Oh dear!  I fear I missed your birthday!  From what I've read you had a good one.  Hope the "new year" will be just as good!

Hey oscar, I used to eat Marmite on bread...loved it.  I think it's like Vegemite.  There's another one called Bovril...that's the one with beef.

Thanks for the b'day wishes, lilyr!  And don't worry, you missed it by less than 3 hours!    And wishes are always really nice to receive, belated or otherwise. 

Oscar, Barre, Marmite is like Vegemite except it's a lot sweeter, runnier and the taste isn't nearly as strong, hence I don't like it very much. 

Sandhan, yep, it looks yucky, too, as it looks like smooth, almost pitch-black tar and smells really yucky.  I can't believe Aussie kids are weaned on the stuff.   But it soon becomes something you have a hard time living without.  And it's extremely good for you, with so much Vitamin B, although it contains a lot of salt.  So, as a 75th b'day pressie to all Aussies, the company had reduced the salt content very, very, very slowly over the previous 10 years and halved it.  It had done it that slowly so that no one would notice but told us of the much healthier version when it had its 75th b'day!  I thought that was great but then wondered how many other foodstuffs were slowly changed over time with no one noticing - and maybe not always for our benefit. 

Golly gosh, Tee, you don't have to feel like a doofus!  Getting belated b'day wishes just makes my birthday go on and on!    So thank you very much!  I could certainly use a year full of good health!  That would help a lot with happiness and game-playing time! 

But, sandhan, Vegemite is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yummy!  Seriously! 

What I can't imagine eating are witchety grubs and honey ants - you hold both by the head and bite their bodies off and eat them alive.

I don't like crocodile meat but LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE eating kangaroo.