Special for Johnno

At a national conference of the Australian Hotels Association, the general
managers of Cascade Brewery (Tasmania), Tooheys (New South Wales), XXXX
(Queensland), CUB (Victoria) and Coopers (South Australia) found themselves
sitting at the same table for lunch.




When the waitress asked what they wanted to drink, the GM of Tooheys said
without hesitation, "I'll have a Tooheys New."




The head of XXXX smiled and said, "Make mine a XXXX Gold."




To which the boss of Coopers rejoined, "I'll have a Coopers, the King of
Beers.."




And the bloke from Cascade asked for "a Cascade, the cleanest draught on the
planet."




The General Manager of Carlton & United paused a moment and then placed his
order: "I'll have a Diet Coke."




The others looked at him has if he had sprouted a new head.

"Well," he said with a shrug, "if you poofters aren't drinking beer, then
neither will I."

 

[...]

As a one time serious but now reformed beer drinker, I have to wonder
at this parochial brand loyalty. In reality Australian beers vary a
bit in bottle shape and label colouring, otherwise not much changes
from brand to brand when comparing similar lines.

I shakes me head and asks for another red when I see people wanting to
kill in defence of whatever brand name of the beer they are defending.
To me, this only proves that the $$$ the big breweries spend on
advertising actually works for them.

Oh, and welcome to ten years ago )

 

Thank you very much, but my server is a little bit behind the times

 

Ford/Holden

Yamaha/Honda/Ducati

Jetstar/Virgin

Yes, advertising works. It brainwashes the consumer. Less undesetood
is that a lot of the content pretending to be commentary in bike
magazines (for instance) is just subtle adverising or brand-biased
propaganda. Even that content which does not fall into these
categories is still, in order to sell more magazines, hyping up "the
culture" to the point of patriotic fervour. It's all consumer
brainwashing.

You must drink a lot of red, George...


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

Keeps me away from the poofter drinks

 

Only during Carlton vs Tooheys type arguments.
For Holden vs Ford it's dry white, Vodka Martinis for Honda vs
Yamaha... you get the idea.

 

Geez- I'd better change my name back to what it was!

 

To coin a phrase, George, epic fail.

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

Ahh... I see you are multi-drinkual....

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

I'm unpleasantly reminded of an infamous "Drink Cascade" in another ng
in another time.
Can't happen here though...

 

Thanks, George. That gave me a chuckle or two.

--

- KRudd at his finest.

"The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!"
- Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity.

"This is the recession we had to have!"
- Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession.

"Silly old bugger!"
- Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke
responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more.

"By 1990, no child will live in poverty"
- Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election.

"A billion trees ..."
- Borke, pissed as a newt again.

"Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor
general!"
- Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his
appointee for Governor General John Kerr.

 

Drink!

G'day gwd

 

So you can give me the list of German Dark Ale style beers that line up
against Toohey's Old from the other Australian Beer makers then?

Oh and Coopers Dark Ale (nice as it is) is bottle brewed and not German
Style


G-S

 

Especially as half the brands are owned by other breweres

 

Hi TimC

 

When I said comparing similar lines, I didn't mean comparing apples
with oranges or ales with lagers.

 

George W Frost wrote...

Me, I'll stick with VB. I'm not into these boutique beers as listed in that
joke...

 

Yes...

Always had you picked as a "fully loaded can" type of guy...

Hooah !!!

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Onya bike

Gerry

 

So for the Australian beer called Toohey's Old (which is a reality and
the orange under current discussion) where are the other oranges from
the other brewers you claimed existed.

I'm not looking to compare ales with lagers.. you claimed that
Australian beers vary 'a bit in bottle shape etc'.

I'm looking for your comparable australian ales...

G-S

 

If you say there aren't any comparable ales to the one you hold up as
an example, then you are MIGHT be right - there are some boutique ales
around that might prove you wrong, but I cba looking it up.
If you are right then it means is that there are no similar lines to
the beer to which you refer, and I'm a bit confused as to what point
you are trying to make. If my line about bottle shape worries you,
then I withdraw it.
If you are trying to drag me into a "my beer is a better beer than
your beer" discussion, then I don't have enough reds at home for that.