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Benedict Arnold

Any idea why a polar bear is the mascot for a dark rum made in Australia?

Rum is made from a crop that grows in tropical and sub tropical climates.   Australia is perhaps the farthest populated place from where polar bears exist in the wild.

I  just don't get the connection?

Maybe the Aussies can help me out.

Posted - March 10, 2017
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  • No we can't lol.. or at least not this little black duck!
      March 10, 2017 4:25 PM MST
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  • Well thanks anyway.
      March 10, 2017 4:29 PM MST
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  • 2327
    Whoever came up with the idea likes polar bears. 
      March 10, 2017 4:34 PM MST
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  • Ok... To put you out of your collective miseries.  In  1961, the company introduced the polar bear as its unusual choice of mascot, to imply that the rum could ward off the coldest chill.[3]
      March 10, 2017 4:40 PM MST
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  • Ahh okay so that's like what?  30C in Oz?  :P


    ( Joke) 

    Thank you Ozzy.
      March 10, 2017 5:23 PM MST
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  • Anything below 25C lol
      March 10, 2017 5:30 PM MST
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  • This might not be very  flattering but whenever I read your comments I hear them in Shazza's voice. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 10, 2017 5:37 PM MST
      March 10, 2017 5:35 PM MST
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  • Lol... I'll try typing with more of a nasal twang :)
      March 10, 2017 5:40 PM MST
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  • There you go.


    She's so hot in real life.
      March 10, 2017 5:51 PM MST
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  • I couldn't have answered the question but Bundy rum has a lot of fans among the hard drinkers. They even wrote a song about it: 

      March 10, 2017 5:01 PM MST
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  • I love this song!
      March 10, 2017 5:23 PM MST
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  • Back in the day I learned one memorable lesson about Bundy rum. You do NOT drink it with a 6' 5", 320 lb German. Boy! What a hangover.
      March 10, 2017 5:26 PM MST
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  • I'm a German boy and roughly that weight to height ratio.  Not much of a rum fan though. 
      March 10, 2017 5:28 PM MST
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  • He was the strongest man I ever met. Luftwaffe mechanic during WWII. Big, friendly, talkative. He was my next door neighbour for almost 30 years. Moved away about 1995.
      March 10, 2017 5:35 PM MST
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  • I imagine you were privy to  some top-notch bar stool stories.
      March 10, 2017 5:38 PM MST
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  • Alcoholic polar bears are indigenous to Australia.
      March 10, 2017 7:20 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Oh you see Glis that black rum may make you intoxicated enough to see a white polar bear....ok I googled right now and saw that polar bear is not white and their fur is actually transparent and holds no color.
    OOPS I AM NOT AN AUSSIE...
    PLEASE IGNORE MY ANSWER;)) This post was edited by Veena.K at March 10, 2017 7:29 PM MST
      March 10, 2017 7:28 PM MST
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    I loved the song. What I found interesting, is it true Didge, they sell it in cans? WHAT A CONCEPT! I personally have never seen hard stuff in cans.
      March 11, 2017 4:34 AM MST
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