It Puts a Rose in Every Cheek
We’ve just reached the pointy end (pun intended, moans the breastfeeding mama) of a long period of middle/back teeth teething with Raeli. She’s been good as gold for weeks despite the development of serious fangs in the gum region, and to be fair, even now she’s sleeping through the night, but the last few days have brought a spate of extreme crankiness.
She’s normally the brightest, most cheerful little thing, but at the moment even the slightest hint of something going against her leads to bouts of wailing. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear she had PMT. 
Anyway, the point is that this morning, the only thing that would make her happy was Vegemite on toast. And I don’t blame her.
I’m something of a late convert to the magic black spread. We didn’t have it in the house growing up because, well, my mother was English, and it probably didn’t occur to her. But as an adult, I’ve learned to appreciate a thin layer of that salty sharpness over thickly buttered toast. It’s a very satisfying comfort food, and given that it’s full on vitaminy goodness, I’m happy to see that Little Miss thinks so too.
The Man of the House, on the other hand, views Vegemite as the universal salt-source for food, and there isn’t a savoury delicacy he cooks that doesn’t either have a smidge of it in, or could be improved by said smidge. Just like soy sauce for Australians. Not that Australians don’t consume soy sauce by the litre…
So anyway it’s a good thing that the news reports about the Vegemite ban have, it seems, been severely exaggerated. I’m sorry to hear that you poor Americans can’t get the stuff in your supermarkets, though it’s still OK for Aussie tourists to smuggle it in. Yay smuggling.
In fact, I’d be almost tempted to go have some butter & Vegemite toast right now, if I wasn’t still full of prawn & chicken dumplings from lunch. And the fact that the tube is almost empty.
I hope the fact that we’re almost out of Vegemite isn’t going to be a problem when Little Miss wakes up from her extra-long nap… Gulp.
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