gray" <fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in message
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On 23 Oct 2006 23:36:41 -0700,

Michael Gray wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:27:21 GMT, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
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http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20620744-953,00.html

US bans Vegemite

Kelvin Healey

October 22, 2006 12:00am
Article from: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging

Australian

expatriates there.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains

folate,

which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.

[snip]

I forwarded it to a friend, this was the response:

"It's pretty much a non-story. They were just lazy and didn't filed
some needed papers.
LB

United Kingdom

084-1013637-1 47

1 Nisa International Grimsby , GB

NYK-DO 25HCT99

KRAFT VEGEMITE SANDWICH SPREAD, DOES NOT REQUIRE FCE/SID 19-JAN-2006
NEEDS FCE NO PROCESS

Reason: NEEDS FCE Section: 402(a)(4), 801(a)(3); ADULTERATION Charge:

It appears the manufacturer is not registered as a low acid canned
food or acidified food manufacturer pursuant to 21 CFR 108.25(c)(1) or
108.35(c)(1).

Reason: NO PROCESS Section: 402(a)(4), 801(a)(3); ADULTERATION

Charge: It appears that the manufacturer has not filed information on
its scheduled process as required by 21 CFR 108.25(c)(2) or 108.35(c)
(2).

Source:

http://www.fda.gov/ora/oasis/1/ora_oasis_i_25.html"

And before I'd had a chance to try the stuff! What's it like,

Michael?

Can you describe it by comparing the flavor to something else, or

is it

a true original?

It is an acquired taste, lemme tell you!

Then I acquired a taste for it the first time I tried it....heh. I
was visiting an aussie I knew a long time ago, and his sister told me
"you must try this!" I try to always have a jar in the cabinet, now.

My sister now lives in Canada where it is still legal, and her hubby
can't stand the stuff!

Take a handful of salt, mix in some bitumen until it attains the
consitency of dog *****.
Flavour with soy sauce to taste.

I actually can't go without it for more than a few days, although
since the yankee firm Kraft bought out the original Vegemite, I get
locally brewed copies of it.

[snip]

Curious that althoug a yank firm now makes it, it isn't allowed in

the

US.

You give the impression that you think this is a new development......

http://www.vegemite.com.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=VegemiteDiscovery.welcome
"Vegemite dates back to 1922 when the Fred Walker Company, which
became Kraft Walker Foods in 1926 and Kraft Foods Limited in 1950,
hired a young chemist to develop a spread from one of the richest
known natural sources of the vitamin B group - Brewers Yeast."

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/VegemiteHistory.htm
"Earlier, in 1925, Walker had arranged with the Chicago, Illinois firm
of James L. Kraft to make processed cheese in Australia. A company
called the Kraft Walker Cheese Co. was established alongside Fred
Walker and Co. In 1935, Walker used the success of his processed
cheese to launch a new campaign to revive Vegemite. The company
launched 2-year coupon redemption scheme whereby a jar of Vegemite was
given away with every purchase of other products in the Fred Walker
Cheese Company. Australians tried the product and loved it. Vegemite
was well and truly on the road to success.

Two years later, the company held a poetry competition and once again
brought Vegemite into the national spotlight. This time its success
the prizes were imported American Pontiac cars. Entries flooded in and
sales multiplied.

In 1935, the recipe and manufacturing methods was sold to Kraft Foods
and has been wholly owned and made by American companies. In 1939
Vegemite received endorsement from the British Medical Association
which allowed doctors to recommend it as a Vitamin B-rich,
nutritionally balanced food for patients."

I bet that if Kraft made chemical weapons for the current batch of
genocidal maniacs in the White House, it would not be on the banned
list.

What makes you think they don't?

On a slightly different topic...is "Foster's" really Australian for
"beer"? =)

On a slightly different topic...is "Foster's" really Australian for
"beer"? =)

Michael Gray <fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in
news:2plrj2tn1nlbc2q8qekkoe4ctbon6os1oc@4ax.com:

On 23 Oct 2006 23:36:41 -0700,

Michael Gray wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:27:21 GMT, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
- Refer: <Xns9865E477C2E86askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20620744-953,00.htm
l

US bans Vegemite

Kelvin Healey

October 22, 2006 12:00am
Article from: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging
Australian expatriates there.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains
folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.

Expatriates say that enforcement of the ban has been stepped up
recently and is ruining lifelong traditions of having Vegemite on
toast for breakfast.

Former Geelong man Daniel Fogarty, who now lives in Calgary,
Canada, said he was stunned when searched while crossing the US
border recently.

"The border guard asked us if we were carrying any Vegemite," Mr
Fogarty said.

"I was flabbergasted." Paul Watkins, who owns a store called About
Australia in San Antonio, Texas, said he had been forced to stop
importing Vegemite six months ago.

"We have completely stopped bringing it in," he said.

"(US authorities) have made a stance and there is nothing that can
be done about it."

That's it.
The US is officialy FUCKED IN THE HEAD!

You can bring in guns and knives, but not Vegemite???

And before I'd had a chance to try the stuff! What's it like, Michael?
Can you describe it by comparing the flavor to something else, or is
it a true original?

It is an acquired taste, lemme tell you!
My sister now lives in Canada where it is still legal, and her hubby
can't stand the stuff!

Take a handful of salt, mix in some bitumen until it attains the
consitency of dog *****.
Flavour with soy sauce to taste.

On a slightly different topic...is "Foster's" really Australian for
"beer"? =)

Oh yeah--according to Wikipedia's "Vegemite" entry:

"In October 2006, the Melbourne Herald Sun reported that Vegemite is
banned in the USA, with Customs officials going so far as to even search
Australians for Vegemite when they enter the country, but later reports
cast doubt on the claim. The Food and Drug Administration later stated
there was no import ban on Vegemite, and that it was never pulled from
American supermarket shelves."

Michael Gray wrote:

On 23 Oct 2006 23:36:41 -0700,

Michael Gray wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:27:21 GMT, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
- Refer: <Xns9865E477C2E86askifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20620744-953,00.html

US bans Vegemite

Kelvin Healey

October 22, 2006 12:00am
Article from: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian
expatriates there.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate,
which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.

Expatriates say that enforcement of the ban has been stepped up recently
and is ruining lifelong traditions of having Vegemite on toast for
breakfast.

Former Geelong man Daniel Fogarty, who now lives in Calgary, Canada, said
he was stunned when searched while crossing the US border recently.

"The border guard asked us if we were carrying any Vegemite," Mr Fogarty
said.

"I was flabbergasted." Paul Watkins, who owns a store called About
Australia in San Antonio, Texas, said he had been forced to stop
importing Vegemite six months ago.

"We have completely stopped bringing it in," he said.

"(US authorities) have made a stance and there is nothing that can be
done about it."

That's it.
The US is officialy FUCKED IN THE HEAD!

You can bring in guns and knives, but not Vegemite???

And before I'd had a chance to try the stuff! What's it like, Michael?
Can you describe it by comparing the flavor to something else, or is it
a true original?

It is an acquired taste, lemme tell you!
My sister now lives in Canada where it is still legal, and her hubby
can't stand the stuff!

Take a handful of salt, mix in some bitumen until it attains the
consitency of dog *****.
Flavour with soy sauce to taste.

I actually can't go without it for more than a few days, although
since the yankee firm Kraft bought out the original Vegemite, I get
locally brewed copies of it.

I guess I'll just have to fly over there and visit y'all, then. <g>

It really is a lot like thick soy sauce flavoured with lots of yeast,
in a paste.
It is made from "yeast extract", which means that our beer breweries
supply the main ingredient.
No wonder aussies love it!

Amazing how so many different cultures take similar turns. Don't the
Japanese have some sort of dish cooked up with the leftover mash from
sake brewing?

Curious that althoug a yank firm now makes it, it isn't allowed in the
US.
I bet that if Kraft made chemical weapons for the current batch of
genocidal maniacs in the White House, it would not be on the banned
list.

Not touching that bet. I'd lose.