Monday, October 13, 2014

It's Official

Welcome to Permanent Residency

We can stay here indefinitely.  The government said so.  To commemorate this occasion... we bought some Vegemite.  (Pretty sure they can deport you for not having a container of Vegemite in your pantry.)

Not sure about this.
r:  Here we have Vegemite.  This is our initiation to Australia.
g:  It smells bad.
r:  It's surprising that anyone would buy this and put it in their mouth on purpose, but here we are.  Australia.

The initial verdict was that it's not as bad as it smells....
and then the aftertaste hits you.

r:  It has an odor not unlike my feet ... or like a... really smelly olive.
g:  It smells like a vitamin container.  B vitamins.

r:  Oh.  Salty.
g:  Wait for it --- wait for it ---


r:  It's not .. great.  Why is the aftertaste so bad?
r:  I can see ... if you had no other food to eat, if you were dying of starvation .... and then you still might not eat it.


r:  It's real salty for the most part, I would say.
g:  The saltiness is not nearly as bad as the weird terrible aftertaste.
r:  No.  It's not.  The saltiness is the good part.  It's the best part it has going for it.


r:  Well... we still have about 218 grams to eat.
r:  And now we're Australian.
g:  (Almost.)
r:  It's done.  Mate.
g:  G'day mate.
r:  No worries mate.  Too easy!
g:  Too easy!

2 comments:

  1. Wonderful! I look forward to trying Vegemite when we come to visit!
    -Big Sprout

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  2. Your photo essay really had me enthralled. Thanks for the vicarious experience. We have an 8g pack of Marmite and now it will stay sealed forever!! G'day mate! Mom

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