1. After a big night drinking from the goon bag, it can then be blown up (simply put your mouth over where you drink and blow as hard as you can until it’s a balloon) and used as a pillow. Simple solution to being so drunk off goon you can’t find a bed; and

2. GOON OF FORTUNE. Probably the best drinking game of all time and a true Aussie drinking tradition. To play goon of fortune you need at least 4 people and at least 4 goon sacks. You peg all 4 goon sacks onto each corner of a Hills Hoist (another Aussie icon – the clothesline), and you spin the clothesline around until it lands above someones mouth. There are many variations of this game but the general gist is the winner is the last person standing.

Also, a lot of goon does taste bloody awful. But to get all you backpackers off to an easy start – try Coolabah brand Fruit Elixir. And if you’re still gagging, make some goon punch, where you stick a large tin of Golden Circle ‘Sunshine Punch’ in with a cup or so of chopped up fruit. Backpacker budget friendly and deeeelicious!!

Every time you drink goon, your experience will be the same in that you will undoubtedly:
-wake up the next morning with little to no memory from the night before
-be wearing at least one article of clothing you have never seen (likely fluro, covered in glitter, or speckled with paint)
-have multiple bruises in unlikely places (inner thigh, bottom of the foot, boob, ear, etc…) that would concern any rational doctor
-have multiple missed calls and texts from new names in your phone like “Spikey Bathroom Girl”, “(Insert random bar name)?”, “Mud Guy Shower” or “Tequila Man-NO.”

Every time you drink goon, your experience will be completely different because you never really know who you or your drinking mates will become that night. People are known to change at the drop of the goon sack as multiple personality disorder is the first standard sign of goon consumption. (Especially red goon as stated above.) One night you might drink to quickly or too slowly, another you might mix goon with spirits, another you might have some beer then some goon, or throw in the towel as you know you’re going to blackout anyway and consume everything in sight. All of these factors come into play and the new personalities come out: the fun-loving guy is suddenly crying in the corner but giggling to himself at random intervals, the girl who is usually the last to dance is doing a surprisingly decent striptease in the middle of the room, the girl who always smiles is suddenly ready to punch anyone in sight and that guy who’s been lurking around for weeks but no one actually knows is suddenly the life of the party, whose name (along with those of everyone new who will be met on a goon night), will subsequently be forgotten in about thirty seconds . And then all of these personalities can change again at the drop of a hat.

Sacks up!

Never forget drinking coke and goon one night with some Germans, wasn't bad!

me? Bourbon….I am old and have money!

Never forget drinking coke and goon one night with some Germans, wasn’t bad!

me? Bourbon….I am old and have money!