Two In The Think Tank - 183 - The History of Vegemite (with Nick Mason)

Episode Date: April 24, 2019

"As Australian as Vegemite on toast" is something that someone probably said at some point. The salty black spread is one of Australia's most iconic food stuffs, but why? And how? Well, listen to this episode to find out!Joined by The Weekly Planet's Nick Mason, this episode was recorded live at the European Bier Cafe for the Melbourne International Comedy FestivalSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Get tickets to our live shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=456263&As well as for Thailand in June: dogoonpod.com/eventsBook tickets to Matt's stand up show (at the Sydney Comedy Festival) with the early bird discount code: dogoon via mattstewartcomedy.com/gigs  Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasSources/Further Reading:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemitehttps://vegemite.com.au/heritage/vegemite-timeline/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/walker-fred-8953https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/australia-food-blog/2015/may/18/vegemite-chocolate-taste-test-is-cadburys-new-block-awesome-or-evilhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-01-19/bega-buys-vegemite-mondelez/8193268https://twistedhistory.net.au/2016/07/06/13-funky-facts-about-vegemite/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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that we did and we just want to make a huge thank you to everyone who came to all of those shows. They were all packed and we had such a good time, our best year yet in my opinion. And to all the people that came, people came from overseas, from interstate, locals, people that had seasoned parcels and came every week, it really blew our little mind. So thank you so much for coming along. We'd really do appreciate that. Now, this is the second of the four

that we've released under the main feed. And the other two episodes we are saving up our sleeves for Patreon bonus episodes. In fact, we've already released one this month. In April in that episode was all about wacky sports stories. And we'll have another one coming out next month as one of our Patreon bonus episodes. If you wanna be able to hear those,

you just have to support the show at patreon.com slash do go on pod. But until the end of the show where I'll come back and thank a few of our Patreon supporters by name, please enjoy this episode Recorded live at the Melbourne Comedy Festival Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Melbourne's iconic European beer cafe for a moment as occasion the second ever live episode of Doo Go On! Now put your hands together and welcome to the show. Members 1, 2 and 4 of Dugo on. Dave Warnicki, Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart.

Oh, hang on, I think I'm number 4. Yeah, bitch! Yeah, bitch! Shit! Hello, Melbourne, how you doing out there? Oh, right. There's so many of you. Hello.

How's something about you? I said there's so many of you, and then there was like a high. Let's try that again. There's so many of you. Yeah. What a pain fun, everybody just said, hi. To be honest, they fucked know. They fucked it. You fucked it.

You fucked it. It feels great to be here. If everyone's going to be here like me, this BMX me look like a child. Apparently that's a small. You're a small, though. Cheers. I just like how you, it's taking your entire hand to grasp it. Oh look at that

Two hands love beer Why are we delaying it so long everyone's here to see one person. It's not us And that only hurts a little bit Well, ladies gentlemen, it's time to welcome to the stage. Member number three of this podcast. You might know it from the weekly planet, but please give it up for the man, the magic that is Nick Mason. Hello, Mason. White pants. I think we should address that immediately. It's a bold choice.

And I walked here from the car with a full bottle of Coke, and I didn't ruin my seat. And you got diarrhea. I know, right. I'm going to be leaving the stage facing the front. And my Uber's ready to go out the front as well. Hey guys, thanks for having me. This is very exciting.

Hey, thanks for being here. What a time to be alive. In what way? I don't know. It's the end of the festival. I'm pretty much checked out, to be honest. So everyone have fun. I'll be here if you need.

No, it is great to have you here, May so for our buy and your live episode. But it's been two years since we last performed on stage. I say performed. It's great to have you here May so for our by annual live episode. But this has been two years since we last performed on stage. I say performed. It's the stage of you. Thank you. It's fantastic. But here was at the Loch Ness Monster last time. Yeah. Is anyone heard that episode before?

What a great performance that was. That was one of our best performance. It was the jazz hands. It really took it across the line for me. I think we were actually sitting in the same order because you posted a photo yesterday and someone said some version of ugliest to best looking. Hang on, hang on, I believe it was. Who is this one person? Are you with the audience? Show yourself, talent.

It was. Why isn't going. I really did not want to ask that question. I believe it was a scariest to Lee scary looking. Same difference. Yeah. How would any of us be scary facial hairs? Scary apparently? No!

Can we also address Matt's got his hat on backwards? I got a haircut today. Take the hat off. Take the hat off. Take the hat off. Take the hat off. Take the hat off. I'm sorry. Take the hat off.

It's an audio podcast. I wouldn't do it to the people at home. I don't want them missing out on anything. I'm just keeping his hat on. I just wanted them to know so that they can... Oh! So they can look the same. look the same, look the same. Now I reckon they were right with the order from Aglius to Lee Stuggles, actually.

Wait, which order? I'll take two or three, I'm okay. That's fine. It's risky over here. It's risky over here. Yeah, we're safe in the middle. We're average. Yeah.

Yay. Yeah. Dave, explain the show. So, well, is this show is giving you a round of applause if you ever heard the show at all before? Oh my god. Okay, the other end of the scale here, now, don't be shy. Who's the ugliest? Oh, I know. We have a volunteer.

I guess, uh, you're very brave. That was a brave stance to take. Who's got herpes? Woo! Don't be shy. Okay, uh, don't be shy. If you've never heard the show before, give us an applause now.

You are that proud of it. It's weird. It is weird. So is the ugly got herpes and has never heard the show before. Makes sense. People who listen to this show, you would have herpes. You think somebody's staying at home waiting for test results would be listening to a lot of podcasts, but I guess not. There's a lot of stuff on Netflix. Hey, and also, I want to address the stigma around herpes. We've all got it.

Yeah. And we all got it from you. Apparently nearly everyone's got it. Apart from people who listen to do go on. So folks, listen, look to your left and look to your right. And if one of those people doesn't have herpes, it's you. But luckily for us, it's Matt. So.

Oh. I've always wondered why Matt wanted to replace his upper lip with hair. The answer is Herpes! Oh you're going to have face herpes. Yeah. That's very sweet of you. Not sure how about. Let's move on if we can.

How many... So this would be official episode number 11 or 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 just say something funny She is that good Now if you haven't heard the show before a few people people, a few people, they haven't basically what we do is we take it in turns to report on a topic, often suggested by a listener, usually there's three of us here, but we are very happy to have Nick Mason as a very special guest here today.

When I got here, I hadn't sudden thought this was like 10 minutes before the show started and I went to Matt and I said, am I doing the report today? And I said, yes, you are. Here it is. There we go. That's me every time we record. Is it am I doing it?

And they go, yeah, I go, oh no. So every single one of yours has been off the top of the dime. Yeah, that's incredible. Yeah, I'm very good at improv. As I demonstrated just before. Now it is Matt's turn to report on a topic this week. And we're really glad you had that laptop because you got the charger back which you left to your last week about two minutes before the show starts.

Hang on by a thread here. But we might need them in Prove skills soon, Papa. So I'm going to ask a question to get us under topic. The question this week is, what topic was suggested to me by our Doctor of Podcast Level Patreon supporter, Brian Kalella, when we went out for brunch last week? OK, first of all, adorable. Second of all, whether fuck was my invite, Dave?

That's a party. It's a Patreon award. I have to drink a beer in front of him. And he's only been in town. You're really making some sacrifices for the patrons. I have to drink a beer in front of him. Anyway, okay, we've got to get inside the mind of Brian. And the mind of someone having brunch.

Eggs Benedict. Yeah. The history of Eggs Benedict. Oh, I've got to be Benedict. That's for Dave. The bad one, the quit. The bad one that quit. Yeah.

Not those other 15 great ones. Yeah. The first 15, what an era. They went one to 15 for about 100 years. Anyway, a bit history there. Okay. I don't think you're on the right track. I think in a brunch, brunch things. Oh. We met there think so. You're on the right track thinking of brunch things.

Oh. We met there in particular for the not the beer, the other thing we were having. Oh. Was in particular. Anyway, we're wasting time now. That's fine. And American coming to Australia having brunch.

What would he have? What would he want to experience? Something with Benjamin. Benjamin. Well, correct. Oh. And the crowd went wild, Brian. That this guy suggested it.

Stand up Brian, show him. Show him who did this. He did this. Not me. I've got to ask, did he suggest Veggie Mike, or did he eat it and go, what the fuck is Veggie Mike? You were like, good question, I'm going to find out. Yes. You spread it thick and then you hold your nose what the fuck is Veggie Mine? You're like, good question, I'm gonna find out.

Yes. You spread it thick and then you hold your nose and you just dive in. That's how Veggie Mine works. That's what I told him. In the late 1800s, it was discovered by a German scientist named Justice von Leibig, the bruise yeast. Thank you. Justice. Right name.

Very solid name. Justice Von Leibig. I love that so much. He discovered that bruise yeast could be concentrated and turned into an edible spread. And by 9202 such a product was manufactured and sold in Britain by the name of Marmite. Yeah, correct. and sold in Britain by the name of Marmite. Ooh! LAUGHTER Yeah. Yeah, correct. Audio listeners, note, we're holding up cards.

Let's say boom, cheer, laugh. There we go, laugh when up. It's real life. Wait, is this a thing? Because we're being getting booed on social media this week. Is that because of you, some reason? No, I don't know what that's referring to at all. I think maybe DC Star is dipped a little bit. That's probably... I have a star? You have a star! That's what we're referring to at all. I think maybe DC star is dipped a little bit That's probably I have a star you've a star

That's what it's and it's dipped it's dipped your star has dipped Okay, no sometimes I look I've asked people to boom me at live live okay Just just so you know just so I just just so I have low expectations. Okay, great. Okay, you humble keep me humble exactly That's right. Yeah, humble exactly. That's right Yeah, well tonight. Let's just boo mom. I So when they're doing mom like they're really doing it. Okay, cool. That's really good. Yeah, great. You're the human equivalent of mama Too far the most offensive thing ever said on this show Someone just yelled what the fuck

Now I feel like the bad boy of the pod I've never said on this show. Someone just yelled, what the fuck? Right? Now I feel like the bad boy of the pod. I'm going to take all the man. I'd say you are the worst at being a boy on the pod. But I give it a bloody red hot god! Well, we'll see. So, look to your left, look to your right, yes. Marmite.

Thank you. It delayed. Also became popular overseas, including in Australia. But the First World War led to a shortage of Marmite. Are you booing Marmite or War there? I was quite sure. Okay, good. Now we're in a pro war.

Pro War. Anti Marmite. All right. I'm sorry. Okay, good. No, we're going to throw a wall. Throw a wall. Okay. Throw a wall. Anti-marmy. All right. The only wall we like is the wall on Marmite. War on Marmite. So the wall led to a shortage of Marmite being imported into a trail out there.

Yeah, that was challenging, wasn't it? You wanted to do Marmite, but now there's not enough. You're like, that's good. But if they completely run out of Marmite, what are You wanted to do a momma but now there's not enough. You're like, that's good. But if they completely run out of momma, what are we gonna do? We all know that's fair. Me, alright. We all need anatomy. This led to Fred Walker and Co trying to come up with its own spreadable yeast extract product. Now you get it. The problem was that the recipe for Marmite was that I'm feeling some regret about that.

The recipe for that product was a tightly held secret. Wait, what product did I have lost in track? Marmite. Oh, it was a tightly held secret. So Fred Walker enlisted an Australian chemist named Cyril P. Callister to come up with their own spread to fill the hole in the market temporarily created by the scarcity of Marmite. Hey! This whole so empty.

We need somebody to fill it. Fred Walker. So, did you, I don't know if you know this. But the show after this today is the little dumb dumb club. Anyone seeing that? Did anyone see Tommy Dasselow's show a few years ago about Veggie Mark? 2013. Did you see this?

No. I heard last, someone told me last night. Really? Yeah. When I was telling him I was going to do Veggie Mark today, like, well, you should talk to Tommy Dasselow. Yeah. Because, well, how could I possibly get on to him?

He's in the show after us. He's literally in the building right in the top. Well we're bringing him up because he showed a few years ago it was about how his grandfather is Surrey P. Callister? No Fred Walker. Fred Walker, oh that's right and in the show there was a bit of a smackdown. Oh you should have been there. What are the chances? This is amazing.

Well, maybe this is a good opportunity to talk about Coach Samooie. If you want to ask Tommy Dasseloy. Yeah, just approaching him on the beach in Thailand. He's trying to relax. He's been working hard all year. Is anyone coming to the Coach Samooie podcast vessel? Does anyone want to boo the Coach Samooie podcast vessel? Sorry, man, no, Herpes are loud. Excuse us.

No, you're all right, come on. It's all right. Herpes will be provided on arrival at kosmooie. So, don't ever worry. Don't feel left out. Kallester started experimenting with discarded yeast from the famous Carlton and United Brewery. Discarded.

Right, people in the room would know who they are, but they're probably the most famous brewery in Australia. They make VB and Carlton draft. Have a beer! He was able to concentrate the clear liquid extract before blending it with salt, as well as vegetable extract from celery and onion and other unnamed vegetables, which made it the distinctive sticky black paste

we all know and love. At one point, you're experimenting, and it comes out as a black sticky smelly paste. And you're like, I think I'm on the sub-an-air. Oh. Do you want a genuine answer? Sticky smelly paste and you're like I think I'm on the sub of the name. Do you want a genuine answer? All the time. Sometimes I don't even get my own jokes.

Most of the time. Fred Walker was ready to market his new product, but it needed a name. According to VeggieMites website, Walker held a competition inviting the Australian public to create a name for the new spread. A prize of 50 pounds, a sizeable sum for that era, was placed in a prize pool for finalists. Hundreds of entries were received, and shall I? Walker, the daughter of Fred. Sorry, sorry. How would you say that?

Sheila? Oh. So what is that? I'm really, really professional. That's a like Sheila. Bloody hell. So I'm. I think back in the early 1900s, those pranks differently, but... Yeah. Language evolves, it's fluid. It's very true, yeah. That's true.

So she picked the winner. I've read somewhere out of the hat. I don't know if she chose it or she just plucked it, but she was the one who picked the name that was... I snack 1.0. That's it. I will chat about that in a little later on. So it's basically a ripoff of Promo.

Right? But um... The crowd ripoff of Promo. Right? But um... The crowd is indifferent to Promo. I mean, what's the one? Marmite. What's Promoite? It's not a thing. It's cheap.

Much nicer. It is, yes. Wait, hang on. Then Vegemite? Someone said here that it's much nicer than Vegemite. What do you reckon of that? Name it, Shane. It's due to go and, listen to Katie. Katie, Shane on you. Unfortunately, the name of the winning contestant whoever wrote the name Vegemite has been lost to history.

Oh, well. Now it's anyone's to claim. Yeah, I feel I'll take that credit. Good on you, Dave. Go on your day. Thank you so much. Someone says my biggest laugh achievement. I'll tell you, nearly drink me any. No!

Whoa! Dave, Dave, Dave! I got suckless. Oh, God. Look at that. Ugh. You okay? You know when you feel the peer pressure over crowd,

but then you just think, I'm gonna be sick. For those at home, he went from about 10 mils down to five mils. All right, all right. Hey, hey, hey, hey! APPLAUSE Wow. Go, go, go, go, go! Hey! Thank you. Oh! Oh! Wow! He just finished the last one. That's the most applause ever given for the least amount

of anything. I feel. I applaud you for that. Thanks a lot. I have a weirdo suffocates. This is an achievement, people. This is an achievement. Does he go a day without mentioning his weirdo suffocates?

May we get it? I wake up most mornings to a message from him, like, morning, got a weirdosophagus. I'm like, all right, Dave. I never spelled it right once. Shylaw? Shylaw. Vegemite hit the shelves of grocery stores in 1923.

So a good couple of decades after Marmite hit the shelves of grocery stores in 1923. So good couple of decades after Marmite. I think it's a good couple of decades after it was developed. Took that long. Now they go. We're in a shop, we're doing it. I understand. They got it out real quick. It was advertised as being great for children's health, as well as being described as delicious on sandwiches and toast, and improving the flavour of soups, stews and gravies. No thank you. The public did not get on board.

I think back in the day they also said all the same things about cocaine. So you know, science is what it is now. Okay, it really does. It's delicious up a soup cocaine. It really does, really does. As soon as I put soup, okay. Really does, yeah. You want to speed your soup up, boy. Yeah, so sales are really low. In 1926, Fred Walker started a joint venture with America's

JL craft incorporated called Craft Walker Cheese Company. They continue to make Vegemite as well as process cheese products. I was wondering when the cheese would come in, but immediately there's the answer. It's a terrible name. I mean, were you all thinking that? That's a terrible name. Craft Walker Cheese Company. Yeah, I'm just joking.

That sucks. By 1928, sales of Vegemite were still slow. By this stage, supply of Marmite was strong again. They should have changed the name to craft walker cheese in Vegemite company. That might have shifted some units. So Marmite's now dominating the spreadable yeast extract market. I know, right?

In a ploy to win over some of Marmite's market share, they changed the name of V Marmite's market share. They changed the name of Vegemite to Power Will. This is a fact I didn't know. The obvious, the obvious change up. I think I get it. I think where this is going. All right.

So the idea of this is so they can use the slogan, Marmite, but Power Will. Yeah. Yeah. Sales did not pick up. I mean, that's just good marketing, that's right. Is that a pun? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's certainly a play on words. Right. Yeah. See, look, I'm not the only one confused by this. Matt doesn't get puns, which is weird, because he's the pun. Get him in there.

Get him in the pun department of Hedgehog Might. He would be smashing them. Any second now. I'd be like week four there, a cooler meeting. What do you got up to? I'm just still googling what pun means. By the mid-1930s, they have reverted to the original Vegemite name. Parwell bit the dust. Sales remain slow.

In 1935, they used the company's cheese arm to help drag Vegemite. I'm listening! Yeah, that's a superhero I can get by. If you ever come in here to cheese arm, I know what, you'd want a blue cheese arm, wouldn't Yeah, that's a superhero I can get by. Give me every comedy that I cheese on. I know what, you'd want a blue cheese on, wouldn't you? Oh, I love a blue cheese. Vainy, big, vainy cheese. Cheese on.

The vainy is the better. My goodness. What the fuck is wrong with you? That's what blue cheese is, Jess. Go out. Read a book. Read a book. Thank you. About cheese.

So yeah, they used the company's cheese arm to help track Vegemite towards success. When they say, I'd go for like a brie or something. Oh, that wouldn't be a structurally fair. Yeah, forget about Ronnie, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah. Especially if it's hot, yeah. You need a hot cheese, yeah.

No, but. Yeah, I'd be using a cheddar. Cheddar, yeah. But then you want a flexibility for gripping. Oh, fuck. Yeah, right? String cheese. String cheese, thank you. That's the winner.

Big, biggest stringer. Yeah. You just want to, like, pull out a few strings to make fingers. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. So they're using the cheese to bring the vegemite. I'll be thinking about this for the next 10 minutes. I'll be going Maddie, sorry. So using the cheese to promote vegemite by starting to

include coupons for three jails of vemite in packets of their cheddar cheese. In effect, giving it away, much like an entrepreneurial drug dealer might do. Giving some free samples to try to get the market hooked and it worked, with the Australian public becoming hooked on that sticky, icky spread. That same year. Fred Walker passed away. I'll give you a quick bite on it. At the founder of Marmite Passed Away 2.

Fred Walker born in Hawthorne in the affluent East. Fantastic stuff. Beautiful place. We're only legends live. Absolutely. In 18... LAUGHTER That's good. Love that, love that Josh Friedenberg.

Oh, what a great local member. I salute you, Treasurer. Keep ruining the planet. Yes! It's even more than. Yeah. We have to move. Yeah, I know.

It's the most political this podcast ever been, or, okay? Yeah. And we bloody got him. Can we call yourself Satai now? I think this is absolutely Satai now. He will not be reelected now. Can we change the law? We're going to get off stage and we're all going to be blocked by him on Twitter.

It's going to be... He's back there, I can save. I'm sorry Marley picking up his dry cleaning once. Oh, that's a bad. Can you believe that? Has clothes that require dry cleaning? Ooh, got into it. Just things that you go, my body heat'll do it.

What? Fuck off, loser. Body heat does not clean clothes. What's that? It ions them. Perfect. Yeah. So, as born in 1844, then he moved to Hong Kong and at the age of 19 years of age, he founded Fred Walker and Co. He founded this whole company at 19.

In 1903, he was when he was 19 and a sentence. Matt, do you want me to read along with you? In 1903 is when he was 19 and a sentence. LAUGHTER Matt, do you want me to read along with you? Or... It was the full stop after Co. That's... yeah, that's... that's... that's my show, hasn't it? Yeah, no, that would get me as well. Yeah.

Fred Walker and Co. Stop. Yeah. In 1903, full stop. LAUGHTER So, really, I... It was pretty quick thinking there. I think so. I think you had probably woken up perfectly.

I don't think anyone ever noticed. I don't think so. He then served in the Australian military from 1908 to 1918, where he was promoted to the rank of captain. After the war, he went back to his business, which was producing red feather canned foods and bonochs, which is a beef extract drink, which is still made today. You can still drink beef.

Like bovro. I guess it's Aussie-Bovrol. He was a big player in food and was also very good to his employees apparently. I'm so sorry, I just need to stop the show real quickly. Did you just B.Y.O. chair? I saw you leave. And you thought you got away with it.

No, no, no, no, no, you are the fire code violations of through the roof now. That's too many people. You let me go. Granted, you can put it down and went... LAUGHTER I checked the light to have the other one take it. So I took it. Show. I saw it. That's... That's some good stuff.

It's a recliner, too. Where did you even get it? Banana Lange. Oh. Sorry, Matt, but... LAUGHTER So Frank, he was very good to his employees. Examples of this include the fact he introduced morning tits. Sorry mate, but... So Frankie was very good to his employees. Examples of this include the fact he introduced morning tea breaks. Oh, love morning tea! Also a canteen in first aid facilities. Obviously the minimum requirement for being a good boss.

Back then was pretty low. Gave him a short break. And a packet of band-aise. People were fighting to work for it. Cool. Look at them at the band-aise. I'll open gunshot wound if I can just get into the break room. Bans you that up. He died of heart disease at the age of only 51. After his death, Melbourne University initiated the Fred Walker Prize for Postgraduate Chemistry. Yeah, cool.

Is that still exists? Anyone know? Doesn't matter. It's almost like you could have looked that up. I mean, we all could have looked it up, Jess. Yeah, I know. You're right. I feel like an idiot now.

That's all I wanted. And the prize goes to the best new sticky black breakfast Don't put that on me. You're right. I feel like an idiot now. That's all I wanted. And the prize goes to the best new sticky black breakfast substance is that. Yeah, cool. Nice. Try and beat Veggie Mike. We bloody dare you. You never will.

And then Promo to Rides. But Katie is cheering. One person likes it. I like it too, Katie, but don't tell anyone. If you don't know much about Vegemite, according to Wikipedia, this mainly for probably most people here would understand what it is, but people listening overseas might not, a comment, this is what it says on Wikipedia. It's a real beginner's guide.

A common way of eating Vegemite is on toasted bread with a layer of butter or margarine. Only a small amount of vegemite is required due to its strong flavour. Not true, not true, go nuts. Much as you want. A vegemite sandwich may consist of two slices of buttered bread, vegemite and cheese. Is there a little hyperlink for sandwich and you think we've got sandwich? If you don't know what it is. Inventory in 1807 by Sir William Sandwich.

That is true isn't it? It's someone like that. Earl of Sandwich. Earl of Sandwich, not William, Jesse Idiot. So it's two in a minute. Should I go on time out now? No, please don't. So a Vegemite sandwich may consist of two, may not necessarily not necessarily. Two slices of butter bread, vagimart and cheese, but

other ingredients such as lettuce, avocado and tomato can be added as well. It's really up to you. Thanks Wikipedia, thanks for your permission to add extra condiments to my sandwich Wikipedia. And now they're right, the very valuable resource. It's great. Oh yeah, if you don't know, Wikipedia is like an online website, which you can go, if you've got a computer, you can go on there. And there's still lots of information on different things. So that'd be one of my hottest tips.

Check it out. Yeah. In 1936, the Electric Toaster is a new feature of Australian kitchens. Wow, and do you have the Wikipedia entry for electric toaster open there? No, I don't, sorry. But on the Vegemite website, it said, kicking off the iconic combo of Vegemite on toast. Can you name a more iconic duo? Oh, wait.

Sunny and Cher. That's very iconic. Thank you. That's very iconic. Thank you. That's very good, actually. All right, you win this round. In 1937, things were turning around for Vegemart. They launched a Limerick competition with big prizes. That's the turning point.

According to Vegemart website, this is a big turning point. That Limerick competition, which included prizes like Pontiac Cars, and it got a lot of buzz and led to increased sales. Unfortunately, the winning limerick has been lost to history, but Dave... ...they've earned record keepers ever. Dave, I reckon you could come up with one now. Oh!

...Bedramant limerick. If it helps, vegetables are very popular in man-tuckets. It helps at all. Okay. There's a first line sort of to it. There once was a disgusting spread. I put it on bread. What rhymes with sandwich?

Bandwits, there we go. Perfect. Obviously. You can put it on a sandwich. Wikiipedia that if you have the bandwidth. But before I ate it, I'd rather be dead. You would never guess that Matt asked me to write that two hours ago. That's acting, that is acting.

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Go to bombas.com slash eCAST and use code eCAST for 20% off your first purchase. Also in 1937, Vegemite gets or got an official product endorsement from the British Medical Association. This means that the spread could be advertised in the British Medical Association. This means that the spread could be advertised in the British Medical Journal. And according to Veggie Mart's website, this led to medical professionals and baby care experts

recommending Veggie Mart's spread as a vitamin B rich, nutritionally balanced food for their patients. Leachers are out. Veggie Mart's in. And... In World War II, Australia's military bought Vegemite and bulk to include in soldiers' rations. There's some kerfuffle outside. Pop down! Wait, time to paint your mind in here! It's Australia! Unbelievable! Bitterspect! I'm so sorry. I bet they're Marmite people.

Fun stuff for the people at home, no doubt. In World War II, Australia's military bought Vegemite and bulk to include in soldiers' rations due to the nutritional values. They started to put out ads asking consumers to only buy Vegemite if they really need it. What a powerful move for a company. We know you're everyone wants it,

but unless you're sick or going to war, really leave it to people. You know, sometimes you've had but unless you're sick or going to war, really leave it to people. You know, sometimes you've had a jar of vegomite in your pantry for like eight to ten years, and you still haven't finished it. Well, don't buy anymore. Okay. After the war, when supply was back up and the baby boom was on, Vegomite was in nine out of 10 Australian homes. You may kind of make that sound like people are using

Fedgermite as a loo. Yeah, we're talking about a while ago. There was loo technology had not come on. Weirdly I'm back on board now. So like one of their homes didn't have Fedgermite in it, but they were remaining nine investment properties. Did have homes didn't have Benjamin in it, but their remaining nine investment properties Did have Benjamin in it. Now good for them!

Good for them! That's a very good one. And the bad boomers! Got them. Any boomers in? Any boomers in tonight? Good. We don't really appeal to boomers to you all this.

Most like us, they don't know what podcasts are. We definitely have Boomer listeners. My parents. Yes. Yeah, for example, Josh Frydenberg. Yeah, big fan. Not anymore. No, he is Gen X as that guy.

Yes. Well, he has the hairline of the baby Boomer, but anyway. I mean, you sit there with your hair hat. Whole iron money. I feel real good. In 1952, the US company Kraft bought out the Australian share of Kraft Walker Cheese Company, meaning Kraft Walker Cheese Company was no more. They changed their name to Kraft Foods limited. So way back in 1952

Vegemite became holy American owned. I thought I was more recent than that. Brian the American in the front row gave a real sad round of applause for that. In 1952 everyone else get him. In 1954 the iconic happy little Vegemite's jingle is aired as a radio ad and two years later when television came to Australia the jingle turned into a TV commercial. The ad featured eight smiling children singing the jingle. Do you remember it? I remember the first couple. You guys, you know it.

Sorry, everyone, so I've speaking on your behalf and saying, will help. I love how a palpable tension has gone through the roof. We're happy, little Benjamin says, Brutus, Brigha B. We always love Benjamin, my far breakfast like I T. We're going to the movies. I'm a bitch, I'm a fucking breakfast like a tea I'm a bitch, I'm a fucking breakfast like a tea I can't, I can't, I can't, yeah

I just can't, yeah All right guys now let's take it for verse 2! The Nathan Ray and Silent Cross and all the Shines and Shines! Do you understand what I'm talking about there? Yeah, second verse of the National Anthem, which none of us know. They just do the one and we're like, that'll do, don't worry about the rest. So the jingle obviously just wasn't around in 1954. She knows it because they remastered and added again in the late 80s

and then on and off between 1991 and 2010. I was alive then. And in 2007 a nationwide search was conducted to find the 8 kids to recreate the original ad for its 50th year anniversary. Unfortunately they were all dead. That is not true, that's all. It was funny when it was true, wasn't it? So, you know, I understand why you're with it.

That's all. It's not hilarious, Betjimart related to Mr. All of them. They always say it's all. It's a curse to the Vegemite. But there was so bad at keeping records, no one knew. Now they were also alive and they re-created the ad. And that ad campaign ended up winning the Arts Entertainment and Media campaign of the Year award

at the November 2007 Asia Pacific PR awards. Wow, that's fantastic. Wow. Wow. The Asia Pacific PR. Wow, so good. Red report, that's fantastic. Wow, that's good. Wow. The Asia Pacific PR award. That's right, it's the whole region. It's the whole region. I'm higher on it. I mean, that takes in all the ads in Australia, New Zealand,

Fiji, Tonga. Yeah. Wow. LAUGHTER Wait, it's sound like you're being sarcastic. LAUGHTER Asia as well. LAUGHTER I only got the Pacific part, but also Asia. Where's the sound of all your being sarcastic? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha So this goes on Singapore. Oh, yeah. Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur, which is in Malaysia.

Malaysia, customer in Thailand. Which will be there soon. I can only say Kuala Lumpur like the B-man in the system. The Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur when it takes over the newsreading, anyway. Well, there's a Simpson's reference to the episode, well done. APPLAUSE

Qualum, qualum. France. It's good stuff. It is good stuff. In April 1984, a jar of edgermite was written into history as the first product in Australia to be electronically scandered at checkout. I mean, if you applauded the Asia Awards, you've got to applaud that as well. That is the...

That you have. Wow. They did it. The name of that checkout chick has been lost to his... LAUGHTER In 2008, the billionth jar of Vegemite was produced. Billionth. That seems like a lot, right? Billionth with a B.

Yes. Whoa. That's hate. Just as spelling has come a long way. And my maths. Put it in a sentence. Billion is a big number. Thank you so much.

They've tried to make many spin-off products over the years, mostly with limited success. In the 90s, craft released a mashup of their two most iconic products, Vegemite and Craft Singles. You remember for me, Craft Singles are they international? Yeah. So they're the plastic cheese, slices. So they infuse Vegemite into that cheese. Well, they're both gross, so maybe put them together?

I don't know. I have an arm of craft singles, Eric. You'd stick to things like a... You know? But, well, delicious. The product proved to be unpopular. You're doing a lot of mime stuff for a podcast. Yeah, for the people at home,

I've been mining the whole show. And they were soon deleted. They did not catch on. They were deleted. Yeah, they were deleted line. That's a storytelling girl, I thought. Have you ever walked into a show? Have you ever worked on a stony life?

Not true. Yeah, that's on a stainy life. Not true. That's why I vote liberal. The name of the creator of IceNack 2.0 was deliberately deleted from history. Is that true? You work into a show and go, Hi, I'm just looking for the T-shirt I've seen online. We know that has been deleted from our right Deleted from the line. This is like Tony Abbott when he saw that book library

And I just want to say this is an amazing invention That is a spot on Tony Abbott Is no elected politician safe from you? I'll take you all down. I'm impressed with you. Is no elected politician safe from you this time? So I don't want to get it. I'll take you all down. I'm coming for you next Bill Shorten. Oh.

OK, let's see what he's got. Yeah, yeah, what do you sound like? He sounds a bit like this. Hi, everyone. I'm Bill Shorten. I'm 33 years old. He does not look good for his age Name a politician and I'll take him down. I know I'm made one this already Adolf Hitler

This should be an easy one to be honest. Yeah, that's so easy. You can do this. You can do this Hello, have you got anything bad to say about Hitler? Hello, my name is Adolf Hitler and if I was still alive, I'd be 133. That is a brutal take down. You can take that. Pop that. I forgot we weren't doing that anymore, but I actually just thought who's the most politician you can think of forgetting that you have a history but I've now made it worse for sure

this will not make the episode that goes out oh dear sorry Dave in advance and you know now as well I guess thank you thank you so much in 2015 they collaborated with Cabri to release a Vegemite flavoured block of chocolate. I never had that, I feel like I missed out. You did. I didn't apparently. The audience collectively stood up and said, no you didn't. Feedback was mixed. The Guardian was pretty brutal in their review saying, it doesn't resemble the beautiful tangy salty gloriousness of Vegemite spread on hot butter

toast. Instead it tastes like looking at a plate where Vegemite spread on hot butter toast. Instead, it tastes like looking a plate where Vegemite was smeared many months ago. Then left in the sink to fester. How do you know what that tastes like? Genose of the Guardian, you know, they do their research. Do your dishes more frequently? In 2009, this is probably the more iconic one that

Mace was alluded to. 2009, a new Vegemite product was released, a spreadable mixture of cream cheese and Vegemite. And as they did with the initial product, they opened a competition for the public to name the product. At the AFL Grand Final that year which I attended, it was announced that the winning name, as chosen by a panel of marketing experts, was ISNAC 2.0. Marketing experts. Supposedly they were trying to capitalize on the popularity of Apple iPods and iPhones. What year was it?

2009. What year was it 2009? Oh, I've got an ooft. So can we hear that one more time this time? The year 2009 got an ooft. Yeah, there's a sexy year. Saints won the first 17 games in a row that year and still lost the year. Wow. This name was mercilessly mocked online. According to a city, Morning Herald article from the time, it was given the collective thumbs down by consumers,

becoming the second most talked about topic on Twitter within 24 hours of the announcement, and spawning Facebook hate groups, bloats, and prompting a ton of online vile. Was anyone remember one of those Facebook hate groups? Imagine starting a blog about it. Go outside. Watch it, do anything else. Who cares? Book tickets to the Coastal Millie podcast. Yeah, do that. You know, anything else. LAUGHTER

Carl asked me before the show to mention it as many times I could. LAUGHTER You are nailing it. And really sneaking it in there, too. You're really coming across as a marketing expert. Yeah. It's subliminal messaging. They'll leave.

Have you considered naming a gross thing? It's marketing expert. Here you get a nice one. That'll go as well in the edit, don't everybody. I don't know about my jokes or your jokes. Oh, good. Karl, by the way, is the guy who hosted the Dumb Dumb Club. I forget I'm just saying people's names like,

do you know anyone? And it doesn't matter. All right. Thinking, I think back to 2009, I'm like, that was nothing's really changed since then, but reading that article, I was like, oh was nothing's really changed since then, but reading that article, I was like, oh no, it's changed a little bit, it sounds a bit dated. The article goes onto a quote, a website called epicfailstore.com.

And the founder Matthew Morrison's, and Matthew Morrison's said, I saw the announcement on Saturday when I was watching the AFL. And from then I've been watching cyber space go nuts. Go outside. Yeah. Read a book. Talk to a human. I'm caught in a traffic jam on the information super highway,

because it's a fetching light. It goes, it's unanimous. People hate it. It's definitely an epic fail. And then there's like a little flashy red light. It's like an epic fail. And a stamp. When Kanye West's old Taylor Swift moment of the VW VMA, I thought this is going to be big.

But I think at least on Aussie soil, I think at 2.0, we'll take over as the biggest blunder of 2009. That was his prediction. So sad. He said all this wearing an Ed Hardy T-shirt. While boom, boom, power by the black-eyed peas played in the background. I assume. He's so 3, 3000 and late.

Best lyric, best lyric, tell you. Jarls of Ice and Act 2.0 hit the shelves, but a renaming was swiftly organised with an online poll determining the new name. Cheesy bite one with around a third of the vote beating out second place, Veggie Mild and creamy mate. LAUGHTER He passes some of that creamy mate? With pleasure.

Did you know that's actually, that was an old Veggie Might slogan. Before our time apparently it was, past me the Veggie Might mum. It was close to that. I thought you were referencing... Past me the creamy mate mum. What have we done? The original ISNAC 2.0 jars were, they went out to market. They were quite a few of them.

And I looked at... Sorry. It's like when a family dog dies, and they say, we've had to put it out. It's gone. It's gone out of the farm. We've had to delete your dog. It's gone. It's gone out of the thumb. We've had to delete your dog. Yeah. So we'll write, put it out on in the line anymore.

That means all the jars have been crushed in landfill somewhere. But they, they, they, they were somewhere to market. And I saw one on eBay last month for 99 bucks. And you bought it? Yeah. And it's here today. I would have actually supported that purchase

I would not have happy as have you ever had I snag 2.0 No, I have had a creamy Creamy my dear, that's another story Over the years, oh hang on, Mr. Paragraph here, this is all good stuff. Mr. Paragraph. That's my father's life. Vegemite also caught a controversy in 2007 when it was reported by the ancient newspaper that Vegemite had been banned in Victorian prisons. This is quoting from the article,

Vectoria is off the menu for Vectoria's 4,200 prisoners because of fears they could use Australia's favourite breakfast spread to make booze. Authorities have cracked down on the dark spread because prisoners have discovered ways to refine Vectoria which has a high yeast content to brew alcohol. Authorities first cracked down on the breakfast spread in the late 90s, but there are concerns that home brew is still being made inside prisons, particularly in the lead up to Christmas. But a Grinch, hey? The Grinch, huh?

Yeah, right? It's a festive time for all. The Department of Justice said Vegemite was banned because prisoners have been known to extract the yeast. The extraction process involves melting Vegemite and using the yeast to ferment sugar and carbohydrates into alcohol. Apparently this is scientifically very almost impossible. I think it a lot of time on their hands. And Bunsen Burners. Because all the yeast in Vegemite is dead, so they have to...

Yeah, it sounds like it's unnecessary in the prisons of just being idiots. That's to get like a witch doctor into it. But if you smear yourself in creamy mite, you're smooth enough to slip through the bars, so they banned that as well. That's true, yeah. That one is true. That's scientifically very easy. That's scientifically very easy. Oh! Oh! Over the years, ownership of Vegemite had been bought and sold by multiple multinational companies, most recently by Mondele's International.

But in 2017, it was announced that Australian Dairy Company Beager would be purchasing most of Mondele's International Australian and New Zealand grocery and cheese businesses, including the Veggie My Brand. In a $460 million acquisition, Begacham and Barry Irvin set at the time, everybody loves cheese and Veggie Myatt and I think that Begacham and Veggie Myatt are just a natural fit. So it's back in Australian hands. Yes! Good! Beger's share price. The main reason why we're talking about the applause from the American and the front-run. Yeah, we got you. Don't even have to give a check. Sorry, sorry, my but it's an out-of-date dog. Bigger's share price immediately jumped 12%.

On the Wikipedia page, this is, I think it's the end note. It's not quite. Bigger and Veggie might also form the Bigger and Veggie might cinematic universe. On the Wikipedia page, this I think is a stand-up, it's not quite alright. Beager and Veggie might also form the Beager and Veggie might cinematic universe. Have you ever got a franchise coming out in a couple of years? She's armed. They have on the Wikipedia page they also have a section titled Veggie might in popular culture, which is a podcast I'm going to start. Vegemite would have been the silliest podcast you've ever started.

He's talking about Prime mates, yeah. That's what I think. I thought I was talking about grab a travel, the podcast I'd have had a Nick Kappa for three episodes, about six years ago, where we grabbed a beer, and we talked about travels anyway. No, that's a good concept. At least multiple songs, the reference to the spread, including men at works,

unofficial Australian anthem, down under with the verse, buying bread from a man in Brussels, he was six foot four and full of muscles. I said, do you speak of my language? He just smiled and gave me a vegmite sandwich. And then I speak to this German in his native language. And he said, I come from a land down under where beer does flow in men's chunder.

Can you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover. I never knew those looks for. So it sounds like the songs are warning about guys vomiting. What? What are you singing previously? What do you mean you didn't know these lyrics? Mhmmm, mhmmm, mhmmm, mhmmm.

Mhmmm, mhmmm, mhmmm. To be fair, that's probably how I sing. I didn't realize the beer does flow in men's chunder. Better run, better take cover. Tundra. From chunder. Alright. No, one of that's a national song. We love the...

And we love chunder! Are you the second verse to... Which one I'm going to. Yes. How's it going again? We don't have time. Be neither. Yes, I think we'll talk with heart and hands to make this common. Well the best we've got

through all the land. You're kind of destroying the idea that we don't know it. Come across the sea with countless planes to ship! That's a lie! Come on in, everyone! Except you! That's why we don't sing the second verse. Yeah, it's a delay. Ah. Vegemite is also referenced in John Williamson's unofficial Australian anthem True Blue.

True Blue, in this case, referring to things that are authentically Australian. That's what he's going through. The phrase, of course, originating in Britain. Williamson, your bloody drone go? Williamson later re-released the song eliminating the reference to Vegemite when he realized it was American owned. Oh, I love that, I love that. The article also references a few occasions, I'll finish with these, a few occasions where

Australians fed Vegemite to Americans, including when Julia Gillard gave American President Barack Obama a taste in 2011. Obama described a taste as horrible. Gillard tried to explain it and then Obama tried to sum up the description saying, so it's like a quasi vegetable byproduct paste that you smear on your toast of breakfast. Sounds good, doesn't it? Yes, Barry, it sounds bloody delicious. God bless Australia. Do people call him Barry? Yes. His friends. Well I think of myself as well.

American TV presenter and comedian Steve Harvey was given a jar of edgimite by an Australian audience memory 2013. he had a taste and said, Fedger might sounds like pesticide. That's about damn near what it tastes like. That's not the ideal finish. I do have two fun facts here. They're more facts than fun, but I'll read them quickly. Oh, it just can tell you they're fun.

They're from TwistedHistory.net.au. Vegemite recently sold out in Hong Kong supermarkets due to its high demand. Apparently, the demand for Vegemite stems from the black spread being rated as umami. A Japanese word that literally evokes a fifth sense of utmost deliciousness. The Japanese have also renamed Vegemite

bejumato. Now that's a Sheila. You've done it again. Come on finish on that, Oregon. I think they got Bermatch, Stuart and Vegemite. Yeah. Before we go, I've got a couple of quick announcements. Someone dropped their tickets to Magma for tonight on those stairs. If you did, come and talk to me. She's someone's not only up to that.

It's a very good show. It's a good show, you should go see the first. What else do we do to finish? We should probably tell them, this is the last Melbourne Comedy Festival show we're doing here for the year, so thank you so much for coming out. A guy that has two shows left only here at the Melbourne Comedy Festival is Matt Schubert. That's right, it's called Bone Dry. If you haven't seen it, it's a lot of good fun.

And it's getting, if you have seen it before, it's better now. And it's on two last nights, it's seven o'clock tonight, six o'clock tomorrow night at Chinese Museum. It'd be great to see you there. And what else do we say? And thanks so much for coming on Nick Mason. What a pleasure to be around, Vapples.

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Oh, you're so much. You're talking about primates? What was the travely one again? Now that's a good idea. We never release it, I'll put them out. Yeah put them out. No, but I'm going to say. What are we sorry I fucked that up again. What are we? Well we got to say a big thank you to everyone that's helped us put these last four shows together. We're going to take a whole year on sound. Thank you so much. You're a great job. You had Bianca helping you start on the door. I think it's been a great guy as well. It's he shows the stuff.

Talia, did you fake it? Talia on the door as well, thank you so much. Pat and Steph on the cameras. Thank you. I'm Edemann, CalChamp, who organized this in the European beer cafe. Thank you very much. I ate in sooner bit of help with the merch, you know.

If you want to, Instagram and say hello, head downstairs and we'll be out there shortly. If you want to grab a t-shirt, it's your last chance to grab one in Melbourne. So we'll have them somewhere up the back. But here at the back stairs, head downstairs and we'll catch up with you downstairs. And the Saints play at 4.35. It's on the TV downstairs. Do you want to watch it with me?

Well, that is the end of it. I guess we'll say we'll see you in Cosamooie. We'll be right back. Bye. Thank you. APPLAUSE And I'm back. And I'm recording this in my car inside my garage, so I don't wake anyone else up.

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on the show. Now, there's not many people in this group, so that means you get a lot of shout-outs really and shout-out right now to a man that if Jess and Matt were here we would say, oh Mr. Justin McCain, a blazer silly game. Justin McCain, have you worked out what that means yet? Have you looked up Peter Coom? The children's entertainer from the 80s and 90s in Australia, what an absolute legend, but Mr. Justin McCain, you are also a legend and you've given me quite a title

to read out this week. So I hopefully, I don't disrespect you by mispronouncing any of these, but you are clearly a very unaccomplished person and very unaccomplished person. I don't have all the degrees that you do and I'm going to read them out now. We've got Justin McCain who is known as Lord Dr. Sir Justin McCain, the ninth Esquire, OBE, OBGYN, KGB, PhD, the 15th Earl of Warwickshire. Justin, you've done it again. And Justin's actually opted to give us a fact, which I love when people give us a fact, and usually Matt reads these out, and he doesn't fact check them. And neither of us are this weak.

So Justin, would you fact check an OB, OBGYN, KGB, PhD, Earl, who's also a law doctor and a sir? I don't think so, it would be offensive. So Justin's fact is, there are approximately 8 times 10 to the power of 68 ways to shuffle a deck of cards. So to put that into perspective he said that's 8 with 68 zeros behind it. This means if you make a new shuffle every second, from the dawn of time, dawn of time, dawn of dawn of time, the car, maybe the engine engines on and I'm slowly getting fumes in the small garage. I don't know Let me read that again

This means if you make a new shuffle every second from the dawn of time until this second you'd be about a billionth of the way complete Well, I can't tell if that is hyperbole or if that is really a billionth Because hyperbole has no place in mathematics Justin McCain. We know that so I'm sure that that is true crazy Absolutely crazy. I'm gonna start now Right four shuffles And give it up. Thank you Justin now. I'm gonna thank three patron supporters this week People that support the show and usually we give them a little shout out, and then also a little game that just comes out with it often, but just because it's a little odd me this week, and because we talked

about Veggie Might this week, on the episode, I've Googled Weird Veggie Might Recipes, and I'm going to challenge each of these people to give these recipes a go. Which is going to be hard because we do this in order of when people pledge and so we just get the names at random, we're not a random, you know, it's in an order but we get the names and we put them in and all three of these people are from overseas. So I can't even guarantee that they have ever tried vege might or have access to it but still I'm throwing the challenge down. And now I would like to thank, first of all, from Alaska in the United States of America. A lot of supporters over in America, not many from Alaska, so thank you so much.

And I would like to thank Rawsa Spicer, which to be honest sounds like a dish you could make with Vegemite, the Rawsa Spicer. Thank you Rawsa, we appreciate your support. And I'm going to throw down and challenge you to cook with your veggie mite. This is a Founder Buzzfeed article of veggie mites Vegetables and then it took you to different websites and I would like to challenge you to cook swordfish With veggie mite and walnut pesto

Mmm It says you need one tablespoon of vegggie Might and six swordfish steaks, which I looked it up for you also if you think that sounds expensive. It is a little bit. According to seafood website, AlaskanHavus.com that will cost you $65.50 just for the steaks. But hey, splash out, to be honest, to ship Veggie Mart to where you are, it will probably also cost about 65, 50 just to get a single bit of Veggie Mart. So thank you to Ross Spicer, good luck with the swordfish. Now I'd like to thank and throw down the challenge

now to someone from Sacramento in California. Beth Richardson, Beth have you ever tried Veggie Mart. I'd actually love to know after that episode what our overseas listeners think of Veggie Mite. So if anyone wants to get in contact, please let us know what you think of Veggie Mite. For a Sacramento, California, Beth Richardson, I'm challenging you to cook a Veggie Mite Cheesecake. And you're much of a baker, Beth.

It says it will take you two hours and 10 minutes to make and bake. And you are instructed to use two teaspoons of veggie mite, but it says it will be a subtle taste. If you want a stronger taste, add more. My tip to you, Beth, as an Australian who's not a big veggie mite eater, do not add more, especially on your first go around. So thanks, Beth. Good luck with your cake cake and I would find the luck to thank. Also from overseas, but from a different continent now from Great Britain in Bedfordshire, Dean Walker. Is there a weird Aussie shop or something you might be able to get Vegemite over there?

Maybe it is more common than we think. But I'm doubting it, let me know. I would like to thank Dean Walker and I'm'm challenging you to cook Veggie Might Gennash Canoli with avocado ice cream and coffee. Wow. Let's just go through that again. Veggie Might Gennash Canoli with avocado ice cream and coffee. Now the author of the blog that posted this recipe,ennpy.net, the PI.net, says,

the dessert played on the flavors of avocado, veggie, mart, and toast. Three ingredients, which are one of my favorite ways to start the morning. How I came about the idea of incorporating them into a dessert is a bit long-winded and would probably require a flow chart to accurately retail.

So I'm not going to. We appreciate your brevity that the 11bot.net. So thank you to Dean Walker-Beth Richardson, Rossis Picer. If you or anyone at home decides to make any of these recipes, please send us a photo. That would be absolutely amazing. If you have any ideas of your own strange ways to eat veggies, please get in contact. And if you want to get in contact about anything, it's all the details that are on our website, dogoonpod.com, it's dogoonpod.gmail.com, and then app dogoonpod.

And all the social medias is a link below in the description of the episode two, all of these things. So yeah, thanks again to everyone who supports the show, gives us reviews on our tunes, that kind of stuff. It all adds up and all means a lot and keeps the show going so yeah we appreciate that we'll be back next week with another in studio episode but until then I'll say thank you so much for listening and I will say goodbye

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