• CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Goon is an extremely cheap type of wine sold in cardboard boxes. It’s core audience are alcoholic working poor in Australia. It’s an industry that preys on disenfranchised proles (and sometimes broke uni students) and their alcohol addictions.

    As such, many in polite society dislike goon due to its association with the Poor’s and the working class.

    Others despise goon as it perpetuates a cycle of alcoholism.

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      10 months ago

      As an alcoholic who used to drink two or three boxes of goon a week… Yeah, but it did also mean my alcoholism didn’t break the bank. Not that that’s a “good” reason for such easily available alcohol. That said, it’s actually a surprisingly good money <-> calories ratio and helps you forget a mountain of debt sitting around that $45 wouldn’t put a dent in.

      Advising you don’t do this.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah honestly, goon and orange juice was a staple of uni parties in the early 2010’s, until they invented Little Fat Lamb. Had friends that subsisted off of goon and mi goreng noodles for basically 4 years.