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Danmont88 t1_itgw2ks wrote

So funny. I worked at a ski resort in Colorado USA and we had a bunch of young adults from Australia come to work the winter.

At the time there were two regular commercials on USA tv.
One was for Fosters

The second was for Subaru Outback. It was set in some outback village and was a bit silly. Had a crock in a mudhole in the middle of the street. Kangaroos hopping down the street. These Crockadile Dundee type guys walking around.

One of the people working for me said she had never heard of Fosters and wondered if we Yanks thought that was what the streets of Australia were really like.

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wonderhorsemercury t1_ith1mhl wrote

It is Australian and was relatively popular some decades ago. Its fallen in popularity significantly though. I can't figure out if Australians are genuinely ignorant when they say they don't drink it and have never heard of it or if its a spontaneous, international gaslighting attempt by the entire Australian diaspora. The anger in their eyes when they assert that it was never popular makes me assume its the latter.

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seavisionburma t1_ithjpli wrote

Aussie here. Fosters was just never a popular or well liked beer in Australia. People drank the preferred beers in whatever state they lived in. Or VB.

These days it's different, there's such a wide variety of beers now, craft and independent breweries etc. But the mainstream mass market beers are still popular state by state.

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kangadog OP t1_ith67t2 wrote

This is excellent! I’m going to have to search for that ad- it sounds like a riot!

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