Irn Bru

jd0272

RedRabbit;261116" said:

jd0272 said:

I'm taking the family to Scotland next week. 

i) I hope it's open.ii) I hope that's not all that's for sale in the mixer aisle at the Lidl's that's 1.5 miles from Seton Sands.iii) I hope Loch Lomond is a bit closer than it looks on Google.iv) that the zoo has decent parking.





The parking at the zoo isn't too bad but it is an extra £4 on top of the tickets.  I think the car park actually belongs to the hotel.



Also, if you want to see the pandas book your tickets online and reserve a viewing ticket at the same time.  We got to the zoo at 10am and the earliest viewing available was at 4:30pm.  I might have waited it out but we couldn't expect my 4 year old niece to.

Yeah we've had 'the Panda' discussion. Ain't happening!

PolarityMan

DiscoStu;261134" said:

PolarityMan said:

irn bru is excellent, i liked it when you could still get it in those glass bottles that they gave you back a 10p deposit or whatever for.





You still get them

In that case why did I ever move away?

holnrew

jd0272 said:

Well, the weather might be ok.

Wifey wants to do the Ben Nevis cable car thing with the kids too. I've tried to explain it's a bit of a trek.

It's not really worth it IMO. You don't get all the way to the top, and there's not much you can do at that level.

ICBM

It's not even a mountain anyway, more of a large molehill.




When I went to Banff in Canada I was amused to notice that the town is higher above sea level than the top of Ben Nevis... and it's at the bottom of the valley .

Bellycaster

The scariest "Pop" adverts is a toss up between Irn Bru with this one.

and Tango with this one

'Kin Mental.

8-X

oddball

Its a bloody disgrace that drinks like these and their evil food equivalents are allowed to be sold - why the hell would you want to put huge amounts of fructose/glucose and god knows what additives and colourings into your body? Why not try just drink straight non-buggered about with fruit juice, tastes a million times better and won't give you a gut the size of a car, fuck your blood sugar up and potentially if you believe what some research is showing increase your cancer risk.

Deijavoo

*yawn*

LastMantra

I enjoy a wee dram o the bru from time to time. And it does taste better fresh from a "glass (gless) cheque".

Funny how the health risks of bru are being called into question but vodka's OK.

If you were lacking in sugar it could save your life.

ICBM

LastMantra said:

Funny how the health risks of bru are being called into question but vodka's OK.

If you were lacking in sugar it could save your life.:D

Unless you're allergic to Sunset Yellow or Tartrazine and then have an asthma attack and die, which is what nearly happened to me the first time I drank some on a hot day not long after I came to Scotland...

Karlos

oddball said:

Its a bloody disgrace that drinks like these and their evil food equivalents are allowed to be sold - why the hell would you want to put huge amounts of fructose/glucose and god knows what additives and colourings into your body? Why not try just drink straight non-buggered about with fruit juice, tastes a million times better and won't give you a gut the size of a car, fuck your blood sugar up and potentially if you believe what some research is showing increase your cancer risk.

Contrary to popular belief fruit juice is not good for you, certainly not the much touted 100% Pure etc variants on supermarket shelves. Unless you squeeze it yourself you are most likely buying processed juice which can be just as bad at raising blood sugar as fizzy pop.

Obviously there's less shit (technical term for crap) in fruit juice but the myth that it's good for you is bunk.

Whole fruits lower the risk of diabetes, especially blueberries a so-called 'superfood', fruit juices actually increase the risk of diabetes.

Obviously that massive glass of fresh orange when your hungover is still a good idea but glugging glass after glass of fruit juice is a bad idea.

oddball

You're not wrong however and I quite agree that a lot of juices in the supermarkets aren't as 100% pure as the packaging suggests and in large quantities aren't so good for you however they are considerably better as a one-off drink than any of the popular carbonated drinks (diet varieties included).

Gagaryn

ICBM said: LastMantra said:

Funny how the health risks of bru are being called into question but vodka's OK.If you were lacking in sugar it could save your life.:D
Unless you're allergic to Sunset Yellow or Tartrazine and then have an asthma attack and die, which is what nearly happened to me the first time I drank some on a hot day not long after I came to Scotland...


There is no Tartrazine in Irn Bru, although it does have Sunset Yellow (E110) and Ponceau Red (E124). I don't think it ever contained Tartrazine (E102), although the other two are bad enough.

ICBM

If it doesn't now, it did. I clearly remember reading it and wondering why they would need *two* nasty yellow-orange dyes in it. (Admittedly this is nearly 30 years ago, and I haven't checked since.) Although the colour probably explains it…

If it's been removed it's presumably because it's banned in a lot of countries with a more sensible approach to food additives.

Actually what's even more ludicrous is that you find this kind of crap in children's *medicines*. Unbelievable.

Sambostar

Reminds me of lucozade and worming powder.

Bellycaster

ICBM said:

LastMantra said:

Funny how the health risks of bru are being called into question but vodka's OK.

If you were lacking in sugar it could save your life.:D

Unless you're allergic to Sunset Yellow or Tartrazine and then have an asthma attack and die, which is what nearly happened to me the first time I drank some on a hot day not long after I came to Scotland...

Crikey, that's quite a thing to happen.......a hot day in Scotland I mean.

Only kidding, that must have been pretty damn scary!

UnclePsychosis

I don't trust people who don't like Irn Bru. They're wrong 'uns, for sure. 

Bucket

DiscoStu said:

Move further north and we have this rare beast:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3185/2584015772_34d67c5360.jpg

I don't think I even want to know what that is.

blueskunk

Pakistani Champagne we call it.

jd0272

It's alive with a new advert on the telly, involving the word fanny. Can't go wrong.

Nitefly

jd0272 said:

It's alive with a new advert on the telly, involving the word fanny. Can't go wrong.

My all-time favourite!

"She comes from a long line of Fannies!"

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