Posted on 08/09/2015 6:15:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The key is whether it is causing a problem or not. Vegemite is currently causing a problem in some communities, which is why this issue has come up. Nobody is claiming at the moment that general access to grains or sugar or anything like that is a problem.
This is very unlikely to happen anyway but if it did it would be because the local authorities (the elders of particular Aboriginal communities in essence) had identified a specific problem which they thought a ban would help with, and they asked the government to take action to help them enforce such a ban. It’s not a blunt instrument approach, it’s targeted based on the problems that are occurring, not problems that theoretically might occur in the future.
It's dominant flavour is salt. I hate it myself - six years in an Australian boarding school will do that to you :) - but it's quite a strong taste, and most people say it should be used in very small amounts because of that.
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These communities impose the bans themselves. It’s not imposed on them by anybody else.
I certainly did not say it was.
I simply said that the prohibitive approach is as is plainly obvious doomed to failure.
Prohibition in this country was a choice made by the people of the United States at large and was a catastrophic failure that reverberates through this country to this day.
Prohibition can not work as I said before because people can and will find paths to that which they desire. I don’t care what obstacles you put in the way or punishments you inflict, people will get what they want.
And there will be unintended consequences. People will be poisoned by either their own moonshine or that which they buy on the black market. If they can’t get alcohol they will get more dangerous drugs.
There is no upside to prohibition.
She means SOMETHING, not SOMEWHAT. An all-too-common error.
Vegemite is NOT the Australian Marmite. Marmite contains meat products; Vegemite does not. They’re both brown and creamy. The similarities end there.
Inmates can make pruno and hooch in a jail cell. “Youths” are sure gonna make booze with or without veggimite.
I didn’t find it so bad either. I had some at a friend’s engagement party. She married a Kiwi and had toast points win Vegemite on them as a snack.
Now I’d like to try Marmite someday. Is that slightly better?
Time to invest!
According to post 69, Marmite has meat in it. I’ve never had it. My sister-in-law is English; maybe I’ll remember to ask her next time I see her.
Mmmmm, tomato beer.
I have made beer many times, but never that flavor.
There is a Lithuanian beer called Kvass. It is made by tearing up old, stale rye bread and then fermenting with sugar it as you would for beer.
Guess what? The final product tastes like beer with rye bread in it.
(from Chicago) - I’ve heard of them doing it when I was there. Aboriginals are very susceptible to alcohol dependency just like our natives. They can make a pretty violent form of vodka out of water, yeast and sugar or prison brew. Duzzin matta, they’ll make it.
Actually viewing the two side by side Marmite is black while Vegemite is a very dark brown in colour.
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