What I love about Irn Bru add is they don’t need to advertise as it’s already the top selling soft drink in Scotland outselling Coca Cola. They still make hilarious commercials.
@TalorcMacAllan-rj3nr I wish I was talking shit! Between the sugar tax causing the reformulation and more people who go with coke over Irn Bru it lost the top spot!
The "Fanny" ad - Fanny was an old woman's name, but then it became a word for a woman's private bits. And "you're a fanny!" became a bit of a (low level) insult, fairly common in Scotland. So.... "I'm a fanny, my mum was a fanny".... ;)
My dad used to be a delivery driver for Barr’s (the company that makes Irn Bru) and on the back of his lorry was an advert that had a picture of a sad looking goth girl. The tagline was “Cheer up goth, have an Irn Bru” 😂
There was a whole campaign surrounding the goths, the advert had them at Blackpool Pleasure Beach riding The Revolution, which was sponsored by Irn-Bru at the time. One of the funnier ads, So I don't know why it wasn't on this list.
it was on the side of the Cathouse in Glasgow at 4 corners in Central in billboard form. As someone who went to the catty it was taken in good jest by us metal heads/goths. Hilarious.
It there is a song in an Irn-Bru ad always pay close attention to the lyrics. The effort they went to for The Snowman was, well, phenomenal. When it first aired it took more than a moment to realise you weren't watching the actual film. It's a work of advertising genius that is hard to appreciate if you don't know the original.
This Irn Bru ad played the first Christmas I arrived in England, and I was stoked because I was watching Christmas telly and thought they were interrupting my program with The Snowman! Needless to say I am eternally fond of this commercial ever since! ❤
I had a conversation once with somebody from the ad agency that came up with The Snowman advert. It was intended as a Christmas ad to compete with the Coca-Cola Christmas ads and he said the brief Barrs gave them was was just "Out Christmas Coca Cola". They definitely succeeded and even now it is not Christmas without seeing it at least once.
This makes you realise how much cultural context is needed to fully understand these ads! 😂 Good job guys, a warm welcome awaits you when you visit Scotland, come on over!
I agree, they have the best commercials ever! I've got a large collection of them and use them whenever I need a bit of a giggle. I'm Scottish, btw, and grew up with it, so I appreciate a little love for oor ither national drink! Any reference to ginger has nothing to do with the taste of Irn Bru. Ginger is the term most of we scots give to all fizzy drinks. The English call it Pop, you Americans call it Soda, but we call everything fizzy "Ginger". The Snowman one is taken from a famous magical animation about a boy and his snowman. Bit of a tear jerker. The music's the same but you really need to listen to the lyrics. Hysterical!
#5: I'll try to explain this politely for American viewers: In Scotland fanny is slang for "a female's front bottom". This explains why people wear bum bags and not fanny packs on this side of the Atlantic.
It's pronounced IRON BRU ! "Made in Scotland... from girders" ! It out sells COKE and PEPSI in Scotland. (And maybe in CORBY in NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND, which is know as LITTLE SCOTLAND.) FANNY in the UK means ... A VAGINA !! The SNOWMAN ad is a take on Raymond Brigg's THE SNOWMAN book and film. I think the MUM and FANNY are the best.
The best Irn Bru ads are the ones that take the piss out of Coke and Pepsi In fact, they had a whole marketing campaign where the mocked Coke, who were selling bottles with your name on them, Irn Bru had bottles with Fanny on them
That song with the snow man is called "walking in the air". It's from an animated move called "the snowman" shown every year at Christmas in the UK. Its sung by a little Welsh kid.
It's coloured ginger has a unique taste. Also the Fanny ad is even more tongue in cheek in the UK because it's slang for lady parts. The Made in Scotland from Gridders ad was a mock of a 1980's Coke ad that had the Robyn Beck song The First Time, in it. Also the Snowman ad is a mock of a very famous UK Christmas film called The Snowman.
A lot of the adverts came from the 80’s when Irn Bru was marketed as giving you lots of strength that’s why you saw a lot of things getting ripped up , bent or destroyed 🤣
Irn Bru is as Scottish as the kilt and bagpipes. It’s totally unique taste, is indescribable and brilliant ice cold. The comedy element throughout all the ads, are typical Scottish humour, off the wall and a little bit nuts. “Made in Scotland from Girders” the tag line, is a joke about how hard/strong Irn Bru is, because of its “Iron content” from steel beams - “Girders” as we call them. It’s all a bit of fun and we Scots love laughing at ourselves, as much as anyone else and Irn Bru does it best.
What younger viewers miss with these adds is that a lot of them were made to reflect old Coca-Cola adverts and essentially take the Mick out of them. At the time they were massive hits in Scotland as a way of telling Coca-Cola "we are just as good as you". Also Irn Bru tradionally advertised as giving you energy as it contains sugar and caffeine so thats why adverts show people having super human strength after drinking it and the slogan was "Made in Scotland from Girders" (iron girders) so made you strong and thats why it gets you through any situation no matter how bizarre 😅
It used to be called Iron Bru but out was changed to Irn. Scotland drinks way more Irn Bru than Coca Cola and it’s shipped all over the world. It’s especially popular as a hangover cure. 🤣
And, it is the secret recipe being secret that it cannot be exported to the USA. Ironically, the recipe for Coca-Cola is also secret, but that does not seem to bother the US agencies, for some reason.
We used to call all soft drinks ginger on the West Coast of Scotland. You would have to specify what flavour of ginger you wanted. I’ve been drinking Irn Bru for easily 40 years and still couldn’t explain what flavour it is. It’s just Irn Bru. 😂👍🏼
I have been drinking it for around 40 years too and I cannot describe it either, kind of a mix of old style lucozade (the Boots orange bottle variety) and maybe Tizer....maybe not. I am actually English but I discovered it as a kid in Melton Mowbray (not far from Corby, also known as the Little Scotland). Since then, after working with loads of Scots throughout my career (dockyards, ships, ex-services), it is normally always available in any company canteen, so I still drink it now. Sometimes it can be found in stores, even down here in deepest darkest Dorset.
I’m 52 and Glaswegian, I’m a Weegie & live 5 miles or less actually away from the old factory in Parkhead and I still couldn’t tell you what it tastes like. I don’t drink fizzy anymore but if I did it would be IRN-BRU
It's pronounced like "iron brew" it's the Scottish national drink after Whisky. It's also a great hangover cure(according to my son) It's been about for years. Also, the recipe is secret. It's leaves staining on your carpets and upholstery that cannot be removed and when a cleaning company asked if they could have the ingredients so they could come up with a solution to remove the stains they were told it's a secret. All these adverts will give you an idea what the Scottish sense of humour is like. 😂🏴
The 'girders' bit in old Irn Bru adverts came about because in the late 1970s, Barrs noticed that there was a huge upsurge in demand for Irn Bru in pubs in Aberdeen. On investigation, they found that offshore oil workers were coming onshore and heading to the nearest pub where they were asking for a 'Feathers and girders'. The feathers was Grouse whisky and the girders was Irn Bru. My own opinion is that this mixture is a great way to ruin two good drinks, but what do I know? Anyway, the rest is history.
In Glasgow, where Irn Bru is made, 'ginger' is the term used for any fizzy pop drink. The term is used in some other parts of Scotland but it's mainly a Glaswegian term. Fanny is the curse word for a woman's lady bits but it's also a shortened version of Frances. You don't really hear it nowadays 😂 Irn Bru have always made the funniest ads but they are usually only shown in Scotland.
@@yvethemetriccrafter688 Many years ago I worked with a woman whose grandmother's name was Fanny Beard and she could not understand why we were all helpless with laughter 😂
Many years in the time of black and white television the top cooking show was Fanny Craddock (assisted by husband Johnny) On one occasion Johnny was making ring doughnuts and before cooking them he commented "I hope they turn out like Fannie's"
To give added context for the football shirt ad (Number 4) During World Cup season, English fans will root for any team from the British Isles (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or Ireland), but fans from those countries will root for anybody except England
The ads from the 80's all revolved around the gag that it was made from girders so had near superhuman qualities, usually it was a ginger kid yelling "hey you, mind my irn bru" before something happened like a steamroller running over the bottle which was then squeezed into the roller. The big musical numbers came along not long after coke had an advert using robin beck singing "first time first love" which became a big hit.
Just in case you forgot, Fanny doesn't mean backside over here, it means "frontside" of a woman if you know what i mean! No.2 That's a parody of an actual song from the film The Snowman in the 80's. I prefer this version!
What love Irn Bru ads is that they are the best selling soft drink in Scotland so don’t need to advertise. Still they don’t mind sending themselves up and making hilarious ads 😂😄🏴🏴
@@jorrob3101 type In " Scotsman, Coke takes sparkle " I can't link it here. That's from 2003, from an actual study. Irn Bru are the ones responsible for the claim that they outsell Coke, yet never provide any figures. They don't outsell coke. They may have at one stage, but there are no figures to prove they did. So the claim is false.
The snowman ad has a follow up, well worth digging out. To get the context you have to see the snowman cartoon, based upon the Raymond Briggs book. The art of the animation is taken from the book, giving it a totally unique feel. As for taste, irn bru , made in Scotland from girders, was the tag line, I always thought it tasted like rusty water!
+1 for watching The Snowman. It's an amazing piece of work and even 40 years on, has stood the test of time. I'll watch it any time it's shown at Christmas. His darker but just as enjoyable piece of work, When The Wind Blows, is also well worth a watch.
Just make sure to never, ever, watch Raymond Briggs other story. When the wind blows scarred me for life when I was a kid. Watching a lovely old couple (that looked spookily similar to my grandparents) slowly die from radiation poisoning was every bit as harrowing as you'd expect.
Loved it🤣A wee bit of history, the Barr company was started in Falkirk, a town in Scotland which was famous for its iron foundries In the 1930s, they had a delivery horse called Carnera who pulled carts laden with soft drinks around Falkirk. He was supposedly the biggest horse in the world at the time at 19 hands and he became quite famous - Barr's were always good at marketing🤣
I dunno about that. Wasn't the original building at the back of where the Howgate now stands. I remember the big advert on the side of the building when I was young.
And for any American reading this, although Falkirk isn't a very large town, it was established some time before 1271, so it's not like it hasn't been around for a while. While the church that still stands on the high street has foundations that could have been built as early as the 7th century.
Oh my gawwwwd!! You picked my favourite Irn Bru adverts! Scottish people love taking the mick out of themselves and what better way than to do it with our most loved liquid! Ok, I lied, it’s the second…after alcohol! 😆😆 Love your content and I just adore you two. 🥰🥰
Some of those ads had my laughing out aloud, and Anna, your facial expressions are brilliant 😂 you have both brightened up a very dull Wednesday afternoon for me x I'm sure there are more things to reach you're PO Box, we've had a few issues here in the UK with our royal mail.
FYI, when A G Barr and Co. first produced the drink it was called Iron Brew but they were threatened with legal action from a US company who made a beer with the same name so, to avoid problems, they changed the name to Irn-Bru. The slogan "made in Scotland from girders" is a play on the company name, Barr (bar = girder).
Irn Bru is pronounced like "Iron Brew" The name actually got changed as it wasn't fermented or "brewed", and under advertising laws then, they were forced to change the name. On the "Ginger" thing, it's what we in Scotland call fizzy soft drinks - and is actually also referring to the colour of the drink (Ginger is also a slang term for having orange / red hair)
It's what Weegies call fizzy soft drinks, in the rest of Scotland we call fizzy drinks juice. Glasgow has a completely different language to the rest of the country where all children get called Wayne for some reason.
@@krashd Actually it's spelled "Wain", with another (older form, usually used for toddlers or baby, being "Bairn" - in some places it's used to refer to the youngest child, regardless of age)
I’m from Scotland and IRN BRU advert’s are truly awesome and hilarious. BARR’s love to poke fun at something with a large dose of our humour. We always look forward to the next one
In Scotland Irn Bru is bigger than Coke... Most marketing was Scottish targeted and they have a very good grounded dry sense of humour, get a Scot talking and they'll talk your ear off - if you can keep up...
@@sandersson2813 _Scotland's 'other' national drink. Scotland is one of the few countries in the world where a locally-made soft drink outsells Coca-Cola_ Source Scotland website
@@sandersson2813 _3. Irn-Bru is the best-selling soft drink in Scotland, even outselling Coke and Pepsi. Scotland is one of the few countries in the world where Coke is not number one, the other countries being Iceland, Peru, and parts of the Middle East_
I literally have a can of Irn Bru sitting next to me right now! You can't really compare it to anything, Irn Bru just tastes like Irn Bru! And for Anna who suggested if maybe it tasted like "ginger", thats what we call redheads in Scotland (So orange hair = orange can) so "it's fizzy" like a soda and "ginger" like a redhead if that makes sense!
Ginger is what we used to call fizzy drinks or soda. The original 1901 Irn Bru has quinine in it. That's the best tasting version, especially if you don't like artificial sweeteners like aspartame etc.
Irn Bru is so called because it actually contains Iron, the dietary sort you get in supplements and multivitamins which helps in the transportation of oxygen throughout the body and the production of red blood cells, so you could claim the drink is 'good for you' although the other usual soda ingredients are not. Its the Ferric ammonium citrate that gives its unique flavour.
So many iconic adverts! The snowman one especially (though it's a shame they didn't show the extended one) - it's become one of those things where it's not Christmas until you've seen it
It's not bigger than Coke in Scotland. In Brussels has a 21% market share, Coke has a 36% share. Why even comment if you don't have a clue what you're talking about?
@@michaeldickson5134 What source is that from? A newspaper article repeating a myth isn't evidence btw. But you should know that. Where the evidence/figures that say irn bru sells more? Should be easy for you to find
For Americans watching. In the UK "Fanny"...isn't the back end, it's the front end. Also, the ads that have a go at "Yanks" is actually a reference to the fact that in Scotland, Irn Bru outsells Coca-Cola. One of the very few countries where a native soft drink outsells the Coke brand.
Irn Bru actually outsells Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Scotland. Its sometimes known as our other national drink. The other being Whisky. Its flavour is hard to describe. It's a bit like orange soda crossed w8th bubblegum.
Scotland is the only country in the world that a non coca-cola soft drink outsells coca-cola produced drinks (North Korea and Cuba can't legally import coca-cola products due to embargoes, and currently coca-cola has suspended all business in Russia)
Irn Bru is is a scottish soda/pop, that is one of the only remaining independent drinks on the market, Coca-cola have tried mulitple times to buy them out as Irn Bru sales in Scotland still out sell Coke, but Irn Bru refuses to sell, the taste varies alot some say orange and blackcurrant, but others have described its taste as “fizzy bubblegum” or even “a sweetened version of Listerine”
I’m from the east end of Glasgow…where the the Barr’s factory used to be until the 80’s. I lived 100 yards away. In those days you had returnable bottles where you used to pay a deposit on a bottled drink and get it back once you returned it. Me and my eight year old pals at that time used to break into the factory, steal a crate of empty bottles and return them to local shops to get the deposit back. Then spend the money on sweets ….happy days.
In Scotland, being called Fanny is the same as being called an idiot, as in "who you calling a fanny? Ya fanny!" Not in any way the same as the other slang term for fanny being the female genitalia. Ginger in some parts of Scotland is what we call fizzy drinks.🤣🤣🤣 The one with the snowman is based in part on the Raymond Briggs story The Snowman, which was animated and is usually shown every Christmas here. Us Scots know it's Christmas when we see the Irn-Bru Snowman advert 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The snowman advert, you need to watch the film "The Snowman" near Christmas to understand. It's a beautiful British reference. It's also a shame they ruined Irn Bru by making it artificially sweetened to avoid the sugar tax :(
Its a shame, they ruined a perfectly good Christian, Christmas story. By using it as an advertisment. Not all Scots are proud of the National Drink that causes obesity. Not all Scots play up to the stereotypical version of a scotchman/woman. Even the watered down version of the "Bru" is bogging!
@@WeAreThePeople1690going by your name you are a religious bigot from the North East of Ireland. P.S. the term is Scotsman. Toddle back off to Shankill
off the bat of the 'fanny' ad... and they be like.. "you remember what it taste like, ginger?"... "I remember a more citrus flavour..." "I need to try one..." Jeez, I died!
I moved from Scotland to Chattanooga, Tennessee, two years ago and I get Irn-Bru regularly from my local Publix supermarket. It’s still the best hangover cure ever.
Here in scotland all fizzy drinks are known as 'ginger' it's nothing to do with it's colour we say 'get us a can of ginger will you' and reply with 'aye what kind' (fanta, 7up, cola, irn bru etc) (more likely to get the reply 'get it yourself ya bam') 😂
@@shannanlindibanana I think it's not so common now, but I used to visit family in Glasgow when I was a kid in the 70s and it was quite normal then. Seemed very odd to my London ears. More recently my nephews, who grew up in Fife and Dundee, still call just about any soft drink juice. I have heard people from Georgia (state, not country) call all sodas Coke, probably because Coca Cola is based in Atlanta.
I often stayed in Disney land when the kids were younger, while you always got a refill cup my youngest always wanted an Irn-bru. I’ve not been since 2018 had booked animal kingdom lodge for 2020 but had to cancel due to Covid, booked up for late September this year. Back then we used to pay mad import prices but I’m sure we got single cans in Walgreens or Walmart.
Some years ago there used to be another fizzy soft drink on the market: Tizer. Their strapline was Tizer - the appetiser. It was on sale mainly in the north of England and I haven't seen it in years so I'm guessing it's no longer made - Irn-Bru having the market to itself. Another drink that's popular over here is Dandelion and Burdock which looks a little bit like Coca-Cola when poured into a glass but tastes very different.
Tizer is still available, certainly here in West Yorkshire and over the hills in Lancashire, but I don’t travel around much so I can’t say about the rest of the country. It’s a more red colour than Irn-Bru and it has a more fruity taste. When I was a kid it was my Saturday treat after going swimming to go to the local pie and pea shop for a dish of hot pork pie with mushy peas with mint sauce and a glass of Tizer. Great stuff!
Tizer was my favourite growing up down in Hampshire, still see it in my local shops too, just not the main supermarkets. Carrot & Safflower is what you will find in Tizer, it's great.
The 'Made in Scotland from Girders' Musical ad was basically a piss take of all the big budget Coca Cola ads of the day. And the ad that Anna compared to High School Musical was in fact a pastiche of 'Fame' the TV series. I think you would have to have seen the original animation of 'The Snowman' to get the gist of that ad, and it would be helpful to be familiar with the Scottish landmarks too. "Don’t you know it’s one of those ads, Lots of kids with white teeth and giant shoulder pads, It’s not a drink from those crazy Yanks, Because it’s made right here, you know it’s tougher than tanks. Made in Scotland from girders, Unpronounceable too, Made in Scotland from girders, It’s called Barr’s Irn Bru."
It tastes like bubble gum. If you hear 'ginger', it refers mostly to red hair color. It is not comparing to ginger ale or ginger root, in Scots culture patter.
The "Fiery" Irn-Bru advert is also hilarious and an amazing piece of comedy editing. You should check it out. FYI - The Snowman one is an incredible parody of "The Snowman" which was a very quaint, heart-warming animation, done in the same hand-drawn style, about a boy who befriends a snowman. Irn-Bru just made him a wee tadger instead which makes it great. Double FYI - To any American unfamiliar with UK English a fanny is the front bottom of a lady. It's predominately used by us in Scotland to describe each other, in a good or a bad way!
It's ginger because of its colour. Most people thinks it's got a bubble gum taste. It's so popular in Scotland, you'll literally see people walking around drinking it. Workmen going to the job with a big bottle to get them through the day etc. It's made in Scotland and probably will always be because they keep turning down buyers. There are loads more hilarious ads by the way...you could probably make a video of them.
I remember a billboard from when I was a kid that had a picture of a cow and the caption "When I get turned into a burger I want to be washed down with Irn-Bru"😁
im from scotland and love Irn Bru it was great seeing all the commercials i had forgotten about most of them my fave is the fanny one as calling someone a fanny in scotland is funny
You two are hilarious, I love watching your reactions to our sense of humour lol, and I think the ginger reference is the colour not 100% sure, it does taste good though, tfs x Julie 🇬🇧
There were a lot of ads they used to run suggesting it gave you super strength. It is quite amusing watching Americans react to British/Scottish things.
fun fact, it use to be called iron brew, but mid 20th century british advertising laws said you couldn't call it iron brew unless it contained iron. so they just renamed it IRN BRU... the restrictions got relaxed in the 80's though. which is why a lot of store-brand competitors to irn bru are called "iron brew"
Nope... it changed from Iron Brew to Irn-bru because it wasn't actually brewed and hence couldn't be called "brew" under the trading standard of the 40's.
Barrs also produce a phenomenal range of tropical flavoured canned/bottled drinks under the 'Rubicon' name, with Mango, Lychee, Guava, Passion Fruit flavours - They're superb.
To explain a bit of Scottish vernacular, particularly, Glasgow/south west Scotland, ginger, is a multi faceted word. I can mean orange coloured, as in ginger hair, it can also mean a fizzy drink, all soda/pop can be called ginger, Coca-Cola is ginger, Mountain Dew is ginger, root beer is ginger, Ginger can also just be ginger (the root/spice). At one pointAG Barr, makers of Irn Bru released a limited edition “fiery Irn Bru” that had a strong ginger root flavouring added to regular Irn Bru, so in that instance it was perfectly reasonable to say there’s ginger in the ginger ginger.
Best bit is where both of you not got a clue with the ‘fanny’ advert 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ya wee fanny
no clue with anyhin
@@Ka112eb Don't be mean they're just american
@@WattWood Do you know that UA-cam translates this to "ya wee funny"?
I found that quite funny!
yes unless you are from the UK you wouldn't realise lol its more offensive than it is yet fanny is short for francis lol
We drink Irn Bru for hangovers in Scotland. So Monday to Friday and then weekends.
Not just for hangovers we drink it anytime were thirsty lol
That's cool, I mix it with Archers when I'm on the piss, tastes heavenly.
It's a great Whiskey curer
And for illnesses lol had many sickness bugs and recovered with Irn Bru as main drink followed by Lucozade to recover
We do? Haha, i just drink it whenever
Lol,if America wasnt ready for Janet Jacksons 'wardrobe malfunction',its definitely not ready for Irn Bru's adds lmao
What I love about Irn Bru add is they don’t need to advertise as it’s already the top selling soft drink in Scotland outselling Coca Cola. They still make hilarious commercials.
Sadly no longer true! Coke now outsells it. :(
@TalorcMacAllan-rj3nr I wish I was talking shit! Between the sugar tax causing the reformulation and more people who go with coke over Irn Bru it lost the top spot!
The best ads ever😂
@hawk_ness The sweetener they use now tastes bitter to me. It's like drinking diet.
@@Hiforest Totally! I cant stand sweeteners. Just bitter as you say or have a metalic taste.
their best billboard was a picture of a cow, with the slogan ' when im a burger , i want to be washed down with irn bru'
loads of complaints about that... love it :)
That was hysterical 😂An’ I’m vegetarian!
And the old toff with his dogs; "I love Irn-Bru and so do my b*tches"!
As a Scotsman thanks so much for reacting to this. Much love from Scotland 🏴
The "Fanny" ad - Fanny was an old woman's name, but then it became a word for a woman's private bits. And "you're a fanny!" became a bit of a (low level) insult, fairly common in Scotland. So.... "I'm a fanny, my mum was a fanny".... ;)
Hahahaha! I sang the vocal on number 3!!! Best ad ever!🎶 Made in Scotland from Girders! 🎶
Wow, you have a really nice ,raspy voice. Kinda like Bonnie Tyler. Excellent work Lynda 👍
Thanks!!♥️♥️♥️♥️
My dad used to be a delivery driver for Barr’s (the company that makes Irn Bru) and on the back of his lorry was an advert that had a picture of a sad looking goth girl. The tagline was “Cheer up goth, have an Irn Bru” 😂
There was a whole campaign surrounding the goths, the advert had them at Blackpool Pleasure Beach riding The Revolution, which was sponsored by Irn-Bru at the time. One of the funnier ads, So I don't know why it wasn't on this list.
I remember that ad, seeing it for the first time on the motorway to Glasgow from Inverness when I was a wain.
it was on the side of the Cathouse in Glasgow at 4 corners in Central in billboard form. As someone who went to the catty it was taken in good jest by us metal heads/goths. Hilarious.
There was also a poster ad for Irn Bru with a woman stirring a big pot of stew - the strapline was....."He was a good dog, but he drank my Irn Bru"
Barr sends all the Tizer down south, tastes like licking piss off a stinging nettle.
It there is a song in an Irn-Bru ad always pay close attention to the lyrics.
The effort they went to for The Snowman was, well, phenomenal. When it first aired it took more than a moment to realise you weren't watching the actual film. It's a work of advertising genius that is hard to appreciate if you don't know the original.
This Irn Bru ad played the first Christmas I arrived in England, and I was stoked because I was watching Christmas telly and thought they were interrupting my program with The Snowman! Needless to say I am eternally fond of this commercial ever since! ❤
The snowman was epic and the ad brings back nostalgia then it hits you with comedy lyrics and scenes
I had a conversation once with somebody from the ad agency that came up with The Snowman advert. It was intended as a Christmas ad to compete with the Coca-Cola Christmas ads and he said the brief Barrs gave them was was just "Out Christmas Coca Cola". They definitely succeeded and even now it is not Christmas without seeing it at least once.
There's some great scottish landmarks in there as well. Really well done.
This makes you realise how much cultural context is needed to fully understand these ads! 😂 Good job guys, a warm welcome awaits you when you visit Scotland, come on over!
Hamlet cigars also did some really funny ones. In the era when the adverts were as good as the TV shows
OMG that hamlet advert in the photo booth with Gregor Fisher has me in stitches every time
Also the Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advert with Frank Muir were so funny
Yeah Russ Abbot was in a couple they were class lol x
I agree, they have the best commercials ever! I've got a large collection of them and use them whenever I need a bit of a giggle. I'm Scottish, btw, and grew up with it, so I appreciate a little love for oor ither national drink! Any reference to ginger has nothing to do with the taste of Irn Bru. Ginger is the term most of we scots give to all fizzy drinks. The English call it Pop, you Americans call it Soda, but we call everything fizzy "Ginger". The Snowman one is taken from a famous magical animation about a boy and his snowman. Bit of a tear jerker. The music's the same but you really need to listen to the lyrics. Hysterical!
Only the central belt ca it ginger.
There's not one of these didn't make me laugh! Too much censorship today,.
#5: I'll try to explain this politely for American viewers:
In Scotland fanny is slang for "a female's front bottom".
This explains why people wear bum bags and not fanny packs on this side of the Atlantic.
Great use of the phrase " a female's front bottom! " :)
I remember as a child someone had a dog called Fanny we found it so funny
just think pepole walking around shouting FANNY FANNY HAS ANYONE SEE MY FANNY
Not just Scotland, but England, Wales and Ireland (all parts) too.
Fanny in Scotland (well where I'm from) also means a f*kin idiot/arsehole which is probably what they ment in this advert
It's pronounced IRON BRU ! "Made in Scotland... from girders" !
It out sells COKE and PEPSI in Scotland. (And maybe in CORBY in NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND, which is know as LITTLE SCOTLAND.)
FANNY in the UK means ... A VAGINA !!
The SNOWMAN ad is a take on Raymond Brigg's THE SNOWMAN book and film.
I think the MUM and FANNY are the best.
No, it's made from "girrrrders"!
Was gunna say iron too😂
It doesn't outself Coke in Scotland, and hasn't done since 2017. Coke now outsells it by about 80%
@@robg4729 yeah they fucked themselves when they changed the recipe, its fuckin disgusting now
Fanny is actually short for Frances.... as well as- you know....
The best Irn Bru ads are the ones that take the piss out of Coke and Pepsi
In fact, they had a whole marketing campaign where the mocked Coke, who were selling bottles with your name on them, Irn Bru had bottles with Fanny on them
I got the feeling Anna and JT didn't know walking in the air, and need to watch it next Christmas! 😊✌🏼
That song with the snow man is called "walking in the air". It's from an animated move called "the snowman" shown every year at Christmas in the UK. Its sung by a little Welsh kid.
Whos now in his 60s.. but Aled Jones wasn't the original vocalist on the film
The version in the 1982 film was sung by Peter Aunty, the single that was released in 1985 was sung by Aled Jones
@@davebirch1976 ah right. I had no idea. Thank man
The little Welsh kid his name is Aled Jones, obviously his voice is a lot deeper now lol.
Never
Just realised, the drink dispensers are doing a 'Glasgow kiss' on the users, better known as a head butt.. "stitch that!" haha!
Glesga Kiss! lol
I know it as the Donny kiss as in Doncaster.
It's coloured ginger has a unique taste. Also the Fanny ad is even more tongue in cheek in the UK because it's slang for lady parts. The Made in Scotland from Gridders ad was a mock of a 1980's Coke ad that had the Robyn Beck song The First Time, in it. Also the Snowman ad is a mock of a very famous UK Christmas film called The Snowman.
An American Fanny is not a British Fanny.
Close though........
I think you'll find that America is full of fannies.
@@user-vs4rp1qc6qbut 💯 different 😊
A fannys a fanny if you understand the context. 😂
God was a city planner? Who else would put a recreational park next to a sewage works?
A lot of the adverts came from the 80’s when Irn Bru was marketed as giving you lots of strength that’s why you saw a lot of things getting ripped up , bent or destroyed 🤣
Irn Bru is as Scottish as the kilt and bagpipes.
It’s totally unique taste, is indescribable and brilliant ice cold.
The comedy element throughout all the ads, are typical Scottish humour, off the wall and a little bit nuts.
“Made in Scotland from Girders” the tag line, is a joke about how hard/strong Irn Bru is, because of its “Iron content” from steel beams - “Girders” as we call them.
It’s all a bit of fun and we Scots love laughing at ourselves, as much as anyone else and Irn Bru does it best.
What younger viewers miss with these adds is that a lot of them were made to reflect old Coca-Cola adverts and essentially take the Mick out of them. At the time they were massive hits in Scotland as a way of telling Coca-Cola "we are just as good as you". Also Irn Bru tradionally advertised as giving you energy as it contains sugar and caffeine so thats why adverts show people having super human strength after drinking it and the slogan was "Made in Scotland from Girders" (iron girders) so made you strong and thats why it gets you through any situation no matter how bizarre 😅
It used to be called Iron Bru but out was changed to Irn. Scotland drinks way more Irn Bru than Coca Cola and it’s shipped all over the world. It’s especially popular as a hangover cure. 🤣
The idea in the older ads was that irn Bru was good for you and would make you strong like Red Bull giving you wings.
IRN-BRU
Launched in 1901 in Scotland, IRN-BRU is a carbonated soft drink made to an original secret recipe, which contains 32 flavours.
And, it is the secret recipe being secret that it cannot be exported to the USA. Ironically, the recipe for Coca-Cola is also secret, but that does not seem to bother the US agencies, for some reason.
The adverts are the work of the award winning Leith Agency from Edinburgh.
Thanks for the journey down memory lane. Glad you liked the ads I grew up watching.
We used to call all soft drinks ginger on the West Coast of Scotland.
You would have to specify what flavour of ginger you wanted.
I’ve been drinking Irn Bru for easily 40 years and still couldn’t explain what flavour it is.
It’s just Irn Bru.
😂👍🏼
100% agree👍🏻
It's spelt ginga and it's still called that in some parts of Scotland.😁
I have been drinking it for around 40 years too and I cannot describe it either, kind of a mix of old style lucozade (the Boots orange bottle variety) and maybe Tizer....maybe not. I am actually English but I discovered it as a kid in Melton Mowbray (not far from Corby, also known as the Little Scotland). Since then, after working with loads of Scots throughout my career (dockyards, ships, ex-services), it is normally always available in any company canteen, so I still drink it now. Sometimes it can be found in stores, even down here in deepest darkest Dorset.
I’m 52 and Glaswegian, I’m a Weegie & live 5 miles or less actually away from the old factory in Parkhead and I still couldn’t tell you what it tastes like. I don’t drink fizzy anymore but if I did it would be IRN-BRU
It's pronounced like "iron brew" it's the Scottish national drink after Whisky. It's also a great hangover cure(according to my son) It's been about for years. Also, the recipe is secret. It's leaves staining on your carpets and upholstery that cannot be removed and when a cleaning company asked if they could have the ingredients so they could come up with a solution to remove the stains they were told it's a secret. All these adverts will give you an idea what the Scottish sense of humour is like. 😂🏴
Irn Bru is amazing for hangovers
@@randomshorts739 My sons and their friends say their hangover cure is Irn Bru and a McDonald's 😂🏴
@@chrissyg3722 Not sure about Mcdonald's but freezing cold Irn Bru is unbeatable for a hangover
Nope, after Whisky is Buckfast, then Irn Bru
@@ewan_GTOBuckfast isn't Scottish though 😁🏴
Had to laugh when you called the boy turd for not sharing. JT had 2 cans and didnt share with Anna 😅
The 'girders' bit in old Irn Bru adverts came about because in the late 1970s, Barrs noticed that there was a huge upsurge in demand for Irn Bru in pubs in Aberdeen. On investigation, they found that offshore oil workers were coming onshore and heading to the nearest pub where they were asking for a 'Feathers and girders'. The feathers was Grouse whisky and the girders was Irn Bru. My own opinion is that this mixture is a great way to ruin two good drinks, but what do I know? Anyway, the rest is history.
In Glasgow, where Irn Bru is made, 'ginger' is the term used for any fizzy pop drink. The term is used in some other parts of Scotland but it's mainly a Glaswegian term. Fanny is the curse word for a woman's lady bits but it's also a shortened version of Frances. You don't really hear it nowadays 😂 Irn Bru have always made the funniest ads but they are usually only shown in Scotland.
I was surprised they didn't look shocked lol, I'd have though JT would definitely know what a 'fanny' is by now 😂
My sister's friend is called Fanny , much to mine and my nieces delight ,but fanny does not see why we and others think it's funny .
@@yvethemetriccrafter688 Many years ago I worked with a woman whose grandmother's name was Fanny Beard and she could not understand why we were all helpless with laughter 😂
@@karenmckinlay1472 lmao
Many years in the time of black and white television the top cooking show was Fanny Craddock (assisted by husband Johnny) On one occasion Johnny was making ring doughnuts and before cooking them he commented "I hope they turn out like Fannie's"
To give added context for the football shirt ad (Number 4)
During World Cup season, English fans will root for any team from the British Isles (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or Ireland), but fans from those countries will root for anybody except England
As an English fan I can honestly say this is not true.
@@geoffos42 As a Scottish non-fan of football, this is not true.
ABE = Anybody But England
Northern Ireland loyalists will definitely root for England and it's fairly common to see people wearing England tops in Belfast
The ads from the 80's all revolved around the gag that it was made from girders so had near superhuman qualities, usually it was a ginger kid yelling "hey you, mind my irn bru" before something happened like a steamroller running over the bottle which was then squeezed into the roller.
The big musical numbers came along not long after coke had an advert using robin beck singing "first time first love" which became a big hit.
You two are great . Straight to the point . I am Scottish and lived here 60 + years and not seen half of these adverts . Going to subscribe.
Just in case you forgot, Fanny doesn't mean backside over here, it means "frontside" of a woman if you know what i mean!
No.2 That's a parody of an actual song from the film The Snowman in the 80's. I prefer this version!
What love Irn Bru ads is that they are the best selling soft drink in Scotland so don’t need to advertise. Still they don’t mind sending themselves up and making hilarious ads 😂😄🏴🏴
They aren't the best selling software drink, Coke outsells them massively and have done since 2017.
@@robg4729 You are incorrectly quoting the 330ml market share and saying massively. Only in 2020 was Irn Bru outsold and that was by a milk company.
@@jorrob3101You're wrong
@@Rob-ks8yn I could be, fancy linking statistics as I've been looking and cant see anything that states that
@@jorrob3101 type In " Scotsman, Coke takes sparkle " I can't link it here. That's from 2003, from an actual study. Irn Bru are the ones responsible for the claim that they outsell Coke, yet never provide any figures. They don't outsell coke. They may have at one stage, but there are no figures to prove they did. So the claim is false.
Yes a fanny is different location over here in Scotland . 😂 Made from Iron girders allegedlly.Unique taste. Great hangover cure.
The Snowman! I loved that movie as a kid. That melody still gives me the chills.
The snowman ad has a follow up, well worth digging out. To get the context you have to see the snowman cartoon, based upon the Raymond Briggs book. The art of the animation is taken from the book, giving it a totally unique feel.
As for taste, irn bru , made in Scotland from girders, was the tag line, I always thought it tasted like rusty water!
Tastes nothing like rusty water. It's a glorious sugary concoction which can stop a hangover dead.
+1 for watching The Snowman. It's an amazing piece of work and even 40 years on, has stood the test of time. I'll watch it any time it's shown at Christmas. His darker but just as enjoyable piece of work, When The Wind Blows, is also well worth a watch.
@@bluecheese1066 we watch it every Christmas in my house 🤗 Anna and JT should put it on a list for Christmas viewing!
@@Kazza_8240 100% agreed! I'm sure they'd love it!
Just make sure to never, ever, watch Raymond Briggs other story. When the wind blows scarred me for life when I was a kid. Watching a lovely old couple (that looked spookily similar to my grandparents) slowly die from radiation poisoning was every bit as harrowing as you'd expect.
"Numero uno. I know French!". 🤣😂🤣 Never change JT.
"Steamy windaes in here eh?" gets me every time 4:35
I remember most of these lmao
Great video!
Loved it🤣A wee bit of history, the Barr company was started in Falkirk, a town in Scotland which was famous for its iron foundries In the 1930s, they had a delivery horse called Carnera who pulled carts laden with soft drinks around Falkirk. He was supposedly the biggest horse in the world at the time at 19 hands and he became quite famous - Barr's were always good at marketing🤣
Was the company not first established in Cameron, rather than Falkirk?
Sorry, the reply should read CAMELON not Cameron. It’s been changed by the iPad.
I dunno about that. Wasn't the original building at the back of where the Howgate now stands. I remember the big advert on the side of the building when I was young.
And for any American reading this, although Falkirk isn't a very large town, it was established some time before 1271, so it's not like it hasn't been around for a while. While the church that still stands on the high street has foundations that could have been built as early as the 7th century.
Proud to be Glaswegian and have this phenomenal drink as our national drink! Still only 1 of a very few drinks that outsell coke 🕺
Oh and the taste... Hint of bubblegum with girders 😉
That actually isn't true. It's a claim made by Barr's that is a marketing lie.
It isn't and doesn't. Coke have outsold Irn bru since 2017. Coke currently has a 36% market share while Irn Bru has 21%. Its not even close.
I think the best one was the grandad taking his teeth out and slurping it. 😂
This brought back heaps of memories of all the ads. Haha. The Christmas and Fanny one is excellent. Look up what Fanny means in Scotland 😂😂😂
Oh my gawwwwd!! You picked my favourite Irn Bru adverts! Scottish people love taking the mick out of themselves and what better way than to do it with our most loved liquid! Ok, I lied, it’s the second…after alcohol! 😆😆 Love your content and I just adore you two. 🥰🥰
Thanks
Some of those ads had my laughing out aloud, and Anna, your facial expressions are brilliant 😂 you have both brightened up a very dull Wednesday afternoon for me x
I'm sure there are more things to reach you're PO Box, we've had a few issues here in the UK with our royal mail.
I remember all of these adverts growing up! They were class.
Numero uno - i know french 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Followed by "no you dont" 😂
FYI, when A G Barr and Co. first produced the drink it was called Iron Brew but they were threatened with legal action from a US company who made
a beer with the same name so, to avoid problems, they changed the name to Irn-Bru. The slogan "made in Scotland from girders" is a play on the
company name, Barr (bar = girder).
As an 80's and 90's kid I never knew the reason behind the name change. I remember that slogan though
Though the spelling was changed, the pronunciation remained the same “Iron Brew” = Irn Bru.
Pretty much par for the course. Herscheys did it with Cadburys too, despite Cadburys being vastly superior
No they didn't 😂😂😂😂😂😂
A girder is something that holds roofs and buildings up! A bar is something much smaller, chocolate, hashish, iron. FYI you are a bawbag!!!
Irn Bru is pronounced like "Iron Brew"
The name actually got changed as it wasn't fermented or "brewed", and under advertising laws then, they were forced to change the name.
On the "Ginger" thing, it's what we in Scotland call fizzy soft drinks - and is actually also referring to the colour of the drink (Ginger is also a slang term for having orange / red hair)
It's what Weegies call fizzy soft drinks, in the rest of Scotland we call fizzy drinks juice. Glasgow has a completely different language to the rest of the country where all children get called Wayne for some reason.
It also doesn't contain very much iron, and the original name was considered misleading.
@@krashd Actually it's spelled "Wain", with another (older form, usually used for toddlers or baby, being "Bairn" - in some places it's used to refer to the youngest child, regardless of age)
@@gunbladelad7772 I always though it was "wean".......
@@krashdWain = Wee one = Small child
Trying to describe the taste of Iron Bru is nigh on impossible, It's unique.
I’m from Scotland and IRN BRU advert’s are truly awesome and hilarious.
BARR’s love to poke fun at something with a large dose of our humour.
We always look forward to the next one
In Scotland Irn Bru is bigger than Coke...
Most marketing was Scottish targeted and they have a very good grounded dry sense of humour, get a Scot talking and they'll talk your ear off - if you can keep up...
Not true. A tired joke that you all fell for.
Iron Bru never outsold coke in Scotland
@@sandersson2813 _Coca Cola outsells virtually every other soft drink in every country around the world_
_Except Scotland_
Source CBC dit ca
@@sandersson2813 _Scotland's 'other' national drink. Scotland is one of the few countries in the world where a locally-made soft drink outsells Coca-Cola_
Source Scotland website
@@sandersson2813 _3. Irn-Bru is the best-selling soft drink in Scotland, even outselling Coke and Pepsi. Scotland is one of the few countries in the world where Coke is not number one, the other countries being Iceland, Peru, and parts of the Middle East_
@@sandersson2813 now, please state your sources?
I literally have a can of Irn Bru sitting next to me right now! You can't really compare it to anything, Irn Bru just tastes like Irn Bru! And for Anna who suggested if maybe it tasted like "ginger", thats what we call redheads in Scotland (So orange hair = orange can) so "it's fizzy" like a soda and "ginger" like a redhead if that makes sense!
Was about to say this!
I always thought it tasted like bubblegum.
Red is commonly used because it was named long before orange/ginger were given different definitions so red was used for all three.
Tizer tastes very similar to it.
It's not the same since sturgeon started the sugar tax. 😠
Ginger is what we used to call fizzy drinks or soda. The original 1901 Irn Bru has quinine in it. That's the best tasting version, especially if you don't like artificial sweeteners like aspartame etc.
"its like fanta" fuck you got guts letting scots hear you say that lol
Irn bru has a unique taste the closest I found in the US was bubble gum soda. Also, in the UK a fanny is not a backside it's a vagina
Also used in Scotland to describe an idiot ,fool. As in "wee Jimmy, he's jist a fanny"
Got that right
Irn Bru is so called because it actually contains Iron, the dietary sort you get in supplements and multivitamins which helps in the transportation of oxygen throughout the body and the production of red blood cells, so you could claim the drink is 'good for you' although the other usual soda ingredients are not. Its the Ferric ammonium citrate that gives its unique flavour.
"It's made from girders." used to be the slogan if I remember right
@@dangalf84 Well almost, the exact slogan was 'Made in Scotland, from girders.'
Girder is a play on words because Irn Bru is made by Barr’s, and as well as containing iron, the drink is rust coloured - perfect
Pretty sure it used to have salt in it too, but I don't think it does now.
The original 1982 Snowman cartoon is a UK classic, shown on TV every Christmas.
So many iconic adverts! The snowman one especially (though it's a shame they didn't show the extended one) - it's become one of those things where it's not Christmas until you've seen it
You both should watch the tango adverts, they got banned because people where getting damaged hearing from copying it
You know when you've been tangoed...because you're fucking deaf!
Irn Bru is for sure amazing at marketing, it is bigger than coke in Scotland
It's not bigger than Coke in Scotland. In Brussels has a 21% market share, Coke has a 36% share. Why even comment if you don't have a clue what you're talking about?
@@robg4729 Scotland is the only place where coke isn't the most sold drink, that would be irn bru. it doesn't take much to look it up.
@@michaeldickson5134 What source is that from? A newspaper article repeating a myth isn't evidence btw. But you should know that. Where the evidence/figures that say irn bru sells more? Should be easy for you to find
The reference as well where the bhoy makes sparks is because it is as made from girders (big iron shit used to build ships)
For Americans watching.
In the UK "Fanny"...isn't the back end, it's the front end.
Also, the ads that have a go at "Yanks" is actually a reference to the fact that in Scotland, Irn Bru outsells Coca-Cola. One of the very few countries where a native soft drink outsells the Coke brand.
Irn Bru actually outsells Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Scotland. Its sometimes known as our other national drink. The other being Whisky. Its flavour is hard to describe. It's a bit like orange soda crossed w8th bubblegum.
Scotland is the only country in the world that a non coca-cola soft drink outsells coca-cola produced drinks (North Korea and Cuba can't legally import coca-cola products due to embargoes, and currently coca-cola has suspended all business in Russia)
This is a myth, it isn't true.
@S Andersson incorrect. It is certainly true. Irn Bru is the most popular soft drink in Scotland.
It's not true. Since 2017 Coke has outsold Irn bru, and currently outsells it by 36% market share to 21%.
@@robg4729 proof of this? as every where I look still says Irn Bru is most popular fizzy drink in Scotland.
Irn Bru is is a scottish soda/pop, that is one of the only remaining independent drinks on the market, Coca-cola have tried mulitple times to buy them out as Irn Bru sales in Scotland still out sell Coke, but Irn Bru refuses to sell, the taste varies alot some say orange and blackcurrant, but others have described its taste as “fizzy bubblegum” or even “a sweetened version of Listerine”
I try it every few years and it always just tastes extremely sweet. Too sweet for my tastes.
Us Scots call it fizzy juice
@@ScottishCraigBus Glaswegians call it Ginger
@@MrsIzzy52 i was born in glasgow and nun of my family and none i know call it ginger either
It doesn't outsell coke at all, and hasn't done since 2017, seven years ago.
I’m from the east end of Glasgow…where the the Barr’s factory used to be until the 80’s. I lived 100 yards away. In those days you had returnable bottles where you used to pay a deposit on a bottled drink and get it back once you returned it. Me and my eight year old pals at that time used to break into the factory, steal a crate of empty bottles and return them to local shops to get the deposit back. Then spend the money on sweets ….happy days.
I love your reactions to our sense of humour! Just as funny as they adverts! LOL ♥
The Scottish Dad is the best. I still have tears every time I watch it.
Aye that and the goths holiday. They missed that one out
In Scotland, being called Fanny is the same as being called an idiot, as in "who you calling a fanny? Ya fanny!" Not in any way the same as the other slang term for fanny being the female genitalia. Ginger in some parts of Scotland is what we call fizzy drinks.🤣🤣🤣 The one with the snowman is based in part on the Raymond Briggs story The Snowman, which was animated and is usually shown every Christmas here. Us Scots know it's Christmas when we see the Irn-Bru Snowman advert 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think that a lot of the brilliant humour was lost on the Americans.
Number 3 has always been my favourite ad. Sat here singing away with it.
Them commenting on how it sounds to say “irn bru” whilst completely saying it wrong.
Currently packing a parcel for you guys. Will be sending weekend, ima send some Irn Bru 🥰🤣
The snowman advert, you need to watch the film "The Snowman" near Christmas to understand. It's a beautiful British reference. It's also a shame they ruined Irn Bru by making it artificially sweetened to avoid the sugar tax :(
Its a shame, they ruined a perfectly good Christian, Christmas story. By using it as an advertisment. Not all Scots are proud of the National Drink that causes obesity. Not all Scots play up to the stereotypical version of a scotchman/woman. Even the watered down version of the "Bru" is bogging!
@@WeAreThePeople1690going by your name you are a religious bigot from the North East of Ireland.
P.S. the term is Scotsman. Toddle back off to Shankill
off the bat of the 'fanny' ad... and they be like.. "you remember what it taste like, ginger?"... "I remember a more citrus flavour..." "I need to try one..." Jeez, I died!
I moved from Scotland to Chattanooga, Tennessee, two years ago and I get Irn-Bru regularly from my local Publix supermarket. It’s still the best hangover cure ever.
Here in scotland all fizzy drinks are known as 'ginger' it's nothing to do with it's colour
we say 'get us a can of ginger will you'
and reply with 'aye what kind' (fanta, 7up, cola, irn bru etc)
(more likely to get the reply 'get it yourself ya bam') 😂
Iv never heard anyone here refer to any fizzy drink other than in as ginger, might just be local to you.
@@shannanlindibanana I think it's not so common now, but I used to visit family in Glasgow when I was a kid in the 70s and it was quite normal then. Seemed very odd to my London ears. More recently my nephews, who grew up in Fife and Dundee, still call just about any soft drink juice.
I have heard people from Georgia (state, not country) call all sodas Coke, probably because Coca Cola is based in Atlanta.
"we" dont say 'get us a can of ginger will you'
I'm a Highlander and have never heard anyone say that.
@@Thurgosh_OG thats because you're a teuchter, teuchter's are....different
There are indeed some places you can pickup Irn Bru (pronounced Iron Brew) in the states. Disney's world showcase was one of them.
Used to get it from a wee Scottish shop in Alexandria, Virginia.
The guy in the first one is actually an American who does brilliant Scottish accents
I often stayed in Disney land when the kids were younger, while you always got a refill cup my youngest always wanted an
Irn-bru.
I’ve not been since 2018 had booked animal kingdom lodge for 2020 but had to cancel due to Covid, booked up for late September this year. Back then we used to pay mad import prices but I’m sure we got single cans in Walgreens or Walmart.
Some years ago there used to be another fizzy soft drink on the market: Tizer. Their strapline was Tizer - the appetiser. It was on sale mainly in the north of England and I haven't seen it in years so I'm guessing it's no longer made - Irn-Bru having the market to itself. Another drink that's popular over here is Dandelion and Burdock which looks a little bit like Coca-Cola when poured into a glass but tastes very different.
Tizer is still being sold
It turns 100 years old next year.
Tizer is still available, certainly here in West Yorkshire and over the hills in Lancashire, but I don’t travel around much so I can’t say about the rest of the country. It’s a more red colour than Irn-Bru and it has a more fruity taste. When I was a kid it was my Saturday treat after going swimming to go to the local pie and pea shop for a dish of hot pork pie with mushy peas with mint sauce and a glass of Tizer. Great stuff!
Tizer was my favourite growing up down in Hampshire, still see it in my local shops too, just not the main supermarkets. Carrot & Safflower is what you will find in Tizer, it's great.
@@JanusDarke you can get it in Morrisons, well some anyway not sure about all of them
The 'Made in Scotland from Girders' Musical ad was basically a piss take of all the big budget Coca Cola ads of the day.
And the ad that Anna compared to High School Musical was in fact a pastiche of 'Fame' the TV series.
I think you would have to have seen the original animation of 'The Snowman' to get the gist of that ad, and it would be helpful to be familiar with the Scottish landmarks too.
"Don’t you know it’s one of those ads,
Lots of kids with white teeth and giant shoulder pads,
It’s not a drink from those crazy Yanks,
Because it’s made right here, you know it’s tougher than tanks.
Made in Scotland from girders,
Unpronounceable too,
Made in Scotland from girders,
It’s called Barr’s Irn Bru."
It tastes like bubble gum. If you hear 'ginger', it refers mostly to red hair color. It is not comparing to ginger ale or ginger root, in Scots culture patter.
The "Fiery" Irn-Bru advert is also hilarious and an amazing piece of comedy editing. You should check it out.
FYI - The Snowman one is an incredible parody of "The Snowman" which was a very quaint, heart-warming animation, done in the same hand-drawn style, about a boy who befriends a snowman. Irn-Bru just made him a wee tadger instead which makes it great.
Double FYI - To any American unfamiliar with UK English a fanny is the front bottom of a lady. It's predominately used by us in Scotland to describe each other, in a good or a bad way!
It's ginger because of its colour. Most people thinks it's got a bubble gum taste. It's so popular in Scotland, you'll literally see people walking around drinking it. Workmen going to the job with a big bottle to get them through the day etc. It's made in Scotland and probably will always be because they keep turning down buyers.
There are loads more hilarious ads by the way...you could probably make a video of them.
We used to have an iru bru site out on the edge of town down here in Nottinghamshire.
Made in Scotland from girders
I remember a billboard from when I was a kid that had a picture of a cow and the caption "When I get turned into a burger I want to be washed down with Irn-Bru"😁
im from scotland and love Irn Bru it was great seeing all the commercials i had forgotten about most of them my fave is the fanny one as calling someone a fanny in scotland is funny
You two are hilarious, I love watching your reactions to our sense of humour lol, and I think the ginger reference is the colour not 100% sure, it does taste good though, tfs x Julie 🇬🇧
Hey Nick thanks for that I always thought it was Aled,
You should do the Marmite adverts too, they're hilarious
Can’t remember the last time I saw a marmite advert
There were a lot of ads they used to run suggesting it gave you super strength. It is quite amusing watching Americans react to British/Scottish things.
Possibly because it contained iron micro nutrients
advert no. 13 (or no. 2 in the countdown) is a changed version of The Snowman, and the song is sung by a Welshman called Aled Jones.
The confusion over the word "Ginger" is funny. In the west of Scotland "Ginger" is any fizzy drink - so its used like Americans use the word "Soda".
fun fact, it use to be called iron brew, but mid 20th century british advertising laws said you couldn't call it iron brew unless it contained iron. so they just renamed it IRN BRU... the restrictions got relaxed in the 80's though. which is why a lot of store-brand competitors to irn bru are called "iron brew"
Nope... it changed from Iron Brew to Irn-bru because it wasn't actually brewed and hence couldn't be called "brew" under the trading standard of the 40's.
Barrs also produce a phenomenal range of tropical flavoured canned/bottled drinks under the 'Rubicon' name, with Mango, Lychee, Guava, Passion Fruit flavours - They're superb.
I love Rubicon drinks. I had no idea they were produced by Barrs.
To explain a bit of Scottish vernacular, particularly, Glasgow/south west Scotland, ginger, is a multi faceted word. I can mean orange coloured, as in ginger hair, it can also mean a fizzy drink, all soda/pop can be called ginger, Coca-Cola is ginger, Mountain Dew is ginger, root beer is ginger, Ginger can also just be ginger (the root/spice). At one pointAG Barr, makers of Irn Bru released a limited edition “fiery Irn Bru” that had a strong ginger root flavouring added to regular Irn Bru, so in that instance it was perfectly reasonable to say there’s ginger in the ginger ginger.
I'd no idea there was a "fiery" iron bru with ginger in. Sounds proper class. Can't imagine it bein popular though