I was in Oz for a few weeks early 80s, and I guess there were many things about the place I could call culture shock: tiny beer glasses, free promotional cigarettes handed out, the rat tail hair cut.
Ah the 7 oz and 5 oz beer, so favoured by Queensland businessmen at lunch time (in their dapper safari suits with short trousers and long white socks). I havenât seen them for decades (that doesnât mean you canât get them though)
Are they the oneâs that play pool and have Bundy and Coke for breakfast.
You certainly wouldnât get promotional cigarettes handed out now and you wouldnât see many rats tail hair styles, that fashion has long gone
Iâm pleased to hear times are a changin
not changing - long changed on those 2 aspects.
I thought someof you might be interested in this, I came across a typical free BBQ in a park in Adaminaby mentioned by Mike and Teresa. this park only had one but in bigger towns there are many.
That rather grubby plate in the base is the old control system where there was a single button to turn it on, they are far more sophisticated now.
