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

She-Ra · 12-07-2005 09:18AM

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 · 12-07-2005 01:41PM

I, for one, miss Pineapple / Tropical Calippos.

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

Blisterman · 12-07-2005 08:15PM

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

Scarinae · 12-07-2005 10:11PM

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 · 16-07-2005 12:41PM

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 · 16-07-2005 06:04PM

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 · 17-07-2005 05:18AM

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 · 17-07-2005 05:49AM

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 · 17-07-2005 07:27AM

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 · 18-07-2005 12:03PM

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 · 22-07-2005 12:58AM

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 · 22-07-2005 01:46AM

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

nlgbbbblth · 22-07-2005 10:17PM

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 · 27-07-2005 09:02PM

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 · 27-07-2005 11:21PM

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 · 04-08-2005 04:44PM

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 · 09-08-2005 02:39PM

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 · 09-08-2005 04:01PM

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 · 11-08-2005 04:09PM

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 · 12-08-2005 01:36AM

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

jm2k · 12-08-2005 02:37AM

ah the 90's, lots of stuff for 10p ...mint crisp bars, calipos, time bars (think they were toffee bars with a yellow wrapper??)
stingers, refreshers, those fake bracelet/watches u could get and eat all the sweets off the elasticated string, aswell as postman pat penny sweets and really fizzy cola bottles

tayto at 10p 12p & 15p (thou i remember them goin up to 20p at some stage too) chewits (bit like cheap opal fruits)

monster munch (with the really really red flavoursome ones at the end of the bag mmmmm) and the brown hula hoops with great smell and of course who could forget bars with the best theme tune of all time: 5...4...3..2.1 !!!

Ray777 · 15-08-2005 01:43AM

I remember when a 'Screwball' from the ice-cream man cost 30p (small cone was 25p), back in the early '90s. Now, a screwball will set you back over a €uro. C*nts.

MrJoeSoap · 15-08-2005 02:08AM

It's a well known fact that "Ice-Cream Men" are the sole reason for inflation in this country. B*stards!

Slaygal · 13-11-2008 01:48PM

Ten cigs for £1.28, I remember when they increased the child's bus fare from 25p to 45p.
Bus fare into town was 45p. Tayto cost 30p. Meanies, Banshee Bones, Hot Lips all cost 10p. In the local supemarket you could get a can of coke for 45p it was 55 or 60p in the newsagents. Buying Dresses and cycling shorts with over the knee socks in No Name for a tenner. Good times

Bearhunter · 13-11-2008 09:27PM

Oh God I feel old. I remember in the early 70s Tayto at 3p a bag (at the time Mr Spud crisps were only 2p) and the time when they changed the packaging of the Salt and Vinegar ones completely to a red pack - and they had the telly ad about Old Dan Salt and Victor Vinegar...
I remember you could get 30 Carrolls and a box of matches for exactly two quid in the 80s and a pint of Guinness at the Strand Hotel in Curracloe was
£1.03. And a bag of chips cost 25p for a large. Happy days.

admiralofthefleet · 13-11-2008 09:30PM

i remember a fresh cod and chips was £2.90 from my local chipper:). now its €9.90:mad:

kelle · 13-11-2008 11:04PM

OMG, this thread is 3 years old but interesting all the same. I remember Tayto crisps were 7p in 1978 and Mars Bars 10p. In 1989 I started college in London - Mars Bars at home were 30p but 20p sterling there, I was so excited I ate double the amount because they were cheaper!