[geeks] Irn-Bru

[Mike Meredith]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:31 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> For those that are not aware, the name is short for IRON BREW because
> it if fortified with iron.

Urban myth. It's irn-bru because that's how it's pronounced. The
'fortified with iron' comes from a time when the advertising claimed it
was brewed from girders.

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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
  'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds'