Remember when Mars bars & Taytos were 30p

Rabidlamb

In fact I can remember when they were far less but that's not my point.
Pre-Euro these items were around the 30p mark, then these items shot up when Mary Harney wasn't watching.
Saw a pack of Hunky Dorys in my local Centra this morning for €1.10 a pack.:eek:
When did confectionery get so mad expensive ?.

I'll admit to buying the copy bars in Lidl/Aldi now cause they're 95% as good as the originals.
Anyway, stop gouging us, how much does it cost to put about 12 crisps in a bag anyway ?.

o1s1n

Eat some fruit instead fatty! :pac:

Serious answer - I refuse to pay more than 1 euro for a choclate bar. (and am pretty outraged paying that as is)

AnonoBoy

I remember being outraged when a bag of Tayto went up to 13p.

kfallon

£1 = €1.27 we were told but in reality when we changed over it was more like:

£1 = whatever euro equivalent you wanted to charge

Beruthiel

I remember when Tayto was 3p.

Rabidlamb

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I remember being outraged when a bag of Tayto went up to 13p.

I remember when they were 12 & a half pence & I had the exact change.
The lady behind the counter informed me they were now 13p & she couldn't let me off.
I had to walk back home for the halfpenny.

Craebear

Do penny sweets cost 1c these days?

Sittingpretty

Feel old, cheapest I remember a bag of Tayto being is 7p AND there were more than 6 taytos in the bag or maybe I just had smaller hands

Augmerson

The Euro's fault tbh. I knew it was a bunch of **** when pound shops became 2 Euro shops.

meoklmrk91

Craebear wrote: »

Do penny sweets cost 1c these days?

2c I think in most places anyway.

Overthrow

Burger Bites were a reliable 10p for a long time. Good ol Burger Bites.

cynder

5p for a whoppa, peppermint, spermint and cola nom nom...

10p for a chomp.

1p for penny sweets 100 for 1 pound, happy days...

I can remember when petrol was 27p back around 1989, my da though that was expensive...

jonnybangbang

I remember tayto being 12p and a small bottle of cadet coke was 25p.

stovelid

I remember when Tayto was -5p.

The shopkeeper had to give you 5p to take a bag.

Mr.Biscuits

I remember when the shop used to give you free money with Tayto.

mikemac1

Supercans
Bring them back I say!


Anyone remember the 1/2 penny?
And shops would even cut a penny sweet in two for you

efb

I remember tayto for 6p!

abouttobebanned

Thinly veiled vote no thread.

Mr.Biscuits

Damn you Stovelid

stovelid

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

Damn you Stovelid

/blows smoke off pistols

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kfallon

My fav purchase at the shop was a packet of Meanies for 10p and a packet of Frosties sweets for 10p also. Pure bliss for 20p

4zn76tysfajdxp

I remember when Taytos were potatos. Until the brits came and took them away. :mad:

ManFromAtlantis

Sittingpretty wrote: »

Feel old, cheapest I remember a bag of Tayto being is 7p AND there were more than 6 taytos in the bag or maybe I just had smaller hands

ya seemed to be 7p for ages (probably the summer of late 70's when the summers lasted for ever !) . and an ice lolly for 3p..........

mikemac1

Do they make Mr. Freeze anymore?
Haven't seen them in years
Oh I'd love a blue Mr Freeze right now


There was also club shandy
Contained about 0.000000005% beer
Thought I was so hard walking around with my club shandy :cool:
They don't sell it anymore because it was vile!

stovelid

Nelson Tiny Tenseness wrote: »

I remember when Taytos were potatos. Until the brits came and took them away. :mad:

Back when crisps were actually called Cheese and Onion and not things like Orkney Cheddar and Caramelized Shallot.

Hunchback

Euro changeover?.. game of pool went from being 50p to 1euro...:(

Jammy Donut

mikemac1 wrote: »

Do they make Mr. Freeze anymore?
Haven't seen them in years
Oh I'd love a blue Mr Freeze right now


There was also club shandy
Contained about 0.000000005% beer
Thought I was so hard walking around with my club shandy :cool:
They don't sell it anymore because it was vile!

What was in it? I can just about remember them I think.

4zn76tysfajdxp

stovelid wrote: »

Back when crisps were actually called Cheese and Onion and not things like Orkney Cheddar and Caramelized Shallot.

The crisps were unsalted and had a little sachet for salt in each bag. Of course, we had to fill them with our own salt before mixing it in.

SuperGrover

One time the kids in this family across the road from me (The Flanderseses, basically) all had an exotic new confection called Yorkie (the ad had been on telly once or twice and they were seen as something special). They weren't for sharing, so no danger of mooching a giant truck-sized square.

Anyhoo, turns out the local shop had them. I managed to get 10p together (scabbed it, robbed it from me ma's handbag, can't remember) and headed over to the shop, mad keen for a Yorkie.

Crushing blow - they were 17p a pop. I couldn't believe how expensive they were.

Went home defeated.

Mr.Biscuits

stovelid wrote: »

Back when crisps were actually called Cheese and Onion and not things like Orkney Cheddar and Caramelized Shallot.

Pretentious bollox alright, although I do buy those expensive Kettle crisps when I know I'm gonna be around town late, seen as it's illegal to carry knives.

Truth be told: nobody will ever make a nicer pack of crisps than 'Ma Reilly's.

stovelid

Nelson Tiny Tenseness wrote: »

The crisps were unsalted and had a little sachet for salt in each bag. Of course, we had to fill them with our own salt before mixing it in.

The little blue sachets. I used to throw in a bit of vinegar as well. Lovely stuff.

aujopimur

Beruthiel wrote: »

I remember when Tayto was 3p.

I remember them costing 4 old pence.

4zn76tysfajdxp

stovelid wrote: »

The little blue sachets. I used to throw in a bit of vinegar as well. Lovely stuff.

Posh git.

Dudess

Nelson Tiny Tenseness wrote: »

The crisps were unsalted and had a little sachet for salt in each bag. Of course, we had to fill them with our own salt before mixing it in.

Huh?! I don't remember that at all! You're really 40 aren't you?

up for anything

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

I do buy those expensive Kettle crisps when I know I'm gonna be around town late, seen as it's illegal to carry knives.

You never spoke a truer word. Eat a packet of those and you feel like you've deep-throated a packet of Wilkinson Swords. :D

I remember when Tayto were 2 1/2p and when you dropped the packet on the side of the road at the beginning of the summer holidays it would still be there on your way back to school in September but bleached a pleasing light blue/pink - proper summers and none of that foil packing crap.

FizzleSticks

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4zn76tysfajdxp

Dudess wrote: »

Huh?! I don't remember that at all! You're really 40 aren't you?

I look 40.

BraziliaNZ

1.12 for 10 JPB back in the day

mackg

Shop next to my house had an offer for ages where you got a bottle of country spring cola and a mint chunky for 50p, great value.

Tazz T

I remember me da buying a pint for 10p. I seriously need a time machine.

stovelid

TK Cream Soda.

Diabetes in a bottle.

That is all.

swimming in a sea

Rabidlamb wrote: »

Saw a pack of Hunky Dorys in my local Centra this morning for €1.10 a pack.:eek:

don't buy in these robbing so called convenience stores, take a look at rip off Fresh stores who charge €1:15 for a crunchie, flake, wispa etc for the last two weeks Tesco has had a offer of a four pack of any of the above for €1:13.

Four for a cheaper price than one(just don't eat them all yourself)
just for old money counters that's 22p each, not to bad

Duggy747

Country Spring

3 litres of flavoured hydrochloric acid for next to nathin' and you still had change left over to buy some chocolate cigerattes.

Battered Mars Bar

I can't remember how much mars bars were I remember kinder eggs as they were once called were a pound now kinder surprises are a euro Anyone want to correct me or can I contact shop owners to make it 2 euro

Rastapitts

its never been the same since tenpenny bags went

mikemac1

Still marathon and Opal Fruits to me

Nothingbetter2d

i remember i used to buy toffee mice for a half penny each....

god i feel old now

Atomicjuicer

Desperate Dan bars - reef the teeth out of ya so they would!

Don't know how the shop keepers put up with me getting them to pick out the different penny sweets. Was in a shop in Lahinch a few weeks back and they had all the old sweets - tasted the same too. Mindblowing.

KitKats had the tinfoil and paper instead of the plastic foil. Anyone member cadbury's Astros? Like cigarette packs with biscuity smarty yokes. Smarties used to come in tubes - do they still do that?

Most of the crisps had transparent parts of the bag so you could see the crisps inside. I'm pretty sure they used to have the price printed on the packs then too (like chipsticks 12p actually part of the graphic design).

Meanies are good but spaced invaders were better (gone now - they were 12p when meanies were 10).

Smiley bars - kinda like a chomp but with orange toffee.

Two penny mice with "blood" on the inside (brown chocolate, bigger than the regular white mice - more like rats come to think of it and red goo on the insid like those ghostbusters bars with the imprint of slimer on them).

Black jacks that actually made your tongue turn black. Fruit salads, apple jacks, postman pats.

It's a wonder we survived at all...

swimming in a sea

I remember to in my local countryside shop a can of coke was 60p this was in mid-late 80's:eek: it was always an unattainable luxury for me.

so to be honest f*ck the past:mad:

mikemac1

60p???

The normal price then was about 32p and supercans 50p

Your local shop was a gombeen!

finbarrk

I remember Mars Bars for 9p and Tayto Crisps for 3p.