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ocelotThe 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!
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Date: 2006-10-22 03:29 am (UTC)Feh.
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Date: 2006-10-22 04:25 am (UTC)I love the idea, especially since the covers can be used with cloth diapers too, but the inserts are considerably more expensive than normal disposable diapers (which is rather counterintuitive, since they use less material and are less complex than normal disposables, but they ship from Australia (hmm, just like Vegemite) and apparently don't have a good backstock here yet). It's too bad - I have a feeling they'd really take off if they could get the cost down.
I need to get some before the sale ends though, even if they won't be useful for a while (they only have sizes medium and large), because it's cheap enough to be a good cost for a cloth diaper cover if nothing else.
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Date: 2006-10-22 04:34 am (UTC)Hopefully it will cease to become irrelevant in a few months. :)
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Date: 2006-10-22 05:28 am (UTC)and good luck ;)
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Date: 2006-10-22 05:34 am (UTC)And yes, conceivably I could just take the cloth along, especially since my sister in law does cloth up there. It's more a question of how much carrying around of soiled diapers seems reasonable, until I have access to washing facilities.
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Date: 2006-10-22 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-22 06:08 am (UTC)Still, it's all mood right now. Just hope for not too much longer.
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Date: 2006-10-22 04:20 am (UTC)I hope you're all well - you have a gorgeous family!
And Vegemite is teh nasty anyway ;)
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Date: 2006-10-22 04:30 am (UTC)I'm planning to grab a pack or two, though they only have sizes M/L and the inserts are too expensive to justify using them regularly. It's cheap enough ($13.00 for the starter pack with Nugget card, normally $25) to be a decent price for cloth diaper covers, even without the inserts.
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Date: 2006-10-23 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-22 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-22 08:46 pm (UTC)Medium is 13-26lbs, and Large is 27-35lbs. I'm guessing you want large, unless they have really skinny thighs or something.
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Date: 2006-10-24 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-25 04:42 pm (UTC)war on....
Date: 2006-10-22 05:54 am (UTC)War on Drugs
War on Poverty
War on Terror
War on Moisture
War on Yeast Extracts?
Remember back in the day when wars by definition were fough between nation-states? Bah.
was the other one Bovril? Beef extract. yikes.
gDiapers- Google Daipers? Algorithmic excretion control?
Re: war on....
Date: 2006-10-22 06:01 am (UTC)Now I'm debating whether "Mad Cow Disease" or "Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis" is the funnier phrase. I'm leaning towards the latter.
gDiapers are a cloth cover/liner and a disposable/flushable inner piece. I think the "g" is for green. I bet google could get the cost down if they bought them out, though.
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Date: 2006-10-22 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-30 01:54 am (UTC)hoax!
Date: 2006-10-30 08:20 pm (UTC)was a hoax...