The origin of Irn-Bru | QI – BBC
where does iron Brew come from oh
no
Scotland the first mention is in 1891 in
Kingston
Jamaica to be fair it was made by
Scottish whiskey merchants and they
Market it as a medical tonic but does
anybody know if it has iron in it it
felt like when we were kids um my uncle
used to live in Scotland he used to
throw full cans at us when we used to
Mo W very heavy back in the day it does
have an additive containing iron
hydroxide in it and the secret formula
is known only to the former chairman uh
his daughter and one other board they
never fly together do they some amazing
adverts you’d like this one for a
vegetarian they had an advert featuring
a cow and it said when I’m a burger I
want to be washed down with iron
Brew
God 700 comp
they had another one a young woman a
bikini holding a can of iron Brew she
said I never knew 4 and A2 Ines could
give so much
pleasure another one with a newborn
chick R there’s nothing better than iron
Brew when you’ve just been
laid more power to
them
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26 comments
😂 made with real irun gurders! 😂
hi
When I was a kid, they used to say it was made with rusty iron girders. As I sit here typing at over 70 years old, I am drinking a can of Barrs Iron Bru, showing you that Amazon Prime selling 24 cans for a mere 9 quid and free delivery, can be your friend sometimes, maybe, perhaps. rofl
please reverse the decision to stop listing the panelists
Jamaica mon!
Irn Bru'Iron Brew: made in Scotland.
From girders'
I never understood this secret recipe nonsense.
The idea that companies like Irn Bru, Coca Cola and KFC are allowed to keep their recipes known only to a few people, locked in a vault.
Surely they are allowed to keep the details, and the recipes, but they have to be declared to food standards authorities or in the US, the Food and Drug Administration?
And surely, any scientist with a reasonably well stocked lab can determine these things.
To me it seems like an unnecessary mystique, and a marketing ploy to make the products seem like rarified commodities, when really it is just a blend of sugar, syrup and spicing…
Why aren't you reporting the riots in London? But are reporting this non news ? I think we all know the answer why.
Weird timing, I drank one this afternoon for the first time in over a decade.
four and a half inches? quit bragging!
'The secret recipe is known only to the former chairman and his daughter… and all the thousands of workers in the factory… and all their families and close friends'
They've always had the best advertising. They're right up there with Phileas Fogg crisps. Maybe they used the same advertising agency.
KITCHEN GUN
I clicked because of the impertinent granny in the thumbnail, realized only after viewing the whole clip that it was Alan Davies.
I'd have said Denmark. Nearly everything is Denmark now Sandy's in charge.
Alan's hair looks like Margaret Thatcher
Hilarious, even for a German 🤔🙄😏😬😆🤣😂!
Then again, being acquainted with quite a good amount of British habits, customs and, of course, British humor since early 1978, this may not come as a surprise 😘!
Irn-Bru is revolting. Almost as bad as Dr Peppers which tastes like play doh.
It's just bubblegum flavored soda. Meh
How smug has QI become since Fry left
i heard it's quite nice with vodka
Scotland and Peru are the only countries in the world where Coca-Cola isn't the biggest selling soft drink. In Scotland it's irn-bru and Peru has inca cola. I've found irn bru all over though. Australia, Germany, Spain Portugal and even in Russia. The irn bru in Russia actually tasted like the Scottish stuff but the other countries something was a bit different.
Joe's nod at the end 🤭
Scotland loves Jamaica we even have a Glasgow Street and bridge with the same name.
My grandfather came to Coatbridge in Scotland from Yorkshire when iron ore was discovered there in the late 19th century. He worked in a steel works and found himself dismayed by the number of accidents in the afternoon because men were drinking beer at lunchtime. He resolved to manufacture a drink that would quench a man’s thirst without making him careless, and thus Iron Brew was made and named after Coatbridge, the Iron Burgh. He died before I was born, and my father was the youngest of seven children. The business closed in the early sixties when I was about 14 years old. I always preferred Iron Brew to the oddly named version.
Yes I remember the burger one getting a ton of complaints. I'd forgot all about that, which is odd given I don't eat meat.