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Vegemite ban payback for missing Athletes

I think I know the origins of the savage ban on vegemite to the Olympic competitors from Australia. It’s payback for the Commonwealth Games. Payback for those missing athletes.
You heard about the missing athletes of course. Eleven of them. All went missing from their cozy little cabins in the new Commonwealth Games Athletics Village [...]

Posted by: Canny Granny on Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Vegemite Olympic Saga continues

The Chinese Olympics committee may have banned athletes bringing their own chow into the Olympic village, but the Americans are bringing in tonnes of food, which they will eat at a local university outside the Olympic Park.
Australian athletes are meanwhile suffering from vegemite withdrawal and will in all probability come last in their events.
China says [...]

Posted by: Canny Granny on Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Let them eat Vegemite!

Incredibly, the Chinese Government, not content with making a visit to China substantially more complex and unappealing, have placed a ban on Vegemite!
Not just vegemite of course, but muesli bars, weetbix and protein shakes intended for the consumption of our delicately strung sportsmen and women.
Can you believe this? Our athletes will be forced to eat [...]

Posted by: Canny Granny on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008