I'd guess that. I was a barefooter for awhile (in Florida where there are fewer rocks and my feet were tougher), and people honestly believed that there were laws against being barefoot in public areas, to the point that some police thought the same thing and enforced the non-existant laws.
When people are told that there's some sort of official rule or law there tends to be voluntary enforcement without checking that such a regulation actually exists. I would not be surprised if some stores were taking it off the shelf because they heard about the "ban".
I was wondering about the ban when you initially wrote about it, as the only reference I could find was one Australian newspaper article. All the others seemed to refer back to that. At the time there were no hoax or urban legend pages about it, so I accepted it myself.
As another data point, I found plenty of Marmite in the local Wegmans a week or so later.
I'm joking :) For all I know. They sold out because people were stockpiling against the coming shortage, or they stopped carrying it for other reasons at some point in the past several years since I last paid attention to it, or whatever.
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Date: 2006-10-31 03:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-31 04:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-31 07:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-31 03:12 pm (UTC)When people are told that there's some sort of official rule or law there tends to be voluntary enforcement without checking that such a regulation actually exists. I would not be surprised if some stores were taking it off the shelf because they heard about the "ban".
I was wondering about the ban when you initially wrote about it, as the only reference I could find was one Australian newspaper article. All the others seemed to refer back to that. At the time there were no hoax or urban legend pages about it, so I accepted it myself.
As another data point, I found plenty of Marmite in the local Wegmans a week or so later.
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Date: 2006-10-31 03:21 pm (UTC)I have no idea what to think. I think it's banned for commercial import and not for personal import. I'm not sure of anything, however.
Neat little topic, however. Thanks for the update.
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Date: 2006-10-31 04:03 pm (UTC)