Remember when Mars bars & Taytos were 30p

Mr. Presentable

grindelwald wrote: »

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...

Wouldn't be putting that in my mouth. :pac:

mikemac1

Leaded or unleaded petrol

My teacher swore that her car ran better if she mixed them, I forget the ratio

All gone now

meoklmrk91

Ah the day when you got 50p to go to the shop, and come out with more crap than you knew what to do with.

Mr. Freezes we're serious, no matter what time of the year, I still have memories of cycling around the place with a mr. Freeze hanging out of my mouth, the jumbo ones they brought out where very cool too. They have stopped selling them separately now which I think is a crying shame, our shop lady refused to sell them to us when they werent frozen, because apparently it wasnt good to drink them, can anyone shed some light on why???

I also remember tattoos were a serious selling point, I remember getting bags of perri taytos just for them, there were a few but I distinctly remember a rose. Most annoying thing was going through the whole process wetting it the right ammount and then waiting the right ammount of time before gently pulling the paper off to get your flawless tattoo, the mammy would come on a scrub it off that night, because you couldn't go into school looking like that!

In fact on the point of free stuff like tattoos why don't the feckers give anything away anymore, cerals don't even have prizes anymore, what's that about like!

Fighting Irish

I remember when they were free, i win the thread

rossie1977

30p :eek:

SEPT 23 1989

10 Smokes 92p

Matches 8p

Augmerson

Duggy747 wrote: »

Country Spring

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

Or Spiderman cigarattes. Commonly referred to as "Spidey Smokes".

mikemac1

Liptons Iced Tea

Every year during Wimbledon in the early nineties there would be a huge campaign
Ads everywhere, billboards, TV, radio, everywhere
Clearly worked as I still remember it

Pretty much all the shops had it.


But haven't seen it on sale in years and years, probably over a decade

WIZE

My local shop sold single smokes for 10p each

Can you still by smokes in 15 pack ?

some random drunk

Anyone else feeling hungry reading this thread?

WIZE

Fat frogs rocked also

Apple Drops were great but crap when hey started sticking togather or too he paper bag or even worse to the bottom of your Pocket

HappyBalance

Lads its called inflation. Prices rise every year. The cost of ingredients go up also. It is basic economics. Inflation albeit small amounts are a good thing for an economy.

cena

Craebear wrote: »

Do penny sweets cost 1c these days?

No such thing as 1c sweets. Petty there isn't. Rememeber the 10p mix

frag420

I remember when we had to plant our own spuds, grow the feckers, pick em, peel em, slice em, fry em in sunflower oil, add E-numbers and artificial flavours all on our own!!

Them were the days!!

Atomicjuicer

WIZE wrote: »

Fat frogs rocked also

Didn't they come back?

kelle

Beruthiel wrote: »

I remember when Tayto was 3p.

7p is my earliest memory, around 1978 (Mars bars were 10p at the same time!). I recall they went up by a penny a year for a few years after that.

mikemac1

There was an Irish politician in the seventies who said if the price of a pint ever hit one punt while they were in government then they've failed and they should all resign

The price went up and has stayed going up

the groutch

remember being 8 or 9, getting a pound NOTE for our pocket money.

we'd go down to the local shop, buy a bar, can and packet of crisps, and still have change to put in our BOI (iirc) savings box, with a combination lock on the back (we were too cool for Henry Hippo).

ballsymchugh

HappyBalance wrote: »

Lads its called inflation. Prices rise every year. The cost of ingredients go up also. It is basic economics. Inflation albeit small amounts are a good thing for an economy.

good man mr. killington!

SunnyDub1

I remember when Friday use to be treat day.
1 pound mam use to give me and it would get me a chocolate bar,crisps, fizzy drink and the change in jellies


Nowadays treat days for little ones consist of a takeaway and ice cream thats costs €6 (Ben&Jerry's)

Bar and crisps are a daily treat :rolleyes:

Andy!!

Rabidlamb wrote: »

Pre-Euro these items were around the 30p mark

Em no, they weren't.

kowloon

stovelid wrote: »

TK Cream Soda.

Diabetes in a bottle.

That is all.

TK Cream Soda had quite a low sugar content in it compared to other soft drinks. It was 2g/100ml if I remember rightly. Most soft drinks are around the 10g mark. Of course sugar doesn't cause diabetes anyway.

forfuxsake

I remember a £1 for dinner equalled 10 smokes for 85p, a book of matches for 5p and 2packets of meanies for 10p.

Micky Dolenz

Jaysus, I can't remember last weekend.

stovelid

HappyBalance wrote: »

Lads its called inflation. Prices rise every year. The cost of ingredients go up also. It is basic economics. Inflation albeit small amounts are a good thing for an economy.

Sketch, everybody.

Teacher's here.

stovelid

kowloon wrote: »

TK Cream Soda had quite a low sugar content in it compared to other soft drinks. It was 2g/100ml if I remember rightly. Most soft drinks are around the 10g mark. Of course sugar doesn't cause diabetes anyway.

I'd say you're a scream at parties.

Faolchu

grindelwald wrote: »

10p for a chomp.

..

bloody 25c these days

MonkieSocks

When I was a kid, my mother would send me down to the corner store with a quid and I'd come back with five pounds of potatoes,two loaves of bread,three pints of milk,a pound of cheese,a packet of tea, and half a dozen eggs.


You can't do that now.















Too many fookin security cameras :mad:

christmas2012

1 penny sweets and dime bars or the pink stick of rock those were the days when cigarettes were 1.10 or 20p per single cigarette i used to get every week at the top of thomas street in limerick,cheaper simpler times not like now with water charges ,and the unjust household tax valuations of people that payed for their houses and those who cannot afford such charges..and income rate of tax didnt come down yet on top of all that

thinking about good old fashioned sweets for 1p takes ur mind off all that crap..

cocoshovel

I genuinly think the price of chocolate is bloody ridiculous now. its like 1.10 - 1.30 for a bar. Jesus christ almight its a rip off! As a chocoholic this seriously worries me. Its just bloody Ireland though, I dont think there is a need to raise it so high.

Also, I remember going to shop and getting a cadet lemonade, a bar of caramello bar and a pack of disco's all for about one pound after school. Where did it all go wrong

cocoshovel

MonkieSocks wrote: »

You can't do that now.



Too many fookin security cameras :mad:

In primary school I developed a right little knacker trick. Lean against the chocolate rack while talking to friends, with one arm layed out for support. From there on you can quietly slide the chocolate bars up your sleeve with the swipe of one finger under your palm.

Mr Benevolent

cocoshovel wrote: »

I genuinly think the price of chocolate is bloody ridiculous now. its like 1.10 - 1.30 for a bar. Jesus christ almight its a rip off! As a chocoholic this seriously worries me. Its just bloody Ireland though, I dont think there is a need to raise it so high.

Have you considered Aldi or Lidl?

cocoshovel

Confab wrote: »

Have you considered Aldi or Lidl?

Something about the chocolate there isnt the same to be honest. I have gotten it lots of times, but its lacking something, or tastes like its been sitting on the shelf for years. Their biscutis are fine though

Mr Benevolent

cocoshovel wrote: »

Something about the chocolate there isnt the same to be honest. I have gotten it lots of times, but its lacking something, or tastes like its been sitting on the shelf for years. Their biscutis are fine though

Yep, it tastes like real chocolate. Funny the way Irish people seem to think Cadburys is real chocolate. In reality it's manky oversweet crap. I'm Irish too, btw.

cocoshovel

Confab wrote: »

Yep, it tastes like real chocolate. Funny the way Irish people seem to think Cadburys is real chocolate. In reality it's manky oversweet crap. I'm Irish too, btw.

Im not talking about the different brands there. Im talking about the brands such as cadburies, nestle and Kinder that they sell. Its not as nice for some reason. I wouldnt go as far as to say there is a REAL chocolate. Different tastes for different people. I enjoy sweet chocolate, and the only cadburies I really like are Caramello and Caramel. Nestle is nice enough. Some fancy brands are great but often feel too rich for my liking.

Currently I m enjoying a Meiji and Pocky (white box). Have a stack of it in my room. Toblerone is great too. I seriously cannot live without chocolate

some random drunk

Right, I'm just back from Tesco, where I got a refresher bar for 17c, a sherbet fountain for 29c, and a 4 pack of wispas for €1.13. The refresher bar was tiny compared to when I was a kid, but all in all not bad value considering I paid €1.29 for a crunchie in spar recently, the thieving bastards.

mikemac1

some random drunk wrote: »

The refresher bar was tiny compared to when I was a kid,

Or maybe your hands are larger?

cocoshovel

mikemac1 wrote: »

Or maybe your hands are larger?

Nope. They have clearly reduced the size of all chocolate/sweets. Yet they leave the wrappers the same size to make people not notice

storker

Beruthiel wrote: »

I remember when Tayto was 3p.

So do I.

I remember being able to take 50p to the shop and getting a packet of Tayto (starter), a Mars Bar (main course) and a quarter of Wine Gums (dessert).

Happy days those.

Stork

some random drunk

mikemac1 wrote: »

Or maybe your hands are larger?

That too, but they are clearly much smaller than they used to be.

bonzodog2

I remember Mars bars going up from 4d to 5d.

FanadMan

Chipsticks for 6p.....yummy!

harmoniums

When they packaged Mr Freezes, the would trap the liquid in between adjacent tubes in a sort of perfect mini-Mr Freeze tube, orthogonal to the standard size Mr Freezes.
I would cut them off and give them to my Action Force figures and wonder if the red cobra troopers were really just repurposed Nazi soldiers.
They had the same helmets and gas mask boxes.

3rdDegree

Beruthiel wrote: »

I remember when Tayto was 3p.

Me too. Remember when they went up to 5p ("silver money"), we though Jesus's return was just around the corner!

3rdDegree

storker wrote: »

So do I.

I remember being able to take 50p to the shop and getting a packet of Tayto (starter), a Mars Bar (main course) and a quarter of Wine Gums (dessert).

Happy days those.

Stork

50p!!!!! What kind of rich kid were you?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Talking to a guy over the weekend who was telling me that cigarettes were 20p a pack when he started smoking.

tuxy

This thread reminded me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwVpWFyy3M

genfoley

ahhhh tuxy the tears are ROLLIN' down me face !!!!! thanks for sharing x

Warden13

1992 The Paddock Pub Naas two pints ten silk cut purple and a box of matches and five pence change out of a fiver oh happy days

harmoniums

Warden13 wrote: »

1992 The Paddock Pub Naas two pints ten silk cut purple and a box of matches and five pence change out of a fiver oh happy days

yeah but back then a fiver was like 3 blowjobs or 7 hand shandies