"get a senior coffee or soft drink at McDonald's for fifty cents"

They don't do that in Australia... :-)



Bought a (375ml is standard size) can today $2 - chilled.

You can buy packs of 20-30 (sizes vary) cans for between 40-50 c a can in supermarkets.

Now as for the ripoff of 'bottles' of Coke - here in Aus they had a 3 litre bottle for a while - it was actually dearer to buy it that way per unit volume than any other bottle! And they have a racket in the supermarkets, whereby they pump the prices of 1.25 litre bottles up and down on a regular basis.

Now as for soft drinks in pubs - even the added mixers are almost more expensive than the booze therein...