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

Tracey Lee · 07-07-2005 11:38AM #1

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 · 07-07-2005 11:43AM

in 1998 mars bars were 30p and 32p.

dlofnep · 07-07-2005 08:27PM

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 · 07-07-2005 08:56PM

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 · 08-07-2005 09:08AM

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 · 08-07-2005 09:18AM

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

She-Ra · 08-07-2005 09:34AM

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 · 08-07-2005 04:35PM

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 · 09-07-2005 04:30PM

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 · 10-07-2005 08:32PM

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 · 11-07-2005 09:30AM

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

She-Ra · 11-07-2005 12:12PM

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 · 11-07-2005 12:18PM

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

Now it's something like €1.85

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 11-07-2005 12:29PM

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 · 11-07-2005 12:33PM

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/ · 11-07-2005 12:38PM

She-Ra wrote:

whatever floats your boat

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

She-Ra · 11-07-2005 02:05PM

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 · 11-07-2005 02:09PM

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

djmarkus · 11-07-2005 02:09PM

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 · 11-07-2005 02:15PM

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

She-Ra · 11-07-2005 02:24PM

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 · 11-07-2005 02:31PM

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 · 11-07-2005 02:38PM

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 · 11-07-2005 03:57PM

She-Ra wrote:

yeah they were gross!

They smelled like Hell but tasted like Heaven!

Blisterman · 11-07-2005 04:45PM

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 · 11-07-2005 04:47PM

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 · 11-07-2005 04:55PM

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

Kevin_rc_ie · 11-07-2005 04:56PM

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

Blisterman · 11-07-2005 05:06PM

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

Kevin_rc_ie · 11-07-2005 05:10PM

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 · 11-07-2005 06:40PM

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.

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

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