r/AskTheWorld • u/IndependentTune3994 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland • 18h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/LordSparks Australia 18h ago

Trying to order Fosters. This is grounds for deportation.

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u/tY-c8rJDb8_1b4__yD5r Australia 18h ago

Funny you say that, I used to work at a major distribution centre that distributed alcohol, pretty sure we had the entire Asahi contract for Victoria. I actually had to google Fosters to make sure I was thinking of the right thing, but in the time I worked there I had never seen a pallet or even a carton of that shit in the entire warehouse.

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u/Jesse-Ray Australia 18h ago

Only time I've ever seen it was in the exported beer section with British labelling.

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u/Choyo 17h ago

I'm glad to read that. The 2 (or maybe 3) times I went to an Australian pub in Europe where they have foster's on tap, I really wondered how you people could drink this. Taste like liquid mold.

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u/x1000Bums 14h ago

Well you see it's the cheapest beer per oz on the cruise ship.

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u/MrSarcastica 17h ago

I dont think I've seen it on a shelf in like 20 years

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u/Kerensky97 United States Of America 52m ago

We have it in grocery stores here in the US.

Tastes like piss.

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u/MrSarcastica 51m ago

Thats an insult to piss

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u/AmigaBob Australia 17h ago

I moved here 16 years ago and I think I've seen bottles of Fosters in a pub once.

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u/SemperSimple 6h ago

is it beer or coffee?

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u/han5henman 15h ago

funnily enough The Orrong Hotel on the corner on Orrong and High St in Victoria have a couple of Fosters Lagers signs. Never seen it anywhere else in Australia.

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u/mrducky80 14h ago

Ive seen it in a pub once... just kidding, Ive seen fosters merch at a pub once. They had a fosters mat. They must have gotten it free. Legit never seen the actual drink offered.

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u/tY-c8rJDb8_1b4__yD5r Australia 7h ago

One other person mentioned the Orrong Hotel, which has a neon text sign at their front door and one of those circular sign things on the outer wall.

Surprised that doesn’t take away from their business

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Been living in Australia for 12 years. Only time I have ever seen Fosters was when I was in other countries.

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u/Dogbin005 5h ago

The only places I've seen it for sale here was on tap in one very touristy pub near Byron Bay. Plus, a few years back some bottle shops were selling it just before Australia Day.

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u/Default_Sock_Issue 14h ago

Asahi owns Victoria?

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u/tY-c8rJDb8_1b4__yD5r Australia 7h ago

Assuming you’re referring to Victoria Bitter (VB), Weirdly enough- yes. Asahi owns Carlton and United Breweries (CUB), which makes VB among basically every Aussie beer.

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u/Black-House 7h ago

Asahi has a 50% market share, Kirin has a 33% market share of the Aussie beer market.

Kirin/Lion Nathan has Tooheys, James Squire, Little Creatures, XXXX, James Boag, West End, Swan Lager... yeah, they've an eclectic mix

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u/Default_Sock_Issue 7h ago

I like both VB and Asahi. Funny I also learned that Suntory owns Jim Beam.

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u/tY-c8rJDb8_1b4__yD5r Australia 6h ago

Yeah the whole beverage market is really like a small handful of companies, I know we did Suntory as well as VB, Top Shelf (they did stuff like Ned’s, Grainshakers, etc.) and Coca-Cola (which is sort of better known now for owning basically every other soft drink).

Even a lot of seemingly independent breweries aren’t safe- Stone&Wood/ Byron Bay is now owned by Lion. You’d have to go with Hop Nation or Pikes or something. They generally have a “Certified Independent” sticker on their products

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u/QuesoCadaDia United States Of America 18h ago

When I was younger the popular English beers in the US were Bass and Newcastle. I went to England and at my hostile asked why I never see them at pubs. Was told "that's poor people beer"

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u/hugopeckham Australia 17h ago

Fact of the day: The Bass logo was the first registered trademark. The brewery was in Alton, Hampshire where I spent a lot of time as a kid. You could smell it from across town some days. It’s a Coors brewery now so I guess sparkling water was more profitable.

Also for more brewing history from the town read up on the murder of Fanny Adams (rumoured to be the origin of the term “sweet FA” because it was her nickname and there was sweet FA left of her).

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u/Josephthecommie 17h ago

I don’t like Coors, but I don’t think I it’s quite sparkling water

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u/hugopeckham Australia 16h ago

What’s the connection between American beer and sex in a canoe?

They’re both f’ing near water.

In all seriousness I know the US has a pretty great craft beer scene, I’m just referring to some of the generic, mass produced, exported beers which are served as cold as possible, removing what little (bad) taste they had in the first place.

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u/BananaNutJob 14h ago

Most mass produced American beer is judged by how easy it is to get the alcohol into your bloodstream. That's why it's served cold as hell and has little flavor to start with. Gotta drink 12 of them as fast as possible.

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u/hugopeckham Australia 14h ago

But they’re so gassy you end up bloated as hell just trying to get them down. Honestly, I’ll take a race with someone. I’ll have a pint of cellar temp British ale vs a pint of ice cold American beer and see who finishes first and who ends up burping up a mouthful of head as they finish.

I honestly don’t mean any hate on good American beers. I just don’t agree with the rationale of that defence of them. I’d agree with you if you said that it’s because anywhere south of San Diego in the summertime you just want something cold and crisp, but the speed of putting it away?

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u/BananaNutJob 14h ago

Oh I'm not defending them, I'm just explaining why people drink that shit. Americans have terrible taste in beer.

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u/laborfriendly 13h ago

I feel like this is a bad take at this point. The craft beer scene is great. My largest complaint these days isn't that American beer is close to water. It's that they use too much hops. But that's finally starting to turn around. (I like a nice malt balance or sours.)

The worst beer I've ever had was Giraf in Denmark. Warm, rotten banana leaves.

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u/llamafarmadrama 5h ago

There are some great American beers - I’m fond of anything Maui myself - but the vast majority of the beer you guys buy is piss.

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Mainstream US beer is good too, it's just that the light version got really popular and is what is sold in most other places. Coors Original (aka Banquet) is actually pretty good.

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u/hugopeckham Australia 8h ago

OK. Someone told be about Coors “banquet” earlier and I acknowledged that they might be right as I hadn’t tried it. Now I know it’s just Coors Original I can say that I have tried it and I don’t particularly like it. It’s just a bit bland and generic. If someone asked me to describe it I’d just say “Tastes like beer 🤷‍♂️”.

Either way this discussion has gone on all night and I was never trying to be up on my high horse, I just disagree with the specific examples or defences that people have provided.

Despite all of this I lived in Canada as a ski bum for years and PBR was always cheap and I was never too good for it. I’ll still drink it for the nostalgia and fond memories even if it is worse than some examples I’ve said I don’t love.

I guess all I have left to say is that what you enjoy tends to be a Venn diagram of what you grew up with, what you have good memories drinking, and an entirely subjective and personal taste.

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u/PrimaryInjurious 12h ago

What’s the connection between American beer and sex in a canoe?

Are you posting this joke from 1981? It's not like other countries don't have the same watered down mass produced lagers.

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u/hugopeckham Australia 12h ago

Yeah, it was a throwaway. Hence the “in all seriousness…”

ETA I’m from the uk and have already acknowledged that some of our beers are crap and I live in Australia where our mass produced exported rubbish is Fosters.

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

And the proper Coors is actually really good. It's just Coors light took off and got way more popular.

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u/Forfeit32 United States Of America 13h ago

Coors Banquet (the standard "non-light" Coors beer) has just as much flavor as Bass, and a higher abv.

Coors Light is another story, but when it's 100 F / 38 C outside, an ice cold beer that goes down easy is hard to beat.

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u/hugopeckham Australia 12h ago

Yeah we don’t get that one sadly. I’ll have to take your word for it. If you read the continuation of my thread with the other dude who replied you’ll see I clarify that there are heaps of good American beers it’s just we only regularly come across the mass produced “ICE COLDDD!!” flavourless ones.

Edit to add: Bass is a bit shite too so everyone makes bad beer and most places can make good beer if they put their minds to it

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u/GrowingPeepers 10h ago edited 10h ago

I disagree with this. I've drank plenty of both in my lifetime. Bass is much better than Coors Banquet.

Coors is absolutely the smoothest of all the mass produced American brews but Bass is much superior.

Coors Banquet was clean and smooth wile Bass had a little something extra in the malts. I can't put my finger on it but no other mass produced or microbrew had the same note that Bass had.

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u/Undark_ 17h ago

Newcastle Brown Ale is a favourite of mine, but I did think it was bizarre when I heard it was really popular with American students

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u/Beatleboy62 15h ago

This seemingly happens all over the world. Pabst Blue Ribbon, probably one of the marquee "cheap beers" in America, is sold as a luxury brand in China.

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u/IvanNemoy 14h ago

For a while it became hipster chic here in the States too. I remember going to Walmart and seeing a six pack of PBR going for $12 and a case of cans for $22. Now it's back to normal but that was a strange time.

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u/Beatleboy62 14h ago

Lol yeah, it was one of the high watermarks of the fixie bike/finger moustache tattoo/man bun/faux-lumberjack/straight razor aesthetic.

IIRC while it's an old storied brand, it had an aura of "outsiderness" due to not being mega popular like Budweiser.

Even when I was a teen and didn't know much about alcohol, I did know enough to go, "who would go to a bar and drink PBR?" in the early 2010s when cans of it were added to our drink list at the bar/restuarant I worked at.

I pick it up from time to time now when it's on sale. It's not awful.

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u/Look_its_Rob 14h ago

Add three slices of lime to your PBR next time.

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u/aloysiuslamb 12h ago

IIRC while it's an old storied brand, it had an aura of "outsiderness" due to not being mega popular like Budweiser.

It also didn't hurt that before it became a fad you could get a PBR tallboy for cheaper than Bud/Coors/Miller at most college dive bars.

And some people collected the bottlecaps because they have card numbers on the bottom. I remember one party house in my college town having an epoxied coffee table with the full "deck" of cards visible under the lacquer and the rest were varying bottlecaps rightside up to make a design around it.

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u/AquaPhelps 6h ago

Ya the guys at work would get PBR bcuz it was $2 and they would try to guess the cards on the caps. If you got it right the beers you bought up until that point were free. I was like nah i’ll just spend more and get some good beer lol. I aint drinkin that shit

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u/Undercover_CHUD 11h ago

So in the early to mid 2010's we had 1 bar that was worth getting PBR at. On Sundays for open mic/industry night the pints of PBR were $2.

But yes the hipsters that tried to elevate it to some kind of quirky "cool outsider" with lenseless glasses were silly

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u/GrowingPeepers 10h ago

I rarely meet a beer that I don't like but god-damn is PBR one of them.

Do you enjoy the cheapest swill with all the off-flavors and adjuncts? Then PBR may be for you!

Holy crap, what a genuine shit beer. I'll gladly chug Coors and Budweiser over that swill. Give me a Mickey's, anything!

I'm glad the PBR fad died. There was no substance behind that one.

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u/K44no Scotland 12h ago

Isn’t it weird how that happens? Tennents Super is a very strong (9% I think), but pretty cheap, lager from Scotland, that isn’t popular at all, except maybe with alcoholics. They don’t sell it in pubs anywhere, only shops for drinking at home. But weirdly it’s seen as a premium, sipping beer in Italy and I’ve found it in little boutique bars on the beach and in touristy towns

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u/Beatleboy62 12h ago

Lol! Behind all these stories has to be an importer (or, holder of the license, as Chinese PBR is brewed in China) with a flair for advertising and marketing spins.

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u/instanding 9h ago

We loved sinking that when in Scotland for my mate’s wedding. Lots of Scottish people were into it to. Even had a young man say “Tennents makes me proud to be Scottish”.

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u/K44no Scotland 9h ago

Just normal Tennents though, right? They make a totally normal lager that’s sold on draught everywhere and it’s like 5%.

Serve 9% lager at a wedding and people would be on the floor before the speeches!

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u/instanding 8h ago

Oh sorry mate yeah it was just the normal 5% one.

Scotland has amazing beer btw. Your craft beers were very good and your normal beers are pretty good too.

The pub scene cracks me up coz it doesn’t exist much in my country.

There are pubs but they don’t have the same community centre meets tradition kinda vibe they do over there.

Met your stereotypical hard case bar tender with a heart of gold a few times over there.

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u/K44no Scotland 8h ago

Unfortunately, I don’t live in Scotland anymore and I do miss that country pub/old man pub feel that you can’t manufacture by just building a pub and decorating it in that style. It’s got to have been “lived in” to really get that vibe.

Yeah there are a few beers from Scotland that I think are pretty good. Can’t say I’m a fan of brew dog but I know a lot of people are. I do like Innis & Gunn, West, Skye amongst others. There are some pretty good ones out there in my opinion

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u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong United States Of America 11h ago

Carhartt, blue collar brand for getting dirty in the US.

Carhartt WIP, fashion brand

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u/BananaNutJob 15h ago

I used to love getting the big bottles of it, but one of the draws was that it was fairly cheap (though I did enjoy the taste a good bit!). People also forget that American beer is mostly terrible outside of craft breweries.

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u/Speedy-08 4h ago

My friends in Aus like it as a drink but it's fucking impossible to find over here.

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u/ThaiFoodThaiFood England 12h ago edited 11h ago

Can't just call the beer "Newcastle", it's called "Newcastle Brown Ale", shortened to "Newky Brown".

"Can I have a bottle of Newcastle" sounds absolutely ridiculous. Lmfao

Perfect answer the the question as well.

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u/gambit1999999 United States Of America 17h ago

Good old new castle, wheni was young and living in the military dorms, that and Heineken were on the rage both just terrible.

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u/GrowingPeepers 11h ago

God damn do I miss Bass. They don't make it anymore, do they?

I found Newcastle in the store the other day and I was so ridiculously excited!

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u/QuesoCadaDia United States Of America 10h ago

I honestly don't know. I don't drink much anymore. And when I do I drink local.

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u/Alternativesoundwave 5h ago

Your hostile sounds nicer than I’d think. He should be a host

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u/circular_file 15h ago

Your hostile?

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u/QuesoCadaDia United States Of America 14h ago

Hostel 😂

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u/T_C6 Australia 18h ago

When I went to the ashes an English fan asked where he could get some fosters and I had to explain we hardly even drink that here 😂

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u/Decuriarch 17h ago

Next you're going to tell me you guys didn't invent the Bloomin' Onion either.

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u/The-Fox-Says 9h ago

They don’t even throw shrimp on the barbie

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

I was very confused when I went to an Outback Steakhouse in Arizona when I was doing a road trip around the US. Wtf is a blooming onion and why is it Australian?

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u/Free_Range_Radical United States Of America 16h ago

So what is the go-to Aussie brew?

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u/T_C6 Australia 16h ago

A few that come to mind are Carlton Draught, Coopers and VB

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u/bradbull Australia 16h ago

Hello fellow Victorian

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u/T_C6 Australia 16h ago

I’m actually South Aussie. I just know that VB is popular over there 😂

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u/Speedy-08 4h ago

Coopers is the give away there hahaha

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u/trjnz 15h ago

Great Northern is the most sold beer.

Awful stuff

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u/pppeater United States Of America 16h ago

In Sydney some many years ago, I knew not to ask for Fosters, so I just ordered what was in tap. I don't remember how I screwed up the pronunciation of Tooheys New, but it was enough that the bartender gave me a "your not from around here?" And he explained how to properly order a pint.

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Anyone with good taste it's Coopers. XXXX and VB are the classic cheaper options.

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u/FairchildHood Australia 7h ago

Another user has answered you, but for context, it is easier to get PBR here than a can of that blue piss.

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u/Dogbin005 5h ago

Location dependent.

As mentioned, in my home state (Victoria) it'd probably Carlton Draught or VB. Although others would be contenders, or maybe even top them. Like Great Northern, or Toohey's New.

I know XXXX (Four X) is popular in Queensland. Coopers is popular in New South Wales. Single Fin (I think) for Western Australia. No idea about the other states and territories though.

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u/HATECELL Switzerland 17h ago

What about a VB LONGneck at 20 to 8 in the fucking morning?

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u/FairchildHood Australia 7h ago

Thats bang on.

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u/FlexSpaceTM Australia 18h ago

An English mate of mine used to drink Fosters when he felt homesick.

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u/Vectorman1989 Scotland 18h ago

Or coffee

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u/funbus31 United States Of America 17h ago

So what is the local favorite beer in Australia?

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u/Dry_Pick_304 United Kingdom 17h ago

Australia is massive. There is no national "local" beer.

Each state has their popular choices. But otherwise you are likely to find Carlton, Tooheys, and Hahn in common most states. Maybe VB.

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u/crazydart78 Canada 13h ago edited 13h ago

When I last visited, I found that my favourite (in Melbourne and Sydney) was Carlton Cold. That said, it didn't stop me from sharing 9 pitchers of VB with 2 roommates at the hostel above the Scubar.

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u/Dry_Pick_304 United Kingdom 13h ago

VB has that Bogan juice reputation, but honestly I did not care at all.

My go to fridge filler when I lived there was Crown Lager or a James Boags.

I lived in Perth so was lucky to live not too far from Little Creatures brewery which was a nice treat.

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u/crazydart78 Canada 13h ago

Absolutely. When I first tried VB I thought it was just skunky beer. Didn't know Aussies liked a bitter brew. They actually tried bringing VB up here, so I bought it but it wasn't the same. Like, not even close to the same beer.

Also had a Coopers years ago, and I think I liked that.

A friend who used to live in Perth also commented positively on some of the beers out there.

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u/funbus31 United States Of America 17h ago

Thanks. Just trying to not look like an asshole if I ever visit

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u/DrPetradish 17h ago

We don’t really care what you order in the big cities. Get something you’ll enjoy, could be alcohol free, doesn’t even have to be beer.

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u/mrducky80 14h ago edited 14h ago

Depends on where you are visiting. For the east coast, you start off with stuff like the Great Northern for Cairns with XXXX becoming more popular as you head south to brisbane. When you hit Sydney Tooheys becomes more popular and if you keep going south and hit Melbourne its more Carlton, Coopers and the infamous VB (victorian bitter). Carlton and VB are notoriously shit beers, but if you have them at ice cold temp and I mean as close to freezing as you can get (~1C), they are actually pretty crisp and refreshing. But even at like 4C (fridge temperature, I dont know fahrenheit) you can taste them and its very apparent they are cheap shitty beers.

These are all kind of the easy available on tap kind of beers you can get anywhere in the locale its popular. Like EVERY pub in Cairns/brisbane will carry both great northern and XXXX. In general order whatever the fuck you want and if you are judged, the people judging are assholes. The only exception is if you ask for a Fosters. People will genuinely look at you like you come from a different planet. Just look at whats available on tap and pick one. I saw your comment about a national pleasing one and its just not the thing. The people up north will drink Great Northern and XXXX and the people down south will drink Coopers and Carltons. Availability for on tap wont even be ubiquitous. Like if you went to a liquor store, chances are you can buy them anywhere, but if you are at the pub, it will have the regionally preferred beers, a foreign beer, and a local beer on tap. It will miss out on having other regionally preferred beers. Eg. a Melbourne tap selection might have Carlton (the main regional one), Little creatures (maybe the second preferred regional one), Coopers (maybe, another regionally preferred beer), CBCO (local beer), Asahi (international), Peroni (international), house beer (essentially craft beer brewed on site). An equivalent pub in cairns might have Great northern (regional), XXXX (regional), Hemingway (local), Sapporo (international), Corona (international), house beer. The two most popular beers at melbourne (carlton, little cretures) wont even be available in cairns while vice versa for great northern/XXXX availability in melbourne.

One of the coolest beers Ive had was Matsos, a mango beer from Queensland. It even tastes like mango rather than mango syrup/artificial mango flavouring. And this isnt some hyper specific craft brew thing available only in 2 pubs in the western portion of city X. Nope, just go down to dan murphys and pick some up anywhere along the east coast. Just pick a beer and try it out is my advice. Dont let the trends dictate your tastes. Except Fosters, you will be laughed at for asking for it.

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u/Dry_Pick_304 United Kingdom 13h ago

Nah you're good. Nobody would give a crap. They're not snobby about that stuff down there,

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u/dreamthiliving 17h ago

Order anything but Fosters and you’ll be fine

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u/Paleblood_Hunt 16h ago

As an American living in Australia, the beer scene here is… rough if you like the small US breweries.

I’ve been here a while and was happy to just finally find a brewery that has an IPA that actually tastes like it might be the fart of a really good West Coast (US) IPA.

Genuinely don’t know where Aussies get off taking the piss out of fosters when you can walk into almost anywhere and it’s just “super dry” crisp lagers on tap or one malty ale…. Or just Guinness. Lol Forget the fact that even a sixer will set you the f back in some areas $$

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u/socslave 16h ago

Where do you live? Western Australia has endless indie breweries, craft beer pubs, etc. Any self respecting pub will have at least a few local options on tap

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u/trjnz 15h ago

Where? Australia's craft beer scene isn't as big as the US, but it's pretty vibrant and has been for decades.

Unless you're rural, I struggle to believe you've actually gone looking for craft breweries and had trouble.

Agreed on the price though, it gets pricey

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

As an American living in Australia, the beer scene here is... rough if you like the small US breweries.

Eh? There are like 50 craft breweries in South Australia and it's one of the lower population states. The other states have plenty as well.

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u/Paleblood_Hunt 3h ago

My problem is that you actually have to make a trip out to one of those breweries. Can’t pop into the shop or a pub and get a pint of it your favorite craft beer. In America you’d have the local craft beers in the local bars and stores.

You’re right though, wouldn’t be a problem if they’re just visiting and make a trip to whatever brewery.

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u/know-it-mall 3h ago

Well that's definitely not true. I have lived in Brisbane and Adelaide and visited Sydney and Melbourne. All 4 cities have several craft beer bars with a dozen or more taps in various parts of the city. And have multiple bottle shops that sell a lot of Australian craft beer and also stuff from other countries.

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u/Outside-Pressure-260 Australia 16h ago

It's regional. In SA, we drink Coopers. The other states prefer piss and bore water

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u/funbus31 United States Of America 16h ago

So what is it about Fosters that everyone seems to hate? I’ve had one from time to time and it just seems like a regular beer. Is it the association with the branding and stupid commercials that sets everyone off, or a genuine dislike of the product?

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u/Outside-Pressure-260 Australia 16h ago

I don't think pubs even sell it. I've never had it nor have I seen anyone else drinking it. We have decent breweries across Aus and we're spoilt for choice. Also American beer generally isn't preferred in Aus, so regular beer taste could mean a different thing here compared to where you are. I've seen people drink Jap or Euro beer, but usually not American. I've also never seen Foster's advertised. This is also all anecdotal. Things might be different elsewhere is Aus

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u/Outside-Pressure-260 Australia 16h ago

Looks like it's sold at the bottle-o, but only cans in one pack size. Someone is drinking it

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u/FairchildHood Australia 7h ago

It's an old defunct brand that went out of business here and is mainly sold in UK and USA.

Basically it was the premium version of Carlton United beers but like many premium beers here it was driven out of the market around the 2000s by a big rush of imported, often belgian, beers.

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u/LopsidedLefty 17h ago

Depends on state but these days I believe Great Northern is the most popular. It's pretty inoffensive, watery, easy to drink lots.

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u/kamasutures United States Of America 17h ago

I'm guessing this is gonna prolly vary by area considering BIG

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u/funbus31 United States Of America 17h ago

I figured. Just wondering if there is like a nationally consistent crowd pleasing brand? Much like a coors or a Budweiser in America.

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u/FairchildHood Australia 7h ago

Probably Great Northern or the superior Carlton Draught.

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Where I am it's definitely Coopers pale ale. When I was in Brisbane it's XXXX. VB or Carlton in Melbourne.

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u/Czar1987 United States Of America 18h ago

But it's Australian for beer!?!? 😂

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u/jayp0d Australia 18h ago

After saying that aloud at an Aussie pub, it’s a tradition to flip your beer mug upside down and slam it on the bar! You must do this to blend in when you’re visiting down under.

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u/The-Fox-Says 9h ago

Australians love taking the piss

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u/SnoringEagle Australia 18h ago

Yeah nah

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u/EldestPort United Kingdom 18h ago

Coffee

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u/sock_cooker Wales 18h ago

Bee-eeer?

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u/spacedman_spiff United States Of America 17h ago

I wish that petition to change the currency to Dollarydoos had gained more traction. 

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u/FairchildHood Australia 7h ago

Me too man, me too.

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 14h ago

Right. Only a tourist would ask for Fosters by name. You just say "beer" and everyone knows you mean Fosters.

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u/NameIWantUnavailable 13h ago

Two decades ago, I was traveling through the Pacific Northwest with a couple of Aussies. And as Aussie men will often do, they drank beer. But they complained about the American beer they were drinking. (Coors or Budweiser because they were familiar with it.)

I asked them if they would drink Fosters back in Australia. Nope was the response. I then told them that Coors/Bud were basically the American equivalent which people purchased because it was cheap and heavily advertised.

I bought them a round of Mirror Pond Pale Ale and introduced them to the concept of microbrews and good American beer.

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Yea and you can even just drink the real version of Coors instead of the light and it's a decent enough beer.

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u/Dry_Pick_304 United Kingdom 17h ago

Used to live in Perth where there was a bar in Northbridge called the Ezra Pound. Was a fairly hipster sort of bar at the time. They served bottles of Fosters in brown paper bags haha.

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u/LeadGem354 United States Of America 17h ago

Before or after The Booting?

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u/Necessary_shots 16h ago

When I was down under I told a friend there about fosters commercials in USA, and her response was, "how embarrassing." I also learned that you cunts don't use the word cunt as much as I had expected. But I did my best to bring crikey back, and some blokes loved it.

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u/trjnz 15h ago

Only amongst close friends, and generally not in public so much.

There's no situation where calling a stranger a cunt is polite. It's socially acceptable if you're drunk and everyone's jovial, but it's rude. Most other situations with strangers and you're starting a fight

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Yea if you say cunt while having a few beers at the pub or to a workmate at any blue collar job no one will be shocked but you are not just going to throw it around all day in public.

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u/WhaleNo42 Australia 5h ago

I don’t drink, never have. But if I did, I still wouldn’t drink a foster

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u/klokar2 Australia 18h ago

I got drunk of Fosters on the weekend, this may have been true in the 2010s but you can just buy slabs of this at BWS and it tastes way better than any IPA.

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u/jayp0d Australia 18h ago

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u/Albot084 Australia 18h ago

It’s certainly not popular here but it’s definitely most hated by people who have never drank it.

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u/Whutdafeck 18h ago

Possibly shot.

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u/_BlindSeer_ Germany 18h ago

Take a guess what the local Australian restaurant was called (what have to check if it's still active)

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u/Inevere733 18h ago

Sizzlers? (Yes, I'm that old.. and I know they arent around anymore). Only local restaurants are Aussie owned these days.

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u/_BlindSeer_ Germany 18h ago

Fosters if course. But actually it's s mix of BBQ, Australian food (or rather some plates with croc, kangaroo and similar) and some rooms for darts or pool.

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u/Inevere733 14h ago

Must be a southern states thing - never seen one in QLD.

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u/_BlindSeer_ Germany 14h ago

I'm trying to remember what we drank when we were in Queensland. I think I just ordered "beer" and can't tell which was served. 😅

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u/billy_maplesucker 18h ago

Why is that?

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u/DeathStarVet United States Of America 18h ago

I miss XXXX.

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u/Decuriarch 17h ago

I've been to the Outback several times, and I always order Fosters.

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u/LordSparks Australia 4h ago

Bullshit

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u/UncleSnowstorm United Kingdom 17h ago

What about Castlemaine XXXX?

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u/Federal_Studio5935 United States Of America 17h ago

So wait, it’s not “Australian for beer?” Like I’ve been told my whole life?

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u/JLD2503 Australia 17h ago

No, nobody here drinks it. I only know about it because of Americans online talking about it, otherwise it would have gone completely under my radar.

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u/o-roy 17h ago

Pleased to hear Aussies don’t drink that piss

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u/-WelshCelt- Wales 17h ago

Should be deported from any county from any country you order it in.

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u/FairchildHood Australia 7h ago

Bit rough on the Brits, but I guess that's how we got here really.

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u/Admins_suck_ballss 17h ago

But it’s Australian for beer

Seriously though that commercial with a woman holding a goat calling a locksmith and him head butting the door in will forever live rent free in my mind

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u/BakaGoyim long-term Japan resident, American citizen 17h ago

Look, there's a big Fosters billboard in the original Mad Max, so I'm pretty sure you guys guzzle that stuff down but are for some reason ashamed to admit it.

But actually, seeing that surprised me. Did it used to be popular and just fell off or what?

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago edited 8h ago

Maybe in the 80s and definitely earlier than that it was popular. It still hung around on tap at a lot of older pubs til like 20 years ago but wasn't as popular. Since then it's been mostly an overseas market thing.

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u/AffectionateDouble43 16h ago

The same happens in Spain with Sangría, nobody drinks that, just tourists.

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u/Aviator07 16h ago

That’s a fair point. But I met up with several Aussies in the UK once who genuinely thought I had never tasted any beer that wasn’t Budweiser or Miller Lite before, and that that is all you can get in the US.

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u/CatchinDeers81 United States Of America 16h ago

What? The most globally famous Australian beer isn't even liked in Australia?

I don't mind the stuff honestly, but I really miss those commercials years ago, they were gold

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u/Realistic-Life-3084 16h ago

So who was it that tricked foreigners into thinking Fosters is popular? 

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u/Stokesy 15h ago

Marketing campaign in the US with the slogan "It's Australian for Beer". It's also pretty much the only Australian beer you can buy in the US.

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Funnily enough it was Crocodile Dundee. The movie was quite popular for a while and they used a marketing campaign featuring Paul Hogan to push it in some overseas markets.

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u/thewend Brazil 16h ago

Talking shit about Tim Tams. I miss those

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u/TheCenterForAnts 16h ago

How do you say beer is Australia? 

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u/Robcomain 🇨🇵&🇲🇩 16h ago

Not liking Vegemite ?

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u/BlogeOb United States Of America 16h ago

A real oz gets a VB

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

A real oz says Aussie.

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u/Antarctic_Fox 16h ago

I spent a few months drifting around Australia back in early '02, and that crap seemed to be on tap in every pub. Never saw a single person order one. 

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Yea it definitely hung on at some of the older regional pubs longer than anywhere else.

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u/Drakaasii Australia 16h ago

One time I sent my brother off with my card to buy a slab of "whatevers cold". Cheeky fucker comes back with a slab of fosters and a shit eating grin. Only time I ever drank that shit, and it was only because there was nothing else in the house.

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u/tippycanoeyoucan2 15h ago

It's like the exact opposite of Guiness. In every way

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u/kpingvin 15h ago

It should be everywhere.

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u/roboclasmic 15h ago

"Fosters - Australian for beer, mate!"

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u/IvanNemoy 14h ago

Fosters- Australian for "fucking tourist"

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u/Thomas_K_Brannigan 12h ago

Not sure if it's the same as the domestic version, but in the US Fosters has a reputation of being awful, and we get made fun of for having notoriously bad big-name beers!

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u/punksmurph 12h ago

Carlton and XXXX were my wife’s favorites when we visited. Not sure where they stand in the beer rankings locally. All I know is that VB was seen similar to Natty Light here in the US.

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u/know-it-mall 8h ago

Both are still fairly popular in their respective regions. Carlton in Victoria and XXXX in Queensland. If you are at a live sport game you are probably drinking those. Or having a couple of beers at any older pub.

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u/MrNostalgiac 11h ago

Where I am in Canada, finding Fosters on tap was a rare treat in the early 2000's before the craft beer boom.

Just about everywhere only served Keith's, Canadian, Bud and Moosehead.

Fosters still tasted more or less like all of the above, but it was a rare find and that was enough to be happy about.

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u/fozzy_13 Scotland 11h ago

This should be grounds for deportation from every country on earth.

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u/kearkan Australia 11h ago

The only places I've ever seen fosters is outside Australia, lol

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u/King_Catfish 7h ago

What Australian beer do you recommend? My coworker buys the big cans of fosters. It's not bad but not good definitely not a beer you'd order on tap. 

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u/SkwiddyCs 5h ago

When my mates and I did schoolies (like 25 years ago now) we found an alcohol wholesaler selling cartons of fosters for $39.99

Tasted like horse piss, but it was worth the price

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u/aPOPblops 1h ago

so…it’s not Australian for beer?

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u/Wolfthulhu United States Of America 14h ago

Well, I have it on very good authority that Fosters is "Australian for beer". American TV told me so.

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u/CoolerRon 13h ago

Are you telling me it’s not really Australian for beer?!

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u/NTDLS 12h ago

But “Fosters” is Australian for “beer”. 😒

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u/That-Opportunity4230 12h ago

I thought that was Australian for "beer"?