Comments on: The Nutritional Impossibility of Australia http://www.ediblegeography.com/the-nutritional-impossibility-of-australia/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: E@L http://www.ediblegeography.com/the-nutritional-impossibility-of-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-8 E@L Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:23:57 +0000 http://www.ediblegeography.com/?p=306#comment-8 If only they'd had Vegemite! And toast. If only they’d had Vegemite!

And toast.

]]> By: Matthew Battles http://www.ediblegeography.com/the-nutritional-impossibility-of-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Matthew Battles Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:58:02 +0000 http://www.ediblegeography.com/?p=306#comment-7 thought-provoking as always! A bit tangentially, I'm reminded of a name I encountered in this morning's reading: Bill Mitchell, the inventor of Tang (that semi-apocryphal astronautic beverage) as well as Cool-Whip and Jell-O. (One wonders: how did Tang escape hyphenation? Why not Tang-eroo, or Tang-utan?) To make an architectural connection, it turns out that Mitchell helped to build the infamous Petrified Wood gas station in Lamar, CO, which Ripley's incorrectly called the oldest building in the world. I'm tempted to thread the connections: fossilized organisms suggesting the possibility of imperishable foods, voyages in time evoking voyages of discovery... well, I admit the thread frays. thought-provoking as always! A bit tangentially, I’m reminded of a name I encountered in this morning’s reading: Bill Mitchell, the inventor of Tang (that semi-apocryphal astronautic beverage) as well as Cool-Whip and Jell-O. (One wonders: how did Tang escape hyphenation? Why not Tang-eroo, or Tang-utan?) To make an architectural connection, it turns out that Mitchell helped to build the infamous Petrified Wood gas station in Lamar, CO, which Ripley’s incorrectly called the oldest building in the world. I’m tempted to thread the connections: fossilized organisms suggesting the possibility of imperishable foods, voyages in time evoking voyages of discovery… well, I admit the thread frays.

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