So
TLB says....."
if it had not been for the 1st World War , would Vegemite ever had been made" All Vegemite lovers in OZ acknowledge that out ANZAC solders were provided with British supplied sealed ration tins with Crackers & Marmite
Whilst it is not documented, this British food snack may well have saved lives of Allied solders
...it is however documented that these same ration tins were retained for tobacco
At the end of WW1, the British Marmite manufacturer could not meet demand and declined to supply Colonies ...so as an enterprising lot, and the need for the
blacksh Goop , we established the production of Vegemite in 1923
[Things must have moved slowly, as the invention is listed as 1922, with production commenced 1923]
Derek
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extract from Wikipedia
Vegemite was invented in 1922 by food technologist Cyril P. Callister when, following the disruption of British Marmite imports after World War I, his employer, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co., gave him the task of developing a spread from the used yeast being dumped by breweries.,
