Vegemite Banned in the US

Soapy Sam said:
Can it be that the legislators in Amurricy made the same mistake as many Yankee tasters of the stuff and assumed you're supposed to pile it on like peanut butter?
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Ah, yes, America -- where too much is never enough.

I actually did taste a preparation of vegemite once that didn't taste like the sole of a dogwalker's boot -- but it was a homeopathic one.
 
Actually, it was banned because it has been shown that weapons-grade plutonium can be extracted from Vegemite (which is related to cordite). Back in 2001, the CIA intercepted an Iraqi with ties to Saddam Hussein trying to obtain the highly concentrated form of Vegemite or "browncake" as it is called, from an operative in Perth.
 
I didn't see anything about the Vegemite ban on Kraft's site or the USDA site. I called the Cost Plus World Market in Elk Grove, CA* where a very nice lady told me that the supply of Vegemite was temporarily interrupted because of problems with import duties. They expect to have it again in a few weeks. She noted that they currently carry Marmite which is similar. I asked her if Marmite contained Folic Acid, and she said it does.

As for blokes being frisked for contraband yeast extract, I smell an urban legend.

*Allow me to plug Cost Plus for the way its employees cheerfully deal with phoned-in vegemite questions.
 
casebro said:
Vegemite sounds reminiscent of Vietnamese Fish Sauce, Noc Mum? I use it to add savoriness to sauces and gravies. It's a fermented protein product, deadly in full strength, but oh so good as in 'spice' quantities. Check the ingredients lists of prepared foods next time you get to the grocery. "Modified food starch", "hydrolized yeast protein", "monosidium glutamate", all similar. Or cook down the soup bones into "stock". It's used in Worchestershire Sauce- label says "anchovies".
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Nouc Mam.

And Vegemite/Marmite is the anal discharge of leprous demons.

Miso, on the other hand, is a savory delight that only the culinary geniuses of the Far East could have concocted. I am now craving tradition Japanese miso soup, dangit. 5 hours until i can get off work and go home and make some,
 
I guess there's really only one major issue left:

What the hell is chundering?
 
Why was it banned anyway? If it's as good as Marmite, then I say it's a shame for such a tasty condiment to go uneaten :D

Ah well, it's still legal here, so maybe I'll give it a try sometime soon.
 
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