20p!

TeletextPear · 19-06-2008 02:18PM

jester77 wrote: »

And they had he-man designed into the bar, I always bit his head first!

ahhh yeah i remember that, deadly

disland · 19-06-2008 02:20PM

there was football stickers with which you got a big stick of dodgy chewing gum for 20p also. anybody remember them?

Saint_Mel · 19-06-2008 02:23PM

Anything from: Mr. Freeze, Sparklers, Kalypso, Macaroon, Chocolate Mice, Bulls Eyes, Dib Dap Sherbet, Candy Cigarettes ...

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Ruu_Old · 19-06-2008 02:27PM

disland wrote: »

there was football stickers with which you got a big stick of dodgy chewing gum for 20p also. anybody remember them?

Those and the tattoos.

Juan Pablo · 19-06-2008 02:27PM

1/8 lb of Aniseed balls (36p a qtr if i remember) and some golf chewing gum. The E-number charged spearmint flavour of those golf balls was quality... for all of 3 seconds! And the Nancy Balls would last an age.

Steve_o · 19-06-2008 02:28PM

disland wrote: »

there was football stickers with which you got a big stick of dodgy chewing gum for 20p also. anybody remember them?

That takes me back, they don't make crap like they used too...

used to get a mr.freeze and a bag of meanies most of the time

Tar.Aldarion · 19-06-2008 02:29PM

whoppa bars, cola bars, sparklers, penny sweets, frosties, mr. freeze.

snollup · 19-06-2008 02:31PM

stovelid wrote: »

Finger dab of heroin.

Oh to be so innocent again!

Toto Wolfcastle · 19-06-2008 02:38PM

Oh the nostalgia! Loved whoppa bars and Care Bear bars. (They were very rare though as I remember.) I used to get eating paper too as I was a sheep and my friends loved it for some reason.

stovelid · 19-06-2008 02:51PM

disland wrote: »

there was football stickers with which you got a big stick of dodgy chewing gum for 20p also. anybody remember them?

And Bazooka joes.

Phantasm · 19-06-2008 02:54PM

I'd go crazy with the auld penny sweets. Now the equivalent is like, what, 5c? Disgraceful.

5starpool · 19-06-2008 02:56PM

I have a vague recollection of ha'pennies as well, so I remember being annoyed that ha'penny sweets basically doubled in price and I could get less of them for the 10p or whatever I had to spend at that time. I remember when the 20p's came out as well, wasn't it '86? That song "Those were the days" is going round and round in my head now. I really feel old now, so i've got from nostalgic and happy to depressed all of a sudden. Ah well, on holidays next week, happy again

Duggy747 · 19-06-2008 03:10PM

Frosties, Chomps, Onion Ring crisps, Burger Bites, Mr. Freeze, He-Man bar, Wibbly-Wobbly Wonder, Candy Fags.

And, of course, Macaroon bars..............I fùckin' love Macaroon bars!!!

Is it me or does anybody else notice all our favourite crisps from our childhood just don't taste the same / nice anymore. Goddamn health freaks got their way by changing how they're made and what goes in 'em. I don't care if it's rat's piss, as long as it taste like whatever it's supposed to be!!

BAH!! I miss the days!

Starmix · 19-06-2008 03:25PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Is it me or does anybody else notice all our favourite crisps from our childhood just don't taste the same / nice anymore. Goddamn health freaks got their way by changing how they're made and what goes in 'em. I don't care if it's rat's piss, as long as it taste like whatever it's supposed to be!!

BAH!! I miss the days!

They also seem to be smaller - packaging mostly the same, but less amount of crisps......

or maybe i'm just bigger!!

OrangeDaisy · 19-06-2008 03:39PM

used to love the red robin hood ice lollies....the cola one's weren't half as nice!! When i was feeling really rich i used to get a push pop- they were only new out and we all thought we were so cool saying 'don't push me, push a push pop'

DanGerMus · 19-06-2008 03:47PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Is it me or does anybody else notice all our favourite crisps from our childhood just don't taste the same / nice anymore. Goddamn health freaks got their way by changing how they're made and what goes in 'em. I don't care if it's rat's piss, as long as it taste like whatever it's supposed to be!!

BAH!! I miss the days!

Apparently someone did some kind of testing recently that showed that it's the addition of sugars and other flavours to our main diet that has caused this effect. They mentioned apples not tasting as sweet any more along with crisps and other things.

menoscemo · 19-06-2008 04:07PM

Did you have those 2p Refresher chews down here?
Would have got 5 of them and 10 fizzy cola bottles.

Actaully we were given out free refresher chews after paying our bill in a Mongolian restaurant :eek: near Dame St a few months back

anniehoo · 19-06-2008 04:50PM

I used to get 30p pocket money on the way to Brigíns (jaysus) on a sat mornin! Packet of meanies, tenpenny bag(hopin you'd get 11 or 12 sweets in it) and some superman chewing gum, with the "tatoos" in the wrapper...arms would be covered in them by the time i got home!

*Sniff..can i go back to being 10, i hate this grown up workin malarky

antodeco · 19-06-2008 05:44PM

Wopa bar @ 5p.
2 fizzy fruit chewing gums @ 2p each.
a postman pat sweet @ 1p.
Then a 10p bag of sweets. If not, a line of cola bottles. Hit the coke hard as a kiddie.

Actually, if I had 20p, id scavange around the floor for anothe 5p and then buy panda/cadet cola

Dave! · 19-06-2008 05:52PM

Probs a cool-pop and a ten penny bag

Do they still do 10p/c bags?

Ruu_Old · 19-06-2008 05:54PM

antodeco wrote: »

Wopa bar @ 5p.
2 fizzy fruit chewing gums @ 2p each.
a postman pat sweet @ 1p.
Then a 10p bag of sweets. If not, a line of cola bottles. Hit the coke hard as a kiddie.

Actually, if I had 20p, id scavange around the floor for anothe 5p and then buy panda/cadet cola

'Cola' and 'Mint' flavours I think. Was that the one that had the 'amazing fact' on the back of the wrapper? Maybe I'm thinking of something else.

antodeco · 19-06-2008 06:00PM

Ruu wrote: »

'Cola' and 'Mint' flavours I think. Was that the one that had the 'amazing fact' on the back of the wrapper? Maybe I'm thinking of something else.

Mint ones were great for when you felt the need to "brush your teeth". Spearmint solved EVERYTHING.

Hmm, the random fact bars. You have me thinking. Dont think they were the woppa bars.

Ghostbuster bars were great. THe weird pink/green goo on the inside. Yum

EDIT: Oh my god

ART6 · 19-06-2008 06:10PM

I had sixpence a week, but that was long before decimalisation and Micky Mouse money. From that I could buy a ticket to the children's matineé at the local cinema, and a "honeycomb" afterwards, with possibly a small bag of broken bisquits from the village shop. The "Honeycomb was a billious yellow slab of foamed sugar, guaranteed to rot teeth. Sometimes I had the odd penny left over, and I would then barter with friends for a Dinky car or something. Then, spent out, I would survive the rest of the week without a penny to my name. Nothing changes, does it?:D

The_B_Man · 19-06-2008 06:14PM

a Whales vagina!

Jimbo · 19-06-2008 06:21PM

Kids really don't appreciate sweets anymore.
I remember I used to get £1 pocket money after school every Friday.
I used to come home from the shop with a big bag of crisps, sweets and coke.
No worries about dental hygiene back then

Harpie · 19-06-2008 06:31PM

ART6 wrote: »

I had sixpence a week, but that was long before decimalisation and Micky Mouse money. From that I could buy a ticket to the children's matineé at the local cinema, and a "honeycomb" afterwards, with possibly a small bag of broken bisquits from the village shop. The "Honeycomb was a billious yellow slab of foamed sugar, guaranteed to rot teeth. Sometimes I had the odd penny left over, and I would then barter with friends for a Dinky car or something. Then, spent out, I would survive the rest of the week without a penny to my name. Nothing changes, does it?:D

lmao

zuutroy · 19-06-2008 07:03PM

5 fruit salad, 5 blacks jacks and a chomp.

Loopy · 19-06-2008 07:40PM

hmmmm, the good ol days eh..

Either a shit load of apple drop sweets or

Black jacks, fruit salads, milk teeth or

Wham bars and banshees crisps

GAAman · 19-06-2008 07:41PM

Isnt it gas you think you are unique and different only to find there are some 50 people from various walks of life and ages doing the same things as kids!

Anyone remember how the last bit of a dan bar used to stick to the roof of your mouth? Not the first bit or the middle ALWAYS the last bit

And i remember when getting money i would get some monster munch (which now taste nowhere near as good as then) and it had the "monster fact file" on the back which was always the cyclops! Lazy crisp bag designers

20p!

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