Photograph: Graham Holliday
on our Flickr group, some rights reserved.I cut my food blogging teeth in downtown Saigon, but I did the real damage shaving the enamel off with a series a blog posts about Vietnamese soft drinks. I managed to taste 19 different varieties before my dentist finally prescribed the zip and restraint harness. But looking back through those odd tipples - Youngest bird's nest, For Ladies Lipovitan Beauty and my personal fave Guanabana juice - got me thinking, which is the world's best soft drink?
The soft drink shelves in the UK are relatively barren compared to your local branch of MaxiMark in Saigon, but as far as this sugar seeking tongue is concerned there is only ever one choice whenever I touch down at Heathrow and head to the nearest cornershop. It's Irn Bru.
It's Scottish. It's big in Russia. It's banned in the US (apparently). It's a love it or loathe it drink. It doesn't look too appealing, but fresh out of the fridge, there's none better, none more distinctive. Not only that, it's stacked with ammonium ferric citrate which has gotta be good for you, hasn't it?
