Culture

The Coronavirus is taking its toll on Oz citizens at the moment and the duress is being demonstrated in alarming ways. The lucky country has become quite parochial while the beast dances around the continent and there has been a continuing and justifiable emphasis on borders, containment and biosecurity to slow down the soundtrack’s tempo. Globalisation and all things ‘foreign’ have been assigned peanut gallery seating as a national march towards the ‘new normal’ begins. Cue in an accompanying and competing military-style beat. But COVID-19 has not just been fooling with our physical well-being. Many punters’ brains appear adversely affected. Over the last three months, a few familiar food products here in Australia have been wrangled into a bush holding pen in preparation for long overdue name changes. Such items include Red Skins confectionery bars and Chicos dark jelly babies. The owner/ manufacturer ‘Nestle’ has stated that ‘ These names have overtones which are o...