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Remember when Mars bars & Taytos were 30p

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  • #62
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    Fat frogs rocked also

    Apple Drops were great but crap when hey started sticking togather or too he paper bag or even worse to the bottom of your Pocket :D


  • #63
    HappyBalance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭HappyBalance


    Lads its called inflation. Prices rise every year. The cost of ingredients go up also. It is basic economics. Inflation albeit small amounts are a good thing for an economy.


  • #64
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,138 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Craebear wrote: »
    Do penny sweets cost 1c these days?

    No such thing as 1c sweets. Petty there isn't. Rememeber the 10p mix


  • #65
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    I remember when we had to plant our own spuds, grow the feckers, pick em, peel em, slice em, fry em in sunflower oil, add E-numbers and artificial flavours all on our own!!

    Them were the days!!


  • #66
    Atomicjuicer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Atomicjuicer


    WIZE wrote: »
    Fat frogs rocked also

    Didn't they come back?


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  • #67
    kelle
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    Beruthiel wrote: »
    I remember when Tayto was 3p.
    7p is my earliest memory, around 1978 (Mars bars were 10p at the same time!). I recall they went up by a penny a year for a few years after that.


  • #68
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    There was an Irish politician in the seventies who said if the price of a pint ever hit one punt while they were in government then they've failed and they should all resign

    The price went up and has stayed going up


  • #69
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    remember being 8 or 9, getting a pound NOTE for our pocket money.

    we'd go down to the local shop, buy a bar, can and packet of crisps, and still have change to put in our BOI (iirc) savings box, with a combination lock on the back (we were too cool for Henry Hippo).


  • #70
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    HappyBalance wrote: »
    Lads its called inflation. Prices rise every year. The cost of ingredients go up also. It is basic economics. Inflation albeit small amounts are a good thing for an economy.

    good man mr. killington!


  • #71
    SunnyDub1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    I remember when Friday use to be treat day.
    1 pound mam use to give me and it would get me a chocolate bar,crisps, fizzy drink and the change in jellies :)


    Nowadays treat days for little ones consist of a takeaway and ice cream thats costs €6 (Ben&Jerry's)

    Bar and crisps are a daily treat :rolleyes:


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  • #72
    Andy!!
    Site Banned Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Andy!!


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Pre-Euro these items were around the 30p mark

    Em no, they weren't.


  • #73
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,719 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    stovelid wrote: »
    TK Cream Soda.

    Diabetes in a bottle.

    That is all.

    TK Cream Soda had quite a low sugar content in it compared to other soft drinks. It was 2g/100ml if I remember rightly. Most soft drinks are around the 10g mark. Of course sugar doesn't cause diabetes anyway.


  • #74
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    I remember a £1 for dinner equalled 10 smokes for 85p, a book of matches for 5p and 2packets of meanies for 10p.


  • #75
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Jaysus, I can't remember last weekend.


  • #76
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    HappyBalance wrote: »
    Lads its called inflation. Prices rise every year. The cost of ingredients go up also. It is basic economics. Inflation albeit small amounts are a good thing for an economy.

    Sketch, everybody.

    Teacher's here.


  • #77
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    kowloon wrote: »
    TK Cream Soda had quite a low sugar content in it compared to other soft drinks. It was 2g/100ml if I remember rightly. Most soft drinks are around the 10g mark. Of course sugar doesn't cause diabetes anyway.

    I'd say you're a scream at parties.


  • #78
    Faolchu
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    grindelwald wrote: »

    10p for a chomp.

    ..

    bloody 25c these days


  • #79
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    When I was a kid, my mother would send me down to the corner store with a quid and I'd come back with five pounds of potatoes,two loaves of bread,three pints of milk,a pound of cheese,a packet of tea, and half a dozen eggs.


    You can't do that now.















    Too many fookin security cameras :mad:

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #80
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    1 penny sweets and dime bars or the pink stick of rock those were the days when cigarettes were 1.10 or 20p per single cigarette i used to get every week at the top of thomas street in limerick,cheaper simpler times not like now with water charges ,and the unjust household tax valuations of people that payed for their houses and those who cannot afford such charges..and income rate of tax didnt come down yet on top of all that

    thinking about good old fashioned sweets for 1p takes ur mind off all that crap..


  • #81
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    I genuinly think the price of chocolate is bloody ridiculous now. its like 1.10 - 1.30 for a bar. Jesus christ almight its a rip off! As a chocoholic this seriously worries me. Its just bloody Ireland though, I dont think there is a need to raise it so high.

    Also, I remember going to shop and getting a cadet lemonade, a bar of caramello bar and a pack of disco's all for about one pound after school. Where did it all go wrong :(


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  • #82
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    MonkieSocks wrote: »

    You can't do that now.



    Too many fookin security cameras :mad:

    In primary school I developed a right little knacker trick. Lean against the chocolate rack while talking to friends, with one arm layed out for support. From there on you can quietly slide the chocolate bars up your sleeve with the swipe of one finger under your palm.


  • #83
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    I genuinly think the price of chocolate is bloody ridiculous now. its like 1.10 - 1.30 for a bar. Jesus christ almight its a rip off! As a chocoholic this seriously worries me. Its just bloody Ireland though, I dont think there is a need to raise it so high.

    Have you considered Aldi or Lidl?


  • #84
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Confab wrote: »
    Have you considered Aldi or Lidl?

    Something about the chocolate there isnt the same to be honest. I have gotten it lots of times, but its lacking something, or tastes like its been sitting on the shelf for years. Their biscutis are fine though


  • #85
    Mr Benevolent
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    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Something about the chocolate there isnt the same to be honest. I have gotten it lots of times, but its lacking something, or tastes like its been sitting on the shelf for years. Their biscutis are fine though

    Yep, it tastes like real chocolate. Funny the way Irish people seem to think Cadburys is real chocolate. In reality it's manky oversweet crap. I'm Irish too, btw.


  • #86
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Confab wrote: »
    Yep, it tastes like real chocolate. Funny the way Irish people seem to think Cadburys is real chocolate. In reality it's manky oversweet crap. I'm Irish too, btw.

    Im not talking about the different brands there. Im talking about the brands such as cadburies, nestle and Kinder that they sell. Its not as nice for some reason. I wouldnt go as far as to say there is a REAL chocolate. Different tastes for different people. I enjoy sweet chocolate, and the only cadburies I really like are Caramello and Caramel. Nestle is nice enough. Some fancy brands are great but often feel too rich for my liking.

    Currently I m enjoying a Meiji and Pocky (white box). Have a stack of it in my room. Toblerone is great too. I seriously cannot live without chocolate :(


  • #87
    some random drunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    Right, I'm just back from Tesco, where I got a refresher bar for 17c, a sherbet fountain for 29c, and a 4 pack of wispas for €1.13. The refresher bar was tiny compared to when I was a kid, but all in all not bad value considering I paid €1.29 for a crunchie in spar recently, the thieving bastards.


  • #88
    mikemac1
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    some random drunk wrote: »
    The refresher bar was tiny compared to when I was a kid,

    Or maybe your hands are larger? :)


  • #89
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Or maybe your hands are larger? :)

    Nope. They have clearly reduced the size of all chocolate/sweets. Yet they leave the wrappers the same size to make people not notice :(


  • #90
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,712 ✭✭✭storker


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    I remember when Tayto was 3p.

    So do I.

    I remember being able to take 50p to the shop and getting a packet of Tayto (starter), a Mars Bar (main course) and a quarter of Wine Gums (dessert).

    Happy days those.

    Stork


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  • #91
    some random drunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Or maybe your hands are larger? :)

    That too, but they are clearly much smaller than they used to be.


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