Ah for the love of Goon. Booze Down Under.
Allow me to introduce goon. Affectionately referred to as an Abbo´s pillow (this is because if you pull the container bag out of the box you can sleep on it) or handbag, goon is the stuff of serious alcoholics. On the outside it looks like really cheap wine in a box, you know one of those shit cartons one of your mates brings over to a party when they are too tight to buy you a nice bottle. The kind that then remains in the fridge for months, until your flat mate, the one with no standards, trys to get laid and plis some unfortunate ugly female visitor with the stuff as a leg opener. Yes Goon, looks like wine, but infact is far from it. It is made (according to the ingredients on the box) of quality ingredients like fish eggs, milk and petrol and is designed to get you smashed on a lower budgets as possible.
I am telling you this, for good reason, because if you are going backpacking in Australia or taking an Australia Gap year, at some point, inevitably, you will end up cross eyed or blind after drinking in a heavy goon session.
You might think that anyone who comes up with the idea of making alcohol out of fermented fish eggs and milk is mental, and probably the guilty offender was, but he she or it is definitely onto something. Goon sells like hot cakes to the backpacker market.
If you can bring it upon yourself to resist the temptation of goon, then Australia has plenty of other beverages that sets it apart from the rest of the world too, many, fortunately not so vile. Did you know you can buy Gin and tonic, jack daniels and coke and jim beam pre mixed in a can there? Genious. Then if you want to sample a really good metal polish, try Bundaberg rum, Aussie rum hailing from: yes you guessed it Bundaberg. Not a bad rum actually (although I am still completely confised why they have a polar bear as the logo) the only down side is the smell of the stuff is less than subtle, a few glugs and you will smell like a tramp at the tail end of bottle shop shoplifting spree.
Australia has got plenty of stuff to wet your whistle, surprising with a country with such water shortage problems (Australia is the driest country on the planet), like the beers (Tougheys and Victoria bitter (VB) are the most popular, forget Castlemain XXXX and fosters). If you really want a bit of class though, stick to the wine, some incredible verities come from Australia. Unless of course you are a backpacker or a tramp. Then go for the goon every time.
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