From Aussie Icon to Aussie has been

[Maureen K Clifford]

The greatest Aussie Icon is one of which we boast.
It sits on the breakfast table and you have it on your toast.
It’s something very Aussie, something consumed with élan.
but Yanks just cannot understand our passion for black jam.

It’s salty and delicious, puts a rose in every cheek.
It’s the first thing that we search for if OS for just a week.
We post it off to ex pats with Golden Syrup and Tim Tams,
and a gum leaf for the Billy Tea. Sometimes a tin of Spam.

No one has the passion that we have for Vegemite.
The Pommies have their Bonox, not the same but it’s alright.
But the good old Aussie Vegemite has a myriad of uses.
For flavouring up a stew, to healing cuts and abuses.

Aussie kids grow up on it, from the time they start to teethe.
We seem to have a love affair which no one else perceives.
So whilst other lands have Icons that perhaps inspire delight
I think our greatest Aussie Icon is a jar of Vegemite.

But now alas Aussie it aint’ – no longer our true blue
it went with Uncle Toby to another country – true.
Lucky dog went with them with his Pals and a few Chums
they’ve all left the Golden Circle and took the Victa from Mums.



Maureen Clifford ©

[Bob Pacey]

Ah Ha explains a lot.


Snacking on the side were we Marty Boy ????


Woof Woof Bob

[Maureen K Clifford]

now you tell me Don't feed any of them to my two anyway