Posts
Well, no public holiday for me today. I walked past American flags as usual on my way to a class full of Americans (there really are flags everywhere you look here!). I don't actually think I'm missing much, Australia Day is usually just a barbie for me anyway.
But realising what day it was I decided to make some Vegemite sangers to munch on in class. (Luckily this is not one of the things I can't buy here. The corner store, which specialises in exotic foods, stocks it.) One of the other HPS first-years, Larry, has on quite a few occasions seen me eating a Nutella sandwich and demanded, "Is that Vegemite?!" Obviously he has encountered Australians before me but I can't believe any of them could have stomached Vegemite spread as thick as I spread Nutella! With this in mind I made two Vegemite sandwiches and cut them into quarters so I could more easily share them with Larry. Of course he refused but a few other students, who had never tried it before, had a taste. One even claimed she liked it but all the other Americans just assumed she was lying.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
We were thinking of you Nick.
Shame not to be on the veranda cooking on the BBQ - I imagine the weather's not conducive to that.
Isn't Vegemite a strange phenomenon. Everywhere we go we're united by our near complete national taste for this beer barrel waste product. Yummee.
Try with cheese, lettuce, both, alfalfa, etc. Mmm.
Post a Comment