Owyn_Merrilin:

ToTaL LoLiGe:

Owyn_Merrilin:
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I don't think it's anything like big red I've never tried it. I read about it on wikipedia and it doesn't seem anything like Big Red. Wiki reckons that Red Kola is made from Kola nut extracts.

Oh, so it literally is a red cola, then. That would be interesting to try sometime.

Edit: Interestingly enough, according to Wiki, it's pretty much to cola what Big Red is to cream soda. Big Red isn't technically bubblegum flavored; the bubblegum flavor is a byproduct of what happens when you try to add citrus flavors to the vanilla of a traditional cream soda. It was originally called "Big Red Cream Soda" because of this. Red Kola is the same thing, except it's what happens when you add fruit to the flavor of the Kola Nut instead of whatever it is that makes Cola not unbearably bitter.

That's quite a cool fact. I love cream soda it's awesome, it's more awesome when you put a scoop of ice cream into it.

DJjaffacake:

I win, because I do.

I hate shortbread, everything in scotland that biscuit based is shortbread. Caramel slices shortbread base, cheesecake shortbread base, down in england cheesecake and caramel slices don't have shortbread bases.

I am lost and thoroughly confused. So Irn Bru is carbonated cow milk? Why is it orange? Am I missing something here?

ToTaL LoLiGe:
I hate shortbread, everything in scotland that biscuit based is shortbread. Caramel slices shortbread base, cheesecake shortbread base, down in england cheesecake and caramel slices don't have shortbread bases.

LIES!!! Or at least, up north we has teh shortbready goodness in our caramel slices and cheesecake. (On an unrelated note bleurgh, cheesecake) Caramel slices are even called millionaire shorbread by some people.

I... I...

Is it alcohol? Soft drink? Something else?

Damnitall you've made me crave Irn Bru! I was going to buy it yesterday but instead I bought chocolate milk! Now I can't get some until tomorrow :(

Daystar Clarion:

Padwolf:
Damnitall you've made me crave Irn Bru! I was going to buy it yesterday but instead I bought chocolate milk! Now I can't get some until tomorrow :(

A terrible decision.

One that will haunt you for all your days.

_{Until tommorow, at least...}

It shall even haunt my dreams!

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GobbieGoldchain:
I am lost and thoroughly confused. So Irn Bru is carbonated cow milk? Why is it orange? Am I missing something here?

Educate yourself, whelp

I have no time for lazy students.

Wiki:
The name Irn-Bru is said to have originated during the re-building of Glasgow Central Station in 1901. When workers from the William Beardmore and Company Steel Works in Glasgow were dying from the large amounts of beer drunk to quench their thirst from the heat of the steel works, an alternative was sought. A local soft drinks manufacturer, A.G. Barr, approached the steel works and a contract was created to provide the workers with this drink. This unnamed drink later went on to be known as Iron Brew because of its connections to the steel (and iron) works.[citation needed]

If this is true, and the citation needed tag isn't hiding a horrible lie, god bless Scotland. Any country whose solution to thirsty workers dying of alcohol poisoning is replacing the beer with a soda instead of, I don't know, water, is awesome in my book. Makes me proud that a good chunk of my ancestry is Scottish.

Us Scots know how to make a damn fine drink, just ordered a 24 can crate :D I shall also leave the best damn Irn Bru advert ever made,

irn bru is fine. each swig is like a carbonated dose of orangey goodness from mother earth's rockery. it's one of the best things scotland has to offer. there are bad points about scotland too.

good:
irn bru, frankie boyle, kevin bridges, interesting landscapes, truly astounding beards.

bad:
that one scottish guy on xbox live that gets a few american guys to be angry at the english guy (me), angry people, the weather. somehow it's worse than england's weather

DustlessDragoon:
Us Scots know how to make a damn fine drink, just ordered a 24 can crate :D I shall also leave the best damn Irn Bru advert ever made,

I saw that ad once about 3 years ago, never saw it again. Thank you for giving me the second chance I always wanted.

Even I, in all my half English/half Irish-ness, have to bow down to the superiority of Scotland in the soft drinks world. Irn Bru will blow you fucking mind! If this drink could talk, surely it would say (in a broad Glaswegian accent) "What're yoo lookin' at yoo fuck?"

That said, no one, and I mean no one, can beat the Irish when it comes to alcohol. Russia? Bitch please.

Daystar Clarion:

GobbieGoldchain:
I am lost and thoroughly confused. So Irn Bru is carbonated cow milk? Why is it orange? Am I missing something here?

Educate yourself, whelp

I have no time for lazy students.

I did read the Wiki, homie. And I'm still thoroughly lost and confused.

Chalk me up as a lost cause, then.

ambitiousmould:
irn bru is fine. each swig is like a carbonated dose of orangey goodness from mother earth's rockery. it's one of the best things scotland has to offer. there are bad points about scotland too.

good:
irn bru, frankie boyle, kevin bridges, interesting landscapes, truly astounding beards.

bad:
that one scottish guy on xbox live that gets a few american guys to be angry at the english guy (me), angry people, the weather. somehow it's worse than england's weather

Pfft, I'm an englishmen living in scotland and I can say that scottish weather has nothing on english weather, scotland's just a bit windier.

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Did you know the e number in IRN BRU is known to cause hart attacks, which is how you know it is a Scottish thing 'cos as Marcus Brigstock said "Scotland is totally unafraid of scurvy and I admire that! Only the Scots would Scotch an egg, "you know what that egg needs? MEAT AND BATTER!"".

I used to be addicted to that stuff, I was on about a 2LTR bottle a day ...

Finally one of your food threads I can get behind!

NinjaDeathSlap:

DustlessDragoon:
Us Scots know how to make a damn fine drink, just ordered a 24 can crate :D I shall also leave the best damn Irn Bru advert ever made,

I saw that ad once about 3 years ago, never saw it again. Thank you for giving me the second chance I always wanted.

Even I, in all my half English/half Irish-ness, have to bow down to the superiority of Scotland in the soft drinks world. Irn Bru will blow you fucking mind! If this drink could talk, surely it would say (in a broad Glaswegian accent) "What're yoo lookin' at yoo fuck?"

That said, no one, and I mean no one, can beat the Irish when it comes to alcohol. Russia? Bitch please.

If Irn Bru could talk, it would say this:

ambitiousmould:
irn bru is fine. each swig is like a carbonated dose of orangey goodness from mother earth's rockery. it's one of the best things scotland has to offer. there are bad points about scotland too.

good:
irn bru, frankie boyle, kevin bridges, interesting landscapes, truly astounding beards.

bad:
that one scottish guy on xbox live that gets a few american guys to be angry at the english guy (me), angry people, the weather. somehow it's worse than england's weather

Also, something else to add to the good.

The band's Second only to Irn-Bru of course... (I seriously don't want to get daystar's wraith.)

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HarryScull:
once in cadets we pissed in someones iron bru...they didnt notice the difference

so yeh, i hate iron bru, but lucazade is the good stuff because it actually works well as an energy drink

I read in the newspaper that Lucozade contains more calories than you're burning during exercise, they're meant for athletes and if your exercising it's best to drink water. I think I read it in the Mirror.

I find that it gives you short burst's of isometric energy, followed by a long lasting sugar high which i find useful when im exercising, trekking, fighting or playing but im not worried about losing weight as im already in shape i just train muscular power, muscular endurance and cardio-vascular with a tiny bit of muscular strength so i find it useful.

If you're trying to lose weight you should't be using any energy drink at all, i dont fully believe that lucazade contains more calories than i burn as it really depends how hard you work and im always destroyed and hungry after exercise, however those calories it is giving you should be avoided if you are fat burning because it just creates more work burning of those calories and getting rid of the sugar.

its like eating cake and chocolate during weight loss exercise, makes no sense

*Flips Desk* Fuck! How can these uneducated fools not know of the one true beverage? We must initiate a quest! A quest to inform those in the coldest caves, to the hottest valleys! We can not rest, nor can we drink anything but this marvelous beverage that is, "Irn Bru". How many of you will travel with me? It may be treacherous, even perilous, but it will be worth it. Because by next year, there will be no water supplies, only Irn Bru.

Irn Bru is the best non-alcoholic drink to grace this Earth. I love the stuff. I don't know how but diet irn bru is the best hangover cure EVER.

Holy monkeyballs, I gotta try that when I'm in Scotland!

We Swedes have something special as well though; Julmust!

Aaaaw, hell yeah! That shit is well worth waiting 11 months every year for(though we got Påskmust aswell, sold during Easter, which is the exact same thing)!
You might be able to find it at your local IKEA during Christmas.

Heh funny thing is im drinking Iron Brew right now.

That's right not Irn-Bru but a cheap supermarket knock off that's actually spelt correctly, where is your god now!?!?

Da Orky Man:
I picked up a can for the first time in years a few days ago, in the on sale section of Co-Op. It tasted somewhat more watery than I remember. Could it be the House of Bru is failing?

You got a shit batch, there are a few shit bottles I've tasted. Are you in Scotland or England? because the Irn Bru in england is worse than Scottish Irn Bru.

I'm trying to think of how to describe Irn Bru too now... It's like... sugar and... is it macabre to say like that metalic taste in blood? In fact no need to answer that, that's completely macabre.

CHICAGO!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_(soft_drink)

That is all.