Keeping a well-maintained and balanced diet is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but stuff that.
We’ve gone deep into the Neds pantry and lived off a strict diet of Bartymite spread on Tip Top Footy Bread toast, washed it down with some Canberra Raiders lime milk, and headed to Hungry Jacks to claim our free cheeseburger because the away team missed a free-throw in the NBL.
This is a collection of the finest athlete/sports endorsed food and drinks Australian sport has had to offer over the years.
Because if it’s good enough for our sporting idols, it’s good enough for us.
(1) Bartymite
With the French Open, Wimbledon, and last year’s Australian Open under her belt, Ash Barty shocked us all with her sudden retirement at the age of 25.
Be it a comeback to Tennis, the Brisbane Heat WBBL team, or taking up another sport, she’ll always be a happy little Vegemite…or Bartymite in her case.
Mitey proud to be teaming up with @vegemite and launching… a limited-edition BARTYMITE jar! #TastesLikeAustralia #Vegemite pic.twitter.com/F0eYfhnI1Y
— Ash Barty (@ashbarty) October 13, 2019
We’re Mitey excited to announce the arrival of our limited-edition 'BARTYMITE' Vegemite jars! 🎾🇦🇺🙌 Available in all major supermarkets from mid-October, until sold out. @ashbar96 #TastesLikeAustralia #BVitaminsforVitality #Bartymite #Vegemite #AshBarty #BartyArmy pic.twitter.com/ecImQtqLUw
— Vegemite (@Vegemite) October 13, 2019
(2) Canberra Raiders Lime Milk
Easily one of the most iconic partnerships in Rugby League, Raiders fans even have the catchcry:
UP THE MILK!
Both Canberra Milk and the Raiders are meant to be.
(3) McDonalds Double AFL Cheeseburgers
What made the likes of Matthew Richardson, Anthony Koutoufides and Tony Modra the superstars they were back in the 1990s?
A strict diet of Triple Cheeseburgers at McDonald’s.
Triple the cheese, triple the patty, triple the nutrition.
(4) Tip Top Footy Bread
GOOD ON YA MUM!
Tip Top had the footy bread market covered back in the day when Dermott Brereton declared Tip Top was the one.
Even when Hawthorn won a premiership, Derm couldn’t help but thank his favourite high-fibre white bread.
Dermie orchestrated some super subtle product placement after @hawthornfc won the premiership in '88…
Watch #TheFrontBar 👉 https://t.co/fbWTQ8KMGJ pic.twitter.com/WoZeFQkMHi
— 7AFL (@7AFL) September 5, 2018
Tip Top had the Rugby League market covered as well, with Alfie Langer showing his particular fondness for Tip Top.
(5) Wallabies Gold Rush Powerade
For a while the Gold Powerade was known as Wallabies Gold Rush but hardly anyone was enthusiastic about the concept of a post-game Wallabies Golden Shower.
(6) North Queensland Cowboys Burger
In what seems to be a very similar burger sold at McDonald’s in metropolitan Brisbane called the “Broncos Burger“, North Queenslanders can enjoy a Cowboys burger with 50 cents going to a worthy cause in Ronald McDonald House.
https://www.facebook.com/nqcowboys/videos/10154600101465662/
(7) West Coast Eagles Whoppers
The West Coast Eagles have been sponsored by Hungry Jacks for years and every single premiership the club has won – 1992, 1994, 2006 and 2018 had the Eagles on a steady diet of Whoppers.
(8) XXXX & Toohey’s State of Origin
SPOILER ALERT: XXXX and Tooheys are owned by the same company, but come origin time the beers get tribal.\
This ad from Tooheys News is akin to treason in the state of Queensland.
While King Wally committed state-based beer adultery, XXXX called in Prince Billy Moore to ad some of that QUEENSLANDER spirit.
However, it might have resulted in Billy going through a phase where he refused to say it as revealed by us during the State of Origin series in 2022
(9) Geelong Premiership Beer
As is custom when a team wins an AFL flag, Carlton Draught releases a premiership beer to celebrate the occasion.
No doubt the likes of Billy Brownless and co have been knocking back a few of these over the off-season
The people at Carlton Draught also released a special beer for the Blues to celebrate their appearance in the 2022 AFL Finals series, it was just that the ‘Baggers didn’t feature in September and the beer was used for drowning sorrows rather than any form of celebration.
(10) Collingwood Draught
You’ve just got to love Collingwood merchandise that has CARLTON written all over it.
The Magpies/CUB marketing department didn’t think this one through did they?
Carlton Draught has been delivering that brewery fresh taste for over 150 years. It's the same smooth, full bodied taste that's perfect for showing your support to the Magpies during the 2019 season.
*18+ only
ORDER – https://t.co/hGymo4FI0R pic.twitter.com/EgtRPqmW8w
— Collingwood FC (@CollingwoodFC) May 29, 2019
CUB’s Carlton Zero brand is now currently a coach sponsor of the Magpies resulting in the words CARLTON being placed on coach Craig McRae’s polo.
(11) Collingwood Ketchup
There’s nothing shameless at Collingwood, even Heinz Ketchup has a link to the Magpies.
Head to the @CollingwoodFC Superstore to claim your Heinz x Pies ketchup bottle! All proceeds go to Magpies Nest. pic.twitter.com/jaOJ1mTZok
— Collingwood FC (@CollingwoodFC) August 23, 2019
(12) Free Hungry Jacks Cheeseburgers at NBL Games
This promo has been a hit as part of the NBL’s renaissance
There’s a catch, the NBL website terms and conditions state:
“If the AWAY team misses two consecutive free-throw shots in a single penalty fans get a free cheeseburger at Hungry Jack’s. * The shots must be two consecutive missed free-throw shots in a single penalty;The fans in attendance win a free cheeseburger at Hungry Jack’s”
“One cheeseburger per ticket – this means that if a family of four come in with four tickets, they will receive four burgers. Limited to One Burger per person.”
Too good to be true, but it gets the crowd up and about for free burgers if the away team misses and a golden opportunity.
(13) West Coast Eagles Coke Cans
The West Coast Eagles and Coke have always been a winning combination.
(14) KFC Cricket Box.
Summer means Cricket and KFC ads.
People wear KFC buckets to the Cricket.
The Cricket gave birth to the KFC Zinger box which is quite possibly a greater revolution than Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket.
(15) Olympic Happy Meals
It just wouldn’t be the Olympics without some sort of coke glass or happy meal toy.
It’s as close as you’ll get to winning a medal.
We expect the Happy Meal for the Brisbane 2032 games to be just as good as the Barcelona one.
(16) Sustain – Australian Insitute of Sport Cereal
So if I eat a bowl of this cereal, I’ll be just as athletic as Rob DeCastella and/or Andrew Gaze?
Do I have to do any of the exercise?
(17) Footy Franks
Long before Dustin Martin, Don’t argue meant one thing – Hutton’s Footy Franks.
(18) Socceroos Weet-Bix
The 2006 Socceroos squad made it big time, not just getting to the final 16 in Germany but when they finally got the Weet-Bix endorsement.
(19) SANFL Flapjacks
Flapjacks and South Australian Football – a winning combination.
(20) Perth Wildcats Chicken Treat $3 Deal
The Perth Wildcats doing an ad for Chicken Treat.
This is as WA as it gets.