What flavour is irn-bru?

My 4 year old asked me to describe the flavour and I didn’t have a clue.  I had one today too.

It used to be girders but since they took loads of sugar out it now tastes of stale piss.

It’s the same favour as sunrise with a mild hangover and a day full of promise ahead.

Its rankness condensed and carbonated.

And also happens to be the one drink were since the recipe change the diet is actually slightly nicer than the real deal.

Caffeine and Quinine

Its Irn Bru flavour

That’s a question which could possibly not have an answer.
It’s a great question!!
What does original Lucosade taste of? It’s difficult to say.
Edit, obviously, TJ has the only answer.

Um, I used to work for the company that supplied that flavour

(And Vimto)

As a Scot it’s Irn Bru flavoured like TJ says. My Wife who is Irish claims it tastes of bubblegum. 

It tastes like licking the terminals of a 9 volt battery.

Sugary boak

It’s diet IrnBru 1901 flavour.

1901 is the real deal. Accept no substitutes.

Handier can size shape as well.

Hangover and regret, with a hint of ‘the fear’, but as Kelvin says, that sense of promise and nervy anticipation (also goes well with a curry)

Melty plastic

Existential dread

Best hangover cure known to man, especially when combined with a double sausage and egg McMuffin

Usless factiod.  Possible urban myth but:

Irn bru was called iron brew until the trade description act when they had to change the name seeing as it is not actually made from brewing iron

Best hangover cure known to man, especially when combined with a double sausage and egg McMuffin

I think you’ll find that it needs to be a well fired Mortons roll with square lorne sausage and a tattie scone.

I like the diet stuff and we’re you to spill it no stickyness, as a bairn Irn bru would tickle your throat before it hit the tonsils

100 x better than diet coke , even if it was 1° I’d struggle to take more than a sip of that stuff

My 4 year old asked me to describe the flavour and I didn’t have a clue. I had one today too.

It’s basically sick with all the bits strained out and put in the sodastream machine.

As above, 1901 or nothing, diet is still devil’s piss.

I think you’ll find that it needs to be a well fired Mortons roll with square lorne sausage and a tattie scone.

And a runny egg. But not well fired, crispy is acceptable.

Hypertension

Sugary medicine flavoured. I love an irn bru, but it is a weird unique flavour

The tears of a ginger stepchild

I had to look up that name factoid… and it’s true… also found out that haggis is banned in the USA.

The tears of a ginger stepchild

🤣🤣🤣

Like much fizzier Redbull?

Maybe bubblegum, as suggested earlier.

Tastes vile warm, but lovely when ice cold.

Bru and a supper, good stuff.

Maybe a red kola if you want to mix things up.

salt and sauce of course.

That “ginger stepchild” comment is one of the funniest I’ve read on here for a long time. Thank you for cheering up a dull Monday evening.

I think you’ll find that it needs to be a well fired Mortons roll with square lorne sausage and a tattie scone.

I most definitely need to try that to find out. Sounds bloody brilliant!

I love the iconic Irn Bru can , so I nicked it for the design of our annual trip north of the border for Duncfest

Thank you for cheering up a dull Monday evening.

😂 You’re welcome!

I most definitely need to try that to find out.

You don’t. Lorne sausage grows dark curly hairs if you leave it in the cupboard overnight, you know.

Probably just me but square and Lorne are almost the same thing – they are both flat square-ish sausage…if you are having a square Lorne then that sounds like a doubler to me (no issues with that). Lorne tends to be more peppery than square, but there isn’t much in it, I don’t think…
Has to be ice cold Irn Bru and ideally 1901…

Jilly Goolden had a stab at it … “bubblegum, wet sheep fleece, barley sugar and plastic,”

A taste that evokes feeling of oppression and rebellion. Like going back in time and touching an ancestral tapestry.

also found out that haggis is banned in the USA.

A friend of a friend moved to California and wanted to buy some Haggis for a burns supper. Looked in local shops and couldn’t find any so started calling various groceries trying to find someone who stocked it. Just as they were about to give up a store on the other side of town said ‘yes, they had plenty of haggis’. So he jumped in the car headed over to what turned out to be a pretty basic convenience store and not the foods-of-the-world delicatessen that he thought would stock rare Scottish haggis. Went in, explained he was the guy who’d phoned and the shopkeeper directed him to the aisle with… the baby formula, the pampers, and the Huggies.

Jilly Goolden had a stab at it … “bubblegum

Ahhhh – but without googling – what is ‘bubblegum’ flavour?

Huggies probably have greater nutritional content than haggis.

Quite impressive that they managed to create a flavour so rank & artificial that it cannot even be described in terms of naturally occurring substances 😂