Irn Bru.<\/p>\n
Until Wednesday I’d never heard of it. Then, on a few blogs I read I saw a link to a Christmas commercial they did last year that had been posted to YouTube.<\/p>\n
Sadly, the YouTube version of the commercial wasn’t especially good. Mainly, it was pixelated.<\/p>\n
I found a link to the Real Deal<\/a>. I’m much happier. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Irn Bru, by the way, is a Scottish soft drink. It’s pronounced “Iron Brew.” Supposedly, it’s made out of used girders.<\/p>\n The commercial! A few words about that.<\/p>\n A boy and his snowman take flight over Scotland. Yes, it’s The Snowman<\/i>, and this just goes to show how creative British commercials are and American commercials aren’t<\/i>, that they can parody the truly sancrosect things. Like The Snowman<\/i>. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n I find the music in it haunting. It’s sad and wistful, and it has a nice comedic punch to it at the end. Yes, it’s “Walking in the Air,” but the lyrics are just masterful. Again, sancrosect, yadda yadda yadda. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Check it out. An Irn Bru Christmas. It’s charming and touching and wistful. And maybe even a little bit magical. And definitely<\/i> a little bit mean.<\/p>\n Too bad Irn Bru is illegal in the United States. I’d have to buy some just to know what the fuss is about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Irn Bru. Until Wednesday I’d never heard of it. Then, on a few blogs I read I saw a link to a Christmas commercial they did last year that had been posted to YouTube. Sadly, the YouTube version of the commercial wasn’t especially good. Mainly, it was pixelated. I found a link to the RealContinue reading “On an Irn Bru Christmas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[64,504],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-christmas","tag-irn-bru","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}