I thought I was getting some orange soda or something, but colour me surprised when it turned out to be lethally sweet iron brew. Like the old stuff.

I’m so happy

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    Scotland actually does have old school Irn Bru again, called Irn Bru 1901, which is meant to be the full sugar old-timey recipe. Confirmed for disgustingly tasty.

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        eh, pretty hit and miss, plus they don’t catch nearly enough flak for their role in the slave trade… The Scots were rampant. For such a small population, they have given a hell of a lot of Carribbean people and towns Scottish names.

        At one point Scots owned 30-40% of the Jamaican slave estates, and by some estimates, Scottish men, despite representing about 10% of the United Kingdom’s population, represented 50% of the slave tradesmen in Jamaica, and about a third of British slave traders overall.

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          There’s definitely a lot to be said for their historical role, but modernity wise I’d definitely laud it is as up there in the not-so-cringe tables.