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Irn-Bru is a Scottish carbonated soft drink, for long advertised as "Scotland's other national drink".
It is produced in Westfield, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire by A.G. Barr of Glasgow, since moving out of their original Parkhead factory in the mid-1990s, and at a second manufacturing site in Mansfield, England. In addition to being sold throughout the United Kingdom, Barr's Irn-Bru is available throughout the world and can usually be purchased where there is a significant community of people from Scotland. Innovative and sometimes controversial marketing campaigns have kept it as the number one selling soft drink in Scotland, where it competes directly with global brands such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
The drink originated in Falkirk where it was particularly popular among the town's thirsty foundry workers. 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.
Format: Fotopositiv
Dato / Date: 1957
Fotograf / Photographer: Schrøder
Sted / Place: Elgester bru, Trondheim
Wikipedia: Elgeseter bru
Eier / Owner Institution: Trondheim byarkiv, The Municipal Archives of Trondheim
Arkivreferanse / Archive reference: Ordførerens arkiv: Fotografier - Vennskapsbyer - Besøk fra Split 1957 - VB003
Ken with a fountain near my home back in October 2014.
The San Francisco Giants baseball team won the world series, and a shopping center owner colored the fountain water orange - the Giants' team color - in celebration.
Ken introduced me to Irn-Bru, and the many humorous TV ads for it that can be found on YouTube...
Somehow a 30 minute layover for a connection flight in Brussels just doesn't cut it to actually make it onto that flight, especially when your first flight is already delayed.
So instead of sitting in a pub drinking delicious award winning ale I had to have a substitute Stella watching the sun go down over Brussels airport. Out of a can. In a plastic cup. Classy.