Proposal to get this list back on track

[John]

Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Tristan Wibberley wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>
>>>> John wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And the Canadians! I hear they don't like "beer." Can you believe 
>>>>> that?
>>>>
>>>> We don't like some of the urine you guys _call_ beer.
>>>
>>> They don't call that "beer", they call it "export beer"
>>>
>> Well, one of these days I hope to get to Oz and find out what the natives
>> drink :-)
> 
> VB (very popular here in Australia) isn't that much better. The beer 
> here isn't too great generally. As a side note, I'm ashamed to say but 
> there are actually people here who drink fosters for preference 
> (needless to say I don't associate with them ;) ).

Of course he does, he's a Victorian.

It used to be a regional thing, Swan and Emu Export (and maybe 
Kalgoorlie Stout) in WA, Tooheys (new and old) and Resches in NSW, XXXX 
in Qld, Coopers (complete with sediment) in SA, Courage in Tasway, 
Carlton and Fosters and VB in Vic.

Then Bond bought Swan (and Kalgoorlie which he shut down), went broke 
and sold to the Kiwis, Elliot took over Carlton and tried to Fosterise 
the world, nearly went broke in the attempt, a few forigners entered the 
market and now one can get almost anything almost anywhere. I don't know 
that we're actually better off for the variety though, it all tastes 
pretty terrible to me.