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However Mr Key told Firstline this morning that he also likes the Australian-made rival Vegemite.
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Yet except for icons like Vegemite (the high-vitamin yeast spread) and koalas, most Americans--including investors--know little about Oz.
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Describing Vegemite as "a quasi-vegetable by-product paste that you smear all over your toast", the US president pronounced it "horrible".
BBC: Kevin Rudd, pictured on 15 September 2011
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Internet searches reveal seemingly endless options for hangover cures, the authors report, from aspirin and bananas to prickly pear and Vegemite.
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During the session, Ms Gillard boasted about the virtues of Vegemite, an iconic Australian food spread, which Mr Obama called "horrible".
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Vegemite, a savoury paste made from yeast extract, is popular in Australia.
BBC: Kevin Rudd, pictured on 15 September 2011
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Mr Rudd is not Vegemite's only high-profile defender - Prime Minister Julia Gillard also spoke out in its support when she visited the US in March.
BBC: Kevin Rudd, pictured on 15 September 2011
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This however, is where my agreement with Neil stops, because he indicates that England will win the Ashes next year, which means he is not eating enough Vegemite.
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Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd had to talk himself out of trouble after airport officials flagged up a suspicious liquid in his cabin baggage - a jar of Vegemite.
BBC: Kevin Rudd, pictured on 15 September 2011
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Australia also has a similar product called Vegemite.
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For the rest of the world does not eat Marmite: the NZ stuff is entirely different from the UK product of the same name and both again are different from the markedly inferior Australian Vegemite.
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Most of this has now gone, leaving the way open for centralising federal governments in Canberra, aided by the growth of a national market in everything from advertising to Vegemite, to erode the powers of the states and their control of public money.
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