You can have Marmite, we have Vegemite, well, actually the Yanks have Vegemite. Weetbix might be all we have left – no, wait, there’s Golden Circle, or so the ads on telly keep telling us.
sigh
And Muppet, I know you said you were ancient, but 50 – I don’t beleive it!![]
The Americans have our biscuits ( Arnotts) The French have Just got Clipsal ( The Electrical company You know the safety switches that trip out when you stick your knife in the toaster []) and the Scottish have BankWest don’t they..
Marmite…..[xx(]
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Heard a KIWI joke the other day..
Why do Kiwi’s call everyone Bro ?
They don’t know who there Dad is..
Apologies to All from NZ The author takes no responsibilty for jokes he’s heard
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“The man that thinks at 5o as he did when he was 20 has wasted 30 years of his life”
For all those born in Australia of non-Australian parents – do you consider yourselves less Australian?
Same with the Holden Commodore, Vegemite blah blah blah… just ’cause they have parents overseas doesn’t mean the brands themselves are any less Aussie.
Vegemite is like Rupert Murdoch, born here, but now lives in the US and has US citizenship. Still owns/sells papers here, but money earnt goes back to America.
I think it’s a little off-topic, but this whole “profits go offshore” argument is a bit weak when there are domestic jobs, manufacturing, suppliers etc utilised domestically. And heaven knows, in many cases the cash flows in these functions are more reliable, predictable and perhaps substantial than any profit that may go offshore.
Even if these products were owned locally, who’s to say what the local company would do with their profits anyway – and whether this would be for the common good.