They sell beer on the beaches in Brazil. Cold beer. You can get it from the bar or just wait for one of the young lads with eskies to come over and sell you a frosty one. There is a choice of 500ml bottles for sharing or 350ml cans just for you. The bottles come with a stubby holder to keep your beer cold. The cans you have to drink fast or drink warm.
It’s a nice feeling at the end of a long day in the surf and sun to sit with your toes in the sand, sipping on a cold beer and watching the day fade into evening.
Of course, for all sorts of reasons, it wouldn’t work in Australia. Attitude mainly. Our puritanical streak and competing larrikin spirit would put an end to it before too long. The larrikins would get blind drunk and trash an ice-cream parlour, giving the puritans their chance to paint beach-side beer-sales as the first irreparable tear in the fabric of Australian family values. And that would be that.
It’s a real shame. I mean we have plastic money. It’s the perfect currency for buying beer in an aquatic environment.
While beer sales would certainly catch-on at Australia’s beaches, I’m not sure the same is true of cookwear. The Brazilians don’t seem to go in for it much either which was bad news for the salesman on Matadero Beach who was working his way up the waterline with an impressive selection of rather sturdy looking woks on display.
But silver linings can be found in every situation and despite his lack of success he too could take heart in his vocation. Popular it ain't but at least it’s family friendly.
That is all,
Dale Atkinson
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