Do you remember....

white apples

Tenpenny mixes
When a packet of Chikatees was 10p and Tayto was 15p
the free Mexico '86 footballs you got at the petrol station or something
Street carnival / face painting


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eddiehead

white apples wrote: »

Tenpenny mixesYes
When a packet of Chikatees was 10p and Tayto was 15pYes
the free Mexico '86 footballs you got at the petrol station or somethingNo
Street carnival / face paintingWtf?


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admiralofthefleet

i miss the fun times with mrs. apples

Johnny_the_fox

blueberry freeze pops at 10p (or ice poles as some people call them)

themadchef

We remember some things with such clarity because the choice was so limited imo. Now there is so much choice and in fairness nothing tastes like it used to. Chipsticks would burn the beak off you back then!

My mad uncles have a dresser full of the wildlife set from Esso that came out years ago. Free plates, cups, saucers, when you bought fuel. Anyone remember what year that was?

I wonder what the next generation are going to remember.

Ruu_Old

I miss styrofoam planes.

Nerin

Ruu wrote: »

I miss styrofoam planes.

me too! They always broke really quickly though.

My gran had an old fashioned shop,and sold those big jars of loose sweets by weights. Hmmm. Rosey apples.

Havermeyer

I still have a few of them.

I miss penny jellies actually costing a penny.

FatherTed

white apples wrote: »

Tenpenny mixes
When a packet of Chikatees was 10p and Tayto was 15p
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I remember when Taytos were 2½p. Actually I lie, kind of. I remember when they were 4p and once I saw a discarded wrapper in our garden when my mother was planting flowers that said 2½p and I was amazed. I have no reason why that stuck in my mind.

Snowie

Ruu wrote: »

I miss styrofoam planes.

I know where to buy them

kelle

white apples wrote: »

and Tayto was 15p


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I remember when Taytos were 7p and Mars Bars were 10p.

1966

what about the 1/2 penny coin ??

Monkeybonkers

Big Time bars. Yellow wrapper with the picture of the clock on the front. 10p they were. Can you still get them?

Ann22

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Big Time bars. Yellow wrapper with the picture of the clock on the front. 10p they were. Can you still get them?

I saw them in the gift shop in Dublin Zoo last week. I can also remember Big Time wrappers being green and them having green minty fondant in the middle instead of toffee. Can someone verify this or is it my imagination? Ps I remember Tayto being 6p. I remember Ricky Rasper ice pops for 3p..(and Captain Quencher, Little Angel, Little Devil, Dracula, Jr and later on there were Freaky Foot and Thataway ice pops)

Bearhunter

FatherTed wrote: »

I remember when Taytos were 2½p. Actually I lie, kind of. I remember when they were 4p and once I saw a discarded wrapper in our garden when my mother was planting flowers that said 2½p and I was amazed. I have no reason why that stuck in my mind.

Ted, my earliest economic memory is of Tayto costing 3p and Mr Spud crisps costing 2p. I also remember a few years later being annoyed and embarrassed when Tayto went from 5p to 6p and I was stood in the shop with only a shilling.:mad:

Ruu_Old

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Big Time bars. Yellow wrapper with the picture of the clock on the front. 10p they were. Can you still get them?

They were great for the pulling out loose teeth.

white apples

Ann22 wrote: »

I can also remember Big Time wrappers being green and them having green minty fondant in the middle instead of toffee. Can someone verify this or is it my imagination?

Were they not Mint Crisps...something along the lines of the macaroon bars that were 10p as well. Still see them round.

Jay P

I remember Wappo bars, with the paper wrappers that always got stuck...

Ann22

white apples wrote: »

Were they not Mint Crisps...something along the lines of the macaroon bars that were 10p as well. Still see them round.

No they were totally different from mint crisps. I think they were out in mint first, then both mint and toffee, then the mint one disappeared. I was very young. It was the type of fondant that was stiff, when you'd bite into it, an imprint of your teeth would remain.

misssaucie

This is a bit disgusting but anyway... every Saturday night my bro and I would be given our weekly bath and my Nan would stop by after doing her weekly shop in Quinnsworth and she'd pop in with our treat of a TIME bar or a red apple ( red apples were quite posh and a bit of a novelty 25 years ago). We were probably about 7 and 5 at the time and if we were still in the bath when she arrived we'd start dipping the bar in the bath water to soften it up and then we'd eat away...the innocence then mam would take us out one at a time and cuddle us in a bath towel off the hot radiator and our pj's would be kept warm on another radiator...the simple things

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

Big Time bars. Yellow wrapper with the picture of the clock on the front. 10p they were. Can you still get them?

steveone

rice krispies origami animal heads?? or the weetabix club...
and what about the warlord club. I have my secret agent ID somewhere..

rubadub

white apples wrote: »

When a packet of Chikatees was 10p and Tayto was 15p

I remember spotting the price on a packet in a photo of my older sister birthday, and ones at xmas. Then I remember placing them in photos at xmas so I would see them in the future! yes, odd child. I do remember cleaning the bushes out front and seein a 6p tayto packet.

Remember mrs. mc greedy (sp?) crisps, some old dear on a rocking chair. And sam spudz smokey bacon crinkly cut.

sineadw

Getting the bus into town with my older brother for 2p. When 2p's were about a foot across. Drawing beds with freshers. Trading lovehearts sweets but NEVER fancy paper...

Monkeybonkers

steveone wrote: »

rice krispies origami animal heads?? or the weetabix club...
and what about the warlord club. I have my secret agent ID somewhere..

Lol. I also am a member of the warlord club. Had forgotten about it. I was so excited when my membership pack came.
The animal heads were brill too. Giraffe was my fave.

madra-rua

Taz bars and Freddo bars ..... think you can still get these !?

Does anyone remember those crazy rubber bracelets that were all the rage in the early 90's? I used to have hundreds of them ... all different colours.

Also do you remember drawing on the footpath with chalk?

Aahh those were the days!

tagoona

I'm not sure about Taz bars anymore, but most sweet shops still do the freddo bars. I remember when they were 5p, now their 20c.

Aysha

Does anyone remember, I think they were called Texan bars, they were gorgeous.

madra-rua

Do you remember Kenan and Kel? :cool::cool:

CCCP^

Want some. Now.