Roger wrote:
>
> Anecdotal evidence suggests that people who eat Marmite are much less
> likely to get bitten by mozzies. For list members not familiar with
> Marmite, it's a yeast extract, thick and black, which is slapped
> liberally on bread and toast. Stuffed full of vitamin B12, which is
> supposed to end up concentrated in your skin, and which mosquitoes do
> not like. I don't know if the same is said of Vegemite, the weak and
> inferior Australian yeast extract product (I speak as a Marmite purist).
>
The same claim is made for Vegemite.
Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~w_harridge/
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