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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20623973-2,00.html
There's no accounting for taste
October 21, 2006 12:00am

THE US has banned Vegemite, even to the point of searching Australians for jars of the spread when they enter the country.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite has been deemed illegal under US food laws.
The great Aussie ic ...[text shortened]... aid.

Banned because it contains folic acid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folic_acid)?
Crazy isnt it? Banning wholesome food.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20623973-2,00.html
There's no accounting for taste
October 21, 2006 12:00am

THE US has banned Vegemite, even to the point of searching Australians for jars of the spread when they enter the country.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite has been deemed illegal under US food laws.
The great Aussie ic ...[text shortened]... aid.

Banned because it contains folic acid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folic_acid)?
I guess it would be considered ok if you took out the folic and subbed it with red dye #3.....

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Originally posted by catfoodtim
Marmite is wrong.
Oh no he didn't!

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Originally posted by Redmike
They banned Irn Bru, the Scottish soft drink.

Not because it contained anything they didn't like, but because the manufacturers wouldn't divulge their 'secret' ingredients.

All over the US, there are hangovers going untreated now.
!!! Unbelieveable! I manage to get it here, although at considerable expense....

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20623973-2,00.html
There's no accounting for taste
October 21, 2006 12:00am

THE US has banned Vegemite, even to the point of searching Australians for jars of the spread when they enter the country.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite has been deemed illegal under US food laws.
The great Aussie ic ...[text shortened]... aid.

Banned because it contains folic acid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folic_acid)?
Good ridance. Stuff taste like crap.

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Vegemite is gay, Marmite is the real deal

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Originally posted by kirksey957
Good ridance. Stuff taste like crap.
And not liking something is reason to ban it?

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
And not liking something is reason to ban it?
That stuff taste so bad it is dangerous. I can't begin to tell you the gag reflex it inflicted upon me. Why would they make folic acid taste so bad?

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Originally posted by 7ate9
In addition to their interest in controlling sexual information and sexually explicit material available to Iranians on satellite television, the government has very mixed feelings about allowing access to the Internet. Sobh, the monthly newspaper of the most puritanical clergy, has called for a ban on the Internet, similar to the ban on satellite-television a ...[text shortened]... aiths like the Bahai, as well as any information seen as Western propaganda (MacFarquhar 1996b).
What the f**** has this got to do with Vegemite numbnuts?

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Its just a shame that the yanks bought out vegemite ,they will probably stop making it next .It should of stayed in Australian ownership.

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Originally posted by Esoteric
I could not live without Vegemite. It's better than chocolate.
Sounds like a good reason for banning vegemite.

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Originally posted by Philodor
Sounds like a good reason for banning vegemite.
Because it is better than chocolate?

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Originally posted by Esoteric
Because it is better than chocolate?
No because Philidor wants you to die like he has clearly already done.

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