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This started as a blog about living abroad for 7 months, but the reality of getting a job has me talking about other topics while in between countries. (Above photo taken on return trip from Mexico, 2008. Looks like castles in the sky.)

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Vegemite


Vegemite on toast. That's how almost everyone in Australia eats it. I have a British friend who had it on her breakfast table and I had to try it. Before she could tell me how to eat it, I dipped a knife into the tub and licked it. Pure salty, fermented-tasting yuckiness. I couldn't believe so many people love it. They eat it with cream cheese, with tomato, on toast, three times a day. But to me, a person obviously not raised on Vegemite, it tasted like gummy, resiny, yeasty, pasty bullion nastiness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite

Similarly weird? Soursop, aka Graviola
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/images/Plate10.jpg

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