Do Go On - 183 - The History of Vegemite (with Nick Mason)

Episode Date: April 24, 2019

"As Australian as Vegemite on toast" is something that someone probably said at some point. The salty black spread is one of Australia's most iconic food stuffs, but why? And how? Well, listen to this episode to find out!Joined by The Weekly Planet's Nick Mason, this episode was recorded live at the European Bier Cafe for the Melbourne International Comedy FestivalSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Get tickets to our live shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=456263&As well as for Thailand in June: dogoonpod.com/eventsBook tickets to Matt's stand up show (at the Sydney Comedy Festival) with the early bird discount code: dogoon via mattstewartcomedy.com/gigs  Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasSources/Further Reading:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemitehttps://vegemite.com.au/heritage/vegemite-timeline/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/walker-fred-8953https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/australia-food-blog/2015/may/18/vegemite-chocolate-taste-test-is-cadburys-new-block-awesome-or-evilhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-01-19/bega-buys-vegemite-mondelez/8193268https://twistedhistory.net.au/2016/07/06/13-funky-facts-about-vegemite/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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And welcome to another intro to another episode of Dugo One. My name is Dave Warnocky and I'm just here at the start of the show to quickly tell you that this week's episode of Dugo One was recorded live at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with our good friend and fourth beetle Nick Mason. Now this was the fourth and final Melbourne International Comedy Festival show that we did. And we just want to make a huge thank you to everyone who came to all of those shows. They were all packed and we had such a good time, our best year yet, in my opinion. And to all the people that came, people came from overseas, from interstate, locals, people that had season passes and came every week.

It really blew our little mind. So thank you so much for coming along. We really do appreciate that. Now, this is the second of the four that we've released under the main feed. And the other two episodes, we are saving up our sleeves for Patreon bonus episodes. In fact, we've already released one this month in April, and that episode was all about wacky sports stories. And we'll have another one coming out next month as one of our Patreon bonus episodes.

If you want to be able to hear those, you just have to support the show at patreon.com slash do-go-on pod. But until the end of the show where I'll come back and thank a few of our Patreon supporters by name, please enjoy this episode. recorded live at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Melbourne's iconic European beer cafe for a momentous occasion, the second ever live episode of Do Go On. Now, put your hands together and welcome to the show.

Members 1, 2 and 4 of Do Go On, Dave Warnocky, Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello, Melbourne, how you doing out there? All right. There's so many of you. Hello. Hi. Okay, I said there's so many of you and then there was like a hi. Let's try that again.

There's so many of you. It would have been fun if they just said hi. To be honest. They fucked it. You fucked it. It feels great to be here. If everyone got a beer like me, this beer makes me look like a child. Apparently that's a small.

You're a small, Dave. Cheers. I just like how you... It's taking your entire hand to grasp it. Oh, look at that. Two hands. Yeah. I love beer.

Put that down. Why are we delaying it so long? Everyone's here to see one person. It's not us. And that only hurts a little bit. Well, ladies gentlemen, it's time to welcome to the stage. Member number three of this podcast. You might know him from the weekly planet,

but please give it up. for the man, the magic that is Nick Mason. Hello, Mesao. White pants. I think we should address that immediately. It's a bold choice. I walked here from the car with a full bottle of Coke, and I didn't ruin myself.

And you've got diarrhea. I know, right? I'm going to be leaving the stage facing the front. And my Uber's ready to go out the front as well. Hey, guys, thanks for having me. This is very exciting. Hey, thanks for being here. What a time to be alive.

In what way? I don't know. It's the end of the festival. I'm pretty much checked out, to be honest. So everyone have fun. I'll be here if you need. No, it is great to have you here, Mesa, for our biannual live episode with you. It's been two years since we last performed on stage.

I say performed. On stage with you. Thank you. It's fantastic to be here. Was it the Loch Ness Monster was last time? Yeah. Has anyone heard that episode before? What a great performance that was.

Yeah. That was one of our best performances It was the jazz hands It really took it across the line for me I think we were actually sitting in the same order Because you posted a photo yesterday And someone said Some version of ugliest to best looking

Now hang on Hang on I believe it was Who is this one person Are you in the audience? Show yourself, coward Which way is it going? I really did not want to ask that question

I believe it was scariest to least scary looking Oh, same difference. Yeah. How would any of us be scary? Facial hair is scary, apparently. Ah! Can we also address that Matt's got his hat on backwards?

I had a haircut today. Take the hat off. Take the hat off. Take the hat off. Take the hat off. I'm sorry. Take the hat off. It's an audio podcast.

I wouldn't do it to the people at home. I don't want them missing out on anything. Matt's keeping his hat on. I just wanted them to know so that they can... Oh! Looks the same. Looks the same. Looks the same.

No, I reckon they were right with the order from ugly as to least ugly, actually, so... Wait, which order? I'll take two or three. I don't care. That's fine. It's risky over here. It's risky over here.

We're safe in the middle. We're average. Yeah. Yay. Dave, explain. the show. So, well, some of you might know what the show is. Give me a round of applause if you've ever heard the show at all before.

Okay, the other end of the scale here. Now, don't be shy. Who's the ugliest? Oh, no. We have a volunteer. I guess, you're very brave. That was a great stance to take. Who's got herpes.

Don't be shy. Okay, don't be shy. If you've never heard the show before, give us an applause now. You aren't that proud of it It's weird It's weird So he's the ugly Got Herpes

And has never heard the show before Makes sense People who listen to this show Keywood of Herpes You think somebody's staying at home Waiting for test results Would be listening to a lot of podcasts But I guess

I guess not There's a lot of stuff on Netflix Hey and also I want to address the stigma Around herpes We've all got it And we all got it from you Apparently nearly everyone's got it

Apart from people who listen to do go on. So folks, look to your left and look to your right. And if one of those people doesn't have herpes, it's you. But luckily for us, it's Matt. So... Oh. I've always wondered why Matt wanted to replace his upper lip with hair. The answer is herpes.

Oh, you're going to have a face herpes? Yeah. That's very sweet of you. I'm not sure how, but... Let's move on if we can. How many? So this would be official episode number 11 or 10, 9, 8, 7. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Just say something funny.

Yay! We did it. She is that good. Now, if you haven't heard the show before, a few people that haven't. Basically, what we do is we take it in terms of a report on a topic, often suggested by a listener. Usually there's three of us here, but we are very happy to have Nick Mason as a very special guest. here today. When I got here I had in sudden thought this was like 10 minutes before the show

started and I went to Matt and I said am I doing the report today? And I said yes you are here it is. Oh we go that's me every time we record I go am I doing it? And they go yeah I go oh no so every single one of yours

has been off the top of the time yeah that's incredible yeah I'm very good at improv as I demonstrated just before Now, it is Matt's turn to report on a topic this week. And we're really glad you had that laptop because you got the charger back which you left here last week, about two minutes before the show started.

Hanging on by a thread here. But we might need them improv skills soon. So I'm going to ask a question to get us on a topic. And the question this week is, what topic was suggested to me by our doctor of podcast level patron support of Brian Colella when we went out for brunch last week. Okay, first of all, adorable.

Second of all, where the fuck was my invite? Dave, were you invited? It's a Patreon award. I have to drink a beer in front of him. And he's only been in town. You're really making some sacrifices for the Patriots. I had to drink a beer in front of him. Anyway, okay, we've got to get inside the mind of Brian.

And the mind of someone having brunch. Ex-Bededededict? The history of X Benedict. Oh, Pope Benedict. The 16th. The bad one that quit. The bad one that quit. Yeah.

One of those other 15 great ones. Yeah. The first 15, what an era. They went one to 15 for about 100 years. Anyway, a bit of history there. Okay. It's getting in his mind, yeah. You're on the right track, thinking of brunch things.

Oh. We met there in particular for the, not the beer, the other thing we were having. Oh. It was in particular. Anyway, we're wasting time now, an American coming to Australia having brunch? What would he have? What would he want to experience?

Vegetermite. Vegemite. Correct. And the crowd went wild, Brian. This guy suggested it. Stand up, Brian. Show him. Show him.

Show him who did this. He did this. Not me. I'm going to ask, did he suggest vegmite or did he eat it and go, what the fuck? is vegime?

You were like, good question, I'm going to find out. Yes. You spread it thick and then you hold your nose and you just dive in. That's how vegamai works. That's what I told him. In the late 1800s, it was discovered by a German scientist

named Justice von Liebig that brewers yeast. Thank you. Justice. Great name. Justice von Liebig. I love that so much. He discovered that.

that brewer's yeast could be concentrated and turned into an edible spread. And by 902, such a product was manufactured and sold in Britain by the name of Marmite. Yeah. Yeah, correct. Audio listeners note, we're holding up cards. They say boo and cheer, laugh. There we go. Laugh went up. It's a relief. Wait, is this a thing? Because we've been getting booed on social media this week. Is that because of you some reason? Yeah.

No, I don't know what that's referring to at all. I think maybe just your star is dipped a little bit. That's probably. I have a star? You have a star. That's cool. And it's dipped. It's dipped.

Your star has dipped. Your star has dipped. Okay. No, sometimes, look, I've asked people to boo me at live, live, okay, just so, you know, just so I have low expectations. Okay, great. Keep me humble. Keep me humble, exactly. That's right, yeah.

Well, tonight, let's just boo Marmite. So when they're booing Marmite, they're really booing you. Okay, cool. Sounds really good. Yeah, great. You're the human equivalent of Marmite. Oh. Too far.

The most offensive thing ever said on this show. Someone just yelled, what the fuck? Now I feel like the bad boy of the pod. I'm going to take all the down. I'd say you are the worst at being a boy on the pod. But I give it a bloody red hot guard. Yeah, well, we'll see. Look to your left.

Look to your right, yes. Marmite Thank you a bit delayed also became popular overseas including in Australia but the first world war led to a shortage of marmite

are you booing marmite or war there I wasn't quite sure okay good no we're pro war anti-marmite the only war we like is the war on marmite war on marmite

so the war led to a shortage of marmite being imported into just try out. Yeah, that was challenging, wasn't it? You wanted to boo Marmite, but now there's not enough. You're like, that's good. But if they completely run out of Marmite, what are we going to boo? No, that's fair.

Me, all right. We all need an enemy. This led to Fred Walker and Co. Trying to come up with its own spreadable yeast extract product. Now you get it. The problem was that the recipe for Marmite was it I'm feeling some regret about that

the recipe for that product was a tightly held secret wait what product I've lost track Marmite it was a tightly held secret so Fred Walker enlisted an Australian chemist named Cyril P. Callister to come up with their own spread

to fill the hole in the market temporarily created by the scarcity of Marmite our yeast hole so empty. We need somebody to fill it. Fred Walker. I don't know if you know this, but the show after this today is the little Dum Dum Club. Anyone seeing that?

Did anyone see Tommy Dasolo's show a few years ago about Veggie Mart? 2013. Did you see this? No. I heard last... Someone told me last night. Really? Yeah. When I was telling him I was going to do Vegemite today, like, well, you should talk to Tommy Dassel. How could I possibly get onto him? He's in the show after us. He's literally in the building right now.

Well, we bring him up because his show a few years ago was about how his grandfather is Cyril P. Callister, is? No, Fred Walker. Oh, that's right. And in the show, there was a bit of a smackdown. Oh, you should have been there. One of the chances, this is amazing. Well, maybe this is a good opportunity to talk about Kosovoi.

If you want to ask Tommy Dasolos. Yeah. Just approach him on the beach in Thailand. He's trying to relax. He's been working hard all year. Is anyone coming to the Kersamui podcast, that's all? Does anyone want to boo the Kosovoi Podcast Festival? Sorry, man, no herpes allowed. Nah, you're all right, come on.

It's all right. Herpes will be provided on arrival at Kosovo. So don't even worry. Don't feel left out. Callister started experimenting with discarded yeast from the famous Carlton and United Brewery. Discarded yeast. People in the room would know who they are, but they're probably the most famous brewery in Australia. They make VB and Carlton Draft.

How good's beer? He was able to concentrate the clear liquid extract before blending it with salt as well as vegetable extract from celery and onion and other unnamed vegetables, which made it the distinctive sticky black paste we all know and love. At what point, you're experimenting,

and it comes out as a black, sticky, smelly paste and you're like, I think I'm onto something here. Do you want a genuine answer? All the time. Sometimes I don't even get my own jokes. Most of the time. Fred Walker was ready to market his new product,

but it needed a name. And according to Vegemite's website, Walker held a competition inviting the Australian public to create a name for the new spread. A prize of 50 pounds, a sizable sum for that era. was placed in a prize pool for finalists. Hundreds of entries were received,

and Shalah Walker, the daughter of Fred... Sorry, sorry. How would you say that? Sheila? Oh. So what is that? I really, really prefer Shela. That's how you spell Sheila.

Bloody hell. So... I think back in the early 1900s, it was pronounced differently, but... Language evolves. It's fluid. Yeah. It's very strong. true, yeah. That's true.

So she picked the winner. I've read somewhere out of the hat. I don't know if she chose it or she just plucked it, but she was the one who picked the name. I snack 1.0. I will chat about that a little later on. So it's basically a rip-off of bromite, right? The crowd is indifferent to promites. I mean, what's the one?

Marmite. What's promite? It's not a thing. Much more. It is, yes. Wait, hang on. Then Vegemite? Someone said here that it's much nice than a Vegemite.

What do you reckon of that? Name it shame. It's still going, listen to Katie. Katie, shame on you. Unfortunately, the name of the winning contestant and whoever wrote the name Vegemite has been lost to history. Oh.

Well. Now it's anyone to claim. Yeah, I'll take that credit. Good on you, Dave. Thank you so much. Someone says my biggest life achievement. I don't know, you nearly drank beer. I know. Whoa!

Dave, dope, dope, dope. I got so close. Oh God. Look at that. You okay? You know when you feel the peer pressure over crowd, but then you just think, I'm going to be sick. For those at home, he went from about 10 mils down to 5 mils.

All right, all right. Doof, dove, dove, dove, dove. Yay! Wow. That's the most applause ever given for the least amount of anything, I feel. And I applaud you for that.

I have a weird esophagus. This is an achievement, people. This is an achievement. Does he go a day without mentioning his weird esophagus? No. Mate, we get it. You're unique? I wake up most mornings to a message from him,

like, morning, got a weird esophagus. I'm like, all right, Dave. And I've never spelled it right once. Shaila. Chala. Benjamin hit the shelves of grocery stores in 1923. So a good couple of decades after Marmite. I think you said a good couple of decades after it was developed.

It took that long. How did it into a shop? We don't understand. They got it out real quick. It was advertised as being great for children's health, as well as being described as delicious on sandwiches and toast and improving the flavour of soups, stews and gravies. No, thank you.

The public did not get on board. I think back in the day they also said all the same things about cocaine. So, you know, science isn't what it is now. Cocaine really does. Put in the soup. Put in the soup. It shushes up a soup. It really does, yeah. Do you want to speed your soup up? Boy. Yeah, so sales are really low.

In 1926, Fred Walker started a joint venture with America's J.L. Craft Inc. called Craft Walker Cheese Company. They continue to make vegamite as well as processed cheese products. I was wondering when the cheese would come in, but immediately is the answer. That is a terrible name. I mean, were you all thinking that? That's a terrible name. Craft Walker Cheese Company. Yeah, Dave just whispered, that sucks. By 1928, sales of Vegemite was still slow. By this stage, supply of Marmite was strong again. They should have changed the name of Craft Walker Cheese and Vegemite company.

That might have shifted some units, you know. So Marmites now dominating the spreadable yeast extract markets. I know, right? In a ploy to win over some of Marmites market share, they changed the name of Vegemite par will. This is a fact I didn't know. The obvious change up. I think

I get it. I think I get where this is going. So the idea of this is so they can use the slogan, Mar might, but par will. Yeah. Sales did not pick up. I mean, that's just good marketing.

Is that a pun? Yeah. It's certainly a play on words. Right. Yeah. See, look, I'm not the only one confused by this. Yeah. Matt doesn't get puns, which is weird, because he's the pun king. Get him in there. Get him in the pun department of Veggimite. He would be smashing it. Any second now.

It'll be like week four, they'll call a meeting. What are you got up to? You're still Googling what pun means. By the mid-1930s, they've reverted to the original Vegemite name. Parwill bit the dust. Sales remains slow. In 1935, they used the company's cheese arm to help drag Vegemite... I'm listening! Now that's a superhero I can get behind.

If every company had a cheese arm. I know what? You'd want a blue cheese arm, wouldn't you? Oh, I love a blue cheese. Vainty, big vaney cheese. Cheese arm. The vainy of the better, my goodness. What the fuck is wrong with you? That's what blue cheese is, Jess.

Go up. Read a book. Read a book. Thank you. About cheese. So yeah, they use the company's cheese arm to help drag vegamite towards success. When they... I'd go for like a brie or something.

But that wouldn't be as structurally sound. You'd get a bit runny, wouldn't it? Yeah. Especially if it's hot, yeah. You need a hard cheese. I know, but... Yeah, I'd be using a cheddar for sure. Cheddar, yeah.

But then you want a flexibility for gripping. Oh, fuck. Yeah, right? String cheese. String cheese, thank you, yes. That's the winner. Big, a stringer. Yeah.

You just sort of like pull out a few strings to make fingers. So they're using the cheese to bring... I eat my own name. I'll be thinking about this for the next ten minutes. Off you go, Maddie. Sorry. So using the cheese to promote vegemite by starting to include coupons for free jars of vegemite in packets of their cheddar cheese.

In effect, giving it away, much like an entrepreneurial drug dealer might do. Giving some free samples to try to get the market hooked, and it worked. With the Australian public becoming hooked on that sticky, icky spread. That same year, Fred Walker passed away. I'll give you a quick bio. But the founder of Marmite passed away too. Fred Walker, born in Hawthorne in the Athorn East. Fantastic suburb.

Beautiful place, beautiful place where only legends live. Absolutely. in 18... Love that, love that. Josh Frydenberg. What a great local member. I salute you, treasurer. Keep ruining the planet.

Yes. Is he from Hawthorne? Yeah. We have to move. Yeah, I know. That's the most political this podcast ever been, I reckon. And we bloody got him.

Can we call us off satire now? I think this is absolutely satire now. He will not be re-elected now. We change the... We're going to get off stage and we're all going to be blocked by him on Twitter. It's going to be... He's back there, I can see him. I saw him picking up his dry cleaning once.

Ooh, that's a man. Can you believe that? Has clothes that require dry cleaning. Not just things that you go, my body heat will do it. Whatever. Fuck off, loser. Body heat does not clean clothes. What's that?

It irons them Ah perfect Yeah Yeah Yeah So he's born in 1844 Then he moved to Hong Kong And at the age of 19 years of age

He founded Fred Walker and co He founded this whole company at 19 In 903 Is when he was 19 End a sentence Matt Do you want me to read along with you Or

It was the full stop after Co? That's yeah that's messed you up hasn't it? Yeah no that would get me as well Fred Walker of Coe, full stop. In 1903, full stop. So, really, it was pretty quick thinking there. I think so. I think you improv your way out of that perfectly.

I don't think anyone even noticed. He then served in the Australian military from 1908 to 1918, where he was promoted to the rank of captain. After the war, he went back to his business, which was producing red feather canned foods and bonox, which is a beef extract drink. which is still made today. You can still drink.

Like Bovril, yeah. I guess it's Aussie Bovril. He was a big player in food and was also very good to his employees, apparently. I'm so sorry, I just need to stop the show real quickly. Did you just BYO chair? I saw you leave. And you thought you got away with her.

No, no, no, no, no. You are, the fire code violations are through the roof now. That's too many people. out you go. Grabbed a chair, put it down and went... Sean. I salute you. That's some good stuff.

It's a recliner, too. Where did you even get it? Banana lounge. Sorry, Matt, but... So, Frank, you were very good to his employees. Examples of this include the fact he introduced morning tea breaks. Oh, love a morning tea.

Also, a canteen and first aid facilities. Obviously the minimum requirement for being a good boss back then was pretty low. Gave him a short break. And a packet of band-aise. Apparently people were fighting to work for it. Cool. They heard about the band-aes.

I've got an open gunshot wound if I could just get into the break room. Banged that up. He died of heart disease at the age of only 51. After his death, Melbourne University initiated the Fred Walker Prize for postgraduate chemistry. Yeah, cool. Does that still exist? Anyone know? Doesn't matter.

It's almost like you could have looked that up. I mean, we all could have looked it up, Jess. Don't put that on me. No, you're right. I feel like an idiot now. That's all I want it. And the prize goes to the best new sticky black breakfast substance is that?

Yeah, cool, nice. Try and beat Vegemite, we bloody dare you. You never will. And then Pramite arrived. But Katie is cheering. One person likes it. I like it too, Katie, but don't tell anyone. If you don't know much about Vegemite, according to Wikipedia,

this is probably most people here would understand what it is, but people listening overseas might not. This is what it says on Wikipedia. It's a real beginner's guide. A common way of eating Vegemite is on top. roasted bread with a layer of butter or margarine. Only a small amount of vegamite is required due to its strong flavour.

Not true, go now. Much as you want. A vegemite sandwich may consist of two slices of buttered bread, vegamite and cheese. Is there a little hyperlink for sandwich and you can click on sandwich if you don't know what it is? Invented in 1807 by Sir William Sandwich.

That is true, isn't it? It's someone like that. The Earl of Sandwich. Yeah. Not William, Jess, you idiot. So, it's two in a minute. Should I go on timeout now? No, please don't.

So a vegamite sandwich may consist of two... May, not necessarily. Could have two slices of butterbread, vegamite and cheese. But other ingredients such as lettuce, avocado and tomato can be added as well. It's really up to you. Thanks, Wikipedia.

Thanks for your permission. Wow. To add extra condiments to my sandwich. Wikipedia. Now they're right, a very valuable resource. It's great. Oh yeah, if you don't know,

Wikipedia is like an online website, which you can go, if you've got a computer, you can go on there. And there's still lots of information on different things, so that'd be one of my hottest tips.

Check it out. In 1936, the electric toaster is a new feature of Australian kitchens. Wow, and do you have the Wikipedia entry for electric toaster over there? No, I don't. Sorry.

But on the Vegetermite website it said kicking off the iconic combo of Vegemite on toast. Can you name a more iconic duo? Oh wait. Sunny and Cher. That's very iconic. Thank you. It's very good.

All right. You win this round. In 1937, things were turning around for Vegemite. They launched a limerick competition with big prizes. That's the turning point. According to the Vegemite website, this is. is a big turning point. They had a limerick competition

which included prizes like Pontiac cars and it got a lot of buzz and led to increased sales. Unfortunately the winning limerick has been lost to history, but Dave... They have the worst record keepers ever. Dave, I reckon you could come up with one now. Bechamite limerick.

If it helps vegamite's very popular in Nantucket. That helps at all. It's the first line sort of for you. There once was a disgusting spread. I put it on bread. What rhymes with sandwich? Bandwidth. Bandwidth.

There we go. Perfect. Obviously. You can put it on a sandwich. Wikipedia that if you have the bandwidth. But before I eat it, I'd rather be dead. You would never guess that Matt asked me to write that two hours ago. That's acting. That is acting.

Did you hear, after your first line, someone said, It's already bad. They're running commentary. Give it a chance. It's only got two lines left. Did I win a Pontiac for that effort? Yes. I assume yes, probably.

Also in 1937, Vegemite gets or got an official product endorsement from the British Medical Association. This means that the spread could be advertised in the British Medical Journal, and according to Vegamite's website, this led to medical professionals and baby care experts recommending Vegamite spread as a vitamin B-rich, nutritionally balanced food for their patients.

Leachers are out. Vegermites in. Yeah, okay. In World War II, Australia's military bought Vegemite in bulk to include in soldiers' rations. There's some kerfuffle outside. Pop down! We're talking about

Benjamin in here. It's Australia. Unbelievable. A bit of respect. I'm so sorry. I bet they're Marmite people. Fun stuff for the people at home, no doubt. In World War II, Australia's military bought

Vegemite in bulk to include in soldiers' rations due to the nutritional values. They started to put out ads asking consumers to only buy begemite if they really need it. What a powerful move for a company. Hey, we know everyone wants it,

but unless you're sick or going to war, really leave it for people who need. You know sometimes you've had a jar of vegemite in your pantry for like eight to ten years and you still haven't finished it. Well, don't buy any more. Okay. After the war, when supply was back up

and the baby boom was on, Vegemite was in nine out of ten Australian homes. You kind of made that sound like people are using Vegemite as lube. Yeah, we're talking about a while ago. Lube technology had not come on. Weirdly, I'm back on board now. So, like, one of their homes didn't have Vegemite in it, but their remaining nine investment properties did have Vegemite in it.

No, good for them. Good for them. That's very good on them. Yeah, booms. Got him. Any boomers in? Any boomers in tonight? Good.

We don't really appeal to boomers, to be honest. Mostly because they don't know what podcasts are. We definitely have boomer listeners. My parents? Yes. Yeah. For example, Josh Frydenberg? Yeah.

Big fan. Not anymore. Not anymore. Mate, he is Gen X. How's that guy? Yes. Well, he has the hairline of the baby boomer, but anyway. I mean, you're saying, you see.

sitting there with your hair hat. Whole high and mighty. I'm feeling real good. In 1952, the US company Kraft bought out the Australian share of Craft Walker Cheese Company, meaning Craft Walker Cheese Company was no more.

They changed their name to Craft Foods Limited. So way back in 1952, Vegamite became wholly American-owned. I thought it was more recent than that. Brian. Brian, the American. American in the front row gave a real sad round of applause for that. In 1950...

Everyone else, get him! In 1954, the iconic happy little Vegemites jingle is aired as a radio ad, and two years later, when television came to Australia, the jingle turned into a TV commercial. The ad featured eight smiling children singing the jingle. Do you remember it? I remember the first couple. You guys...

You know it. Sorry, everyone. Soap's speaking on your behalf and saying, we'll help. I love how a palpable tension has gone through the room. We're happy little Benjamin's as bright as bright as be. We always love a Benjamin bite for breakfast like a tea. A Benjamin bite, we all are a dog. A Benjamin bite.

Bigotia do, da, da. Ironic. Iconic. All right, guys. Now let's take it for verse two. Beneath our raging Star the cross We'll all the chase and hands

Do you understand what they're talking about there? Yeah, second verse of the national anthem Which none of us know They usually just do the one And we're like, that'll do, don't worry about the rest So the jingle obviously Jess wasn't around in 1954 She knows it because they They remastered it and aired it again in the late 80s

and then on and off between 1991 and 2010. I was alive then. And in 2007, a nationwide search was conducted to find the eight kids to recreate the original ad for its 50th year anniversary. Unfortunately, they were all dead.

That is not true. It was funny when it was true, wasn't it? So, you know, I understand why you went there. They're all... It's a hilarious bet you might remember. related to mis-hap. All of them. They all went at the same time.

It's a curse of the vegamite. But they were so bad at keeping records and no one knew. Now they were also alive and they recreated the ad and that ad campaign ended up winning the Arts Entertainment and Media Campaign of the Year Award at the November 2007

Asia Pacific PR Awards. Wow, round of applause. That's fantastic. Wow. Wow. The Asia Pacific PR Awards. That's right. That's the whole region. The entire honour. I mean, that takes in all the ads in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji.

Tonga. Yeah. Wow. It sounded like you were being sarcastic. Yeah. Asia as well. I only got the Pacific part, but also Asia. That's Japan, China.

Indonesia. Oh, really? Wow. Where else? Bali, probably. And all this goes on. Singapore. Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur Which is in Malaysia Kosa Mou in Thailand Which will be there soon I can only say Kuala Lumpur like the B-Man The Bambu Bail-Lumpur

when he takes over the news reading Anyway There's a Simpsons reference for the episode Well done Quallum Kuala Lump France It's good stuff

It is good stuff In April 1984 A jar of vegamite was written into history As the first product in Australia To be electronically scanned at a checkout I mean If you applauded the ATA Awards

You've got to applaud that as well That is The Yeah Wow They did it The name of that checkout chick Has been lost to history

In 2008 the billionth jar of Vegemite was produced. Billionth. That seems like a lot, right? Billionth with a B. Yes. Whoa.

That's heaps. Jessus spelling has come a long way. And my maths. Put it in a sentence. Billion is a big number. Thank you so much. They've tried to make many spin-off products over the years, mostly with limited success.

In the 90s, Kraft released a mash-up of their two most iconic products, Vegemite and Crafts Singles You're familiar with Craft Singles? Are they international? Yeah. Yeah. So they're a plastic cheese

slices. So they infused Vegemite into that cheese. Well, they're both gross, so maybe put them together. I'd have an arm of craft singles, I reckon. You'd stick to things. Like a...

Mm-hmm. You know? But, oh, delicious. The product proved to be unpopular. You're doing a lot of mime stuff for a podcast. Yeah, for the people at home, I've been miming the whole show. And they were soon deleted.

They did not catch on. You said they were deleted? Yeah, there are deleted line. That's retail linger, I thought. Have you ever walked into a show? Is that true? Never worked to Honestine's life. Not true.

That's why I vote liberal. All right. The name of the creator of Ice Snack 2.0 was deliberately deleted from history. Is that true? You work into a shop and you go, hi, I'm just looking for the t-shirt I've seen online. I'm sorry, that, we no longer have that,

that has been deleted from our right. Deleted from the line. This is like Tony Abbott when he saw that book library? What is this? And I just want to say, this is an amazing invention. That is a spot on Tony Abbott. Impressive.

Is no... elected politicians safe from you this episode, don't want to you? I'll take you all down. I'm coming for you next, Bill Shorten. Okay, let's see what he's got. Yeah, what's Bill sound like? He sounds a bit like this. Hi, everyone, I'm Bill Shorten.

I'm 33 years old. He does not look good for his age. Name a politician and I'll take him down. I know. I'm bored of this already. Adolf Hitler. This should be an easy one. one to be honest. Yeah, yeah, that's so easy.

You can do this. You can do this. Have you got anything bad to say about Hitler? Hello, my name is Adolf Hitler, and if I was still alive, I'd be 133 years old. That is a brutal take down. Stop that. I forgot we weren't doing that anymore,

but I actually just thought, who's the most fuck politician you can think of forgetting that you have a history? But I've now made it worse for sure. This will not make the episode that goes out. Oh dear. Sorry, Dave, in advance. And, you know, now as well, I guess.

Thank you. Thank you so much. In 2015, they collaborated with Cabri to release a Vegemite-flavored block of chocolate. I never had that, and I feel like I missed out. You did. I didn't, apparently. The audience collectively stood up and said, no, you didn't. Feedback was mixed.

The Guardian was pretty brutal. in their review saying it doesn't resemble the beautiful tangy, salty, gloriousness of vegemite spread on hot buttered toast. Instead, it tastes like licking a plate where vegemite was smeared many months ago then left in the sink to fester. How do you know what that tastes like?

Journalists of the Guardian, you know, they do their research. Do your dishes more frequently? In 2009, this is probably the more iconic one that Mesa was alluded to. In 2009, a new Vegemite product was released, a spreadable mixture of cream cheese and Vegemite. And as they did with the initial product, they opened a competition for the public to name the product.

At the AFL Grand Final that year, which I attended, it was announced that the winning name, as chosen by a panel of marketing experts, was I-snack 2.0. Marketing experts. Supposedly they were trying to capitalize on the popularity of Apple iPods and iPhones. What year was it?

2009. Sorry, can we hear that one more time that sound? The year 2009 got an oofed. Yeah, it was a sexy year. Saints won the first 17 games in a row that year and still lost the... Yeah, alright. Wow.

This name was mercilessly mocked online. According to a Sydney Herald... a Sydney Morning Herald article from the time, it was given the collective thumbs down by consumers, becoming the second most talked about topic on Twitter within 24 hours of the announcement, and spawning Facebook hate groups, blogs, and prompting a torrent of online bile.

Was anyone remember one of those Facebook hate groups? Imagine starting a blog about it. Go outside. Watch it. Do anything else. Who cares? Book tickets to the Costa Movie podcast festival. Yeah, do that. You know, anything else.

Carl asked me before the show to mention it as many times as I could. You are nailing it. And really sneaking it in there, too. You're really coming across as a marketing expert. It's subliminal messaging. They'll leave. Have you considered naming a gross thing?

It's marketing expert. Yeah, you get it. That'll go as well in the edit. I don't know about it. I don't get my jokes or your jokes. Carl, by the way, is to go host the Dumb Club. I forget, I'm just saying people's names like, do you know anyone? And it doesn't matter.

All right. I think back to 2009, I'm like, nothing's really changed since then. But reading that article, I was like, oh, no, it's changed a little bit. It sounds a bit dated. The article goes on to quote a website called Epic Fail Store.com and the founder Matthew Morrison's. And Matthew Morrison said, I saw the announcement on Saturday

when I was watching the AFL and from then I've been watching cyberspace go nuts Wow Go outside Read a book Talk to a human I'm caught in a traffic jam

On the information super highway Because it's Benjamin He goes It's unanimous People hate it It's definitely an epic fail And then there's like a little flashing red light

It's like epic fail and a stamp When Kanye Westol Taylor Swift's moment at the VMAs I thought this is going to be big but I think at least on Aussie soil Ice NAC 2.0 will take over as the biggest blunder of 2009

That's his prediction Big prediction He said all this wearing an Ed Hardy T-shirt While boom boom Powered by the Blackard P's played in the background I should He's so 3,000 and late. Best lyric, best lyric, tell you.

Jars of Ice Snack 2.0 hit the shelves, but a renaming was swiftly organised with an online poll determining the new name. Cheesy bite won with around a third of the vote, beating out second place, Vegeamite smooth, third place is Vegemite, Vigermate, snack mate,

veggie mild and creamy mate. You passed to some of that creamy mate. With pleasure. Did you know that's actually, that was an old Vegemite slogan. Before our time, apparently it was, pass me the Vegemite, Mum. That was close to that.

I thought you were referencing. Passed me the creamy mite, Mum. Oh no. What have we done? The original ice snack 2.0 jars were, they went out to market. There were quite a few of them. And I looked up...

It's like when family dog dies and they say, we've had to put it out. It's gone. It's gone out of the farm. We've had to delete your dog. Sorry.

Put it out on the market. That means all the jars have been crushed in landfill somewhere. But some went to market and I saw one on eBay last night for 99 bucks. And you bought it. Yeah.

And it's here it. I would have actually supported that purchase. I would not have. Have you ever had Ice Snack 2.0? No. No, I have had a creamy... You had a mite? Creamy mines, yes.

That's another story. Over the years... Oh, hang on. Mr. Paragraph here. This is all good stuff. Mr. Paragraph. That's my father's life. Vegemite also caught a controversy in 2007

when it was reported by the age newspaper that Vegemite had been banned in Victorian prisons. This is quoting from the article. Vegemite is off the menu for Victoria's 4,200 prisoners because of fears they could use Australia's favourite breakfast spread to make booze. Authorities have cracked down on the dark spread because prisoners have discovered ways to refine Vegemite

which has a high yeast content to brew alcohol. authorities first cracked down on the breakfast spread in the late 90s but there are concerns that homebrew is still being made inside prisons particularly in the lead up to Christmas. Bloody Grinch, hey? The Grinch, huh? Yeah, right? It's a festive time for all. The Department of Justice said Vegemite was banned because prisoners have been known to extract the yeast.

The extraction process involves melting Vegemite and using the yeast to ferment sugar and carbohydrates into alcohol. Apparently this is scientifically almost impossible. They've got a lot of time on their hands. and bunce and burners because all the yeast in vegetable is dead so they have to yeah it sounds like it's unnecessary

and the prisons have just been idiots they have to get like a witch doctor into but if you smear yourself in creamy might you're smooth enough to slip through the bar so they ban that as well that's true yeah that one is true

that's scientifically very easy oh over the year years. Ownership of Vegemite had been bought and sold by multiple multinational companies, most recently by Mondela's International, but in 2017 it was announced that Australian dairy company Bega would be purchasing most of Mondela's international Australian and New Zealand grocery and cheese businesses, including the Vegemite brand. In a $460 million acquisition, Bega Chairman Barry Irvin said at the time, everybody loves cheese and vegamite, and I think

that Bega cheese and vegamite are just a national. natural fit. So it's back in Australian hands. Yes. Good. Bega's share price immediately jumped. Reluctant applause from the American in the front row. Yeah, we got you.

Don't even. Had to give it back. Sorry, sorry, mate, but it's ours now, dog. Bigger's share price immediately jumped 12%. On the Wikipedia page, I think is this the end? No, it's not quite. Begar and vegamide also form the bigger and

cinematic universe. They've got a franchise coming out in a couple of years. A cheese arm. They have a, on the Wikipedia page, they also have a section titled Vegemite in popular culture, which is a podcast I'm going to start.

Veggie mates. Wouldn't be the silliest podcast you've ever started, would it? He's talking about primates. Yeah, that's what I think. I thought it was something about grab a Traveler, the podcast I did with Nick Kappa for three episodes about six years ago

where we grabbed a beer and we talked about travels. Anyway, no, that's a good concept. At least multiple songs that referenced the spread, including Men at Works' unofficial Australian anthem down under with the verse buying bread from a man in Brussels,

he was six foot four and full of muscles. I said, do you speak of my language? He just smiled and gave me a vegetarian sandwich. I'm going to speak to this German in his native language. And he said, I come from a land down under where beard does flow and men chunder.

Can you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover. I never knew those loops for it. So it sounds like the songs are warning about guys vomiting? What were you singing previously? What do you mean you didn't know these lyrics? To be fair, that's probably how I see.

I didn't realize that the beer does flow and men chunder. Better run, better take cover. From the chunder. All right? No wonder that's our national song. We love V. And we love Chunder.

You know the second verse to Down Under? Yes. How's it go again? We don't have time. Beneath the rain. Southern Cross, we'll tall with hearts and hands to make this common wealth of house. You're kind of destroying the idea that we don't know it.

That's a lie. That's why we don't sing the second verse. It got deleted. Vegemite is also referenced in John Williamson's unofficial Australian anthem, True Blue. True Blue, in this case, referring to things that are authentically Australian. That's what he's gone through. The phrase, of course, originating in Britain. Williamson, you bloody drongo.

Williamson later re-released the song eliminating the reference to Vegemite when he realized it was American-owned. Oh, I love that. I love that. The article also references a few occasions, I'll finish with these, a few occasions where Australians fed Vegemite to Americans, including when Julia Gillard gave American President Barack Obama

a taste in 2011. Obama described a taste as horrible. So eloquent. Gillard tried to explain it, and then Obama tried to sum up the description saying, So it's like a quasi-vegetable by-product paste that you smear on your toast for breakfast. Sounds good, doesn't it?

Yes, Barry, it sounds bloody delicious. God bless Australia. Do people call him Barry? Yeah. His friends. Well, I think of myself as one. American TV presenter and comedian Steve Harvey was given a jar of vegamart bar.

Australian audience member in 2013, he had a taste and said, Vegemite sounds like pesticide. That's about damn near what it tastes like. That's not the idea of Finnish. I've got two fun facts here. They're more facts than fun, but I'll read them quickly. Oh, Jess can tell you if they're fun.

They're from twistedhistory.net.org.com. Vegemite recently sold out in Hong Kong supermarkets due to its high demand. Apparently, the demand for Vegemite stems from the blood. black spread being rated as umami, a Japanese word that literally evokes a fifth sense of utmost deliciousness. The Japanese have also renamed Vegemite Bejumato. No, that says Sheila. You've done it again, Matt.

We might finish on that, I reckon. I'll keep that going for Matt Stewart and Vegemite, yeah. Before we go, I got a couple of quick announcements. Someone dropped their tickets to Magma for tonight on the stairs. If you did come talk to me. Geez, someone's not only up to that. It's a very good show. It's a good show. You should go see that.

What else do we do to finish? We should probably tell them this is the last Melbourne Comedy Festival show we're doing here for the year, so thank you so much for coming out. A guy that has two shows left only here at the Melbourne Comedy Festival is Matt Stewart. That's right. It's called Bone Dry. If you haven't seen it, it's a lot of good fun.

And it's getting, if you have seen it before, better now. It's on two last nights at 7 o'clock tonight, 6 o'clock tomorrow night at Chinese Museum. It'd be great to see you there. And what else do we say? Thanks so much for coming on Nick Mason. What a pleasure.

A big round of applause. And for the people at home, if you don't know, Nick Mason's great work, of course, check out the weekly planet podcast, which is fantastic and well-loved around the world. Stop it. Your podcast's great. You're talking about prime, mate? What's the travely one again?

Now that's a good idea. We never released it. I'll put them out. Yeah, put them out. Nobody wants that. What do we... Sorry, I fucked that up again. What do we... Well, we've got to say a big thank you to everyone that's helped us put these last four shows together.

We've got to take Julio on Sound. Thank you so much. Doing a great job. We had Bianca helping out on the door. Aidan's being a great guy as well. T-shirts and stuff. Talia. Talia on the door as well.

Thank you so much. Pat and Staten's. Jeff on the cameras. Thank you. Our main man, Carl Chandler, who organised this at the European Beer Cafe. Thank you very much. Aidan,

is doing a bit of help with the merchandise. If you want to stick around and say hello, head downstairs and we'll be out there shortly. If you want to grab a T-shirt, it's your last chance to grab one in Melbourne, so we'll have them somewhere up the back. But head out the back stairs, head downstairs, and we'll catch up with you downstairs.

And the Saints play at 435. It's on the TV downstairs. Do you want to watch it with me? Well, that is the end of it And I guess we'll say, we'll see you in Costa Milly. Bye. Bye. Thank you.

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Now, there's not many people in this group, so that means you get a lot of shout-outs, really, and shout out right now to a man that if Jess and Matt were here, we would say, oh, Mr. Justin McCain, a plays a silly game. Justin McCain, have you worked out what that means yet? Have you looked up Peter Coombe? The children's entertainer from the 80s and 90s in Australia, what an absolute legend. But Mr. Justin McCain, you are also a legend, and you've given me quite a title of a readout this week.

So hopefully I don't disrespect you by mispronouncing any of these, but you are clearly a very unaccomplished person. and very unaccomplished, very accomplished person. I don't have all the degrees that you do, and I'm going to read them out now. We've got Justin McCain, who is known as Lord, Dr. Sir, Justin McCain, the ninth Esquire, OBE, OBGYN, KGB, PhD, the 15th Earl of Warwickshire. Justin, you've done it again. And Justin's actually opted to give us a fact, which I love when people give us a fact. and usually Matt reads these out and he doesn't fact-check them

and neither of I this week. So, Justin, I mean, would you fact-check an OB-G-O-N-K-G-B-HD-HD Earl, who's also a Lord Dr. Anderson? I don't think so. It would be offensive. So Justin's fact is there are approximately 8 times 10 to 6 to the power of 68 ways to shuffle a deck of cards. So to put that into perspective, he said that's 8 with 68 zeros behind it.

This means if you make a new shuffle every second from the dawn of time, dawn of time, the car, maybe the engine's on and I'm slowly getting fumes in this small garage, I don't know. Let me read that again. This means if you make a new shuffle every second from the dawn of time until this second, you'd be about a billionth of the way complete. Wow, and I can't tell if that is hyperbole or if that is really a billionth. because hyperbole has no place in mathematics, Justin McCain. We know that, so I'm sure that that is true.

Crazy. Absolutely crazy. I'm going to start now. All right? Four shuffles. I'm giving up. Thank you, Justin. Now, I'm going to thank three Patreon supporters this week,

people that support the show, and usually we give them a little shout-out, and then also a little game that Jess comes up with often. but just because it's little on me this week and because we talked about Vegemite this week on the episode, I've Googled weird Vegemite recipes and I'm going to challenge each of these people

to give these recipes a go, which is going to be hard because we do this in order of when people pledge. And so we just get the names at random. Well, not a random. It's in an order, but we get the names and we put them in and all three of these people are from overseas.

So I can't even guarantee that they have ever tried vegumite or have access to it. But still, I'm three. throwing the challenge down. And now I would like to thank, first of all, from Alaska in the United States of America. A lot of supporters over in America, not many from Alaska, so thank you so much.

And I would like to thank Rorsa Spicer, which, to be honest, sounds like a dish you could make with Vegemite, the Rorsa Spicer. Thank you, Rorsa. We appreciate your support, and I'm going to throw down and challenge you to cook with your Veggermite. This is... I found a BuzzFeed article of Vegumite...

vegetableite recipes and then it took you to different websites. And I would like to challenge you to cook swordfish with vegamite and walnut pesto. It says you need one tablespoon of vegamite and six swordfish steaks, which I looked it out for you also. If you think that sounds expensive, it is a little bit. According to seafood website, Alaskanharvest.com, that will cost you $65.50 just for the stakes.

But hey, splash out. To be honest, to ship Veggermite to where you are will probably also cost about 6550 just to get a single bit of Vegumart. So thank you to Raw Spicer. Good luck with the swordfish. Now, I'd like to thank and throw down the challenge now to someone from Sacramento in California.

Beth Richardson. Beth, have you ever tried Vegumite? I'd actually love to know after that episode what our overseas listeners think of Vegumind. So if anyone wants to get in contact, please let us know what you think of Vegemite from Sacramento, California, Beth Richardson. I'm challenging you to cook a Vegemite cheesecake.

And you much of a baker, Beth? It says it will take you two hours and ten minutes to make and bake, and you are instructed to use two teaspoons of Vegemite, but it says it will be a subtle taste. If you want a stronger taste, add more. My tip to you, Beth, as an Australian who's not a big Vegemite eater, do not add more, especially on your first go-round. So thanks, Beth. Good luck with your cake. And I would find you like to thank, also from overseas, but from a different continent now, from Great Britain in Bedfordshire, Dean Walker. Dean Walker. Is there a weird Aussie shop or something you might be able to get Vegemite Vegemite over there? Maybe it is more common than we think. But I'm doubting it. Let me know. I would like to thank Dean Walker, and I'm challenging you to cook Vegemite ganache canoli with avocado ice cream and coffee.

Wow. Let's just go through that again. Vegemite ganache canoli with avocado ice cream and coffee. Now, the author of the blog that posted this recipe, lemonpie.net, p.i.net, says, the dessert played on the flavors of avocado, vegemite and toast. Three ingredients, which are one of my favorite ways to start the morning. How I came about the idea of incorporating them into a dessert is a bit long-winded and would probably require a flow chart to accurately retail. So I'm not going to. We appreciate your brevity,

the lemon pie.net. So thank you to Dean Walker, Beth Richardson, Rorces Spicer. If you or anyone at home decides to make any of these recipes, please send us a photo. That would be absolutely amazing. Or if you have any ideas of your own strange ways to eat vegamite, please get in contact.

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