More Acronyms and Adult Beverages--Day 4

I decided to start the morning off on an adventurous note with some Vegemite on toast.  We'd heard about it yesterday at CUB as a concentrated yeast byproduct from the brewing process. In fact, our tour guide highly recommended it, so how bad could it be? There are no words to describe the awful disgusting taste.  It's hard to imagine something that looks like smooth chocolate could taste so bad.  All I can say is that I would NEVER recommend it. Instead, I settled on some more blueberry muffins...much tastier!

Then we said a rainy goodbye to the Travelodge Southbank and headed to the JBS Abattoir. We donned white coats, rubber boots, earplugs, and some nice hairnets and headed in to the kill floor. We continued from there through the entire process right up to packaging of seasoned fresh meats that would be on shelves available to consumers the very next day--a very interesting sight, even if it was hard to hear anything our guide said to us through our earplugs and the noise from all the activity happening at once.

 The second visit of the day was to Webb Black Simmentals. Phillip Webb and Lynton Harrison greeted us with much gusto that spilled over the rest of our time there. Although it was still cold and rainy, we made a short visit to their barn to see some cattle and the ring where they hold an annual sale every March.

Then we hurried to the office where we warmed up with beer, chips, dip, and cookies. They entertained us with information about their stud, peppered with lots of stories and quips.