How much was that in the 90s????

Tracey Lee

Let's compare prices....

How much was a loaf of bread in 90s..and how much is it now..., a mars bar, a newspaper, the cost of going to the cinema, a pint, tax, insurance etc...

Let's get this thread rolling!!!

by the way,..any websites this information is on????

Kevin_rc_ie

in 1998 mars bars were 30p and 32p.

dlofnep

I remember 10 Johnny blue was £1.28. How much are 10 smokes nowadays? I quit years ago. And cans of coke used to be 30p. Bags of crisps like hula hoops and that were 24p.

grimloch

Farthest back I remember is about 50p for a coke, now its bleedin' 1.35 or so.

Mars for 40p, ah those were the days.

Pretty safe to say everything is alot more expensive.

Kingsize

cans of carlsberg were 89p in Deveneys off licence rathmines in the summer of 1990 i remember that cos it was the cheapest you could get them anywhere i dont remember much else about that summer though, didnt we win the world cup or something...........??

Sleipnir

Skip for 4 days 10 years ago = £50
Same now = €300

She-Ra

all cadbury bars were 35p in '99, and whoppa bars were 5p!!
i remember when i was a kid the bus fare was 25p too...

Megatron

a pint and a pack of smokes would come to the princely sum of 5.60 back in 96, now if your lucky the pint is under 5.60 :mad:

Also i remember when cans of coke where 35 p , when they hit 45 p supercans came out and they where 65 p then 75.

budz

I remember way back in the early ninties, you could get 10 john player blue and a box of matches for exactly 1 pound.

byte

I can remember nearly that far back. I remember JP Blue's being 98p for 10, 1.96 for 20, and a box of matches being something like 6p.

ixoy

Ah Tayto crisps were 12p and then had a massive price increase to 15p....

She-Ra

we had a conversation on the bus home from last night about old food.. does anyone remember Freaky foot ice pops??? can ya still get them anywhere? or Wibbly wobbly wonders... i never liked the yellow bit but love to give it go now!

monkeyfudge

60p for a bag of chips in the local chippers.

Now it's something like €1.85

DonkeyStyle \o/

She-Ra wrote:

does anyone remember Freaky foot ice pops???

What was the deal with those? Like as if shaping it like a foot is going to make it more appealing to lick? (Enter a whole generation of people with foot fetishes.) They might aswell have shaped it like a turd with a nipple on the end.

She-Ra

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

What was the deal with those? Like as if shaping it like a foot is going to make it more appealing to lick? (Enter a whole generation of people with foot fetishes.) They might aswell have shaped it like a turd with a nipple on the end.

whatever floats your boat

DonkeyStyle \o/

She-Ra wrote:

whatever floats your boat

Hey, you're the one who misses them... foot licker :eek:

She-Ra

tis true... lol... but only is the foot in question is pink and white swirly and has a chocolate big toe... any takers?! haha

Kevin_rc_ie

i remember both of those irish creams. can never beat a tangle twister thou.

djmarkus

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

What was the deal with those? Like as if shaping it like a foot is going to make it more appealing to lick? (Enter a whole generation of people with foot fetishes.) They might aswell have shaped it like a turd with a nipple on the end.

but they tasted yummy

Kingsize

ive just eaten my first loop the loop in years, have they gotten smaller or is my mouth getting bigger????

She-Ra

Kingsize wrote:

ive just eaten my first loop the loop in years, have they gotten smaller or is my mouth getting bigger????

they're DEF gettign smaller.. so is everything else; have you checked out a stinger bar lately?!?! tiny... no matter how small your mouth is!

YeatsCounty

Does anyone remember Chilly Willys? they were ice pops that HB produced in the early 1990's.

I remember that they had a horrific smell off them, like cat poo. Seriously.

She-Ra

yeah they were gross! now i'm even more determined to find a freaky foot and it not then campaign to get them back... it worked for mr fat frog!

YeatsCounty

She-Ra wrote:

yeah they were gross!

They smelled like Hell but tasted like Heaven!

Blisterman

I don't remember cans being any cheaper than 50p, which they were from the early 90s till about 98 when they became 55p, meaning you could no longer get 2 for a pound. They're about 80c now, so it's not a big increase at all.

Tayto's used to be 20p. Now they're 60c or something.

Tobias Greeshman

Im fairly sure you can still get the Freaky Foot Ice cream, I remember eating one a few months back, so Im sure you can still get them. Unless they've been discountinued recently

God I remember when Tayto was 12p, that was so long ago, that its scary!
When a pint was £1.75 or so, not that I was old enough to legally drink it, but I dont remember that stopping me

Blisterman

The Irish Times used to be 85p, I remember.
It's €1.50 now.

Kevin_rc_ie

ah fat frog ice creams were nice. from 95-99 can's of coke were definetly 50p in 95% of shops.

Blisterman

Im sure it was before 95 too. I never remember them being any cheaper.

Kevin_rc_ie

me too. coca cola has always been 50p to me, until the new money screwed things up. but some ppl are saying it was 30p at some stage, which it was of course but i don't rememeber. so i'm just saying what i know.

pints of milk fluctuated between 36p and 44p around this time too.

dazberry

Looked at buying a house across the road in 1996 - needed work but was going for IR£33K (~e42K). Same house today (assuming similar condition) would be about e300K +/- 20k.

1996 mortgage x1.5
2005 mortgage - madness.

D.

She-Ra

silas wrote:

Im fairly sure you can still get the Freaky Foot Ice cream, I remember eating one a few months back, so Im sure you can still get them. Unless they've been discountinued recently

Where?!?!?!

Basq

I, for one, miss Pineapple / Tropical Calippos.

Can't get them anymore - only Orange / Cola ones....

Blisterman

I remember they used to be 40p, then they went up to 60.

Scarinae

Kingsize wrote:

ive just eaten my first loop the loop in years, have they gotten smaller or is my mouth getting bigger????

Ah, they craftily changed the shape you see - a ploy to allow them to reduce the size

I remember Mars Bars being 30p, cans being 50p, Sparklers being the cheapest icepop at 9p, round lollipops being 3p, Chomp bars being 10p, Magnums being 85p when they first came out (and everyone thought they were a rip-off!), Cornettos being 60p. All these prices are mid 90s but I can't remember accurately when because I was a child

seanironmaiden

remember when HB sparkler ice lollys were 10p and they had loads of flavours like cola, strawberry and pear? and then you could get one's that had 2 or 3 colours in them. and then the feckers went and got rid of everything except for orange. ORANGE!!??!! my most hated of flavours... really, I mean fill 3 bowls with skittles, starburst and fruitpastiles at a kids party or whatever and your left with all the orange ones at the end. why won't they just cancel the orange ones... this has made me very upset

madfistbt

Are fat frogs still around? I havent seen them for ages!! Dont say theyve got rid of them again. Id be genuinly upset if they did, also I agree orange is a crap flavour, they should bring back sparklers or make lemonade flavour Ice pops thatd be good. In Australia they have schweppes lemonade ice lollys and they are the nuts!!!

Dizzyblabla

I remember I used to get a can of Tanora, a packet of chipstix or monster munch (the proper monster munch that was out in the old days) a bar of chocolate and a banana split bar (they were 5p) for £1...

Mr.Freezers were 8p
refresher sweets (the yellow ones with the sherbert in them) were 3p
Sherbert Dibdabs were 12p
BlackJacks and PostmanPat's were 1p (remember going to the shop with 20p and getting LOADS of penny sweets? - can you even get penny sweets anymore??)
I miss the pear sparklers...

NotMe

Haha this forum is great. Sparklers! I got 20p after mass and I could buy a sparkler and 2 woppas or tangys or just penny sweets. And the local shop never used to count the penny sweets if you bought a lot so you ask for 30 penny sweets and they just throw in a few handfuls and there was always extra.


What about those sherbet things. They were in a yellow cardboard tube and they had a licquorice straw sticking out the top. I think they were 12p. Always fun to try and eat without choking on the sherbet. I think they were called licquorice fountains?


Oh yeah the sherbet ufos aswell. 2p each. Melt in your mouth.

LundiMardi

i remember getting cans of coke for 28p, 10p for crisps and 1 penny sweets were ACTUALLY a penny:rolleyes:

I also remember paying 32p for bus fair.

Tha Gopher

I remember I asked my mam when she was gettin ice cream for me "are they called 99s cos theyre 99p?" and she said "no, thank god"


Yid be hard pressed to get one in this country for under 1.50 euros now

And is it just me or these days are chippers, ice cream vendors etc etc alot tighter with the amount they give you for the price? The amt of chips they give you, the height of your "large" ice cream, the amount of topping on your pizza, is it just me or did we actually get the amount we wanted back in the day

How much were drugs back in the rare oul times? Yokes were £25 a go when they came out first iirc. But then again in those days they were fierce things that kept you on a decent high for 8 odd hours, according to veteran men of rave Ive known

The tax man

LundiMardi wrote:

I also remember paying 32p for bus fair.

Chirst,I still remember when bus fair was 5p from Terenure to Ballyroan.
Box of matches were 2p.
Cheapest price I can remember for smokes was 10 Rothmans for 47p.
Sorry these aren't 90's prices but late 80's but even the difference is crazy to see in a couple of years.
I did find a Tayto bag(empty) with a price of 2p on it. Found it in the 80's when Tayto cost 10p. Back of bag was completely faded so I didn't see any dates on it. Remember thinking at that time,I've never seen crisps that cheap.
Does anybody out there remember Tayto for 2p,if so year(s)
Reading this thread brings back some memories.

billy the squid

it must have been a while back because the earliest price i remember them is being 6p

nlgbbbblth

I remember Tayto being 5p in 1975
I'd say they were 2p just after decimalisation, so 1971, maybe 1972?

L'il Devil icepops were 3p in 1976.

Back then Ireland was a different place.

FatherTed

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I remember Tayto being 5p in 1975
I'd say they were 2p just after decimalisation, so 1971, maybe 1972?

L'il Devil icepops were 3p in 1976.

Back then Ireland was a different place.

Yeah I can remember back to the 70's when Taytos were 4p and for some reason I remember seeing a wrapper from back then with 2 1/2p on the Tayto bag.
As for me, I moved to the US in 1992 and go back every two years now, but the cost of everything in Ireland has risen at an alarming rate. Also not in proportion to the price rises here in the US.

Blisterman

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I remember Tayto being 5p in 1975
I'd say they were 2p just after decimalisation, so 1971, maybe 1972?

L'il Devil icepops were 3p in 1976.

Back then Ireland was a different place.

That seems cheap, but if that rate of inflation kept up, now they'd be about €10 a bag.

LegacyUser

Okay, I know it was the 80s (1986 by my reckoning, I was nine years old, a beautiful summer when I started smoking, 'Spirit in the Sky' had just been announced as Number One on Top of the Pops) and 10 johnny blue cost 84p. Box of mathces 5p. Wintergreen chewing gums (like listerine) to get rid of smell of fags were 1p each.

A mars bar was 28p, a king size mars was 40p, a can of coke was 35p, a bottle of cadet was 15p, mr freezes were 7p (the ginormous mr freezes were 15p, don't think those wánky double-up ones were invented then).

I do remember playing in the local park and coming across an old pack of taxto Snax for 3d !!!!

Then in the 90s (probably around 91), 10 B&H were exactly a pound — I think that's when "going halves on fags" changed to to "going fifties on fags".

deedee lepoopoo

I remember £5 would see you straight when going out underage in the 90's.

25p bus fare each way into Town = 50p

10 silk cut and matches =£1

bottles of dodgy beer only
underagers buy in an underage pub
(South William) @£;1 =£3

50p for misc. (save it for an extra =50p
pint next week or onion rings in
the chipper or chewing gum)

MrJoeSoap

ixoy wrote:

Ah Tayto crisps were 12p and then had a massive price increase to 15p....

That triggers some memories! Remember when you could see the crisps inside the tayto packet?

LegacyUser

MrJoeSoap wrote:

That triggers some memories! Remember when you could see the crisps inside the tayto packet?

The see-through was at the bottom, kinda centred, ya? Oh man, what I'd do for a pack right now (the way the used to taste) and walk around stinkin for the night!

Anyone remember Sam Spudz Blood 'n' Guts from the late 90s, they lived a short life ... fcukin gorgeous munchies though, presumably all the colouring and flavouring used to melt people's intestines though.

Agent Smith

Fishie wrote:

Ah, they craftily changed the shape you see - a ploy to allow them to reduce the size

I remember Mars Bars being 30p, cans being 50p, Sparklers being the cheapest icepop at 9p, round lollipops being 3p, Chomp bars being 10p, Magnums being 85p when they first came out (and everyone thought they were a rip-off!), Cornettos being 60p. All these prices are mid 90s but I can't remember accurately when because I was a child

I Remember the First Magnum i had, it was a almond and in was in the summer of 1994, i was on a cub camp in fota in co cork and i found a pound on the ground in the wildlife park i kept it and went and bought a magnum. and kit was Fantastic, ironicly, it was the day ireland lost to holand in the world cup, i remember watching the game in the cub dent there.



looking back a pound was a lot of money when you were nine, football stickers used to cost 15p, and i remember one of the rich kids in my class got and entire box off his dad, maddness.


i remember KVI bread (tesco) used to be 39p, and a litre of milk used to be 72p, the cinema used to cost 1:50 in stillorgen, a happy meal was 99p and the bus used to cost 25p before 5 on a weekday, HB spaklers cost 8p and the Beano cost 22p (stg) and my local newsagent used to charge 40p and i never understood why that bitch used to charge nearly double for it...


ahh to be 9 again