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Tayto at 3p a pack?

  • 30-11-2008 01:51AM
    #1
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,131 ✭✭✭✭


    I found this pack of Tayto a few weeks ago in a room at work. I was just wondering when they cost 3p. Mid 1970s?

    Tayto3p.jpg


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  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    That would be about right, mid 70's. I remember when a box of matches was 1p.

    (yes, I'm a bit older than most of ye young babies) :D


  • #3
    jhegarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3086849&postcount=44


  • #4
    Hogzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    id say earlier than that!!! wonder would that be worth any money to a collector? do people collect old crisp packets?:confused:


  • #5
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    They will always be 12p in my mind


  • #6
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I found this pack of Tayto a few weeks ago in a room at work.

    I seriously hope your janitor was fired for that.


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  • #7
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I can remember them when they were 2d in the late 60ies. We Joined the EEC in 1973 and the price soared to 3P. :mad:


  • #8
    Biggins
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I can remember them when they were 2d in the late 60ies. We Joined the EEC in 1973 and the price soared to 3P. :mad:


    There you go. If ever there was a reason to vote "No"...

    Lets get Tayto cheaper again. lol :D


  • #9
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,131 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Ximena Silly Battalion wrote: »
    I seriously hope your janitor was fired for that.
    LOL :D - I found it in a plant room along with a large glass bottle of Coca Cola and a bread wrapper from Johnson, Mooney and O'Brien.

    Somebody must have sat down and had their lunch in the early 1970s and their rubbish hasn't been touched since!


  • #10
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Biggins wrote: »
    There you go. If ever there was a reason to vote "No"...

    Lets get Tayto cheaper again. lol :D
    Worse still if we voted YES they could ban them over some unlawful ingredient. :eek:


  • #11
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    LOL :D - I found it in a plant room along with a large glass bottle of Coca Cola and a bread wrapper from Johnson, Mooney and O'Brien.

    Somebody must have sat down and had their lunch in the early 1970s and their rubbish hasn't been touched since!

    A posh lunch-eater too, I thought everybody ate packed porridge or something for lunch in the days before the Celtic Tiger.


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  • #12
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Worse still if we voted YES they could ban them over some unlawful ingredient. :eek:


    Sooo true.
    I read somewhere they tried to ban some banannas because they weren't of the right full curvature. They were too straight!
    (that reminds me: peas are not the green colour you think they are, its ALL colouring, natural or manufactured)


  • #13
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Biggins wrote: »
    I read somewhere they tried to ban some banannas because they weren't of the right full curvature. They were too straight!

    Non Daily HateMail link please?


  • #14
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    javaboy wrote: »
    Non Daily HateMail link please?


    http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=116372

    http://h2.punchng.com/Article-print2.aspx?theartic=Art20081116202468

    Something similar!
    http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2008/11/the-longitudina.html

    Madness! lol


  • #15
    eVeNtInE
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #16
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    :pac:<(click me)


  • #17
    Biggins
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    Hal1 wrote: »
    :pac:<(click me)

    Ooo, thats a tough one.

    Which one would I rather eat! :rolleyes:

    Heck, I'm a man, I've made up my mind... :D


  • #18
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Biggins wrote: »
    Heck, I'm a man, I've made up my mind... :D

    Me too: Taytos.


  • #19
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Biggins wrote: »
    There you go. If ever there was a reason to vote "No"...

    Lets get Tayto cheaper again. lol :D

    Hehehe . I'm with you there :p


    Tayto was the first ever flavoured crisp in the world. Joe "Spud" Murphy I think made himself a little fortune selling the rights worldwide and I can only assume that it why you can't get tayto outside of Ireland now. In the UK you can get a crisp that's called Tayto but it's made in Northern Ire and tastes just like ghey Walkers.

    I adore Tayto and it pisses me off that I canny get any in Glasgow when I'm over there.


    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1361491/Joe-%27Spud%27-Murphy.html


    Edit: I remember as a kid in school we had a little rivalry between the Tayto kids and the King kids. Then my da burst me bubble and said that they're owned by the same crowd! I don't think anyone does crisps like the Irish do crisps. Even Perry (which I think are Irish , but at 2am tihs saturday night I could be wrong) are(were?) lovely compared to well , every other crisp.


  • #20
    ratinakeg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭ratinakeg


    The A-Team 5p crisps in the early 90's were the best:)


  • #21
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Pre- 1971 they'd have been priced in d, not p. They'd have cost about 1d then or thereabouts. I'd say 3p for Tayto would be about 1972-1973. That bag would have to be from after 1971 and before 1975, when they went up to a massive 5p.


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  • #22
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    wow, lotsa "old-er" people in this thread. I didn't think anyone born before the 80s had the intrntz.

    Em, what's a 'd' ? and how much is/was it worth

    does anyone remember when taytos were served in brown paper bags ? o


  • #23
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Domo230 wrote: »
    Walkers are way nicer

    Get out. Banished! Be Gone, Devil's work!!

    It's enshrined in the constitution that thou shalt eat only crisps made from irish spuds :D


  • #24
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Outta curiosity, howd they taste?


  • #25
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Ultimate Chin wrote: »
    Outta curiosity, howd they taste?

    The OP didn't eat them, they were left where he found it over thirty years ago by some slob.


  • #26
    kaiser soza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭kaiser soza


    Anyone remember Ma Reilys crisps,taste of PURE EVIL.


  • #27
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    alan dunne 27 wrote: »
    Get out. Banished! Be Gone, Devil's work!!

    It's enshrined in the constitution that thou shalt eat only crisps made from irish spuds :D

    I'm sorry, but Walkers Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli >> Any Taytos


  • #28
    shayser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭shayser


    The choice was Tayto at 3p or Sam Spudz at 2p. So Tayto was the yuppie snack! Would've been '72 '73.


  • #29
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I remember when A-Team crisps were 5p.


  • #30
    Cianos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Hogzy wrote: »
    id say earlier than that!!! wonder would that be worth any money to a collector? do people collect old crisp packets?:confused:

    This man     actually does collect crisp packets, along with loads of other useless crap.


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  • #31
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    I remember reading that the EU curvature thing was to support african and caribean banana plantations which produced more curvy bananas as opposed to latin american non curvy bananas which would be mainly produced by american companies who hold influence in the area.


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