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07 Dec 19 - 02:31 PM (#4022656) Subject: BS: Irn Bru From: Senoufou My sister up in Scotland has just 'given me the wire' about the latest Irn Bru TV ad 'Irn Bru - The Sequel'.I've watched it on Youtube. It's set to the music from The Snowman and follows on from the first ad in which the Snowman pinched the wee lad's can. He pursues the thief in a small aeroplane, singing, "You greedy snowman thief, I'm coming after yoooou!" Irn Bru is disgusting, especially since they've changed the taste by removing any sugar. But these two ads are so clever - really funny spoofs. Anyone else watched it? |
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07 Dec 19 - 03:08 PM (#4022662) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Charmion Yikes, Eliza, you Brits go in for ferocious fantasy! Irn-Bru is not a thing here. (Is it a thing anywhere but Scotland?) A local shop that caters to ex-pats and homesick immigrants stocks it, but the Londoner behind the counter denies ever having tasted it. "I'm told it's nasty," he said when I asked. |
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07 Dec 19 - 03:31 PM (#4022667) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Senoufou It's sold down here in England, in Tescos Charmion. I used to drink it sometimes when I moved to Glasgow from Edinburgh in the Seventies. It was a ghastly lurid orange colour and contained no end of 'secret' ingredients. My sister tells me it's revolting now. The ads are so funny in that they mimic the voice of the original singer of The Snowman song, and his style. |
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07 Dec 19 - 03:40 PM (#4022670) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Steve Shaw It's very good for washing down a deep-fried Mars Bar. |
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07 Dec 19 - 03:45 PM (#4022673) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: keberoxu Boston, Massachusetts has one restaurant/bar, down in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood I believe, where the proprietor is Scottish and much about the cuisine and the bar is Scottish. He has Irn Bru at the bar, largely because it is a key ingredient, he has told reporters, for his homemade hangover remedy; all I have heard about what is in it is rumors of a high caffeine content. Have never tried it. |
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07 Dec 19 - 04:10 PM (#4022678) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Jack Campin They did a big sales push in California about ten years ago, with what lasting result I know not. There was a study that linked it to an epidemic of oral Crohn's disease in Glasgow. Yes it's disgusting. |
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07 Dec 19 - 04:41 PM (#4022680) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Senoufou I always pronounce it "Earrrrn Brrrrue" because that's how my pupils in Glasgow said it in the Seventies. But English people usually say "Eye-yun brew". Perhaps Gallus Moll or Tattie Bogle will be along to set me right? I believe it contains a cocktail of additives and flavourings plus 'e numbers' and it's absolutely ghastly. There will soon be a third ad to complete a Trilogy. Maybe the wee lad follows Santa to Lapland and receives a whole crate of the stuff as a gift? Oh Steve, I'd give anything for a deep-fried Mars bar just now. I'm trying to lose some weight and have been existing on raw spinach leaves, chicken slices and chopped tomatoes. Sigh. |
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07 Dec 19 - 04:57 PM (#4022682) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Steve Shaw I last tried it whilst waiting for the Inverness bus in Callander in 1974. The bus didn't come. It was a bank holiday and the bus didn't run that day, I found out after checking in the post office. The next bus was in a week's time. None of this endeared me to Irn Bru. Thank God for the hitch-hiker's thumb. I found out on that trip that you couldn't get a lift on Sundays. Probably still can't. I could tell you some stories. |
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07 Dec 19 - 06:05 PM (#4022703) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Jack Campin The usual Glasgow pronunciation is "ginger". |
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07 Dec 19 - 06:18 PM (#4022707) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Senoufou In Scotland in the late Sixties I much preferred a half of 'sweet stout' or even McEwan's Heavy. I've always liked strong, flavourful beers. |
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07 Dec 19 - 08:05 PM (#4022713) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Tattie Bogle Ah, that's another song, as in Bill Barclay's "12 Days of Christmas" - "a wee heavy and a half pint". Think it's in the DT, or at least in some thread somewhere on this site. That was Aled Jones who sang the original "Walking in the Air" song for Snowman: he now regularly presents "Songs of Praise" on Sundays on BBC TV. Yes, the parody version videos are hilarious. Pronunciation? I think most of my Scots friends would say something like Eye-rrun I don't like it much myself: the only time I drink it is when we go to play for dancing at a primary school for their Burns Supper! Our nephew in British Columbia thought it was fab: this was 20+ years ago when you could still get Irn Bru concentrate for Sodastream machines, and we took a couple of bottles in our luggage when we visited the family! |
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08 Dec 19 - 02:44 AM (#4022738) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Manitas_at_home Peter Auty was the singer on the film in 1982 but when they came to record the song for the Christmas market in 1985 his voice had already broken so Aled Jones got the job of recording the single. |
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08 Dec 19 - 04:02 AM (#4022745) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Senoufou I was interested to notice in the 'sequel' that they'd included the new V&A centre (a weird and unattractive piece of modern architecture in my opinion), the Kelpies, and the Discovery. |
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08 Dec 19 - 06:54 AM (#4022772) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Dave the Gnome Aled wasn't the original singet, Tattie, but he did release it on record. Snowman singer finds voice at last Easy mistake to make! |
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08 Dec 19 - 07:14 AM (#4022773) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Dave Hanson They used to say ' Irn Bru, made in Scotland from girders ' Dave H |
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08 Dec 19 - 09:11 AM (#4022798) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Rapparee There were several patent medicines in the States which were sold as soft drinks with lots of iron and stuff in them. Some of the stuff was alcohol, lots of caffeine, opium, cocaine, and so on. Most of them were regulated out of existence (and good riddance!) by 1930, but some still survive in much "weakened" states. Good old Geritol was/is one such. Never tried it, don't know where to get any, don't want to try it. I'm not the Irn Mon type -- I can't hardly cleave a stone with a claymore any more. |
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08 Dec 19 - 08:06 PM (#4022927) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Tattie Bogle Thanks for the correction, Manitas and DtG: just putting on the Michael Caine voice: "No' a lo' o' people know that"! |
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12 Dec 19 - 07:42 PM (#4023425) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: Tattie Bogle Well, I've tried it all now! Tonight we were offered an Irn Bru variant: ginger and spiced Irn Bru! Probably nicer than the original! An OK substitute for a real drink if you are going to be driving. |
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13 Dec 19 - 10:36 AM (#4023533) Subject: RE: BS: Irn Bru From: WalkaboutsVerse Just went To Scotland, Again and heard that (despite the new ads) Coca Cola has just over taken Irn Bru as the most popular soft drink there. |