xen opened this issue on Nov 28, 2005 ยท 35 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 28 November 2005 at 5:45 PM
Some Aussie friends of mine once showed me a jar of Vegemite. Skippy brand, I think. This was over a couple of decades ago.
The family had brought a couple of jars of Vegemite with them all of the way from Perth. ((The husband had come to the US to attend college.))
The brown stuff inside of the jar was mostly gone. Pretty well scraped out. I didn't get any. :(
My Aussie friend was in his 40's at the time. It was kind of funny....as he stood waiting in a long university registraion line, a couple of young American college girls kept asking him questions -- just so that they could listen to his accent. My Aussie buddy (mate) had red hair, and he was of a naturally florid complexion to begin with -- but he turned bright red as the two cute teenaged girls teased him and giggled at him. Or so the story was related to me by a mutual acquaintance. I never asked him to verify the story. ;)
But I probably should have asked him to teach me how to speak with an Aussie accent.
No thanks on the Vegemite, though. I'll stick with deli meat & cheese.