To me, it smells like my cat’s hairball medicine. I could never get past the smell to taste it.
But does the size limitation mean that it’s completely banned, or it’s just banned in containers over 4 oz?
Well, it IS an Australian product, after all.
d&r
Just the larger containers. I saw some in the market the other day, so I know for a fact it’s still available.
Yeah, it isn’t too bad is it?
As long as they don’t ban neutronium…
NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
I’ve only got about a kilo left in the big bucket!
What about marmite? Marmite’s okay, isn’t ? Tell me it’s okay! For Og’s sake, tell me marmite is okay???
If folate is the bad stuff Marmite likely to be banned also
But don’ t expect much to happen. You’re apparently a “minor market”.
I think this means that if vegemite crosses our sacred borders, then the terrorists truly win.
Canada! What about Canada? I can get it there, can’t I? I can, right? Right???
elfbabe! elfbabe!
Jeez, calm down! I’ll look! I’ll look!
Doesn’t want Cuban cigars or absinthe or anything, just Vegemite… :rolleyes:
I’ve had a jar of Marmite sitting on a “shelf of oddities” in my kitchen for the past two years or so. How long does that stuff last? I hear it’s inedible regardless of age, but how can you tell fresh inedibility from Marmite that’s gone bad?
That stuff will keep forever. As will vegemite. The salt load will prevent spoilage for decades.
I took a quick inventory: I have about a kilo of marmite, and about a kilo plus a bit of vegemite. I should be okay for a while. I think I’ve got some promite stashed somewhere too, for real emergencies. Gotta go check…
elfbabe, no cigars. No absinthe. Vegemite, marmite, and some Old Tyme ginger beer ought to do it. Gotta check on that Bovril you got me, too. If the government won’t let me have it, I’ll want more! 
I have over a kilo in the pail, plus two or three small jars stashed someplace and a small jar of Marmite.
From the sound of things, the small jars will probably be available. I’ll be looking forward to elfbabe’s response. White Rock, Surrey, Richmond and Vancouver are close to my house. Not that I’d violate any laws, of course.
What type of Bovril have you got? Are you aware that a couple of years ago they changed the formulation? It no longer contains beef, but is now made from yeast extract just like Marmite
I meant to include this in my last post: I used to have a neighbour from Australia. I had some Vegemite that was past its expiry date, but she chuckled and said it lasts forever. (I knew that, and was eating it anyway; but I liked having it confirmed by a native.)
Hello!
The Buy-Low at 1405 Johnston Road, White Rock has a section of Brit-chow (cans of spotted dick, assorted packets of weird gravy) and has ___mite (I forget if it is Vege-or Mar-). Perhaps we can arrange a trade- Vegemite for Aleve? Still an Rx here :mad:
CRAP!
A few years ago, I participated in the SDMB Secret Santa program, and happily recieved a small jar of Vegemite in my gift. This past year, I was deployed with an Australian Major who happily ate the stuff (and gave me a little smattering every now and then too). I want to get my hands on some of the stuff, so I’ll have to go hit up a supermarket before word spreads and they turn the existing supplies into toast, by order of the jackbooted thugs at the FDA. Next thing you know is that they’ll tell us drinking is bad for us, and that we’ll have to cut back on our intake of red meat! I mean, c’mon! If you can’t have steak, eggs, Vegemite, and beer for breakfast, the terrorists have already won!
My SIGO did ask: is there any way we can make the stuff ourselves? I mean, I I have an old beer homebrewing kit back home I could use . . .
Tripler
All puns in this post are fully intended (and compliant with all FCC guidelines).
Yes, it does last forever, but if you have an opened jar, it will slowly dry out, and become more difficult to spread. Still tastes the same, however.
Making a note of the address. We really should put together a White Rock DopeFest when I get back up to my house.
The image of Quadgop, and Elfbabe tiptoeing across the great northern wilderness, smuggling two pound buckets of Vegamite across the border is gonna stick in my mind.
How long does a kilogram of this stuff last you? Even with a shelf life that rivals the actual shelf itself, isn’t a couple of pails of the stuff gonna last you a reasonable expectation of a lifetime? Let’s see, a teaspoon a day, if the stuff has a density anywhere near one is about two kilos a year. Yikes! Okay, so you need a closet full, fast, before it goes on the controlled substances list.
Tris