G'day Nance,

In article >, "Nancy Young"
> wrote:
[...]
>Besides, also, I really don't see how a group could be sustained when all
>the food you have there is vegemite along with shrimp on the barbie and
>Foster's beer. (laughing)

"Shrimp" was a translation in the ads for you northern hemisphere
ferals; we ferals down here always throw a *prawn* on the barbie.
Also, the issue of Fosters was being discussed at a local "social
gathering" (drinking session %-) just last week. The question was
raised as to why no one down here actually drinks the stuff but the
rest of the world clearly associates it with Australia -- another
triumph of marketing over reality!

Cheers, Phred.

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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:09:46 GMT, Phred wrote:

> G'day Nance,
>
> In article >, "Nancy Young"
> > wrote:
> [...]
> >Besides, also, I really don't see how a group could be sustained when all
> >the food you have there is vegemite along with shrimp on the barbie and
> >Foster's beer. (laughing)
>
> "Shrimp" was a translation in the ads for you northern hemisphere
> ferals; we ferals down here always throw a *prawn* on the barbie.
> Also, the issue of Fosters was being discussed at a local "social
> gathering" (drinking session %-) just last week. The question was
> raised as to why no one down here actually drinks the stuff but the
> rest of the world clearly associates it with Australia -- another
> triumph of marketing over reality!
>
> Cheers, Phred.

What is foster's down there? It's chicken in my area.

sf wrote on 20 Sep 2005 in rec.food.cooking

> What is foster's down there? It's chicken in my area.
>

Didn't foster invent flaming Bananas?

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sf wrote:

> What is foster's down there? It's chicken in my area.

It's beer.

http://www.fosters.com.au/enjoy/beer/fosters_lager.htm

I've heard Aussie friends of mine say exactly what Phred is saying.
Americans seem to think Foster's is big in Australia, and they swear
it's anything but. Brilliant marketing there.

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"Phred" > wrote in message
...

> "Shrimp" was a translation in the ads for you northern hemisphere
> ferals; we ferals down here always throw a *prawn* on the barbie.
> Also, the issue of Fosters was being discussed at a local "social
> gathering" (drinking session %-) just last week. The question was
> raised as to why no one down here actually drinks the stuff but the
> rest of the world clearly associates it with Australia -- another
> triumph of marketing over reality!

That's just the Australian version of the Coors Beer Phenomenon;
for years, Coors has been seen throughout the rest of the country
as the quintessential "Western" or "Rocky Mountain" beer, and
until relatively recently (when Coors expanded their distribution
nationwide), people looked longingly toward Colorado and thought
how very, very lucky those of us who LIVED here were, to
have the actual source of the Wonderbeer virtually in our back
yards! People would actually lug cases of the stuff back home
at the end of a Colorado vacation.

The only problem is that most Coloradans view Coors as somewhere
between stagnant pond water and the sweat from old gym socks, in
terms of it being their preferred drink; it's certainly not seen as
significantly better than Budweiser, or pretty much any other weak,
watered-down, "American-style" beer you'd think of. The classic
joke here refers to a Coors competitor sending a sample of the stuff
off to a lab for analysis, and then the report comes back with,
"Dear Sir: Regret to inform you that your horse has diabetes...."

Same thing, different beer....


Bob M.

(Phred) wrote in news:3pbtnaF9o1rkU1
@individual.net:


> Also, the issue of Fosters was being discussed at a local "social
> gathering" (drinking session %-) just last week. The question was
> raised as to why no one down here actually drinks the stuff but the
> rest of the world clearly associates it with Australia -- another
> triumph of marketing over reality!
>

There was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today reporting on
Fosters planning to try and increase their Australian market share by
getting more taps into pubs. Apparently only 250 of Australia's 5000 pubs
have Fosters on tap. Of 100 million slabs of Fosters drunk in 150
countries, only 4 million are sold in Australia.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/...otting-a-home-
run/2005/09/21/1126982122853.html

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia