AG Barr went on to confirm that Irn-Bru did indeed contain alcohol, but that it was such a small amount as to be virtually negligible, meaning everyone, including the Muslim community, could continue to enjoy Irn-Bru as it didn't go against the teachings of their religion. 15. A Scots ex-pat recently claimed that Irn-Bru (well Iron Brew) was actually invented in the United States IRONBREW bottle label from the New York-made fizzy drink, circa 1900. PIC: SWNS But how much do you really know about Irn-Bru? Here are 16 facts you (probably) didn't know: 16 things you (probably) didn't know about Irn-Bru 1. Barr's dropped (most of) the vowels in 1946 It wasn't always called Irn-Bru. Picture: TSPL

Only three people in the whole world reportedly know the recipe for making Irn-Bru: Former company chairman Robin Barr; his daughter Julie Barr (the firm’s Company Secretary and Legal Affairs Manager) and one other A.G. Barr board director, whose identity remains confidential. Robin Barr. Picture: TSPL Aldi has launched a range of new products - including Iron Brew jelly babies - that have been developed and manufactured in Scotland following the supermarket’s search for the country’s Next Top Product. Elvis Costello references Irn-Bru in his song ‘The St Stephen’s Day Murders’, with the lyrics: ‘There’ll be laughter and tears over Tia Marias, mixed up with that drink made from girders.’

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Oh Percy. How could you? Marks and Spencer, not content with selling a separate vegetarian version of their popular Percy Pig sweets, have now taken the gelatine out of the entire range to make them all meat-free. Such reformulations are not to be taken lightly – remember in January last year when Irn Bru cut its sugar content by more than half, to howls of complaint from its Scottish heartland? Or when Ribena followed suit, replacing much of the sugar with artificial sweetener and enraging its most loyal customers? A Irn-Bru poster which featured a cow and the slogan "When I'm a burger I want to be washed down with Irn-Bru" attracted a record 700 complaints, while family values campaigners were outraged when an advert showed a young women in a bikini holding a can and saying: "I never knew four-and-a-half-inches could give so much pleasure."

Designed in 1969 as the Barr tartan, by Howe design, it was updated in 1996/97 and redesigned by Kinloch Anderson with the name changed to Irn-Bru tartan.

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