South Australia is the only place in the world where milk is more popular than cola.
Being a descendant of South Australian Germans, I was pleased to find a Wikipedia article on Barossa German - a dialect of German once found in the Adelaide Hills. My family arrived from the Harz Mountains and settled in the Adelaide Hills, around Lobethal. I imagine they spoke Barossa German.
This article led me to this report on Radio National’s Lingua Franca program, on South Australian words.
I was reminded of all this when I read today that Coca Cola plans to launch its own brand of flavoured milk into South Australia, in direct competition with Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee. And then I came across this fascinating fact:
Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee outsells Coke in SA by almost three to one – the only place in the world where a milk drink is more popular than a cola.
