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How many can tell the difference in the "New Irn Bru"
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By *inkyHnS OP Couple
over a year ago
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Ok we are now a few months in from Barrs changing the recipe on Irn Bru
How many can honestly taste the difference ?
My wife brought in cans from Asda not long after the change and i took one sip of it and could tell the difference to me it was a watered down after taste not nice!!!
£1.4 million spent to save money on the sugar tax
I will take a punt that Barrs didnt think of people with type 1 diabetes that need sugar |
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In all honesty it doesn't bother me too much, I noticed at the beginning, but it didn't stop me drinking it and now it just tastes like irn bru 
It definitely isn't as bad as diet, that really is nasty. |
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By *ilkand2Couple
over a year ago
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"Ok we are now a few months in from Barrs changing the recipe on Irn Bru
How many can honestly taste the difference ?
My wife brought in cans from Asda not long after the change and i took one sip of it and could tell the difference to me it was a watered down after taste not nice!!!
£1.4 million spent to save money on the sugar tax
I will take a punt that Barrs didnt think of people with type 1 diabetes that need sugar "
Mr here,
I'm type 1 diabetic. Not really sure what Ur point is exactly. Why should Barr's worry about type 1 diabetics? If u need sugar use dextrose tablets or increase carb intake or decrease insulin dose. Ur health is not Barr's responsibility it's urs. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Haven't tasted it yet ...everyone I've spoke to say it's sh*t  "
I think it's shit anyway, but lot's love it, seems a shame to tamper with a classic though  |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
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"Haven't tasted it yet ...everyone I've spoke to say it's sh*t
I think it's shit anyway, but lot's love it, seems a shame to tamper with a classic though "
Yeah I get why they changed it but would it not have been better adding to their range rather than replacing altogether |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Haven't tasted it yet ...everyone I've spoke to say it's sh*t
I think it's shit anyway, but lot's love it, seems a shame to tamper with a classic though
Yeah I get why they changed it but would it not have been better adding to their range rather than replacing altogether "
Indeedy - from what I'm gathering on here though, they've done it to avoid the sugar tax? |
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"Haven't tasted it yet ...everyone I've spoke to say it's sh*t
I think it's shit anyway, but lot's love it, seems a shame to tamper with a classic though
Yeah I get why they changed it but would it not have been better adding to their range rather than replacing altogether "
Full sugar will become more expensive but their leaving the choice for the consumer i believe the bottle size will reduce so the price per bottle for all their range stays the same . |
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"Haven't tasted it yet ...everyone I've spoke to say it's sh*t
I think it's shit anyway, but lot's love it, seems a shame to tamper with a classic though
Yeah I get why they changed it but would it not have been better adding to their range rather than replacing altogether
Indeedy - from what I'm gathering on here though, they've done it to avoid the sugar tax? "
They just don't want to be doing the paperwork for it , it's the end customer that pays at the checkout . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Haven't tasted it yet ...everyone I've spoke to say it's sh*t
I think it's shit anyway, but lot's love it, seems a shame to tamper with a classic though
Yeah I get why they changed it but would it not have been better adding to their range rather than replacing altogether
Indeedy - from what I'm gathering on here though, they've done it to avoid the sugar tax?
They just don't want to be doing the paperwork for it , it's the end customer that pays at the checkout . "
Ahhh I see, I'm a nice glass of good Scottish water oot the tap myself lol |
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"Haven't tasted it yet ...everyone I've spoke to say it's sh*t
I think it's shit anyway, but lot's love it, seems a shame to tamper with a classic though
Yeah I get why they changed it but would it not have been better adding to their range rather than replacing altogether
Full sugar will become more expensive but their leaving the choice for the consumer i believe the bottle size will reduce so the price per bottle for all their range stays the same . "
nope they put in as much sugar as possible (to avoid tax) then add sweetners the consumers choice was taken away |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I will take a punt that Barrs didnt think of people with type 1 diabetes that need sugar "
If any Barrs employee brought this up at any stage in the change, they'd have been laughed out the room. |
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"Haven't tasted it yet ...everyone I've spoke to say it's sh*t
I think it's shit anyway, but lot's love it, seems a shame to tamper with a classic though
Yeah I get why they changed it but would it not have been better adding to their range rather than replacing altogether
Full sugar cokacola will become more expensive but their leaving the choice for the consumer i believe the bottle size will reduce so the price per bottle for all their range stays the same . nope they put in as much sugar as possible (to avoid tax) then add sweetners the consumers choice was taken away"
Full suger cokacola my first word was removed as had drug connection .  |
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By *inkyHnS OP Couple
over a year ago
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"Ok we are now a few months in from Barrs changing the recipe on Irn Bru
How many can honestly taste the difference ?
My wife brought in cans from Asda not long after the change and i took one sip of it and could tell the difference to me it was a watered down after taste not nice!!!
£1.4 million spent to save money on the sugar tax
I will take a punt that Barrs didnt think of people with type 1 diabetes that need sugar
Mr here,
I'm type 1 diabetic. Not really sure what Ur point is exactly. Why should Barr's worry about type 1 diabetics? If u need sugar use dextrose tablets or increase carb intake or decrease insulin dose. Ur health is not Barr's responsibility it's urs."
Am not saying they do am saying i bet they didnt once think about it
Anyway fact is the new taste is shite lol
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It's shit. Not as shit as pure diet as there's some sugar in there, but it's so obviously not the same that I have no idea who Barr's taste-tested it on when they claimed that almost nobody could tell the difference.
Net result - we've stopped buying it outright. Coke's about the only soft drink I'll still buy and it's getting stupidly expensive.
Re the diabetes thing - that was Lucozade. They reduced the sugar content and didn't tell anyone. I know several diabetics who use Lucozade when they need a quick sugar fix... and all of a sudden it wasn't working.
I've also ditched Subway for meals as they no longer have *any* full fat soft drinks in the dispensers so I can't claim the lunch deal.
Yay nanny state. Forcing people from perfectly natural sugar to created-in-a-lab sweeteners. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I know of 2 places where you can still buy the old recipe stuff. 1 in Edinburgh and the other in Dundee. The Dundee one is a German doner kebab restaurant and when I asked how they were still carrying it she said it's because they get their bru imported from Germany  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The present one always tastes better than the ones before.
Verily I tell thee... when you think back oftentimes does one almost barf! When one remembers the last one, the present one tastes so much better...
And keep a can of Irn Bru by your side in case it doesn't. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"They've just reported a profits increase for the past period perhaps the next one will show how the new recipe is truely being recieved . "
Thats cause of all the panic buying and stocking up on old recipe pushing up the sales 
The new stuff has a weird after taste ... i only drink it occasionally and could still tell a mile away but maybe because i dont usually drink diet stuff with sweetners
I do think if you have it in a glass with ive that once the ice starts to melt the difference is less noticeable though  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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".......and there’s wars in the world........."
Oh well best we all just quit fab and stay home everyday mourning the people in the war then eh since realistically everything is trivial compared to that |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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".......and there’s wars in the world.........
Oh well best we all just quit fab and stay home everyday mourning the people in the war then eh since realistically everything is trivial compared to that "
No thanks I’d rather have fun. But that doesn’t mean comparing the taste of irn bru.
However each to their own if this stimulates your brains don’t let me stop you |
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Willing to bet very few can really taste the difference but most folk think they can. I spent months giving a guy I dated diet drinks because that's all I drink. Every time we were eating out and I ordered a diet drink he'd bitch and moan about how shite it tastes, chemicals, he would never drink that blah blah blah.
Well if it really tastes so bad how did he not notice that's all I'd been giving him? I do this to people all the time and they NEVER notice it's diet. I even gave someone an old can of full sugar irn bru, said it was a new one and they're all 'oh you can taste it, it's not the same!' It's all in your head |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It wasnt in my head because twice now i have ordered irn bru out with lunch ... forgot about the new version and only remembered when it tasted funny and i looked at the can thinking id been given diet by mistake
Like i said before once there is ice in it the difference is less noticeable though so maybe thats why your ex never noticed |
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I d*unk full fat nectar for years loved it ,decided to try extra as diet stuff left a coating in my mouth the extra is what I now buy and only thing that got me hooked was I began to drop stones in weight as a result of no sugar but I think they should have three nectars to suit everyone's taste buds as we aint all the same |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i can tell the difference easy, old irn bru was a pure hangover curer, new irn bru makes you sick when you have a hangover, simple lol"
Does it feck all scottish and soooo Winnie lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It is rank now. Check the can if it's new then I would pick something else. Ps Lucozade done the same. Never knew till I drank it and instantly knew something tasted like shit. They can shove the disease causing sweetners up their ...... |
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