Vegemite

[41chevy]

Scrapple, Grits, Salt Dried Cod don't get more tastier then those three.

[General Ike]

I'm a born and raised Yankee who married southern. I'll tell you that my best friend growing up and to this day moved from Australia going into kindergarten and his wonderful cooking norther Irish mother and British father tried to get me to eat Vegemite every time I slept over. Wouldn't touch the stuff. I probably need to try it now that I've got kids and encourage them to try everything on the table at least once.

My assistant is from the UK and eats marmite toast every morning. Thanks for the warning about it.

Now onto the southern stuff.... I've been indoctrinated. Pinto beans with bacon and onions over a piece of real (not that sugary crap) corn bread is unreal. My sausage gravy (was taught by a sweet old lady from Evarts, KY how to make it right) is out of this world, fried okra, fried pickles, and real fried chicken... Holy crap I'm getting hungry.

I'll try the Vegemite. I'm sure id rather eat a shit sandwich though. Hoping I'm pleasantly surprised.

I land in Nashville in 15 minutes and will be in Cookeville TN by 8. Hoping the kitchen is still serving at Crawdaddys. I got a hankering!!!!!

[kscarbel2]

On 1/18/2016 at 8:03 AM, General Ike said:

I'm a born and raised Yankee who married southern. I'll tell you that my best friend growing up and to this day moved from Australia going into kindergarten and his wonderful cooking norther Irish mother and British father tried to get me to eat Vegemite every time I slept over. Wouldn't touch the stuff. I probably need to try it now that I've got kids and encourage them to try everything on the table at least once.

My assistant is from the UK and eats marmite toast every morning. Thanks for the warning about it.

Now onto the southern stuff.... I've been indoctrinated. Pinto beans with bacon and onions over a piece of real (not that sugary crap) corn bread is unreal. My sausage gravy (was taught by a sweet old lady from Evarts, KY how to make it right) is out of this world, fried okra, fried pickles, and real fried chicken... Holy crap I'm getting hungry.

I'll try the Vegemite. I'm sure id rather eat a shit sandwich though. Hoping I'm pleasantly surprised.

I land in Nashville in 15 minutes and will be in Cookeville TN by 8. Hoping the kitchen is still serving at Crawdaddys. I got a hankering!!!!!

On English muffins and toast, spread it on thin. A Vegemite and cheese sandwich is quite good, tomato and lettuce optional (don't spread it on thick like peanut butter). You can also add it to gravy to enhance taste.

[mrsmackpaul]

Poached egg on Vegemite and toast is the ducks guts as far as I'm concerned. It'll put lead in your pencil.

Paul

[RFCDrum]

My Mom was British and we would use it for the gravy. I never liked it on bread.

[41chevy]

I bet my English ancestors used it to grease the cannons during their privateer days in the 1600's . . .

[kscarbel2]

Supermarkets pull Marmite over plunging pound – Prime Minister silent

The Financial Times  /  October 12, 2016

The plummeting pound is threatening UK households’ supplies of Marmite* spread, as Tesco, the country’s biggest supermarket, pulled dozens of products from sale online in a row over who should bear the cost of the weakening currency.

Unilever has demanded steep price increases to offset the higher cost of imported commodities, which are priced in Euros and dollars, according to executives at multiple supermarket groups.

But Tesco signaled it would fight the rises, removing Unilever products like Marmite from its website and warning that some of the items could disappear from shelves if the dispute dragged on. Other supermarkets have warned that they could follow suit.

The pound has fallen 17 per cent since Britain voted to leave the EU.

Officials cautioned ahead of the June 23 referendum that a vote for Brexit would cause food prices to rise, a warning that Eurosceptic MPs have dismissed as “scaremongering”.

Tesco head Dave Lewis signaled last week that it he was limbering up for a fight with suppliers that tried to use the fall in sterling to push through price increases.

He said many of them had failed to pass on currency benefits to consumers when sterling was on the way up, and that he was “uncomfortable” with efforts to raise prices on the way down.

An executive at another British supermarket group said Unilever had threatened to cut off its entire supply unless it agreed to an across-the-board price increase of 10 per cent. He said the retailer would consider banishing Unilever products from its stores rather than comply with the ultimatum.

Unilever refused to comment on its negotiations with supermarkets.

Tesco said in a statement: “We are currently experiencing availability issues on a number of Unilever products including Marmite. We always work to ensure customers get the best possible prices and we hope to have this issue resolved soon.”

*  Unilever Marmite is the UK equivalent of Australia’s Vegemite and New Zealand’s Sanitarium brand Marmite.

[kscarbel2]

Vegemite goes back to Australian ownership

The Financial Times  /  January 18, 2017

Vegemite, the potently flavoured breakfast spread, is to return to Australian ownership after spending most of its near-century of existence in foreign hands, just as sales growth is starting to flag.

Mondelez International [the snack and food brands of the former Kraft Foods Inc] is selling the yeast extract spread to Bega Cheese as part of a A$460m (US$345m) deal.

The deal, which enables Deerfield, Illinois-based Mondelez to focus its portfolio on its more global brands such as Oreos and Cadbury’s, comes as sales of Vegemite stagnated last year at A$108m, and declined from A$109.6m in 2014, with the vast majority of those sales made in Australia.

Barry Irvin, Bega chief executive, blamed lacklustre Vegemite sales on changes in “breakfast habits”.

Irvin says Bega’s strategy to reignite sales was to encourage consumers to eat Vegemite at other times of the day and that other brands included in the sale presented stronger growth opportunities.

“Aussies still love their Vegemite,” said Mark Topy, an analyst at Select Equities. “I don’t think Mondelez really knew what to do with the brand and I think an Australian company might have a better idea on how to grow sales. With a bit of brand management, you could see modest growth in Vegemite sales.”

Investors applauded the deal, sending Bega’s shares up 11 per cent to A$4.99 in Sydney, with analysts saying it gave the company a level of diversification from dairy during a volatile time in the industry.

The sale, announced on Wednesday, brings Vegemite’s ownership full circle back to its Australian roots where it was developed under the Fred Walker Company in 1923, when the eponymous businessman hired chemist Cyril Callister to develop a product to rival Marmite, the British spread that had become popular in Australia.

The late Walker formed a partnership with US company Kraft in 1925, which then acquired the Fred Walker Company including ownership of Vegemite. The spread continued to be made in Australia.

When Kraft split its international business into a separate company — Mondelez — in 2012, Vegemite became part of that company.

As part of the deal, the Port Melbourne-based factory and its 200-strong staff will be transferred to Bega.

Bega’s acquisition represents a shift in strategy for a company that has until now been mainly focused on the dairy sector. Since the former dairy co-operative listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2011, it has expanded rapidly. In 2015 it set up a joint venture with Blackmores, the Australian nutritional company, to export infant formula to Asia and develop “lifestyle nutritional” products.

[mrsmackpaul]

Yes, it's back where it belongs, but the outcry continues due to Halal certification and the tax that we as Australians don't have a choice in paying if we choose to eat Bega products.

Paul

[kscarbel2]

38 minutes ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Yes, it's back where it belongs, but the outcry continues due to Halal certification and the tax that we as Australians don't have a choice in paying if we choose to eat Bega products.

Paul

Paul.......Halal certification......you've got to be kidding me.

(Halal food is prepared according to Islamic law, and is free from pork products, alcohol and certain other ingredients)

How many Muslims are in Australia? How many of them eat Vegemite?  Three?

In any regard, if Muslims want to immigrate to Australia, they should be willing to subjugate to the Australian way of life. And that includes consuming standard issue Vegemite. Otherwise, they should stay in a Sharia (Islamic) Law country if eating Halal foods is important to them.

 

[mrsmackpaul]

Yes we are loosing the plot here big time 

Cadbury chocolate Halal certified ther chocolate last year and at easter their eggs and chocolates were left on the shelves and then the bin slowly but surly the most tolerant and under standing country in the world is getting fed up  

Our major supermarket chains have become Halal certified and we all foot the bill as a percentage of every purchase goes to the muslim community to monitor and certify this rubbish which then the money cant be traced because they are a church and a lot of people suspect wrongly or rightly it goes over seas to fund terrorism but we will never know and because they are a church they dont pay any tax this whole thing is mad  

Its Australia day next week on the 26th the powers that be decided it would be a good idea to feature muslim people on a billboard for Australia day huge public out cry the billboard was pulled then the do gooders sooked and moaned and raised money to get the bill board put up

Dunno about Trump I feel America is like Australia people are fed up been fed BS from the so called powers that be 

I'm thinking about getting a digger and putting a moat around the farm with a draw bridge and telling them all were to go   

Paul

[TeamsterGrrrl]

Sad to see Australians falling for such intolerance. A lot of mass market foods are kosher and halal certified, and most customers happily consume them and never notice the little certification marks. When you're running a bakery that puts out 4 loaves of bread a second, it's easier to halal and kosher certify everything rather than stop and start the line to produce small quantities of halal or kosher product. The Imans and Rabbis also provide an extra level of food safety inspection that government often cannot.

[kscarbel2]

In the US, the many religions, from Lutherans and Baptists to Presbyterians and Episcopalians, to those of the Amish and Mormon faiths all live under one country's roof without any getting unreasonably special treatment. They all eat the same food, aside from the Jewish faith who sometimes go for kosher, a niche market.

However, we have other issues. The entitled and minorities want government assistance in job placement, so now Joe and Sue Normal are discriminated against in job applications because they aren't minorities (Obviously, the most "qualified" individual should get the job, be his/her skin color white, purple or other).

And every company's answering system wants to know if you want to speak in Spanish or English, which I have long found odd given that English is the defacto official language of the United States (If you want to speak Spanish, why did you come to the U.S.?)

Paul, you all need to take your country back.

[mrsmackpaul]

9 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Sad to see Australians falling for such intolerance. A lot of mass market foods are kosher and halal certified, and most customers happily consume them and never notice the little certification marks. When you're running a bakery that puts out 4 loaves of bread a second, it's easier to halal and kosher certify everything rather than stop and start the line to produce small quantities of halal or kosher product. The Imans and Rabbis also provide an extra level of food safety inspection that government often cannot.

FFS, really, where do come up with this crap? And you have missed the point completely. In Australia, we as a nation did not put any religion above another. All of a sudden, we get these people coming to our country, the greatest country on earth, and they demand we put their religion above all others. And then they try and demand separate bathing areas at our beaches, separate public toilets, separate food treatment of all our food, separate schools and because we are a tolerant nation, we bend over backwards and try to please all. But the more we bend, the more they demand!

AND YOU HAVE THE HIDE TO CALL ME INTOLERANT  !!!!!!!

[HeavyGunner]

That's the liberal way Paul, tell everyone else names and try to publicly shame them no matter what the FACTS are.

[TeamsterGrrrl]

I presented the facts, sorry that you can't accept them.

[mrsmackpaul]

Well our good old MP Bob Katter giving the low down on the Vegemite "you tell them Bob"

 

Edited January 20, 2017 by mrsmackpaul

[1958 F.W.D.]

2 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

I presented the facts, sorry that you can't accept them.

As always you couldn't be any more obtuse.

Why can Muslims (and any other crybaby denomination) not accept the fact that they need to assimilate into the AMERICAN way of life (you know....freedom and happiness for EVERYONE by way of acceptance, tolerance and compromise) instead of us having to kowtow to them?

PS: FORMER President Obama.....F*ck that sounds BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!

[TeamsterGrrrl]

Since when was Kosher or Halal certification a threat to anyone? Are you going to refuse to eat food that is Kosher or Halal certified?

[mrsmackpaul]

2 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

I presented the facts, sorry that you can't accept them.

The only fact you presented was you're talking out your ass about another country and facts you know very little about. And the fact you call me intolerant. Perhaps do some research before calling me or any other Australian intolerant you knob head. Or as we say out here, "shut you ass and give your mouth ago"

Anyway the sun's up a tractor is calling me. I'm not wasting any more of this break in the weather to deal with this bull shit.

Have a great day

Paul 

[mrsmackpaul]

2 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Since when was Kosher or Halal certification a threat to anyone? Are you going to refuse to eat food that is Kosher or Halal certified?

In a country where we don't put religion first because of all the dramas, it causes, yeah, it is a problem when you start putting one religion first. Putting any religion above our way of life and demanding a country change is a threat to the freedom of that country and its people, a threat to what if you want to choose not to buy Halal certified food because of your beliefs you cant. You do gooders have given that freedom away so you can feel all warm and fluffy inside we have given to much of our freedoms away and be stuffed. If we are gonna keep on doing this, as my Grand mother says, "Thousands of men gave their lives for the freedom we all enjoy, don't give it away, don't ever give your freedom away", and yet we do to try and accommodate one and all. And then when we say no more you fruit loops, have the hide to tell us we are intolerant ??????????????????????

FFS really ???

Paul

[TeamsterGrrrl]

Here's the facts from your own ABC network: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/halal/5843904

Halal foods are a trillion dollar market, and you don't want Australia to get some of that market?

[steve p]

Teamster, we would like to have choice instead of this halal bullshit shoved down f*&^ing necks to appease a minority who DOESN'T want fit in with our way of life. This halal certification is a crock of sh*t. HOW can alcohol be halal????  Because here in Oz, Coopers Ale is Halal. Yep, you got sunshine. Halal, WTF?

[HeavyGunner]

Guys remember you're arguing with someone who is an expert on everything, who thrives on calling fellow BMT members names when her "FACTS" don't add up or someone disagrees with her. 

[mrsmackpaul]

16 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Here's the facts from your own ABC network: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/halal/5843904

Halal foods are a trillion dollar market, and you don't want Australia to get some of that market?

You poor misguided person. As the world's population keeps growing, places like Australia are the bread baskets of the world. We produce a lot more food than we'll ever eat, and the potential is mind boggling of this great land.

What you fail to understand is if the world's food producers refuse to become Halal certified, the Muslim community will have only two choices: Disregard halal foods and eat food like the rest of the world, or starve think about it !!!!!!!

And as far as intolerance goes, aren't the Muslim people the intolerant ones demanding we change our way of life and beliefs to suit them ?????

And this alleged trillion dollar market is a bit like saying "well, we can make billions off dealing in cocaine or ice, so let's change the law and legalize it just to make a few bucks".

We shouldn't give up our country or our freedom for a few dollars. You may think it's okay for the US to well bullow for you and the US, but that crap won't wash down here.

Paul