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Tayto at 3p a pack?

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  • #32
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    I remember when one could buy 10 B&H and a box of matches for £1.


  • #33
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Hal1 wrote: »
    :pac:<(click me)
    Who has the bigger eyebrows?

    square_igloo wrote: »
    I'm sorry, but Walkers Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli >> Any Taytos
    I agree. They are the nicest potato crisp ever produced.

    Ruu wrote: »
    I remember when A-Team crisps were 5p.
    As do I.
    They were made in your neck of the woods, right?

    Caoimhín wrote: »
    I remember when one could buy 10 B&H and a box of matches for £1.
    So do I. 99p to be exact. Got a penny jelly out of the change.

    Anyway, it would definitely have to be post decimalisation as others have pointed out.
    Is there a best before date on the pack or on the bread?


  • #34
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I remember when you could get hookers for 3p. They came with free AIDs too. Damn recession.


  • #35
    ChewChew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭ChewChew


    antodeco wrote: »
    I remember when you could get hookers for 3p. They came with free AIDs too. Damn recession.

    Well I hope you used your tayto bag and an elastic band! :pac:


  • #36
    greatgoal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭greatgoal


    i remember when they were 6d,then when we joined the eec they were 2 and a half new p.


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  • #37
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    alan dunne 27 wrote: »
    Em, what's a 'd' ? and how much is/was it worth

    1 penny


    Pre-1971 we had coins like the Penny , Threepence , Sixpence, Florin, Crown, etc...

    We referred to “pounds, shillings, and pence” or "l.s.d" :)

    The 'd' meant 'pence' ( the 'd' coming from the latin coin 'denarius')


  • #38
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,157 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    alan dunne 27 wrote: »
    Em, what's a 'd' ? and how much is/was it worth
    'd' was an old pre-decimal penny. (LSD - librae, solidi and denari - Latin for pounds, shillings and pence)

    12 old pennies in a shilling.

    2 and a half shillings in a half crown.

    5 shillings in a crown.

    240 pennies in a pound.

    When the 'new pence' came in in 1971, there was 100 pennies in a pound.

    2.4 pennies in a new penny.

    A shilling became 5p.

    2 shillings became 10p.

    The 10 shilling note became 50p.

    In pre decimalisation days a bill might be written as £1 3s 10d which was 1 pound, 3 shillings and 10 pennies - £1.19 in new money.

    Caoimhín wrote: »
    I remember when one could buy 10 B&H and a box of matches for £1.
    When a pack of 20 approached £1 everyone was going to give them up as it was a huge psychological barrier - a pound for a pack of fags. :eek:

    I used to be sent to the shop by my mother with 12p to get an ounce of Gallaghers Condor Plug for the oul lad's pipe when he came in from work.


  • #39
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,498 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    I remember when one could buy 10 B&H and a box of matches for £1.

    I remember 10 Richmond cigarettes for 11p.


  • #40
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Ximena Silly Battalion wrote: »
    The OP didn't eat them, they were left where he found it over thirty years ago by some slob.
    Then im really disappointed in the OP :mad:


  • #41
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Hal1 wrote: »
    :pac:<(click me)

    Mr Tayto and a thwomp, how delightfully surreal.

    2p to 3p is a huge increase.


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  • #42
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    'd' was an old pre-decimal penny. (LSD - librae, solidi and denari - Latin for pounds, shillings and pence)

    12 old pennies in a shilling.

    2 and a half shillings in a half crown.

    5 shillings in a crown.

    240 pennies in a pound.

    When the 'new pence' came in in 1971, there was 100 pennies in a pound.

    2.4 pennies in a new penny.

    A shilling became 5p.

    2 shillings became 10p.

    The 10 shilling note became 50p.

    In pre decimalisation days a bill might be written as £1 3s 10d which was 1 pound, 3 shillings and 10 pennies - £1.19 in new money.


    When a pack of 20 approached £1 everyone was going to give them up as it was a huge psychological barrier - a pound for a pack of fags. :eek:

    I used to be sent to the shop by my mother with 12p to get an ounce of Gallaghers Condor Plug for the oul lad's pipe when he came in from work.

    Holy crap.


  • #43
    Aisling(",)
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I found this pack of Tayto a few weeks ago in a room at work. I was just wondering when they cost 3p. Mid 1970s?

    Tayto3p.jpg

    wow id say theyre stale

    eeep people here are confusing me!monetry systems do my head in


  • #44
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Aisling(",) wrote: »
    wow id say theyre stale

    Don't be ridiculous. It says that its "Fresh" right on the packet.


  • #45
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    square_igloo wrote: »
    I'm sorry, but Walkers Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli >> Any Taytos

    LIES, BEGONE...


  • #46
    david
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,694 ✭✭✭david


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    'd' was an old pre-decimal penny. (LSD - librae, solidi and denari - Latin for pounds, shillings and pence)

    12 old pennies in a shilling.

    2 and a half shillings in a half crown.

    5 shillings in a crown.

    240 pennies in a pound.

    When the 'new pence' came in in 1971, there was 100 pennies in a pound.

    2.4 pennies in a new penny.

    A shilling became 5p.

    2 shillings became 10p.

    The 10 shilling note became 50p.

    In pre decimalisation days a bill might be written as £1 3s 10d which was 1 pound, 3 shillings and 10 pennies - £1.19 in new money.


    When a pack of 20 approached £1 everyone was going to give them up as it was a huge psychological barrier - a pound for a pack of fags. :eek:

    I used to be sent to the shop by my mother with 12p to get an ounce of Gallaghers Condor Plug for the oul lad's pipe when he came in from work.
    My brain just melted


  • #47
    robinph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,146 ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Biggins wrote: »
    http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=116372

    http://h2.punchng.com/Article-print2.aspx?theartic=Art20081116202468

    Something similar!
    http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2008/11/the-longitudina.html

    Madness! lol
    Or one from sometime last year saying the stories were all a load of crap already:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6481969.stm

    Have we had the thread claiming that christmas has been banned yet this year?


  • #48
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    robinph wrote: »
    Have we had the thread claiming that christmas has been banned yet this year?

    Not yet, but if one chap gets his way - thats what he might want us all to do!
    See (if you haven't already):
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055430307


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