Hi Dep. Thanks for your comment. Well spotted that Men At Work’s song gives a mention to Vegemite. It’s also interesting that other countries have similar products, including China as you mentioned. It’s amazing how people like to eat strong tasting foods such as Vegemite. We are a strange species!
Have a great day.
Rob.

Hi Paul,

Many thanks for your comment. Yes, the Men at Work knew the importance of Vegemite to being Australian.
Have a great day.
Rob

I really enjoyed this podcast. I grew up on vegemite and it is definitely an acquired taste. I still have it on toast, spread thinly but with no butter or margarine. My wife, who was born in Germany, can’t stand it!

It is interesting what you say about the Army rations in World War II. I have a neighbour who was a PoW and he said that he would have gone fully blind from malnutrition had it not been for the delivery of Marmite to his prison camp by the Red Cross. As it is, he’s got limited vision.

Vegemite really is an Aussie legend as it gets a mention in the famous Men At Work song, ‘Down Under’.

Thank you

Hi Alejandra,
Many thanks for your wonderful comment. It pleases me so much that my podcast has been of assistance in your adventure to Australia. I love the way you describe your experience with our Aussie language. You should write a blog yourself! You know how to tell an interesting story. Wow, your English is impressive. I only wish my German was half as good. I think you are very brave to come to a new country where you are still learning the language and then to get a job where you have to use the language every day. You are an inspiration! But I guess that’s how you learn a language quickly, and also have lots of wonderful life experiences at the same time. Well done! Thanks for your suggestions for future podcast topics. I don’t know much about Aussie beer or wine, but there are plenty of experts on hand, so I will be able to do my research easily. Your idea about the slouch hat as a topic is also a good one. Thanks for that. Best of luck with your life in Melbourne. I’ll bet your customers think you are one of the best baristas in Melbourne.
Have a great day.
Rob

By the other hand, I really really want to thanks you, because since I’ve started to hear your podcasts I started my plans to come to Australia and now I’m turning 1 month since the arrive in Melbourne.

Actually I’m in Fitzroy, just a block at Melbourne Museum. And It’s beautiful. All the city, and everything it’s just as you describe on your website. Thanks a lot, for the tips, and thanks to your posts I could get a long a little bit easier with the Australian System, than without your information.

I wish that all people in Melbourne could talk like you. It’s really hard the Aussie language, specially when you are from another country with Spanish as you mother tongue. I’m working at a café as a barista in Toorak, and sometimes people don’t open their mouths when they ask for a Flat White, they said something like “FLT-ITE” or “FAW-AI” … and as it is just coffee I understand, but when people ask for a dessert like a Lemon Tart, they said “lnm-rt”, my head explode.

Fortunately, people here is adorable and they don’t mind to repeat me the things over and over again until I understand. Sadly, I feel how this is a big bridge that separates us to communicate well and fluently.

Anyway, about Vegamite, yes ! people have told me that’s very salty, but I would try it, because as your extreme bi-polar weather, Vegamite must be very Australian.

I wonder if you can dedicate some podcasts to this things that I’m curious. One of them is the beer. Which Australian beer, or beers, would recommend me to try or which one is the best to try? Because I’ve seen DanMurphy Store’s everywhere and I wish I could go and buy something… Also, is the wine good in Australia as it is in Chile? Any recommendation for that ? Have you tried some Chilean wine?

and the second thing, it’s nothing to do with what I wrote before. I wish if you can tell me something about the Slouch Hat. I’ve seen a lot of paintings of Australian Soldiers with this hat like with a half folded up. It’s made like that for a reason or they are just like that?

Thanks you very much again!

Thanks Ray. Still popular today as well. Cheers, Rob