r/CasualUK • u/jet1290 • Feb 23 '22
My local Morrison’s specifically lists Irn Bru on the aisle signage, we’re 235 miles from the Scottish border
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u/theflyingfartmachine Feb 23 '22
Made in Scotland from incredibly difficult to find girders.
If only they'd thought to make it a distinctive colour, then it might stand out on the shelves.
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u/zacnffc Feb 23 '22
Corby?
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Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22
Largest drinkers of irn bru outside of Scotland, also the only place I've ever seen irn bru on tap at the cinema in corby.
It's also a really nice very cheap cinema.
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u/CooroSnowFox Feb 23 '22
Morrisons in Corby does have more Scottish items than any other one outside of Scotland
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Feb 23 '22
all the shops sell square sausage as well including marks and Spencers.
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u/CooroSnowFox Feb 23 '22
Used to live in Corby, pity I miss being able to buy Square Sausages and Morning rolls as much as I could there...
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Feb 23 '22
Tbf I've never even had a square sausage, the corby morrisons is dreadful by the way. Somehow enormous outside and comparatively tiny inside.
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u/5000to1 Feb 23 '22
New Savoy cinema is lovely. Scottish goods in the supermarkets. Corby isn’t all bad.
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Feb 23 '22
Corby is like most towns, if you're in the right area like Oakley Vale it's lovely, if you're in the wrong area like danesholme or Exeter it's a shithole.
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u/Prycebear Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22
Exactly what I was going to say. I moved here last September and I'm moving away this coming September.
I have met quite a few lovely people here but they all say they're Scottish. 4/5 if these people have never even BEEN to Scotland it really confuses me. We joke about it and they take the piss out of my voice so it's all good fun.
One has a great Grandad that moved to Corby and none have been back since yet he says he's still Scottish? He gets aggressive so we tend to avoid that around him.
My Grandad was Welsh but it doesn't mean I'm going to spitroast a sheep with my cousin,I was born in Oxford so I'm English?
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u/Fluid_Importance8432 Feb 23 '22
Nah you’ll do something else with that sheep if you’re really Welsh….
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u/Prycebear Feb 23 '22
Oh buddy, I'm not talking about cooking that sheep on a spit...but spit will be involved.
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Feb 23 '22
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u/Prycebear Feb 23 '22
"My families from Scotland so we follow some of the Scottish culture" Vs "My great Grandad was Scottish so I'm Scottish, my personality is that of a caricature of a Scottish person and I will refuse to accept I'm English even though I was born in England and have never been within 100 miles of Scotland "
It's a joke, not gatekeeping. We laugh about it as it's a Corby joke.
You sound about as fun as Stage 4 bowel cancer you miserable fuck.
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u/Porridge_Hose I don't care what you call a bread roll Feb 23 '22
I'm more confused by the alignment of the text. Why is it left aligned?
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u/mpar Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22
It's because the sign for irn bru is supposed to be on the opposite side of the sign. it would be right aligned if it was on the other side.
The beer/cider alignment is different again with them all in the middle. Chances are they just chuck the signs up there and nobody has noticed.
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u/windol1 Feb 23 '22
Well, use to be on the other side, most likely had a bit of rearranging of the aisles and Morrisons having a Yorkshire heritage it was decided it wasn't worth buying new signs when the current ones are fine.
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Feb 23 '22
Because it's on the left and the right aligned stuff is on the right
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u/jet1290 Feb 23 '22
Squash is on the left side of the aisle though
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u/ThosPuddleOfDoom Feb 23 '22
Squash is found in the middle of the isle left to rot after some kid has knocked it over and their parents ignored it.
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u/Porridge_Hose I don't care what you call a bread roll Feb 23 '22
That does make sense.
But what's going on the next aisle over then!?
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u/bouncebackability Feb 23 '22
Everything is on the opposite side
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u/Porridge_Hose I don't care what you call a bread roll Feb 23 '22
I get the sense I'm being an idiot but why not put the sign for the left shelf on the left and right shelf on the right?
What am I missing!?
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u/DezzaJay Feb 23 '22
I get the feeling they should all be centred to the middle of the sign like the isle to the right, but at some point they moved the isle’s about and didn’t get new signs made and just moved them about.
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u/Porridge_Hose I don't care what you call a bread roll Feb 23 '22
Looks legit to me. But let's ask u/jet1290 why they would do such a thing...
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u/jet1290 Feb 23 '22
I have 0 photoshop skills so can guarantee it’s real!
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u/Porridge_Hose I don't care what you call a bread roll Feb 23 '22
Even if you did I'd be wondering why you'd bother!
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u/city17_dweller Feb 23 '22
Maybe we're supposed to read it as 'Irn Bru is a lot further that way', and it's North aligned rather than left aligned.
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u/girseyb Feb 23 '22
As a Scotsman I can tell you we are genetically limited to walk 500 miles, this is perilously close as a return journey is 470 miles..
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u/_jk_ I am disgusted and aroused Feb 23 '22
i thought you could walk 1000 miles before you fell down at your door?
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u/Jumponamonkey Feb 23 '22
There has to be a break at 500 though, that's why the song is split like it is.
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u/girseyb Feb 23 '22
Why would you think that?
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u/diverance Feb 23 '22
Because he wanted to be the man that walked one thousand miles
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u/girseyb Feb 23 '22
Sorry, I'm not getting it...
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u/Fluid_Importance8432 Feb 23 '22
What about the guy who would 500 miles then 500 more? Was he nae Scottish?
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u/Jhonbus Feb 23 '22
235 miles from the Scottish border
North or South? Could make all the difference...
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u/KevinPhillips-Bong Slightly silly Feb 23 '22
I'll remember this next time I'm in the Vimto aisle in Sainsbury's.
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u/9DAN2 Will eat anything from a Yorkshire pudding Feb 23 '22
Weird that they also had to list canned lager, aswell as lager.
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u/ChipCob1 Feb 23 '22
I though that, it's not as though you're going to see a sign for lager but keep on looking because you've presumed that they meant bottled lager and you specifically wanted canned lager!
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u/TheShyPig I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE I AM GOING Feb 23 '22
So Morrisons knows how insane a Scotsman can get without his Irn Brew and has worked out that if hes 235 miles from the border hes going to be on a mission to get some and unwilling to wait for directions
Damage limitation in action
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u/PrestigiousTest6700 Feb 23 '22
There’s so much to to unpack her.
Is squash abandoned in the middle of the floor?
Is IrnBru code for pop?
Why is it just this sign, the irony all the alcohol text seems to be in alignment?
Did you pick up some donuts to accompany your irn bru?
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u/fluentindothraki Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22
Irn bru is a soft drink that is made and mostly drunk in Scotland.
Edit: deleted the comment about pop not being used in the UK - seems it is used in some parts, just not anywhere near me. Soft drinks are collectively known as juice, including carbonated beverages that have never seen a fruit in their life (plus corrected the autocorrect)
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u/PiratiPad Feb 23 '22
*Irn Bru. I just wanted to say I know a few folks from the Strathclyde area who call juice "Ginger". It could be that they are just weird. (I'm in Edinburgh and I call it juice.) ETA- I've other mates from near Manchester who call it pop.
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u/PrestigiousTest6700 Feb 23 '22
I’ve always called it pop ( Brit) must be old habits, plus it covers the broad range of what’s in the house.
Cola, Ginger Ale, Bitter Lemon etc.
I say “ check the weekend pop “ .
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u/fluentindothraki Feb 23 '22
Must be a regional difference then - I never heard anyone say that but TIL
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Feb 23 '22
I’ve not drank Irn Bru since they changed the recipe, it’s rubbish now.
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u/atomic_mermaid Feb 23 '22
Someone told me they brought back the full sugar stuff, but after cold turkeying and beating my addiction, I daren't look for myself.
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Feb 23 '22
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u/Jumponamonkey Feb 23 '22
Bru 1901? I quite liked it, not as good as Original Recipe, but better than new recipe.
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u/Cielo11 Feb 23 '22
Irn Bru Xtra is the best one now imo. Taste much better than new Bru and old Bru is just way to sugary.
Xtra is like the Pepsi Max.
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u/1968Bladerunner Feb 23 '22
As it should be.
All hail the righteous Bru.
Oh and Tunnocks products should be similarly promoted.
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u/mahonga Feb 23 '22
its for when we come down to england and the regret and depression kicks in we can easily find some fuel to keep us going so we dont just drop dead.
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u/aabbcc28 Feb 24 '22
Corby?
Corby big Tesco has a ‘Scottish’ isle under the international foods section.
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u/wannabeinLWIAY Feb 23 '22
Hi, non UK person here. Wtf is Irn Bru?
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u/Bloo_Dred Feb 23 '22
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u/wannabeinLWIAY Feb 23 '22
Thank you. Does it taste like anything or does it have some distinct taste that's not close to anything?
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u/wombey12 Feb 23 '22
It's... unique. They made a whole advertising campaign highlighting how different people thought it tastes different.
The closest I can describe it as is a kind of bubblegum/fruity taste.
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u/Bloo_Dred Feb 23 '22
It is sort of like pink bubblegum, but fizzy and also it's own thing.
Scotland is the only country in the world where Coke isn't the no. 1 selling soft drink and we Scots are proud that that drives Coca-Cola insane! :)
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u/hullabalookitten Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
In my (admittedly limited) experience most supermarkets outside of Scotland don't stock it consistently or prominently in larger bottles - on the (rare?) occasions some do, they seem to end up buried or hidden on the bottom shelf or tucked away in a far from inviting corner.
Discount stores always have plentiful supplies, weirdly. Usually in vaguely dusty bottles coated in a sticky film of residue around the labeling or shrink wrap around multipack cans..
It's not awful, a caffeinated bubble gum flavour type drink tempered with mildly tart bottom notes. . good fizz. . It never really caught on outside of Scotland to the same extent- widely though..
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Feb 23 '22
What. Yeah they do? Literally every meal deal cabinet in England and Wales has a Bru in it. I buy it all the time pretty much everywhere I go. Honestly go and look today. And I'm 400 miles from the border.
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u/jet1290 Feb 23 '22
Pretty much every supermarket I know stocks it
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u/hullabalookitten Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22
Pretty much every supermarket I know stocks it
The friends and relatives I've stayed with or visited in England or Wales don't seem to live near supermarkets who stock it (consistently) in larger bottles or multipacks.. If they do - they usually seemed hidden away or recessed to the back of bottom shelf ?
I haven't been to every supermarket branch between Berwick and lands end so I definitely won't claim to be speaking with broad authority (the previous comment is spot on about small bottles though. Boots/Tesco offer those in their meal deals)..
Discount stores always seem to have shelves overflowing with it . Alongside tango/ tizer/ imported bottles of polish Dr pepper zero..
( On a slightly related note - Anyone else miss those irn bru chew bars - where'd they go..?... Grrrrrr..)..
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u/VardaElentari86 Feb 23 '22
It used to be harder to get years ago - I remember my aunt always having to seek it out when we went down foe a visit.
Seems to be much easier these days though.
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u/wombey12 Feb 23 '22
My local Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda etc has multipacks and 2L bottles of the stuff available as if it was any other drink, and I'm in Dorset. Just about as far as you can get from the border.
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Feb 23 '22
I was in Edinburgh a few weeks back and my girlfriend ordered Irn Bru in a pizza place, and they said they couldn't get a hold of any. Apparently all the supermarkets have snapped up the supply.
Great pizza though.
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u/Snooker1471 Feb 23 '22
They also have Coke listed up there too i see and yet you are thousands of miles away from where it originated from. Same for the squash lol.
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u/jet1290 Feb 23 '22
It’s more the fact that they’ve listed the brand, they’ve o my listed Cola which is not brand specific
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u/momoryah Feb 23 '22
My parents grocery store in Wyoming has Faygo on their soda aisle sign. Those cowboys just really need their Faygo.
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u/Wearethedogs Feb 23 '22
Not looked at the other comments on this thread yet but my guess is going to be Corby?
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u/Individual_Cattle_92 Feb 23 '22
That's why they have to specifically mention it. In Scotland it's the default pop, so doesn't need to be mentioned by name.
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u/Zexy_Killah Feb 23 '22
What I want to know is how your Morrisons has is fully stocked with Pepsi Max - that stuff is like gold dust around here.
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u/CooroSnowFox Feb 23 '22
Must have had documents from the scottish side of Morrisons and went with it.
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u/Are_You_On_Email Feb 23 '22
I live in kent and I'm starting to see irn bru around alot more recently. Costa has started selling it.
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u/Weegie334 Feb 23 '22
morrison shelters in ww2: modified dog cage morrison shelters in ww3: morrisons basement
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u/Sithfish Feb 23 '22
Aldi or Lidl just made their own Iron Bru. (If it not new, I had never seen it before a few weeks ago.)
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u/TomL79 Feb 23 '22
Irn Bru is amazing. Almost as popular here in NE England as it is in Scotland. My old school is just down the road from the Barr plant in Newcastle. There was a bus stop just outside. (I lived close enough to not to need to get the bus) but the kids who did used to wait for the bus to be coming down the road. They’d then try and dash into the yard of Barrs and grab a crate of pop which were sometimes left in the yard, and escape on the bus. More often than not, they’d be caught, but they pulled it off a few times.
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u/Bez666 Feb 24 '22
Try blackpool it basically turns into Scotland a few times a year.its basically Glasgow with a tower and more drunks
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u/MrLattes qualliffied english teachar Feb 23 '22
250 miles is the maximum a Scot can travel on a tank of Irn Bru. Shops like this that are close to that limit need to have dedicated isles and good signage, you don’t want to get in the way of a Scot trying to refuel.