Remember when Mars bars & Taytos were 30p

mikemac1

Did jawbreakers realy break young childrens jaws? :)

Rabidlamb

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

ian87

I remember when a can was 50p and a pound would get a pack of skittles, a snickers and a bag of taytos. And change for a macaroon bar for the cycle home...

fat frogs were the biz..

a couple of 10p mixs would see you through until "little break" at 11am... just had to be careful when unwrapping your fruit salads, postman pats, or black jacks that teacher wouldnt hear... I used to have awful coughs those mornings...

mikemac1

Rabidlamb wrote: »

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Wrong thread

Pandora2

cold case wrote: »

I feel so old! I remember getting a newspaper cone of bon bons for 1d (yes, 1 'old' penny). The old lady in the shop (she was probably 40!) used to roll up squares of paper into a cone shape, and fill them up with sweets! Happy Days!

Me too!! On a Sunday after Mass:) Is it my imagination or have Curly Wurly's started to come in minature form?? I remember them as a much loved orgy of sweetness that could, if managed right, last two days!!! 1972 it made it's appearance if I remember correctly!!

mikemac1

The greatest name for an icecream ever
The person who invented that name was a genius

Here's a pic

smash

I remember when penny sweets were a penny

2rkehij30qtza5

I must be old. I remember paying 13p for a packet of Tayto when I was a nipper!

kfallon

Anyone remember cans of Smak? The Pineapple used to be nice!

Think they still sell it up the North

cloud493

Some of you are so old :pac:

Conall Cernach

cloud493 wrote: »

Some of you are so old :pac:

I bet that Tardis you're in is has a great big room with a massive central console and all sorts of golden lights and what not. My Tardis interior is a small white room with a small hexagonal console and Lalla Ward in the corner.

mikemac1

cloud493 wrote: »

Some of you are so old :pac:

Away ya pup with your Kings Crisps that cost over a euro

You missed out on a golden age of sweets and supercans

Krispie

frag420 wrote: »

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!!

You lucky b****rd. Grow spuds.
I remember we had to dig hole, jump into it, with old eaten spuds, get brother to fill hole with us in it, put old spud in sock and wait till it grew and dig our way out then sell spud for tuppence down market.
Ah but we were happy.......

Yorkshiremen Sketch by Python. This thread is not far from it. Class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

cloud493

The only crisps I ever saw cheap were the really bad ones, like disco's, and rip off monster munch

jasonb

I used to be given 15p to go to school. 5p for the bus there, 5p for the bus back, and 5p for sweets...

J.

Macers

Tangy Bars for 5p and Postman Pat sweets for 1p...

Memories...

(Koppaberg Strawberry and Lime tastes like Postman Pat sweets so I'm told. Memories and drunkenness)

Plazaman

I used to collect crisp bags when I was young, freaky deaky I know. And not different types of crisp packets, mainly Tayto. Had them in tin boxes and had bags branded from 2p up to 13p over a number of years. I went to the Gaeltacht one year for a week and when I came back, the mother had dumped the lot.

Coulda been worth millions by now *

* If for example they were made of gold OR we were in a parallel universe where crisp bags are currency OR a wealthy arab decided he'd collect Tayto bags from the 70's and 80's

mikemac1

Tango Orange, not seen it in years and years

I hear the Corkonians are keeping it all for themselves

Sharing is caring!

alie

5p lucky bags, blue for boys and red for girls

candy-gal1

yeah, what happened to manhattan popcorn that was like 30c, small bag of maltesers, and a can/small bottle of coke costing less than 2e altogether?!
thats been my little cinema treat bag for as long as i can remember, but now tbh it doesnt seem like your getting such a great deal when that adds up to over 4e now :rolleyes:

rgmmg

In the early/mid 80s, I'd blow 10p for a Macaroon bar. Or, if flush and needing to make a statement, 30p for a Tiffin.

ManFromAtlantis

football cards 2p...........and the stick of gum.........oh the smell mmmmmh...

2rkehij30qtza5

Macers wrote: »

Tangy Bars for 5p and Postman Pat sweets s)

Forgot about these. They'd rot the teeth straight out of your head but they were yum at the time!

WIZE

Remember we used to get toys in our Cereal

Or collect tokens on the box

membersonly

Does my memory serve correctly in thinking that when Magnum Ice Creams first came along they were very expensive at a whopping 80p? Maybe it was more like £1.20, very expensive anyway. Pringles a similar story.

mikemac1

Just one cornetto
Give it to me
You must be joking
They cost 50p

Do you remember the Three Tenors during Italia 90?

kfallon

Bring back the Roy of the Rovers bars.....and Desperate Dan ones too!

I not so long ago bought two boxes of Wham Bars, they were nearly out of date so were on the (very!) cheap. My God they still taste magnificent

rocketchick

mikemac1 wrote: »

The mammy told me that children died from chewing gum
I would either choke on it or it would get stuck in my stomach and I'd be in serious pain

Children believe what they are told and can be conditioned for life

I haven't bought a pack of chewing gum in over two decades

I have told my kids this..:) but have also told them once you start chewing on chewing gum your tummy keeps chewing waiting for food and then you start to eat yourself from the outside in soon after nothing will be left except the clothes you are wearing..
anytime we see a shoe or a top on the ground thats whats left of teh people who skipped breakfast and had chewing gum instead..:pac:

DoesNotCompute

A-Team crisps for 10p

Refresher sweets for 3p

100 penny sweets for a punt

I even remember when they brought out the brand new shiny bronze coloured 20p coin with a horsey on it

mikemac1

Shops would accept sterling coins no bother
The 5p and the 10p and the 50p
Oh and the 1p and the 2p

Never the 20p

However British shops would never accept Irish coins

We're a laid back bunch, we Irish