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Jack the Lass
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I'm actually down south right now, but happy Hogmanay to all anyway and hope to catch up with you soon.
BTW, and this will totally out me as a non-Scot, I can't stand Irn Bru (though I do think the adverts are brilliant).
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Cottontail
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Even as a person of pretty unambiguous Scottish ancestry, I loathe and detest Irn Bru. It tastes to me of liquid bubblegum, and the colour genuinely alarms me. But then, I also loathe and detest whisky, and have never eaten a deep-fried pizza.
I shall spend 2012 working on my 'true Scot' credentials.
A guid new year to ane and a.* ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
(*A good new year to one and all)
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mousethief
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Nasty stuff. But happy new year to all Scots and descendents thereof.
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Welease Woderwick
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My nephew used to admit to liking Irn-Bru but since he has moved on in the world seems to prefer single malt. As a lad a bottle of the stuff with a fish supper was the height of epicurean delight - easily obtainable in Paisley but perhaps not so much in the rather salubrious Cotswold village where he now lives.
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Firenze
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tell us about last night
well, we had a wee ferintosh and we lay on the quiraing. It was pure stontian!
and I took some bad photographs of fireworks from a windy rooftop on The Mile.
But the morning is fair and bright.
A Happy New Year to all.
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Ariel
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I was reading a Hogmanay recipe by a top chef in the Times the other day for deep-fried something (I wish I could remember what it was and who it was by - Heston Blumenthal perhaps?) with Irn-Bru ice-cream. This thread title made me think of it.
Anyway Happy New Year to those of you in the north, hope the weather isn't too rough up there!
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North East Quine
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Somewhere does deep-fried balls of butter in an irn-bru batter with an irn bru coulis.
I'm pure Scot, and I can't stand the stuff.
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ken
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"Irn-Bru" is Scots for "Tizer" ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Surfing Madness
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I love irn-bru, but gave it up, and it has to be said I feel better for not having it.
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kingsfold
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Where's SCZ when you're having a discussion about Irn-Bru?
Am currently in Englandshire, but returning north tomorrow. Happy New Year to all.
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Derf
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Irn Bru is nasty stuff. My Mum has some cans in for when we visit but I don't think scz realises so they never get drunk. She was trying to send me home with them last week on the basis that they were about to go out of date.... I reassured her that I didn't think they were going to go off!
Happy New Year to one and all.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by ken:
"Irn-Bru" is Scots for "Tizer"
That's what I think, but my (Scottish) wife vigorously denies it. (And are/were they both made by Barr's?)
But then, I can't taste any difference between Pepsi asnd Coke ....
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
But then, I can't taste any difference between Pepsi asnd Coke ....
It's close, but Pepsi is nicer - slightly less sugary. The sugar volume in Coke does depend on the locality though as they make it sweeter for some countries than others.
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Bob Two-Owls
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
That's what I think, but my (Scottish) wife vigorously denies it. (And are/were they both made by Barr's?)
Not even close, Irn Bru is the nectar of the gods, Tizer is a strange concoction that tastes faintly of cheap bicarbonate of soda. I only lived in Scotland from -9 months to +5 years but I know you can't make a good deep-fried mars bar without Irn Bru batter...
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Moo
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Originally posted by Ariel:
The sugar volume in Coke does depend on the locality though as they make it sweeter for some countries than others.
It also varies by the type of sugar. In the US, Coke is made with high-fructose corn syrup; in other countries, including Mexico, it's made with cane or beet sugar.
You can buy Mexican Coke in Texas. It tastes much better.
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Cottontail
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Originally posted by Derf:
Irn Bru is nasty stuff. My Mum has some cans in for when we visit but I don't think scz realises so they never get drunk. She was trying to send me home with them last week on the basis that they were about to go out of date.... I reassured her that I didn't think they were going to go off!
Happy New Year to one and all.
I can confirm that Irn Bru does go off. My predecessors left some unopened bottles in the flat, and when I served it to my Irn Bru-loving friend ... well, there were an unpleasant few moments.
However, that same friend swears that Irn Bru is absolutely the best hang-over cure around. Which might account some for its popularity in Scotland.
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North East Quine
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Deep fried balls of butter sounds glorious, but the irn bru batter would put me off. Perhaps deep-fried butter with Mackie's vanilla icecream shortbread fingers and a wee dusting of icing sugar?
One of the foulest things I have ever tasted was deep-fried coconut ice-cream balls which had been fried in the same fat as a week's worth of fish and chips. This delicacy had been made for school dinners, but the dinner ladies had been dubious, so had asked a couple of parents to taste test before they were served up. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
(This was c2001, prior to the introduction of Healthy School Meals.)
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
Mackie's vanilla icecream
Now you're talking - yummie!
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Peppone
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Irn-Bru is good for hangovers. But ice cold coca cola is just as good.
My advice, get up somewhere between 5 and 7 just as your heid starts to thump, take two Nurofen and a can of VERY COLD coke, and go back to bed. (This is assuming you have nothing in particular to get up for.)
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Surfacing after New Year; Irn Bru is my friend.
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Piglet
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Although I probably haven't had Irn-bru for over 30 years, I can just about remember its taste, and IIRC it was vastly superior to Tizer.
I wonder if Peppone's hangover cure works with paracetamol - D. can't take Neurofen so we never have it in the house. My own remedy is also more prevention than cure: take a couple of paracetamol (preferably Solpadeine*) before you go to bed, along with a reasonably big glass of water. If that hasn't had the desired effect by 6 or 7 in the morning, repeat. As soon as you can face it, have some bacon and eggs and lots of orange juice.
Hope you all had a good Hogmanay.
* You can't get Solpadeine or equivalents over here, so we have to stock-pile whenever we're home on holiday ...
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chive
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Have any of you tried firey Irn Bru? I know it's been out a while but I can't get it in deepest darkest Sassenachland.
I'm coming north of the border in a couple of weeks and will try and source some while I'm there.
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Firenze
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Severe gales.
The tree in our back garden - a magnificent old Gean cherry has blown down. Just going out to investigate the damage (looks as if it may have landed on the shed/fence).
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Alan Cresswell
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We just recovered the wreck of our trampoline from the garden. Having had it blow away previously, it was pegged into the ground. And, the first thing I did this morning was confirm it was still where it should have been. A few minutes later our neighbour was knocking on the door ...
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Alan Cresswell
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Oh, and the front gate has blown out with the latch pulled out of the wood. And, the back fence is coming away from the supports and is currently held in place by the (hopefully sufficiently weighty) bin.
Windy day.
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Firenze
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It has indeed completely crushed the garden shed and crashed through the fence. We have a friend who is an urban lumberjack, so will phone him presently.
I shall miss it. It's been the dominant feature of the garden all the time we have lived here. I suppose it went back to the building of these houses - so in the region of 80 years old. And it was beautiful - dappled shade in summer, dark crimson in the autumn, a sunset-catching mesh of branches in the winter, and in spring a glory of blossom. I am really sorry I shall never see that again.
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Jack the Lass
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That's so sad Firenze ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
We are still in Herefordshire, but driving back later. Staying till today rather than returning yesterday is looking like possibly not our most wise decision.
Some wags are starting to call this one Pandabaws. Sounds worse than Hurricane Bawbag, I saw on the TV the Christmas tree in George Square has snapped near the base, and the Clyde looks ferociously high.
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daisymay
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there are millions of pictures of IrnBru which must be about loads being sold and drunk.
Is this now Scotland?
the weather seems awful today - I hope you get things fixed and stay safe!
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kingsfold
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Well, I'm currently sat at Luton airport.
We got to within about 15-20mins off Glasgow this morning, then had to turn around and return to Luton as the wind was too strong to land in either Glasgow or Edinburgh...
Am rebooked onto tonights flight, so fingers crossed the wind drops sufficiently! (It should do...)
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Firenze
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Originally posted by kingsfold:
Am rebooked onto tonights flight, so fingers crossed the wind drops sufficiently! (It should do...)
You should be: the trees are barely stirring out there. And the Edinburgh airport live arrivals is showing landings - since the weather has been moving eastwards, I should think Glasgow will be open as well.
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kingsfold
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OK, so am I allowed to say that I'm thoroughly fed up with the weather?
I did make it back last night, thankfully. And found all remained undamaged, equally thankfully. And I'm glad we've not had weeks on the trot at -7C or whatever. But I am so fed up of the wind and the rain, the howling of the chimney and the draught it causes, the perpetual clattering of a loose cable against the window and the seemingly never-ending water falling from the sky. I did actually see blue sky and a strange shiny yellow orb giving off warmth when I was in Englandshire - I'd forgotten what they looked like. I'd even welcome a few days at subzero temperatures if they were clear and the sun shined....
Somehow I don't think it will come to pass - that's what I get for living in the west of Scotland. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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daisymay
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And there have been lots of awful pictures about the damage and he wind and wetness on BBC website. It does seem the worst year - there have always been some windy, wet, cold, snowy ones, but this seems even worse. I do remember as a child when electricity went off, and that seems to have been awful atm again. We didn't have anything to warm us like electric stuff, except we always burned wood in our rooms.
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Piglet
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Just popping in to offer sympathy - you've really had it a bit rough. It's been blowing a gale and p*ssing with rain here most of today, but not really in the same league (although we had no post the other day because the roof had blown off the main post office).
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kingsfold
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And lo and behold, Strathclyde has another yellow warning for wind today.... I thought it was all supposed to quieten down a bit.
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Firenze
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We spoke to our insurers, who are having busiest storm damage claims season ever. Since we will be away a good part of the rest of the month, they were happy that a visit from an assessor could wait for a few weeks.
It means I have no idea what has happened to the stuff in the shed, since I am not going to try and investigate with half a ton of tree lying on its buckled roof. Looks as if February will be busy.
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North East Quine
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That's awful, Firenze. Our whirly sheered off at the base, but I've put it back up, it's just 6 inches shorter than it used to be.
I was kept awake from 3am -5am by howling wind, lashing rain and a repetitive banging from a neighbour's garden, but today has dawned bright and clear, with a pale blue sky.
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kingsfold
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Ooh, ooh, ooh - I can see the sun . And blue sky .
Sorry about your damage Firenze. I am however glad it was your shed and not the house or you!
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Wet Kipper
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Originally posted by ken:
"Irn-Bru" is Scots for "Tizer"
It most certainly is not. The 2 drinks are a different colour and taste different.
Last time someone who said that came to our house we had a blind taste test with Irn-Bru, tizer and Red Kola and he could taste a difference between all 3.
And the fiery stuff is essentially Irn-Bru mixed with Ginger Beer
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Wet Kipper
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and in regards to the hangover cure, Irn Bru works thanks to the water (rehydration), the sugar (energy), the caffeine (wake up) and allegedly the small amount of Iron - 0.02% ammonium Ferric Citrate- helps your blood
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Scots lass
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Originally posted by chive:
Have any of you tried firey Irn Bru? I know it's been out a while but I can't get it in deepest darkest Sassenachland.
I'm coming north of the border in a couple of weeks and will try and source some while I'm there.
I got it from the corner shop beside my SW London workplace... They didn't have the normal stuff at the time. It's a bit like a cross between ginger beer and Irn Bru, similar flavour to the nectar of the gods, yet kick of ginger. Not bad, actually.
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North East Quine
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Spoke too soon! 10am's bright, clear, blue skies turned into 10.30's hailstones, 11am's louring grey sky and 12 noon's chucking rain.
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Shaggy
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Every time I come back to Scotland (for I sadly live in England now...) the first thing I do is stop at a newsagent and buy a cold glass bottle of Irn-Bru.
Nothing beats it.
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Originally posted by Shaggy:
Every time I come back to Scotland (for I sadly live in England now...) the first thing I do is stop at a newsagent and buy a cold glass bottle of Irn-Bru.
Nothing beats it.
You can buy the glass bottles of the stuff in Waitrose, along with other Barrs "heritage" drinks. The first time I saw them was before they started stocking Irn Bru as well, and I was so pleased that I nearly bought American Cream Soda, despite the fact I have never liked it, just to have a Barrs drink from a glass bottle.
The very fact I can buy them makes me happy.
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Firenze
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Embro OTOH remains calm and sunny. Which means my friends' flight to Newark should have got away alright. Have to say of the things we had to drink last night - Cava, Chardonnay, Burgundy, Late Harvest Muscat - none was Irn Bru.
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quote:
Originally posted by Shaggy:
Every time I come back to Scotland (for I sadly live in England now...) the first thing I do is stop at a newsagent and buy a cold glass bottle of Irn-Bru.
For many years, one of the first things I did on getting off a train in Scotland or the North of England was to buy a packet of twenty Regals. For some reason they hardly exist down south.
That might be why I have this irritating cough that won't go away.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
... of the things we had to drink last night - Cava, Chardonnay, Burgundy, Late Harvest Muscat - none was Irn Bru.
Sounds as if it was a good night, Firenze - were you reaching for the paracetamol and Irn Bru in the morning?
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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Just to prove that Canada is Little Scotland, they sell Irn-Bru here.
They even sell Diet Irn-Bru (sugar-free, for diabetics like me).
Piglet, there's no excuse for not having Irn-Bru.
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