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2006-10-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, than the big government types - on both sides of the aisle - that crap liek this happens.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-10-22 00:23|| 2006-10-22 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Vegemite should be banned! I mean, have you ever tasted it? Banned along with Marmite, Haggis, and Broccoli

Posted by DMFD 2006-10-22 00:41|| 2006-10-22 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Folate is a water-soluble B vitamin that occurs naturally in food. Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate that is found in supplements and added to fortified foods [1].

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Posted by RD 2006-10-22 00:42|| 2006-10-22 00:42|| Front Page Top

#4 I love it on toast with butter, i'm going to eat some right now in protest.

But you know, Kraft who make Vegemite are a US company so it is really, really silly as it's not Australian at all anymore. Aussies just like eating it.

Posted by anon1 2006-10-22 01:16|| 2006-10-22 01:16|| Front Page Top

#5 This is how we treat one of our finest allies. We ought to be ashamed. Our politicians are a national disgrace.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-22 01:20|| 2006-10-22 01:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Presumably Marmits' banned too? This could have a huge effect on Anglophone travel to the US.

Posted by Bulldog 2006-10-22 02:12|| 2006-10-22 02:12|| Front Page Top

#7 There's always Bovril and Marmite.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-10-22 04:43|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-10-22 04:43|| Front Page Top

#8 How is is Vegemite banned but Spam legal?

Inquiring minds?

Posted by Dunno 2006-10-22 04:58|| 2006-10-22 04:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Vegemite: Spam's inner animal

Posted by Hyper 2006-10-22 09:22|| 2006-10-22 09:22|| Front Page Top

#10 This is typical of the FDA bureaucracy, mindlessly enforcing the most trivial of laws while they should worried about dangerous things. One might think, with the current state of the world, that they would have better things to do with their time and resources than rifle though Aussie's bags for Vegemite.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-10-22 11:14|| 2006-10-22 11:14|| Front Page Top

#11 I tried Vegemite and I din't like it, but this whole thing is silly and a slap in the face to our very good friends. U.S. food regulations should allow comity for products from allies like Australia.

If the Australians had banned American peanut butter, we'd think they had gone bonkers.

Posted by Darrell 2006-10-22 11:22|| 2006-10-22 11:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Time for a letter writing campaign, folks. Get the FDA to back off.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-22 11:29|| 2006-10-22 11:29|| Front Page Top

#13 But you know, Kraft who make Vegemite are a US company so it is really, really silly as it's not Australian at all anymore. Aussies just like eating it.

Yes, Kraft is an American company. Vegemite is not an American product, it is made in Australia. Multi-National Corporations routinely produce products that are local in focus, and that is the case with Vegemite.

I draw your attention to the photo of the jar, notice that it says: "Product of Australia".

Posted by NoBeards 2006-10-22 11:31|| 2006-10-22 11:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Mebbe it's cuz it doesn't have a child-proof lid.

Posted by .com 2006-10-22 11:37|| 2006-10-22 11:37|| Front Page Top

#15 This is the same FDA that seems to encourage nut companies to roast their nuts in PEANUT OIL even though millions are ALLERGIC to peanuts (esp Carters). Why deny nuts to millions for PLANTER's and Jimmie C's benefit?

Posted by 3dc 2006-10-22 12:40|| 2006-10-22 12:40|| Front Page Top

#16 When Vegemite is outlawed, only outlaws will have Vegemite.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-10-22 12:47|| 2006-10-22 12:47|| Front Page Top

#17 #15 -- Maybe because you can buy raw nuts and roast them yourself, easily enough???

Posted by nutty idea 2006-10-22 12:55|| 2006-10-22 12:55|| Front Page Top

#18 "The (US) Food and Drug Administration doesn't allow the import of Vegemite simply because the recipe does have the addition of folic acid."

I don't buy that - folic acid is added to foods here, too. Must be something else.

Not that I would eat it anyway, but the FDA banning such a product is beyond STUPID. (What a shocker.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-22 13:07|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-10-22 13:07|| Front Page Top

#19 Our tax dollars at work. Someone has a marked lack of perspective here.

Posted by SR-71 2006-10-22 16:50|| 2006-10-22 16:50|| Front Page Top

#20 I remember when they banned shipments of haggis just before a Robert Burns observance. The shouting and bagpipe bleating…

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-10-22 17:03|| 2006-10-22 17:03|| Front Page Top

#21 I remember when they banned shipments of haggis just before a Robert Burns observance. The shouting and bagpipe bleating

Yeah, but that was in celebration!

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839 2006-10-22 18:27|| 2006-10-22 18:27|| Front Page Top

#22 Vegemite should be banned! I mean, have you ever tasted it? Banned along with Marmite, Haggis, and Broccoli

I'm not sure what marmite might be, but I like haggis, broccoli, spinach, liver, those little green cabbage thingies whose name I can't recall right now, beets (non-stewed, cooked w/butter), and more than a few other things that most of us would never have touched as a kid.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-10-22 19:54|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-10-22 19:54|| Front Page Top

#23 Brussel Sprouts

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-10-22 21:55|| 2006-10-22 21:55|| Front Page Top

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