CANADIANS try IRN BRU for the first time! // Scotland's Other National Drink!

Irn Bru is known lovingly as "Scotland's other national drink" (next to whisky!)
But it recently came to my attention that not many people here in Canada have tried it.
So I went to work one day with cans of "ginger" for everyone to see if they thought it was "phenomenal" or not!
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// A B O U T M E
I'm Cameron and I'm a speaker, creator and performer with a particular interest in psychology and self-development.
In my past 2 years of being a professional self-development speaker, I've spoken to over 10,000 young people across Scotland and the UK and have performed on stage as a professional magician & psychological mind reader to thousands more.
I recently moved to Toronto, Canada to pursue a new adventure in life!
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[@CameronGibsonIRL]

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[@keithmuir5077]

never mind she didnt like irn bru she does a great Scottish accent!

[@NeilCroswellMagic]

Ha this video was great! Patrick and Julia’s parts tho 🤣🤣🤣

[@CameronGibsonIRL]

Yeah they're hilarious haha. And the face reveal of you made me chuckle, too!

[@sophietaj5757]

So happy that freshco finally sell irn bru!!!!! A taste of home!

[@nicoleistrying4442]

This was actually a top tier video 😂

[@garymcatear822]

I remember watching on tv years ago, probably over 2 decades ago i watched a wine expert doing a tasting of IRN BRU, she reckoned it was like bubblegum too.

[@ThomasKelly669]

Where was the vodka the main ingredient

[@edinburgh2007]

not one person in Scotland i know calls it "fizzy drinks" everyone just says can/tin of juice

[@paulstorrie9033]

Callum come on man we call it GINGER you go ask for a bottl o Ginger

[@CameronGibsonIRL]

Haha "gies a swadge of yer ginger pal!"

[@paulstorrie9033]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jukeboxgeneral7105]

Only on the West Coast. In bru on the east coast.

[@garyography]

To me the Irn bru dominant tastes are - Metallic orange, cream soda and bubblegum

[@oliclay1348]

There is definitely something metallic about it. I love irn bru

[@Max040fficial]

@@oliclay1348 Hmm maybe its the IRON???

[@Naefacesix6six]

any jobs going across the pond? i stay scotland

[@davehemsley4124]

The thing is, it is from those crazy yanks. The first Iron Brew drink was produced by the Maas & Waldstein chemicals company of New York in 1889 under the name IRONBREW.[6] The drink was popular across North America and was widely copied. A similar beverage was launched in 1898 by London essence firm Stevenson & Howell that supplied soft drinks manufacturers in the UK and colonies. Many local bottlers around the UK began selling their own version of the beverage.[6] Despite the official launch date for Barr's Iron Brew being given as 1901, the firms AG Barr & Co (Glasgow) and Robert Barr (Falkirk) jointly launched their own Iron Brew drink at least two years earlier, according to a document in the firm's archives which indicates that the drink was already enjoying strong sales by May 1899.[6] The strongman image which Barr's adopted for their bottle labels and advertising had been trademarked by the firm Stevenson & Howell in 1898.[7] Barr's ordered their labels directly from Stevenson & Howell, which also sold Barr's many of the individual flavours with which they mixed their own drinks.[6] An advertisement for Barr's Iron Brew dated 1900 featuring the original strongman label can be found in Falkirk's Local History Archives.[8] Barr's trademark application for the brand name Irn-Bru dates from July 1946[9] when the drink was still off sale because of wartime regulations. The firm first commercialised their drink using this new name in 1948 once government SDI consolidation of the soft drinks industry had ended.[10] The name change followed the introduction of new labelling restrictions which cracked down on spurious health claims and introduced minimum standards for drinks claiming to contain minerals such as iron.[11] However, according to Robert Barr OBE (chairman 1947-1978), there was also a commercial rationale behind the unusual spelling. "Iron Brew" had come to be understood as a generic product category in the UK, whereas adopting the name "Irn-Bru" allowed the firm to have a legally protected brand identity that would enable the firm to benefit from the popularity of their wartime "Adventures of Ba-Bru" comic strip advertising.[6] (The "Iron Brew" name has continued to be used for many versions of the drink sold by rival manufacturers.)[12]

[@jacktowers7533]

The Acoustics on that first can pop tho

[@angelschug1522]

I just tried Irn Bru for the first time today and it tastes like bubble gum it’s delicious

[@CameronGibsonIRL]

People say that a lot! It's honestly the best drink. So happy I can get it here in Canada!

[@fandangobrandango7864]

Tastes nothing like bubble gum

[@jasonericf]

When I heard an American describe the flavour as bubble gum years ago I was like oh yeah 🤯

[@BigC1290]

You raced for that irn bru 🤣🤣🤣

[@stuartduncan2772]

Julia Schmulia. Get her telt. Irn Bru's the best.

[@xlentttv]

its GINGER

[@onewheadon9933]

Irn Bru been in canada since i was a kid still get it at freshco....

[@CameronGibsonIRL]

Ha I know! I bought it in freshco in the video...

[@TheLulu994able]

I literally drink irn bru daily if i dont have irn bru people think am ill 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@CameronGibsonIRL]

Haha love it! It's my guilty pleasure for sure!

[@scottishalwaysdixie1638]

Can of Bru # with Lovely kebab 👌

[@CameronGibsonIRL]

Can't think of anything better!

[@scottishalwaysdixie1638]

@@CameronGibsonIRL definitely M8 👍

[@eddiebirdie1545]

Now you're talking my language

[@kratosboy5557]

2:41 *Scotland hated that*

[@jaicarrmedia]

So it’s spelled Irn Bru but it’s pronounced Iron Brew? I always wanted to try this

[@rodpanhard]

It used to be called "Iron Brew" but it fell foul of some kind of trades description act as there was no actual Iron in it so they changed the spelling to Irn Bru as a workaround.

[@johnadams9314]

I think the issue was that it wasn’t brewed. It does contain iron

[@Max040fficial]

Iron bru taste like hmmm idk maybe IRON?!

[@bhurzumii4315]

Nobody in my neck of the woods calls them "fizzy drinks" - they're collectively known as ginger, juice or scoosh. "Gies a boatle ah ginger, hen." "Whit kind?" "Irn Bru, doll. Ahv goat a throat like a junkie's carpet!" "Here, gerrit doon yer neck!"

[@24magiccarrot]

We do call soft drinks fizzy drinks in Scotland, it is the generic term for all carbonated soft drinks. It's only really in the west of Scotland that the term ginger is used and it exclusively refers to Irn Bru and is not a generic term for all canned drinks.

[@bhurzumii4315]

@@24magiccarrot Born and raised in Glasgow. If you asked the guy in a tally-van for a bottle of "ginger", he'd ask you "what type?" Ginger is _not_ exclusively used for Irn Bru.

[@24magiccarrot]

@@bhurzumii4315 Where I live it's rarely used but when it is it is almost exclusively for Irn Bru. If you aren't using it to specify a particular beverage then the people from Glasgow must be pretty dumb fucks, think about it if you were using another generic term say soda, pop or fizzy drinks, you wouldn't go into a shop and say "can you give me a bottle of soda/pop/fizzy drink", you'd specifically ask for what you want you'd say "I want a bottle of Irn Bru/cola/fanta".

[@bhurzumii4315]

@@24magiccarrot The example I set ("Gies a bottle of ginger") was to illustrate the context. I didn't suggest or imply that anyone walks into a shop or up to an ice cream van and asks for a bottle of non-specific ginger. You need to be a real midwit to draw that conclusion. "Ginger" is a broadbrush term for "soft drinks" _including_ Irn Bru. Same with "Scoosh" (yes, it also means to spray or squirt) and "juice." It's just like "beer" or "lager" - you _could_ ask for a pint of either and you'd probably be asked immediately for the brand/type you specifically want. Don't tell me I'm wrong about terms I've been using (along with the people around me) since I was a little kid. Sure, maybe _you_ didn't/don't use them that way, fair enough, but we did.

[@24magiccarrot]

@@bhurzumii4315 The context you gave was specifically asking the ice-cream driver for a bottle of ginger so you were effectively saying you were doing the thing that I said was dumb, you said you asked an ice cream driver for a generic term then wait to be asked to give a specific, when everyone else would ask for the specific item they wanted right of the bat.

[@PatrickHodgsonFilm]

😂