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[erastes]

So the next war the USA are going to have is with Australia is it?

America bans Vegemite.

You don't want to mess with them, Dubya. Really.

*joins up* (on the Ozzie side)

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[angrboda]

O.o

I can't see a single solitary reason for banning vegemite. It's not unhealthy (it's actually shockful of vitamins if it's anything at all like Marmite. Or is Marmite banned too?), it's produced in a perfectly civilised western country, it's actually owned by an american company, you can't make explosives out of it, as far as I know nobody has tried to smuggle weapons over the border concealed in vegemite... Do I need to go on?

*sigh* Is it 2008 yet?

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

It's banned because it contains folic acid, and the Food and Drug Administration only permits folic acid in breads and cereals.

Why a vitamin that prevents the anemia of pregnancy can be eaten in bread and Cheerios but can't be eaten in Vegemite is obviously a question for the ages.

[angrboda]

Only bread and cereal??? Why???! Whole-grain products isn't even a very good source! O.o
In Denmark pregnant women are encouraged by their doctors and midwives to take vitamin pills with folic acid, because it's the most important vitamin for the embryo. Better too much than too little.

Next step: Banning of green vegetables and liver.

Pardon me, but the current american government is the singlemost strangest government on the planet.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Only bread and cereal??? Why???!

I have NO idea. I've given up expecting logic in anything relating to health.

Next step: Banning of green vegetables and liver.

If that ever happens, I'm moving to Essex. Or maybe Oxford. (I have a tendency toward anemia. I also take a medicine that's perfect for two other conditions I have, but that depresses the production of red blood cells.)

Pardon me, but the current american government is the singlemost strangest government on the planet.

You don't need to beg my pardon. Why would you? It's absolutely true.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

BAN BROCCOLI! yAY!!!

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

*cries*

My country is stupid.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It is.

*mocks*

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Save us, Dubya! Save us from the horrors of Vegemite!
Doesn't he also abhor broccoli?
I'll bet he was insulted by Vegemite at a political function and this is his subtle form of revenge. Subtle, you know, Bush style. =D

[rwday.livejournal.com]

It was his father who hated broccoli, I believe. That's probably what prompted this - a long standing hatred of broccoli inherited from Daddy has led to a loathing for folic acid in general, and now it's payback time.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he heard someone say he was a mite like a vegetable?

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Might I also point out, a couple of years ago it became illegal to mail purchased foodstuffs from Canada to the USA. If it is produced domestically, ie. chocolate, then you cannot send it through the post across the border. (I used to mail my States friends Cadbury, flavoured potato chips, and gummi worms as gifts.)

BUT!!! If I physcially carry it across the border in my luggage or in my car or I don't know, on a bicycle it is perfectly fine. *stabs brain*

AND!!! If I were to make my own chocolates those are pefectly fine to mail across the border. Bought smoked salmon, no. Homemade smoked salmon, yes. *boggle*

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I had meant if it is produced in the USA then the equiv. product cannot be sent across the border from Canada. OR SOMETHING! Where's my tea? *applies wet teabag directly to eyeball* Ahhh

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's all barking mad.

Gummi worm bomb anyone?

[julesjones]

[boggles]

Much as I hate the stuff, the idea of banning it because you're only allowed to add the anti-spina bifeda vitamin to bread and breakfast cereals --- the stupid, it burns!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

is it added to Vegemite then? I thought it just occurred natually?

[hansbekhart.livejournal.com]

Ezzuhhbuh? Bubfgga? What the fuck?

Read both the articles and could've sworn I was reading a satire. Really? But, but .... really?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I know...

*shakes head*

You couldn't make it up.

[irreparable.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a prelude - when he bans Aussie beer, well, the gauntlet is down!

Seriously, though, as a lover of Vegemite (and amusingly just having polished off a piece of toast with Vegemite when I read this,) his big bruhaha is all because of the folate acid in it. It was on the news here last night, with much eyerolling from scientist, nutritionists, Aussies in general and not a little "Well that's just typical, the man has no taste."

[erastes.livejournal.com]

The man is a loony.

[irreparable.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Ironically, Vegemite is owned by an American company. I suspect they will have Stern Words, oh yes.

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

If they extend the ban to Marmite there's gonna be an ass-whoopin'.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

now that would mean a jihad.

[shenya.livejournal.com]

*blink*

Ok, so I can't eat the stuff anymore and when I could I preferred marmite anyway.... but still...

*blink*

[jamie2109.livejournal.com]

Definitely much eyerolling over that little article. Honestly, (Oh Lord, I sound like Hermione! Wash my mouth out!)apart from the folic acid, we know that he's just jealous, cos we're happy little vegemites, as bright as bright can be. (advertising song for vegemite here)

And we have a boxing kangaroo. We can take on anyone, even Dubya. (What sort of crack name is that anyway?)

Ok, my icon isn't boxing, but you can tell, he could if he wanted to. *nods*

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to find out if it's all hearsay/urban myth, since I want to take some into the uSA with me next year. titti mentioned somewhere (I can't track it down) that the FDA doesn't ban things by name, but bans [unspecified] things that contain certain things. This, she pointed out, makes it damn' difficult to work out whether it's true or not.

I was looking at the contents listing on my (910 gr) jar this morning, and noticed that folate is at the end of the list of ingredients.

I love it, though, that the USA bans a foodstuff made by an American-owned company.

It also gives me the giggles that my flist (and half fandom) is so excited about something that most of them wouldn't eat if you paid them.