Friday amusements

Sam Kekovic is being used again to promote Australian lamb on Australia Day. Last year's ad is a very ocker speech, littered with Australianisms and should provide for some fun even if not all of it will be intelligible to non-Aussies.

I'll post a link to this year's ad when available.

And for those of you wondering where this whole outsourcing is going to end, let me introduce you to 'The Singhsons'

Friday dose... just in time

Guys,

It's holiday (aka silly) season here. And that means: traffic jams on the highways out of Sydney, hot days and double demerit points. I've found ways around two of them and I'll share these with you:

Oh to be able to fly over the traffic, unfettered by congestion and traffic lights! One needs to find a telephone booth and change into....Desi Superman! Not only can he do all that the guy from Smallville could do, he can also do a bum-chik-bum-chika in mid air! Must have skills to retain your sanity in the silly season. So, enjoy:



And for the temperature problem? No worries! Good ol' Australian beer. Here's where you go to get a good beer, a big beer...um.. a big beer AD:



For the believers among you- Happy Christmas! For everyone else- keep up the chatter and have a healthy and fulfilling 2007!

Goodness

As an amused observer of the buzzword filled world of marketing types, I love the word 'goodness' that is used to describe most anything, especially breakfast cereals and things for kids. The only thing that's better than goodness is 'wholesome goodness'.

Well, I have finally found out that the meaning of 'goodness'- it is the smell and taste of my favourite muesli- Carman's Muesli.



It is by far the best muesli I have ever had and I have been looking for over 20 years.

They also have muesli bars that are moist and chewy and in the same flavours as the muesli. I like the red muesli bars but the green (untoasted) muesli as my breakfast cereal (one of the ingredients).

One quirky bit of trivia- when I first started buying them, they came with a big plastic clip inside the box to seal the plastic bag inside, once opened. Then they changed to giving a much smaller but still usable clip. But now, with the grocery chains no doubt squeezing their margins, they have done away with the clip altogether. No matter, it still tastes fantastic.

Just browsing through their website to update myself as I write this, I see that they have a very loyal following with people ordering this from distant USA among other places. It also seems to have become something of an export success story.

Their website is here and if you want to buy it, you can get it at Coles and Woolworths or from here.

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