Scunner thers always a point to Iron Brew aka Irn Bru.
Always remember the Manager of Woolworth Argyle Street 1967 in telling us young trainees that the colour was just rust from the girders.
For my bet with advetising like this over the years it will always be a winner,
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One of the most controversial Irn-Bru television adverts evoked 1950s entertainment. A mother plays the piano, while the father and two children deliver a song which ends with the mother singing: '...even though I used to be a man'. This advertisement aired in 2000, but when it was re-aired in 2003, it received seventeen complaints[4] from people who claimed it was offensive to transsexuals. Issue A14 of the Ofcom Advertising Complaints bulletin reports that the children's response to their mother's claim was not offensive. The advertisement was meant to be a joke about changing points of view over time. However, the scene involving the mother shaving at the end of the advertisement was deemed to be potentially offensive to transsexuals, and so it was taken off the air.
In 2003, an Irn-Bru commercial which showed a midwife trying to entice a baby from its mother's womb during a difficult delivery sparked a complaint from one viewer. Some saw it as upsetting to women who had suffered miscarriages.[5]
One billboard featured a young woman in a bikini along with the slogan 'I never knew four-and-a-half inches could give so much pleasure'. Another featured a picture of a cow with the slogan 'When I'm a burger, I want to be washed down with Irn-Bru'. This billboard received over 700 complaints but was cleared by advertisement watchdogs.[6] A billboard which featured a depressed goth and the slogan 'Cheer up Goth. Have an Irn Bru.' was also criticized for inciting bullying.[7]
