The cheese of my Aussie childhood

[Jan1954]

And the fresh bread spread with an inch of butter and half an inch of vegemite. A purely Aussie experience.

Swap the Vegemite for Marmite and you have my favourite breakfast!

[Ladkyis]

Swap the Vegemite for Marmite and you have my favourite breakfast!

ACK, gack yeuk phtwy, phtwy!!!

[Jan1954]

Swap the Vegemite for Marmite and you have my favourite breakfast!

ACK, gack yeuk phtwy, phtwy!!!

Marmite - you either love it or hate it.

[Waitabit]

It's a nice cousin to Vegemite, the new owners of which tried to change its content, thinking we'd never know.!! Can't trust new company owners, we would have all been eating promite before the week was out. (Quite like that too.)

[susan-y]

ACK, gack yeuk phtwy, phtwy!!!

Which of the 3 languages does the above fall under?

I am fluent in three languages, English, Sarcasm and Profanity

([I]I'm running away as fast as I can!!!)[/I]

Sue

[deeree]

I've often wondered what that cheese we ate as kids was made from. As your poem states, it didn't need to be kept in the ice chest or fridge and seemed to last forever. It can't have been good for us.

I wonder if you've seen this.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
>
>
> 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
>
> First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while
> they
> carried us.
>
> They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't
> get
> tested for diabetes.
>
> Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured
> lead-based paints.
>
> We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when
> we
> rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took
> hitchhiking .
>
> As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
>
>
> Riding in the back of a van
>
> - loose - was always great fun.
>
> We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.
>
>
> We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
> actually died from this.
>
>
> We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drink with sugar in it,
> but we weren't overweight because......
>
>
>
> WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
>
>
>
>
>
> We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
> back
> when the streetlights came on.
>
>
>
> No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
>
> We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride
> down
> the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
> bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .
>
> We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all,
> no
> 99 channels on cable, no DVD movies, no surround sound, no mobile
> phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet
> chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
>
>
> We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
> lawsuits from these accidents .
>
>
> We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not
> live
> in us forever.
>
>
> Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it
> would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
>
> We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or
> rang
> the bell, or just yelled for them!
>
> Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
> had
> to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
>
>
>
> The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
> They
> actually sided with the law!
>
>
>
> This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
> and inventors ever!
>
>
>
> The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
>
>
>
> We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
>
>
>
> HOW TO
> DEAL WITH IT ALL!
>
>
> And YOU are one of them!
>
> CONGRATULATIONS!
>
>
>
> You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up
> as
> kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our
> own
> good.
>
>
>
> and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how
> brave
> their parents were.
>
>
> Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't
> it?!
>
>
>
> PS -The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age .
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