Remember when Mars bars & Taytos were 30p

I remember Mars bars going up from 4d to 5d.

When they packaged Mr Freezes, the would trap the liquid in between adjacent tubes in a sort of perfect mini-Mr Freeze tube, orthogonal to the standard size Mr Freezes.
I would cut them off and give them to my Action Force figures and wonder if the red cobra troopers were really just repurposed Nazi soldiers.
They had the same helmets and gas mask boxes.

Talking to a guy over the weekend who was telling me that cigarettes were 20p a pack when he started smoking.

1992 The Paddock Pub Naas two pints ten silk cut purple and a box of matches and five pence change out of a fiver oh happy days

As far as I am concerned this discussion was about nostalgia not your sad disgusting vulgarity

I feel so old! I remember getting a newspaper cone of bon bons for 1d (yes, 1 'old' penny). The old lady in the shop (she was probably 40!) used to roll up squares of paper into a cone shape, and fill them up with sweets! Happy Days!

Warden13 wrote: »

As far as I am concerned this discussion was about nostalgia not your sad disgusting vulgarity

I apologise, I keep forgetting that the open discussion of self prostitution prices is still considered vulgar in certain parts.
I'm "new money" you see.

I remember Tayto being 7 1/2 p . . i also remember eating paper and viscount bars that came in mint or honeycomb flavour. . they were amazing.. white mice.. and they were massive cola bottles were bigger too . . i'm on a very restrictive diet at the moment and this is not helping at all at all . .

I remember you could get a slice of HB ice-cream between two wafers for 2p. For a rare treat you could get a really thick slice for 4p.
I also remember my mother getting 'a pounds worth of petrol', and you would get sheets of green-shield stamps with that!

Is by new money you mean you got rich from pimping prostitutes or you just discovered the decimal point

Maybe I'm not old enough but i never remember a time when Tayto's were close to 10p. Must be poor but Tayto's and Mars bars were always out of my price range growing up.

Burger bites, Chickatees, Meanies , Wheelies and my favourite Banshee bones (mmmm, lip tingling!) along with Roy of the rovers, desperate dan, Frosties and washed down with those little cadet bottles

stovelid wrote: »

Back when crisps were actually called Cheese and Onion and not things like Orkney Cheddar and Caramelized Shallot.

I like to call it the M&S rule of food morketing
Place name (usually exotic) + adjective + food = sales