The national soft drink of El Salvador is the same as Scotland’s Irn Bru

by cagesound

21 comments
  1. I bet they still have the old 100% sugar recipe

    *drool emoji*

  2. “Made in El Salvador from girders” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

  3. Champagne Cola tastes the same as Irn Bru and is common throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.

    Intrestingly it came out only a year after Irn Bru, 1901 for Irn Bru and 1902 for Champagne Cola in Puerto Rico.

  4. Colombia has a similar Irn Bru like drink called Colombiana.

  5. I’m from the south of England and not even remotely Scottish but El Salvador just moved like 50 places up my holiday wishlist, Irn Bru is a gift from heaven and I genuinely can’t understand why it’s not more popular.

  6. kolashanpan is a fantastic name for a drink. Almost like colachampagne

  7. Looks like it’s marketed as a child’s drink, they’re probably the same.

  8. A lot of South America drinks Inca Kola, which is yellow but tastes the same.

  9. The drink was first sold as Ironbrew by Maas & Waldstein in New York. First sold in the UK by Stevenson & Howell in 1898 A.G Barr also began selling Iron Bru in 1898 – although they claim to have used their own unique blend of flavours. They did however buy the labels from Stevenson & Howell.

    Apparently, the name Irn Bru was due to the 1911 Pure Food and Drug Act, it contains no iron and is not brewed.

    Bloody love the stuff though!

  10. I remember seeing a video of AOC drinking Irn Bru and saying it tasted like this.

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