Something Happier
Sorry - that last post was very sad. In the spirit of a less depressing world, therefore, I now present for your edification a happy little ditty known to and loved by us all. Well, loved by non-Marmite or Promite eaters (aka Devil's Spawn), anyway:
"The Vegemite Song"
http://www.geocities.com/alfonzobelushi/vegemite.html
"We're happy little Vegemites as bright as bright can be
We all enjoy our Vegemite for breakfast, lunch and tea
Our mummies say we're growing stronger every single week
Because we love our Vegemite - we all adore our Vegemite
It puts a rose in every cheek".
Well, most cheeks. Whenever I've tried it on anyone not brought up on the stuff from the cradle, they've made a mad dash straight to the lav. Ah well, different tastes, different cheeks.
"The Vegemite Song"
http://www.geocities.com/alfonzobelushi/vegemite.html
"We're happy little Vegemites as bright as bright can be
We all enjoy our Vegemite for breakfast, lunch and tea
Our mummies say we're growing stronger every single week
Because we love our Vegemite - we all adore our Vegemite
It puts a rose in every cheek".
Well, most cheeks. Whenever I've tried it on anyone not brought up on the stuff from the cradle, they've made a mad dash straight to the lav. Ah well, different tastes, different cheeks.
posted by MargieCM at 10:10 pm
24 Comments:
a spoonful of vegemite in Irish Stew, Vegie Soup, or with lambshanks adds a really good flavour to the stock
Keep It Moist
Neans
ISBN-1 90257 824 4 ....HAPPY FLYING...
What the heck is Vegemite... it sounds like something I might find in a fluff ball under my bed.
Marmite? Promite?
I feel conspicuously Canadian.
Aha! Gypsy's secret flying drugs...
Dale, didn't you learn about vegemite from Men at Work's brush with fame in the 80s?
"Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
*curtsy*
-AM
Neans - Yum yum!
Gypsy - Wheeee! I intend to give Google Earth a run for its money.
Dale - Being Canadian is your only excuse - but it's not a very good one. Vetemite is now INTERNATIONAL! It was originally produced, I understand, as a by-product of the brewing process for beer. Scrapings from the barrel or something. Delish! (and unbelievably high in vitamin B).
Anne-Marie - Take ten points and go to the top of the class. I'll send your citizenship application papers in the mail.
I hope you're all practising your singing ...
LOL Anne-Marie!
I always thought it was "gave me a bit of his sandwich"...
LOL
...you've been doing lots of cheeky curtsies lately.
Do women chunder, too?
yes we chunder too. I met one of my boyfriends outside a pub. It was very romantic. I was having a good Church Pew (spew) and he was so impressed that I could chunder through my nostrils that he asked me out on a date. Love at first chunder it was. Aint love grand!
Keep It Moist
Neans
OK, next question from the far north...what is a chunder?
...or do I dare ask.
Oh! Does it mean throw up?
LOL
You forgot to curtsy, Dale. :)
Hi Margie!
Hehee, that happy little ditty kind of makes you understand the point (or one point) of Mike Post Theme: these happy and cheerful songs really DO make life look quite alright for a bit of time :)
Maria
Dale, yes, to chunder (v) is to vomit, throw up, technicolour yawn, go the big spit, hurl, munt in the daisies (a regional expression from Geelong, I believe), or any one of fifty other creative egs of the vernacular.
Neans, that is wonderfully gross. I'm ashamed to say my own sheltered life has meant I just can't compete at that level of expertise. Was it Patti Smith who once said every man she'd ever been with had thrown up on her at least once? Ah, romance.
Glad you liked the ditty, Maria. It's one Australian children know from birth - it's not used all the time in the ads any more, but they resurrect it every so often just to keep the natives feeling cosy and safe. Yes, very Mike Post!
Anyone who wants to know the BEST way to eat Vegemite should visit Neans' blog and look at the suggestion I left on her hangover monster entry. I promise you we are a civilised lot down here!
Ooops..."curtsey"...AM
Ha Ha!
Vegimite = beer vat scrapings.
sounds tasty...i feel a chunder coming on.
Excellent, Dale, you're learning already!
Oooh, I've just remembered a Barry Humphries ditty from long ago "Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea." It's hard to recall it and still believe he's actually one of our most erudite, intelligent and well-read citizens (well, expats). Oddly enough, I've just googled it to see if I could find the lyrics, and the first entry has it as a Grateful Dead song! Noooo ....
http://dannyman.toldme.com/lyrics/Grateful_Dead/Bondi_Pier.html
Grrr. Links. No matter, try it yourself and see.
wasnt that a song in The Adventures of Barry McKenzie?
"Look out down belwo Im gonna chunder"
almost as much of a classic as
"The One Eyed Trouser Snake"
Keep It Moist
Neans
Ah, now then - I believe you may be right. What a scholar you are Neans!
And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall the Grateful Dead providing the soundtrack to that one!
you are invited to dale and gypsy airways next time..
Hi Margie!
You asked about the web book store I had mentioned. It's www.play.com. They don't have huge selections like Amazon but when they do have a book, it's usually cheaper, they deliver quickly and take no postage charge. That's in Europe anyway, I have to say I haven't checked if they have different terms for the rest of the world.
Maria
margie im sending transport for all the girls via bert the carrier pigeon..we can definitly do business..
margie ive lobed it off..
Gypsy now looks burste couche chic...
Margie,
Thanks for your comments! That's one of my favorite scenes of all time, too. I absolutely love that that's how you and your girls own up to a 'bad'!
My daughter's a fan, too. Her uncle got her a ferocious bunny for last Christmas! It really does have big nasty teeth!
I've just a little while ago posted yet another historical perspective on Halloween. Enjoy.
BTW, I read recently that there is talk of banning vegemite in the US! Something about the FDA can't regulate the high amount of folate and B vitamins in it...
I can't say I ever tried the stuff myself, though. I'm afraid it really doesn't sound very good....
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