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Oct. 21st, 2006 08:10 pmThe US has banned Vegemite, even to the point of searching Australians for jars of the spread when they enter the country.
This is due to the inclusion of the OMG EVIL folate (aka folic acid aka the vitamin they encourage you to get enough of if you're pregnant or planning to be so or not planning extremely thoroughly not to be so). In the US, you may only add folate to breads and cereals. Not to foul tasting yet oddly addictive yeast spreads.
I went to our local grocery-store-that-stocks-British-food a little bit ago, ostensibly to get ingredients for pumpkin milkshakes, but really to check the availability of vegemite (and the OMG HUGE SALE gdiaper starter packs. Anyone want to try them? I expect I can buy and ship them for cheaper than you can find them most anywhere).
Vegemite and Marmite were no longer on the shelves.
Some knockoff that starts with B (Bogon or Borate or something) was, however. And it included folate.
The local grocery-store-that-stocks-British-food is breakin' da law!
This is due to the inclusion of the OMG EVIL folate (aka folic acid aka the vitamin they encourage you to get enough of if you're pregnant or planning to be so or not planning extremely thoroughly not to be so). In the US, you may only add folate to breads and cereals. Not to foul tasting yet oddly addictive yeast spreads.
I went to our local grocery-store-that-stocks-British-food a little bit ago, ostensibly to get ingredients for pumpkin milkshakes, but really to check the availability of vegemite (and the OMG HUGE SALE gdiaper starter packs. Anyone want to try them? I expect I can buy and ship them for cheaper than you can find them most anywhere).
Vegemite and Marmite were no longer on the shelves.
Some knockoff that starts with B (Bogon or Borate or something) was, however. And it included folate.
The local grocery-store-that-stocks-British-food is breakin' da law!
