Alternatively titled ‘Irn Bru II: Scottishness in a Soft Drink’
While reading Jeffrey Karnicky’s essay ‘Irvine Welsh’s Novel Subjectivities’, I came across this quote:
Simon Frith, an English professor living in Scotland, writes that “whenever I discuss Scottishness with Scottish students the consensus is that the only good indicator of a Scot is a Scottish accent.”
This is not true. An additional indicator of Scottishness is whether or not you like Irn Bru. I have had Scottish friends aver that they have to like Irn Bru because they are Scottish. Because this sounds too much like a contract between a nation and a major franchise, I would suggest that liking the bubbly-gum, cough medicine-tasting drink is encoded into their genetic makeup.
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