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This frosty tin of goodness.Fosters beer is not consumed by Australians, either locally or internationally. If you came here and tried to order it, you would be disappointed, This is not a beverage that is stocked, it would be taking up valuable space for brands that people would actually buy.The only reason that we still make it for export, is the industrial waste from it’s manufacture is vitally important to us. The expended brewers yeast is used to make Vegemite.You drink our beer, we eat the sludge, everybody wins. Yummy.

I’m Finnish, and our “poverty food” is still popular to this day. One of the reasons is that it’s actually very nutritious. Since Finland has been a poor country with lots of famine, wars (mainly Sweden and Russia fighting among themselves about who gets our land) and very little upper class of its own (not much royalty, either), our main dishes have consisted mainly of gruel and dried bread (rye/barley/buckwheat). Some fish and forest berries, too. Milk and sour milk (butter was for export only). Turnips, lots of them (later on replaced by potatoes).This is all reflected in our modern day cooking: many of us start our day with oatmeal, often accompanied by berries (bilberries being very popular). Rye bread is the most popular bread around, and many adults drink milk daily.That being out of the way, hernesoppa (“pea soup”) might be one of the most popular poverty foods around here. It’s a thick, hearty soup made with dried peas and a modest amount of ham/other cheap cut from pork. Seasoned with bay leaves, carrots, onions, salt and some mustard. It is absolutely delicious, easy to make and of course, cheap. It also has a ton of vitamin K, fiber and protein.Ps. If a Finn is broke, they will surely mumble something about having to eat oatmeal for the rest of the month. :P

The Maritime Provinces went into economic decline around the time wooden sailing ships went out of style, and have never really recovered from it. Halifax was the big port on the East Coast, but there was no reason for it to expand. The Atlantic Provinces have resource-based economies with few resources, and Quebec mainly ships through Montreal.Vancouver has grown because it is the main export port for the vast natural resources of British Columbia and the Canadian Prairies, with most of the natural resources of Canada - including 85% of the agricultural land. Most of their agricultural production goes to export, as does most of their huge lumber and mineral production.10 million tons of coal a year goes out through Vancouver to the steel mills and power plants of Asia, although BC tries not to admit it. Next time you’re at the ferry docks at Tsawwassen, south of Vancouver, look immediately north at the Robert’s Bank Superport and its huge piles of black coal being loaded on ships for export to Asia, and all the containers being unloaded onto trains for transport to the East.