{"id":1881,"date":"2005-01-01T22:03:45","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T03:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2005-01-01T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2005-01-02T03:04:31","slug":"i-demand-my-caffeine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/01\/i-demand-my-caffeine\/","title":{"rendered":"i demand my 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/albums\/misc\/canirnbru_small.jpg\" alt=\"fear the canadian irn bru!\" title=\"fear the canadian irn bru!\" name=\"photo_j\" border=\"0\" height=\"336\" width=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About this time of year, many Scots will be using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irn-bru.co.uk\/\">Irn Bru<\/a> to quell a raging hangover. There&#8217;s nothing quite like the reddish-orange, sugary, fizzy drink to make the pain go away. It&#8217;s the combination of sugar, liquid and caffeine that does it.<\/p>\n<p>Scottish expats in Canada aren&#8217;t so lucky. We&#8217;re not allowed to have caffeine in anything other than cola, so the &#8216;bru that&#8217;s imported here is caffeine free. It has all the bite and zing of wet cardboard.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why cola can have caffeine, and nothing else can. They allowed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/1103388247007_32\/?hub=Health\">Red Bull <\/a>in on a technicality. Since Irn Bru has been used as a pick-me-up for generations, I feel that Canada&#8217;s policy discriminates against my culture. <\/p>\n<p>Where there&#8217;s a culture of heavy drinking, there&#8217;s also a culture of dealing with it. Canada is placing the wellbeing of Scots at risk by not allowing caffeinated Irn Bru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Irn Bru doesn&#8217;t have caffeine. That&#8217;s wrong in so many ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[1902,1200,600,1199],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","category-the-old-country","tag-caffeine","tag-canada","tag-irn_bru","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-ul","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}