Subj : Re: Favourite Fast Food
To   : deon
From : Spectre
Date : Wed Mar 09 2022 18:27:00

 de> The beer, Fosters, is a very successful brand - Outside of Australia. I
 de> dont know anybody here who drinks it, and I rarely see it in the liquor
 de> stores (its probably there, I just dont notice it - and never seen anybody
 de> buy it).

During the 70's and mid 80's the two labels ran alongside each other.
Fosters is not an original CUB label where Vic Bitter is.  Some time after
that, I forget who owned it at the time, John Elliot maybe? It was decided to
trim the labels, and Fosters was the poor relation to Vic in sales, although
well known, it would become the export label for CUB.

So we had Vic in pubs and the bottle shops here, and local supply of Fosters
just disappeared.  I also don't know anyone that drank it by choice, and none
of my friends at the time lamented its passing, although I seem to recall
some mild concern about it in the papers of the time.

Also have to say not being a beer/lager/bitter drinker, all of them being
equally as bad as each other, that I didn't really give two hoots about it.

Spec


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