VEGEMITE || Illegal in USA

[Wolfeona The Wise]

Ok, I love my country most of the time, when i m not working that is. The rest of the time, well the people here get on my nerves. They should learn to read the signs that business post for them. i mean i am a very busier person when I’m at work and that work could be cut in half if the idiots didn’t ask so many stupid a** questions, im always walking over to the stupid sign and points to it as I explain the words to them.  

[gosoph]

DNA_Guru

Oh no it's much more serious than that. It causes Cancer. :B

ahuh?!? yes well if it causes cancer..why can we eat it here in aus?  

[dark mousy 1]

as they said it doesnt cause cancer its lack of folates that have the adverse affects
and i just wanna say go vegimite the stuff is good with melted cheese on toast  

[nrasjaa]

xenophobic americans  

[wolf_blade123]

I bet it's just cuz george bush doesnt like the taste...

well i dont like the taste either but i wouldn't ban it  

[Lenre Li]

DNA_Guru

Yeah, maybe they should. And Alcohol, that might increase the average IQ to 2. o.o

Well said. 3nodding

I quite like vegemite sometimes, but only George Bush 'ere would be stupid enough to contraband something because of artificial folate in their terms... whatever. XD

... Yes... sweatdrop  

[Lady Dao]

*lol* I've only just read this thread, and I must say if there was ever the slightest chance of it being illegal to take vegemite to the states then their security system wasn't working real well. Openly admitted to having vegemite with me when I went over there (not a fan of the stuff myself, took it for an expat who misses it). I'd never head any of this before. But seriously, to ban vegemite? It would only be laughable.
Oh, and just a note on the milo (I saw it mentioned somewhere). You can buy it over there, but it's not the same. Label looks the same and such, but it tastes different and comes from Mexico, not here.  

[babalonsatene]

Yum, I love it  

[Beautiful Grotesque]

Yay for diesel on toast! lol

 

[CrayolaxFairy]

we should totally smuggle i n2489021489024 jars & sell it on the blaQ market . ;]

 

[iKillCaustic]

My aunty lives in America and says that apart from missing us (her family) she misses Vegimite the most.  

[Lily Lupus]

I'm not sure if this was posted:

"The "banning" of Vegemite in the U.S.

In October 2006, the Melbourne newspaper, the Herald Sun incorrectly reported that Vegemite had been banned in the United States, and that the U.S. Customs Service had gone so far as to search Australians entering the country for Vegemite. The origin of the story appears to have been an anecdote from a traveller who claimed to have been searched, and a spokesperson for Kraft Foods who made a misinformed comment to reporters. The story led to some anti-American comments in blogs and newspapers. The Herald Sun blamed the U.S. President for the ban, and encouraged readers to post comments on its website and send emails to the White House.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration later stated that although it is technically illegal in the U.S. to add folate to food products other than bread or cereal, there were no plans to investigate whether Vegemite contains folate, to subject it to an import ban, or to have it withdrawn from U.S. supermarket shelves. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection also tried to dispel the rumour, stating on its website that "there is no known prohibition on the importation of Vegemite" and "there is no official policy within CBP targeting Vegemite for interception".[1] The story of the "ban" later took on the status of urban legend.[2] While Vegemite has never been abundant in the U.S., it can still be purchased at some stores that stock imported foods.[3]"

Vegemite  

[scruffy012]

lol that just kills the fun then, ey?

also the cancer thing, speaking as a chemist, everything is carcinagenic/takes part in teh metabolic pathway to produce cancer/ or is a precursor for somehting that is carcinagenic...

it's for the lols  

[scruffy012]

and ohh for more lols, the black charcoal part of burnt toast is moderately/highly carcinagenic, but the "concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons" (or [PAH] for shorthand) is low... well not enough to metabolise into your body, producing enough very toxic metabolites to have a substantial effect....

Think of it as AIDS, where you need to drink almost a litre of contaminated saliva to get enough virus to contract it...

there ya go a education lesson for today.... pretty much 2-3 weeks of last semesters course work summed up into 2 paras...  

[Kireshai]

Vegemite made in the US is gross. It's awful and sweet.