This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchewit, Jeremy Zachson, New South Wales.

Last week, Jeremy introduced me to an Australian phenomenon. It's called the Beer Snake. At first, it threw me.

I thought, beers like snakes, snakes like beers? Okay, fine, I'll believe that.

Everything, everybody is exotic in Australian and they will try to kill you.

So a drunken snake, that made sense to me.

Turns out a beer snake is completely not a snake, but it is a beer snake.

Jeremy, what is a beer snake?

And where does it, where does it appear?

Well, John, the beer snake is a very rare creature indeed.

In fact, it only appears at Australian test cricket matches. And what a beer snake is,

is effectively a snake made up completely of empty plastic cups that once had beer in them. And why this is a phenomenon at Australian test matches is

because when you go to watch cricket in Australia, inevitably you're going to drink beer.

But at all of Australia's cricket grounds, you're not allowed to bring your own beer in,

which means you have to purchase that on-site, which means you get beer in a plastic cup.

And you know, by the end of, say, a 10-hour session when

you've been watching a long day of cricket in the blazing hot sun, you effectively

accumulate a lot of plastic cups. And what the tradition here in Australia, and certainly

in Adelaide where I grew up is, is that basically you get as many cups as possible, you

put them one on top of the other and create the biggest stack you can, and it actually curves around under its own weight, and forms what looks like

effectively a snake in the sky. And hence, John, that's where we get the name Beersnake from.

And again, it's a very, very Australian thing that you'll only ever see at the cricket.

And now we go to The Beersnake Man.

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