Oz: Oz Drinks
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Caption: All about Oz drinks

Blurb: Wet stuff that usually comes with, between or instead of food.
Keeps the sunburnt country from getting too thirsty.



Being the generally hot place that Oz is, drink is considered very
important. By far the most important of the drinks is beer. Australia
has numerous beers to it's name, there are some national "beers" such
as Tooheys and Carlton, and then there are the state beers; Victoria
Bitter (VB) and so on.



Beer is considered an important part of Oz culture. In the sporting
field, cricketers lead the charge with their reputation of getting
blind drunk on Sydney - London flights. Tennis players also have a
somewhat legendary status as winning championship matches inebriated.
Drinking is also a spectator sport, and again the cricket wins.
Cricket fans usually have a lot of spare time on their hands, and so
put their hands around beers to keep them occupied and
conversational. Beer is also considered the top of the BBQ food
pyramid, as it doesn't take time to cook or utensils to consume. Pubs
are also popular meeting places, the first building to be built in
any town is the pub, so that all the locals have somewhere to go. The
constant quest for "a coldie" has lead to ground breaking discoveries
like the fact that the boot of a Kingswood, lined with a tarpaulin,
makes an excellent and spacious esky.



Other popular Aussie drinkables are things like fizzy drinks (always
Coca Cola) and wines. Australian wines are becoming increasingly good
and popular nationally and globally, no doubt aided by the recently
released research showing that a glass of red is actually good for
you.



Fizzy drinks are the standard sort (Coke, Fanta, etc), available in
various brands and sizes (375ml - 3L). We Aussies are unfrotunate
enough to have been recently introduced to Dr Pepper (canned cough
medicine) and are still wanting the likes of Cherry Coke, Caffine
free, diet, artificially sweetened Coke and the likes.



Juices also go down well. Along with the standard apple and orange,
we get delights like mango and guava juices. Also popular here is
cordial, condensed juice type stuff which, when reconstituted, tastes
like coloured water and is thus best consumed straight (sugar hit).




















Images on this page:
	Image:
		Filename:    Drinks/Ettamograh.jpg
		Caption:     The Famous Ettamograh Pub
	Image:
		Filename:    Drinks/Tooheys.gif
		Caption:     Beer!
	Image:
		Filename:    Drinks/Wine.jpg
		Caption:     Fancy Beer


Links on this page:
	Link:
		URL:         http://www.australianbeers.com/
		Name:        www.australianbeers.com
		Description: Australian Beers!
	Link:
		URL:         http://www.users.bigpond.com/reevev/vb/
		Name:        Victoria Bitter
		Description: The unofficial VB Homepage
	Link:
		URL:         http://www.lindemans.com/
		Name:        Lindemans Wines
		Description: One of the more well known Aussie wines


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Bibliographical information:
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  + Title	Oz: Oz Drinks
  + Creator	Starweb Document Generator V2.6
  + Subject	Australian Drinks
  + Description	A brief and broad description of things
		Australian
  + Publisher	Lukas Tan
  + Contributor
  + Date	2003-08-18
  + Type	Content
  + Format	text/plain
  + Identifier	C:\Documents and Settings\Lukas\My
		Documents\Homepage\Oz\Drinks.txt
  + Source	Drinks.swx
  + Language	en
  + Relation	txt.swt
  + Coverage	Australia
  + Rights	Under Australian law, copyright of this document
		falls with it's publisher (Lukas Tan). Permission is
		granted for the use of the content of these pages for
		non - commercial educational purposes, provided that
		appropriate acknowledgement is given.
  + URL		http://www.effect.net.au/lukastan/Oz/