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Can "Y"ou Believe It´s Friday Again?
We ran out of bread for work yesterday. For one day you don´t buy new one, right?
So we took toast we still had.
Like... we toasted it lightly. On Thursday night.

I did that in spring 2006 once before.
Yeah, I mean... tasty is different, right? Ole toasted white-bread, yikes!
I did it on purpose, too!
Why?
We´d just booked a flight to... yep. Perth.
So in my lunch-break I was surfing Perth-news and learned that the ice-cream of the year was ... ta-daaa: Vegemite-Ice-Cream.
My then-teamleader came over and asked what I´m doing there?
What is Vegemite???
He ordered it via amazon that day, called me when it had arrived and asked me to prepare:
Toast, untoasted and toasted for giving it a try – we have no toaster at work.

Yes. I´ve travelled Australia 6 months in '95 and 7 months in '99, but I never tried Vegemite. For a reason, maybe (sorry, guys!)...

So... we met in the office with the ingredients... I brought butter, too.

Toasted, untoasted, both with and without butter...
Ewwwww.
No one wanted to join us.
Back home I had German "Zwiebelbrot", it´s so yummy. Sounds weird, onions in bread, but, well, think of Elsässer Flammkuchen, huh?
I can say... it was "eatable".

We seriously thought something had happened on the way to Germany with that Vegemite maybe?

When we arrived in Perth, Ingo and I, after a night at the airport we went to Maccas right beside Kingsaway Tourist Park.
And - very tired - I saw they had Vegemite in small portions for Brekkie.
I quickly forgot about it.
We bought a glass of Vegemite (proven in pic) and found out: … Nothing was wrong with the one my then-teamleader had ordered.
Guess you have to grow up with it, right from the start, or your tastebuds just refuse! ;-)

Yep, that´s Christmas. Dunno if 2006 was especially hot - we stayed in our cabin (no air-con) anyways, Transperth was tricky those days.
We watched "Back to the Future II" and were not hungry at all, but you have to eat, right?
So, in the ad-break I went to Maccas to get two Cheeseburgers (with cheddar-cheese!!! You lucky guys!!!).
And asked for one sample of Vegemite.
Short version here.

I explained my wish, a sample for my then-teamleader in a land of no Vegemite, and it was granted by the female staff at hand.
The male staff saw it and stated Vegemite is given for brekkie only, so I repeated my story.
He smiled big (poor fella who had to work on Christmas day!) and said, no!, went away and came back with a whole bag full of Vegemite :-)

Which his female, strict teamleader saw… yep, I told the story yet again and no, the guys behind me didn´t get angry in the longer getting queue – there were British tourists among them and I accidentially started a huge discussion on Vegemite vs Marmite – we all had fun :-)

The guy had suggested to make a mobile out of those, which sure we (well Ingo, of course!) did – the sun sadly did his job (argh, this kinda hurts writing, in German the sun is female, the moon is male) – hmmm… will I go over and ask for new samples? ;-)

Though, actually, as I wanted to take a pic of the other 12 (he gave us 25, one was for then-teamleader) I saw Ingo had put an instruction over the vegemite and hence they look brand new (just... they smell!)-
I´ll print out the pics and bring them over in November :-)

Yes. They´ve travelled from Perth to Rhüden, to Braunschweig Bültenweg, Karlstrasse and now to this home! As a mobile - Ingo did a good job, no? :-)



But please ... don´t smile at me and give me a vegemite sandwich ;-)
Oh, great, the song is right there again, no?
Happy Friday, off to the city now!