Ha! Ha! Ha, Bloody Fosters Lager! Should be called Fosters Laughter.

That's the best joke pulled on the Poms evvaaa! It is produced in England in order to fool Poms that it is the milk from the land of milk and honey. I reckon that it is brewed using the seepage from a Cantonese kitchen sink. It tastes bloody aweful. Even warm English beer is preferable. You can only buy it in Australia as an "Imported" beer, like Budweiser and such.

Fosters Lager was made infamous by the great Australian satirist, Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage) in the 1960's comic strip The Adventures of Barry Mackenzie which was published in "Private Eye" in London. Barry Mackenzie was a charicature - a naive Melbournian who joined the Cultural Cringe migration of young Australians to England in the late 1950-early 60s, made possible by the wings of the Boeing 707. Being young and uninhibited, these young Aussies indulged in boozy parties and clumsy seduction of English roses.

The wheel has turned half-circle. Now Australia is flooded with young English people (and their European collegues) who backpack around the country and behave as our young people did 50 years ago. Perhaps these young people are the grandchildren of those Australian emigres, seeking their ancestral roots under the Southern Cross. They sure do a lot of rooting when they are here. (Australian joke with sexual connotation)

Old Man Emu