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Words/things I learned watching BBAU from the US
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Dr. Pepper is shit. They have tried numerous times to enter the market here, yet it tastes like crappy medicine so it doesn't sell.
We have kola beer, do you have that?
Club soda is Australian for lemon squash. Look up kirks.
watermellie
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I remember in the 80's we had a similar product here sold by Schwans, so no. Perhaps [MENTION=37149]San Antonio[/MENTION] was just unaware of them until recently.
Unrelated: Did anyone see the hilarious America as seen by an Australian and Australia as seen by America maps on r/funny today? Redditors check it out for a chuckle.
Map 1
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kxk
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Kirks - erk, no thanks. Everything they make is shit, tastes like salt. All chemical awfulness.
I just checked apparently root beer is like sarsparilla
Tillyestelle
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Sydney Sydney Sydney.......Surefire method to piss off Melburnites....
Pity they forgot to label BrisVegas!
watermellie
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I've been giggling to myself about all the Virginia's on the America map all day!
kxk
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Hilarious.
I can name most of the US state around the edges, get in the middle and it's all a jumble of who cares.
And how confusing that your warm is south and ours is north.
Connoisseur
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What's a Melburnite? I don't think there's such at thing.
People from Melbourne call ourselves Melburnians but I don't ever recall hearing Melburnites once in my life. lol
And to be honest that US map has more detail than I ever hope or care to know about the States. No offence but I have little interest in the US beyond LA and NY. And I think that applies to most non-Yanks, that is the US to most outsiders in a nutshell. The country is just too large to develop any meaningful knowledge besides those two powerful world cities.
San Antonio
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Yes, ours is called Soda Stream so it must have started in Australia and just hit American last year. Of course it's possible it was available in other parts of the country before we got it in Texas, but the television commercials just started advertising it last year. You don't see the commercials for it anymore, so perhaps it didn't achieve the popularity hoped for.
Dr. Pepper tastes nothing like licorice so it couldn't be similar to sarsaparilla. That's an old fashioned drink that you only hear about in old westerns. (cowboy movies) Root beer is quite popular and has been since the 50's.
I don't know what ginger beer tastes like (probably not like our semi-sweet soft drink Ginger Ale) but root beer is not served in bars. (pubs) It's a soft drink like Coke, Pepsi, 7 Up, etc. purchased in grocery stores. Club Soda is not a soft drink. It's an unsweet sparkling mineral water used in bars to mix with alcohol. People rarely drink it as is.
I drink gin & tonic - best with very good gin like Bombay Sapphire & a good brand of Tonic Water (carbonated quinine flavor used as a mixer in bars.)
Dr. Pepper tastes nothing like licorice so it couldn't be similar to sarsaparilla. That's an old fashioned drink that you only hear about in old westerns. (cowboy movies) Root beer is quite popular and has been since the 50's.
I don't know what ginger beer tastes like (probably not like our semi-sweet soft drink Ginger Ale) but root beer is not served in bars. (pubs) It's a soft drink like Coke, Pepsi, 7 Up, etc. purchased in grocery stores. Club Soda is not a soft drink. It's an unsweet sparkling mineral water used in bars to mix with alcohol. People rarely drink it as is.
I drink gin & tonic - best with very good gin like Bombay Sapphire & a good brand of Tonic Water (carbonated quinine flavor used as a mixer in bars.)
oddjob
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Yeah they pushed Dr Pepper hugely here for a few years, lots of ads and in every store. Most people, including myself, tried it once and that was it.
Professor
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It does have its die hard fans though, I have a co-worker who is obssessed with it. I bought a can in tribute to him...eh it's not that bad, I don't dislike it.
Also after some googling (now you know what government employees do with your taxes!), turns out the beginnings of Sodastream started in the UK (shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia): "The forerunner of the machine, the 'Apparatus for aerating liquids', was created in 1903 by Guy Hugh Gilbey of the London gin distillers, W & A Gilbey Ltd., and was sold to the upper classes (including the royal household). Flavoured concentrates such as cherry ciderette and sarsaparilla, were introduced in the 1920s, along with commercial carbonation machines, and the first machine for home carbonation of drinks was produced in 1955. The SodaStream was originally sold in the UK, but later spread to other countries, including Australia, New Zealand, and Germany." After a string of company changeovers their offices appear to be in Israel now, oddly enough.
San Antonio said:
Having read the post again, I think he was comparing root beer to sarsparilla. I love sarsaparilla but haven't had root beer so can't testify to that one, but the wikipedia page for root beer describes sarsaparilla as a "a similar, although distinct, beverage".
Hmm, just quoted wikipedia twice in one post, there goes my reputation!
kxk
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Now here's a good one.
LOL, my favourite icecream - and it's just so perfectly hilarious that they can't change the name, it's far too popular
But here is another name we can't get rid of, very un PC
Glad to see another fan 
Badlands
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That would be as big a mistake as people who think Australia is just Sydney. Chicago is a world class city. San Francisco is one of the coolest cities on earth. Las Vegas is a must visit. Then there's Washington DC, Boston, Miami, Seattle, New Orleans, Honolulu, San Diego, Orlando, etc.
Badlands
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What are you talking about?? Aren't you the one who trashed NYC and the US in another thread yesterday? Go away and let the adults talk!
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watermellie
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You left out Denver! I visited there this year, was amazing...
Some posters are getting a little touchy, everyone needs to remember it's a joke... We don't really think everywhere is Sydney, nor do we expect you to know our states. Just a bit of humor folks!
kxk
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I want to see the South, bourbon St & old plantations; Virginia in autumn (fall) all those gorgeous trees, those lush places. Grand Canyon.
After watching horrible Katrina stuff, I'm fascinated to see a city below sea level and those walls. Miami I want to see for all the art deco buildings.
San Francisco looks so interesting, I want to see that city. And I want to hear Boston accents I love them, and the Hamptons Revenge houses, and Martha's Vineyard.
Graceland would be good too.................so much
watermellie
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[MENTION=899]kxk[/MENTION] You have excellent vacation ideas
Of the US accents I love New Orleans the most! Especially the men.
So bummed out they don't put Gambit in the X-men movies.
Of the US accents I love New Orleans the most! Especially the men.
So bummed out they don't put Gambit in the X-men movies.