mattcarty
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Hi
Grew up in the country in SA, my old man calls 375ml bottles of beer echoes as do most of his mates so naturally becoming a beer drinker myself i called them echoes as well.
moving to adelaide i used the term echoes and people were giving me blank looks.
moved to qld and called them echoes still and was told to forget that SA crap i was in qld and should call them stubbies, advice i promptly put in the get f#$ked response category
moved back to adelaide still call them echoes and all my SA mates tell me to give up that Qld crap cause im in SA now and we call them stubbies
so.... WTF?
i searched the site and found that other people call them echoes so i know my old man, brothers and I are not alone on this, what i was wondering is where the term echoes came from
is it a region thing or an era thing, most of the blokes i know using the term are in their 50 and 60's so maybe it was a term used many years back that has since been replaced by the word stubbie, is this a result of marketing/advertising
are echoes and stubbies the same thing or are they different types of bottles ie VB could have originally been called a stubbie and say a west end bottle called an echo as the VB bottle are a lot shorter, i dont know just a thought
if anyone knows anything about this it would be great to find out more.
Cheers
Carty
Grew up in the country in SA, my old man calls 375ml bottles of beer echoes as do most of his mates so naturally becoming a beer drinker myself i called them echoes as well.
moving to adelaide i used the term echoes and people were giving me blank looks.
moved to qld and called them echoes still and was told to forget that SA crap i was in qld and should call them stubbies, advice i promptly put in the get f#$ked response category
moved back to adelaide still call them echoes and all my SA mates tell me to give up that Qld crap cause im in SA now and we call them stubbies
so.... WTF?
i searched the site and found that other people call them echoes so i know my old man, brothers and I are not alone on this, what i was wondering is where the term echoes came from
is it a region thing or an era thing, most of the blokes i know using the term are in their 50 and 60's so maybe it was a term used many years back that has since been replaced by the word stubbie, is this a result of marketing/advertising
are echoes and stubbies the same thing or are they different types of bottles ie VB could have originally been called a stubbie and say a west end bottle called an echo as the VB bottle are a lot shorter, i dont know just a thought
if anyone knows anything about this it would be great to find out more.
Cheers
Carty