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- Опубликовано: 11 апр 2024
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I clicked because of the impertinent granny in the thumbnail, realized only after viewing the whole clip that it was Alan Davies.
I have the same problem with paul mccartney and angela lansbury. I can't tell them apart anymore.
@@IbnBahtutaThat's why he doesn't release as much music anymore: he's too busy solving murders in coastal Maine.
@@sasukesarutobi3862Makes a change from windmills.
@@IbnBahtuta "Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney?"
@@Norvo82 I really hope not. rofl
More companies need to make adverts like this. Reminds me of the Hamlet Cigar ones. They're so memorable!
loved those ads with the baldy man lol
@@judsdragon And those "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label" adverts, they were really funny. Why do you never see genuinely funny TV advertisements any more? Surely humour hasn't been legally banned from advertisements nowadays (though the world does seem genuinely miserable now), even if cigarettes/cigars and alcohol aren't allowed to be advertised on TV is some countries.
First mentioned in 1891 Jamaica, would that have been in a book? Hello from Falkirk in Scoltand, A.G. Barr started his business a minute away from my house in 1875, it was only after the business became really successful and moved to the port town of Glasgow that Irn Bru was introduced for sale to the public due to being able to afford the ingredients, to suggest it is not Scottish because it "appears" in a british colony with a lot of Scottish people is sheer ignorance. Wait until you find out where the Saint Andrews cross on the Jamaican flag comes from. Same place the got the name of the "Red hill of Saint Andrew" in Kingston.
Irn Bru the kings of marketing 😅
The even though I used to be a man Irn Bru advert was the best. That or the family wanting to call the new baby Fanny.
" Ye canny caw her Fanny! "
Her Granny was a Fanny, she comes from a long line of Fannies.
-Irn Bru-
'Iron Brew: made in Scotland.
From girders'
Eh pal, I hink yell find it's made frae GURRRRDUURZ
@@JohnDoe-gc1pm 😄
not enuff R's in that spelling lol
The first ever IRN BRU factory was in my home town of Falkirk in a little village called Camelon. Kemlin for us who live there 😂
I liked the advert in the 90s that had a family sat around a piano playing and singing a song together, then the “mother” sings a line on her own “even though I used to be a man”….
The family stare at her in horror.
Then it cuts to her whistling and shaving her face in the mirror
Fast forward to these days and woke folk would lose their shit
Interesting that Jamaica mentioned. I am Scottish and was given home made drink by West Indian woman when carrying out some work at her house in Brum. As soon as I tasted it I said "Irn Bru", she told me she made it from ginger & sorrell. This not the sorrell herb that we know but the Jamaican name for the hibiscus flower. And of course, Scots call all "pop"/"soda" drinks "Ginger".
My favourite Irn Bru advert was during the World Cup in 2006 - 'Scotland is going to the World Cup!' - cut to onboard the team bus with one player on board, Trinidad and Tobago's Jason Scotland!
Scotland (the country) hadn't qualified but Trinidad and Tobago had. Additionally, Scotland (the man) was playing in Scotland (the country) at the time.
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
@@SalsaShakers
My eyes are dim
I cannot see
I have not got
my specs with me.
rofl.
ps. and I got them from Specsavers
@@SalsaShakers not unless you have a vowel movement
I doubt that. If you were drinking it you'd know how to spell it correctly. Hint - it's not spelled "Iron Bru".
@@aetch77 Oh, hi there, that was really nice, you reaching out to me an' all, but the problem is that you've mixed me up with someone who cares about your opinion. Do you do that a lot, by any chance? Don't answer it was rhetorical.
@@IbnBahtuta Thank you for confirming that your original opinion was invalid.
In Scotland the babies eat Farley's rust
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.
I'm pretty sure that's been debunked.
@@returnoftheredeye I can say for 100% certain it's the case in Scotland. I read about Peru fleetingly so it may not be true. I wonder if it's the case in countries with trade embargoes like Cuba and Iran, surely they can't get Coca-Cola imported?
@@GM-tw4el That sounds about right. I did a very brief search, and the 2 examples it mentioned were Cuba and N.Korea, both due to embargoes as you mentioned. Regardless, respect to Scotland for bucking the trend.
Colombia has a drink called colombiana which is basically their version of irn bru and that's their most popular drink. Irn Bru isn't even the most popular drink in Scotland now, it's milk.
@@ConnorMcCartney95 Milk? Really 😂? Not water? Scotland has good tap water (unless you live in a flat), so does that mean it's the most popular drink? IRN BRU is the most popular soft drink in Scotland then, if you want to get arsey about it 😂.
Joe's nod at the end 🤭
They've always had the best advertising. They're right up there with Phileas Fogg crisps. Maybe they used the same advertising agency.
'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'
As well as theor friends' tennis partners
I was going to ask about this. If it's just the three of them then which one is putting the recipe in every can? The daughter?
Lol not a single floor worker could tell you the recipe.
If just making the stuff gave that kind of knowledge then the whole cosmetic industry would be done.
There will be a chief chemist who knows the exact ratio and timing ...everyone else just following orders and dumping into vats
@@DazzaS83and some bloke he bumped into in the mess the other day called Bernard...
So, it's maximum security! Baaah!
😂 made with real irun gurders! 😂
Weird timing, I drank one this afternoon for the first time in over a decade.
I believe Scotland's best selling drink , one of of only a few countries in the world were it isn’t coca cola .
Except its not. Do you often go around just repeating falsehoods?
*Isn't
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.
Irn Bru genuinely tastes like metal, but it's kind of nice
A few years ago irn bru had a limited edition spicey tasting one and one of the ads they used have on billboards etc "**** me that's hot"
😂😂
Joe lycett seething that irnbru got bigger laughs than he will ever get
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 😘!
We’ll tell you when to laugh. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👍
the British humour does have a way of sneaking its way in unnoticed til all of a sudden u laugh at something then pause to wonder why then carry on laughing ;) come to the dark side we have cookies
Makes me proud to be Scottish.
I'd have said Denmark. Nearly everything is Denmark now Sandy's in charge.
How smug has QI become since Fry left
Wait, the first ever mention of Irn Bru is waayyy back in the late 1800s?!...(1891 to be exact)
Dang, they're in the same league as coca cola. They've been here for a long time! 👏👏👏
What's she talking about? Irn Bru comes from cans.
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...
My guess (based on nothing at all except hoping that food standards authorities are reasonable) is that the full list of all ingredients is known the the government testing and certification people, but as it's still a carefully guarded trade secret, they'd be opening themselves up for a massive lawsuit if they leaked that information.
And yeah, I'm sure that most of these things can be reverse engineered, but again, to publicise the results of those tests would result in being sued immediately.
The ingredients are listed but some can be grouped in e.g. 'flavourings', 'extracts' etc if the amounts are small enough. They all have to be food safe ingredients but the exact component and ratios are hidden. If you reverse engineer it you can make it, publish the recipe etc. Trade secrets independently figured out are fair game. Patents give an invention protection but for a limited time and they have to publish the full details.
Also you can know the full list of ingredients ... but the exact percentage of each and the timing at which they are mixed would be impossible to figure out
You get supermarket imitations in Scotland. Same way there's lots of different brands of cola all over the world. You can tell the difference though, as you probably know.
Ratios.
It has quinine in it, which is used for cramps
seems like all the old sodas were originally marketed as medical tonics
"First mentioned" doesn't mean it's originated from. It was founded and created in 1875 in Falkirk. The first mention of it being in Kingston in 1891 has no historical ground.
Irn Bru wasnt founded in 1875. Where on earth did you get that nonsense from?
@@robg4729 Literally everywhere online. Introduced in 1875 By Robert Barr as a Tonic, and then widely produced in 1901 on it's original recipe marketed as a soft drink.
@@AstralXMidnight You're wrong, on every single level. The company was founded in 1875, they first made irn bru is 1899 with it being launched in 1901. Couldn't be simpler to understand. Their own website states the same.
please reverse the decision to stop listing the panelists
And the episode title.
I think the reason the titles are different is because this is the BBC RUclips Channel and the videos you’re thinking of are published on the QI RUclips Channel, mayhaps?
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.
My great great grandfather invented a sugary drink called Coca Koala for all the people who had been transported to Australia in the 1800's. Sadly it was a dismal failure.
@@hopebgood
Don’t give up your day job.
@@thomaswigfield7623 My great uncle, Cornelius Worthington Pepper, a physician of some standing in his community in the 1800s created a fizzy drink as a health giving elixir to his patients, they all loved this conconction and he proceeded to invest his money in a factory making the fizzy drink.........can't for the life of me remember what he called it. Oh - yes! 7-UP!
@@thomaswigfield7623 🙄
@@hopebgood
After all this time, what an interesting response. A wee funny face! Your family must be so proud of you.
Was Irn Bru invented in Falkirk by Andrew Barr? Quite sure it was?
Clearly not.
KITCHEN GUN
Irn Bru lost it's flavour with the sugar tax but their advertising will always be legendary.
Irn Bru 1901 - just saying...........
@@bannjaxx it's not the same as it was pre-tax mate. Close but no cigar.
@@brianbru I'm pretty sure "1901" is the original recipe - bit more expensive due to the sugar-tax but its the good stuff
Even though I used to be a man
Irn-Bru is from Russia, where the proletariat produce thousands upon thousands of iron rods daily for the drink rations.
i heard it's quite nice with vodka
S&G that's known as - Smirnoff and girders
If you mix it with whisky it`s known as a rusty nail
four and a half inches? quit bragging!
It was cold that day.
Girth not length…?
Scotland loves Jamaica we even have a Glasgow Street and bridge with the same name.
I would avoid looking into quite WHY that is, if you want to remain so upbeat about our relationship. 😳
Theres a Jamaica Street in Glasgow - home to my favourite amusement arcade back in the day - next door to a porn cinema 😃😃😃
@@bannjaxx Again, please don’t look up WHY there is a Jamaica Street in Glasgow.
@@daviebananas1735 I'm guessing due to the wealth created from vast sugar plantations in Jamaica owned by Scots and worked by slaves, yep, theres no denying our atrocious, horrific past and the debt and reparations we owe many people and countries as the British Empire got rich exploiting, oppressing, imprisoning, and murdering across the globe whilst stealing resources - utterly shameful - leave the street name as a mark of respect to that beautiful country and never allow us to forget how awful we were.
@@bannjaxx the classic grand, now a music venue
Was it a highland cow?
Alan's hair looks like Margaret Thatcher
Ooh he will like that
Jamaica mon!
My ancestors (the Barrs) invented it. At least that’s our claim to fame! 😬
They still own it - I'd go and visit the relatives.
I’m such a fan of Jonathan creek breaks my heart when the actor playing him is so unlikable
Lost its way since Stephen Fry left. Maybe just too tired a format.
Not from biting a tramps ear. That is a no, no.
hi
Sandi [issues me off
ngl that was underwhelming and slightly shit
Guy in the pink shirt either has no sense of humour or he has never been laid ....
It's just bubblegum flavored soda. Meh
Nah, that's the blue stuff...
@@krashd When i was a lot younger than i am today, I bought a bottle of IRN BRU from an ice cream van. It was not BARR`s and told him , he said that is all i have. It was a very hot day so i bought it and drank half of it. Next day I went to have a drink only to find it had turned purple. I don`t remember who made it but my head has never been right since, or could that be an age thing? Never mind the head thing, but the story is true.
Wtf them there jocks gonna drink now, poor things
Then they went an f’ed the recipe by taking out sugar and putting in sweetners. Now it tastes disgusting and only 1901 is any decent but not the same.
It's from america😂
OH! you are taking your life in your own hands there mate.
Irn-Bru is revolting. Almost as bad as Dr Peppers which tastes like play doh.
So are the peasants.
You are not supposed to eat play doh 🙄
@@verttikoo2052 😉
It has magical properties tho, so taste is of secondary importance.
@@bannjaxx Just as well