Vegemite Banned in the US

[Piggy]

I guess there's really only one major issue left:

What the hell is chundering?

Vomiting

 

[belinda]

I guess there's really only one major issue left:

What the hell is chundering?

Chundering is number 56 in the long list of Aussie slang for throwing up.

Damn - got beaten by Piggy.

 

[phildonnia]

Nouc Mam.

Nuoc Mam.

 

[NoZed Avenger]

Hey I had it on my breakfast toast this morning .... mmmmm yum!

... aaaand then used the toast to patch a hole in your roof???

 

[slingblade]

But yeah, how in the world anyone eats Skippy peanut butter and Welch's grape jelly on Wonder bread without puking... it's beyond me.

Because I can afford it.

And it tastes good.

 

[logical muse]

Vegemite is made by an American company.

Betcha didn't know that.

 

[Zep]

Kraft

 

[Tricky]

Chundering is number 56 in the long list of Aussie slang for throwing up.

Damn - got beaten by Piggy.

Where is that list?

This is all I could find.

 

[fuelair]

If you do or don't like Vegemite/marmite try this:

http://food.oregonstate.edu/ref/dairy/trofimov.html

 

[Zep]

They obviously didn't let it get black enough...

 

[ponderingturtle]

Balut isn't really that bad a thing, though (I have Phillipino inlaws who rather like it).

The true evil comes from northern Europe in the form of Hakarl, Lutefisk, and Surstromming.

Lutefisk tends to be over rated as a nasty dish, it just gets so much mileage out of useing lye.

 

[Jorghnassen]

Surstromming is delicious.

 

[phildonnia]

Speaking of Lutefisk, is it just a coincidence that culinary badges of cultural identity are disgusting? Consider the examples:

Vegemite
Lutefisk
Collards
Poutine
Durian
Menudo

 

[brodski]

Speaking of Lutefisk, is it just a coincidence that culinary badges of cultural identity are disgusting? Consider the examples:

Vegemite
Lutefisk
Collards
Poutine
Durian
Menudo

No, it's not a coincidence, if they where considered tastier by the world population, then they would probably become widely eaten worldwide, and no longer retain their power as a cultural icon.

 

[Piggy]

Speaking of Lutefisk, is it just a coincidence that culinary badges of cultural identity are disgusting? Consider the examples:

Vegemite
Lutefisk
Collards
Poutine
Durian
Menudo

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... hold on now, hoss.

Collards?

Hey, I admit, possum, calves' brains, pickled pigs' feet, and even my beloved deep fried pork skins are kinda off-putting.

But collards?

Ok, granted, I was raised on cornbread, black-eyed peas, and collard greens -- these were staples at home and in the school lunchrooms -- but do non-Southerners really think collards are icky?

That would surprise me.

Nothing like a mess of collards with hot pepper sauce! Mmmm-MM!

 

[luchog]

Nuoc Mam.

Romanized spelling varies. I usually see the former version.

 

[joobie]

snoped

 

[gnome]

Ok, granted, I was raised on cornbread, black-eyed peas, and collard greens -- these were staples at home and in the school lunchrooms -- but do non-Southerners really think collards are icky?

That would surprise me.

I think you might be surprised. I'm a yankee by birth, but even thirty years of living in Florida hasn't made me truly enjoy the stuff. It's all right though.

Of course, the part of Florida I live in really doesn't count as the South. You have to go a bit north to reach the deep South from here.

 

[Piggy]

You have to go a bit north to reach the deep South from here.

Yeah. The biggest squirrel-eaters I knew were in far north central Florida, way out in the piney woods. Serious home-schooled, home-growing, mushroom-eating crackers. (I was born on the panhandle, btw, over by Mobile, back before the resorts were built.)

Personally, I love collards and turnips and mustard greens. But I've never tried poke salad, even though it grows wild in my yard.

 

[steverino]

According to this, the US has not banned vegemite:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20641599-1702,00.html

"The price slapped on Vegemite, however, is tough to swallow.

A tiny, four ounce jar of Vegemite sells for around $US4.80 ($6.33) in US supermarkets."

Vegemite itself is hard to swallow.!