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May. 26th, 2009 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathboyThe chairman of the drinks firm, AG Barr, is finally standing down after more than 48 years with the company.
Robin Barr, 71, will formally announce his retirement at the company's AGM.
Mr Barr is one of only two people in the world who knows the secret recipe for the best-selling Irn Bru drink and the two never travel on the same plane.
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Apart from Irn Bru being awesome, what a load of hogwash.
"The 32 different ingredients are combined in a huge vat, which mixes 8,000 litres at a time."
So, unless 71-year-old Mr Barr personally stirs the ingredients into the vat, pretty much constantly, I reckon there's probably a number of factory workers, plus the people responsible for ordering and transporting the ingredients, plus any accountants that know what the company spends its money, plus the cleaning lady and her cat, tiddles, that could probably take an educated guess as to what goes into Irn Bru.
Robin Barr, 71, will formally announce his retirement at the company's AGM.
Mr Barr is one of only two people in the world who knows the secret recipe for the best-selling Irn Bru drink and the two never travel on the same plane.
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Apart from Irn Bru being awesome, what a load of hogwash.
"The 32 different ingredients are combined in a huge vat, which mixes 8,000 litres at a time."
So, unless 71-year-old Mr Barr personally stirs the ingredients into the vat, pretty much constantly, I reckon there's probably a number of factory workers, plus the people responsible for ordering and transporting the ingredients, plus any accountants that know what the company spends its money, plus the cleaning lady and her cat, tiddles, that could probably take an educated guess as to what goes into Irn Bru.
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Date: 2009-05-26 08:54 am (UTC)if you were only making a pint, you could miss someone adding a dash of weasel tears, but in mixing hundreds of litres, you might notice the VAN O' TEARS pull up and disgorge itself into the mixture.
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Date: 2009-05-26 09:16 am (UTC)Then get someone to whisk it clockwise
Then get someone else to whisk it anticlockwise, which would be the actual active ingredient (chanting "HELIX SATANUS" is encouraged at this point, but not strictly necessary)