Here's to Canada and Irn Bru!

**Kiltman** · 19th April 07, 04:20 PM

Phil,
Katie and I have gone to Ft. Steele several times. What a wonderful place it is. Last time there was even a piper there for a wedding. It is a really wonderful living-history place. Was it all open?

**pdcorlis** · 19th April 07, 05:54 PM

Hi Kiltman

Yeah - check the date on this thread - it dates back to last June - so yes it was all open. Its a great place, as you know, and we're kinda Ft. Steele junkies. We've been there four of five times now. It never seems to get old as the enactors and tradespeople keep changing.

**Frank** · 20th April 07, 01:08 AM

Irn Bru holds a place dear to the hearts of many Scots who wake up with a puzzling headache on Sunday mornings. It's best consumed chilled or with ice and accompanied by a hearty breakfast - a copy of 'the Sunday Post' also helps !

http://www.irn-bru.co.uk/

http://www.dcthomson.co.uk/MAGS/POST/

**Jimmy** · 20th April 07, 01:42 AM

Funnily enough Barrs, the firm that makes Irn Bru, 'Our other national drink' and Billy Connolly's favourite tipple had an advertisement campaign that run for many years featuring a young scot called Sandy in a kilt along with his pal from Asia called Barbru (I think this was his correct name). Anyway this campaign was discontinued several years ago as it was not PC.
Good to know that you can get the drink west side.

**McMurdo** · 20th April 07, 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

I've seen Irn-Bru and Tizer in and around Burlington. Just about any British shop, fish 'n' chip place or Scottish bakery around here seems to have it. What I miss is the Cornish Pasties and pork pies form Marks & Sparks (Spenser) after hey closed up shop(s) here in Canada.

The reason you can find it at all those places in Ontario, is because the Irn-Bru sold here is bottled in Markham.

the back of the bottle says:

Bottled for
TFB & Associates Limited
Markham, Ontario
L3R 0E7

I miss M&S too

**Snowflake3939** · 23rd August 08, 04:55 PM

I found this thread and website when I googled Irn Bru (I'm having Irn Bru withdrawls). Several years ago, I was thrilled to find Irn Bru in our local supermarket (Super-Valu) and then at other Canadian Superstores around BC and Alberta. All of a sudden a few months ago, it's not on their shelves any more and I can't find anybody to tell me why. Can't find it anywhere now except in Scottish import shops in Edmonton or Calgary at double the price it was in the supermarkets. Unfortunatley, there are no Scottish import shops here in Red Deer. They only had bottles, no cans but I will take Irn Bru any way I can get it.