{"id":360,"date":"2006-10-22T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2006-10-22T14:49:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T14:49:56","slug":"packin-vegemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Packin&#8217; Vegemite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow points us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/couriermail\/story\/0,23739,20620744-953,00.html\">this bloody marvelous story<\/a>, with the money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The border guard asked us if we were carrying any Vegemite,&#8221; Mr Fogarty said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;which implies Racial Profiling, or at least a line in the Border Patrol Manual: if it has an Aussie accent, ask the V question. Comforting to know that the Homeland is Secure against <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folate\">folate<\/a>. The Ozzically Underendowed might wish to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegemite.com.au\/index.cfm?fuseaction=ourHeritage.welcome\">consult the Vegemite timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/\">This snopes bit<\/a> puts the report in the &#8216;urban legend&#8217; category, but reading the details (commercial ban, not personal-use) doesn&#8217;t really provide Relief. I still love the image of the Border Minion asking &#8220;are you carrying any Vegemite, mate?&#8221; when Crocodile Dundee appears at the Border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow points us to this bloody marvelous story, with the money quote: &#8220;The border guard asked us if we were carrying any Vegemite,&#8221; Mr Fogarty said. &#8230;which implies Racial Profiling, or at least a line in the Border Patrol Manual: if it has an Aussie accent, ask the V question. Comforting to know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}