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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Mr Skrunts on 25 June 2010, 22:39:20
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Following on from this thread.
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1277391784/all
On Monday 15 February 1971
Common name Amount New £p
Halfpenny 1[ch8260]2d. 5[ch8260]24p
Penny 1d. 5[ch8260]12p [ch8776] 0.417p
Threepence 3d. 1+1[ch8260]4p
Sixpence 6d. 2+1[ch8260]2p
Shilling 1/- 5p
Florin 2/- 10p 20¢
Half crown 2/6 12+1[ch8260]2p
Crown 5/- 25p 50¢
Half sovereign 10/- 50p
Sovereign £1 £1
What did it cost me?
Wellat the start of 1971 choclate white mice cost me 1/2d each and weighed it at ? maybe 1oz. 1/2 oz not sure
So in weight per £
£1 = 20/- (Shillinga)
1 Shilling = 12d
so 12d x 20/- =240
the 240d (pennies) x 2 (halfpenny) = 480 1 oz white mice.
so in the start of 1971 my £1 bought me 480 white mice
480 ounces of chocolate.
Decimal curreny came out.
100 pennies
200 halfpennys
later in life the halfpanny was scrapped as it has no value and is actually worth more than it's own weight as scrap.
You do the sums on the white mice - I think we got conned. :-/
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This New Pence marlarky will never catch on ;D
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This New Pence marlarky will never catch on ;D
That Euro stuff never really did.
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I said that from the start, you have £1.00 which was worth 140d, that is pennies, devalued to 100 pence, that is pennies, and this happened overnight...only advantage is that it made sums easier...... ::)
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I said that from the start, you have £1.00 which was worth 140d, that is pennies, devalued to 100 pence, that is pennies, and this happened overnight...only advantage is that it made sums easier...... ::)
Nope .. 240d .... 20 shillings, 12 pence to a shilling ... :)
which is why 1 p = 2.4d ... :)
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I said that from the start, you have £1.00 which was worth 140d, that is pennies, devalued to 100 pence, that is pennies, and this happened overnight...only advantage is that it made sums easier...... ::)
Nope .. 240d .... 20 shillings, 12 pence to a shilling ... :)
which is why 1 p = 2.4d ... :)
What do you mean nope? there were 240 d to a £1.00.....yes we had shillings, but we also had threepence and sixpence and half crowns and two shillings and halfpennys and you will remember farthings.. :D :D
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I remember that chocolate bar called "bar 6" because it was 6d, as soon as the decimal came in it went to 6p......damn im showing my age :o
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I remember that chocolate bar called "bar 6" because it was 6d, as soon as the decimal came in it went to 6p......damn im showing my age :o
My point exactly............ :y
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I said that from the start, you have £1.00 which was worth 140d, that is pennies, devalued to 100 pence, that is pennies, and this happened overnight...only advantage is that it made sums easier...... ::)
Nope .. 240d .... 20 shillings, 12 pence to a shilling ... :)
which is why 1 p = 2.4d ... :)
What do you mean nope? there were 240 d to a £1.00.....yes we had shillings, but we also had threepence and sixpence and half crowns and two shillings and halfpennys and you will remember farthings.. :D :D
re-read your own post .. you said 140d .... ;D ;D ;D ;D only a tad out ... ;) ;) ;) ;)
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I said that from the start, you have £1.00 which was worth 140d, that is pennies, devalued to 100 pence, that is pennies, and this happened overnight...only advantage is that it made sums easier...... ::)
Nope .. 240d .... 20 shillings, 12 pence to a shilling ... :)
which is why 1 p = 2.4d ... :)
What do you mean nope? there were 240 d to a £1.00.....yes we had shillings, but we also had threepence and sixpence and half crowns and two shillings and halfpennys and you will remember farthings.. :D :D
I bet you can remember the groat Vamps ;D
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I said that from the start, you have £1.00 which was worth 140d, that is pennies, devalued to 100 pence, that is pennies, and this happened overnight...only advantage is that it made sums easier...... ::)
Nope .. 240d .... 20 shillings, 12 pence to a shilling ... :)
which is why 1 p = 2.4d ... :)
What do you mean nope? there were 240 d to a £1.00.....yes we had shillings, but we also had threepence and sixpence and half crowns and two shillings and halfpennys and you will remember farthings.. :D :D
re-read your own post .. you said 140d .... ;D ;D ;D ;D only a tad out ... ;) ;) ;) ;)
Yes, your are right, sorry.........my mistake........ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-*
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This thread's as silly as a nine-bob note. ;) ;D ;D
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This thread's as silly as a nine-bob note. ;) ;D ;D
Typical cockney spiv coment.......... :D :D :D
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This thread's as silly as a nine-bob note. ;) ;D ;D
Typical cockney spiv coment.......... :D :D :D
Oi, fancy a knuckle sandwich in the boat-race?
Listen, I've got Lady Godiva in my sky rocket says England'll win on Sunday. Take the bet or you'll be floatin' down the canal wearin' a concrete overcoat.
'An no more of that spiv malarky, neither. I'm just a business man. Gettit?
;) ;D ;D
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This thread's as silly as a nine-bob note. ;) ;D ;D
Typical cockney spiv coment.......... :D :D :D
Oi, fancy a knuckle sandwich in the boat-race?
Listen, I've got Lady Godiva in my sky rocket says England'll win on Sunday. Take the bet or you'll be floatin' down the canal wearin' a concrete overcoat.
'An no more of that spiv malarky, neither. I'm just a business man. Gettit?
;) ;D ;D
Accepted, canny lad....... :D :D :D
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This thread's as silly as a nine-bob note. ;) ;D ;D
Typical cockney spiv coment.......... :D :D :D
Oi, fancy a knuckle sandwich in the boat-race?
Listen, I've got Lady Godiva in my sky rocket says England'll win on Sunday. Take the bet or you'll be floatin' down the canal wearin' a concrete overcoat.
'An no more of that spiv malarky, neither. I'm just a business man. Gettit?
;) ;D ;D
Accepted, canny lad....... :D :D :D
;D ;D ;D ;)
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This thread's as silly as a nine-bob note. ;) ;D ;D
Typical cockney spiv coment.......... :D :D :D
Oi, fancy a knuckle sandwich in the boat-race?
Listen, I've got Lady Godiva in my sky rocket says England'll win on Sunday. Take the bet or you'll be floatin' down the canal wearin' a concrete overcoat.
'An no more of that spiv malarky, neither. I'm just a business man. Gettit?
;) ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D Sweet - go on then my son. 'ave 'im.
THOSE MEMBERS OF A SENSITIVE DISPOSITION MAY WANT TO GIVE THIS ONE A MISS
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQxU8K1uJw[/media]
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Oi, Zulu!
Nice post, my son! Haven't had a laugh like that since me grannie caught her ti.....
Jellied eels, anyone? ;) ;D
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I don't think decimalisation was the principal reason for the hyper-inflation of the 1970s, although it certainly contributed to the problem. There were other reasons why a 6d choccy bar ended up costing 6p (or 14.4d in old money - one and tuppence ha'penny, near enough).
And not all Cockneys talk like that, and certainly not all Londoners. My late father was born within the sound of Bow Bells, and he spoke like a BBC announcer. But that might have been because he went to a public school. :)
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I was a pre-decimal baby, brought up on old pennies and florins and the like --- to this day I still convert back to "visualise" the value of something ::)
My brother is 10 years the younger and was educated post-decimalisation. When he was little he would squander his pock on, say, a lolly that cost 5 pence (an expensive brand cost that in those days). When I told him it was a waste of his money to buy the expensive lolly he'd say " but .. it's only 5 p", I'd reply, "5p ? Do you realise thats a whole shilling for a lolly ??? " ...... His response .... "What's a shilling ??"
I felt old at a very early age :-/ :-/
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1961 king george shilling is worth a bit, very rare apparently. i remember my dad used to collect them but never found one.
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
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Does anyone remember the old "Ten shilling note"?......if memory serves they were pinky/salmon in colour..... :y
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Does anyone remember the old "Ten shilling note"?......if memory serves they were pinky/salmon in colour..... :y
Trawling the depths of my atrophied mind Opti, I certainly do ;D ;D - and they were. :y
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Does anyone remember the old "Ten shilling note"?......if memory serves they were pinky/salmon in colour..... :y
Yes, and only ever seen for birthdays, and then when I started doing a paper round. Usually though we felt very lucky indeed to get a half crown!! :D :D ;)
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)
Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
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I was a pre-decimal baby, brought up on old pennies and florins and the like --- to this day I still convert back to "visualise" the value of something ::)
My brother is 10 years the younger and was educated post-decimalisation. When he was little he would squander his pock on, say, a lolly that cost 5 pence (an expensive brand cost that in those days). When I told him it was a waste of his money to buy the expensive lolly he'd say " but .. it's only 5 p", I'd reply, "5p ? Do you realise thats a whole shilling for a lolly ??? " ...... His response .... "What's a shilling ??"
I felt old at a very early age :-/ :-/
Doesn't that scare you silly though? ::) ::) I know it does for me when I think that a Mars Bar now costs 7s!! :'( :'( :'(
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Fascinating list of slang monetary terms
http://www.aldertons.com/money.htm
:y
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Does anyone remember the old "Ten shilling note"?......if memory serves they were pinky/salmon in colour..... :y
I still have a few -- couldn't bring myself to "break" them !!!
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I was a pre-decimal baby, brought up on old pennies and florins and the like --- to this day I still convert back to "visualise" the value of something ::)
My brother is 10 years the younger and was educated post-decimalisation. When he was little he would squander his pock on, say, a lolly that cost 5 pence (an expensive brand cost that in those days). When I told him it was a waste of his money to buy the expensive lolly he'd say " but .. it's only 5 p", I'd reply, "5p ? Do you realise thats a whole shilling for a lolly ??? " ...... His response .... "What's a shilling ??"
I felt old at a very early age :-/ :-/
Doesn't that scare you silly though? ::) ::) I know it does for me when I think that a Mars Bar now costs 7s!! :'( :'( :'(
Yes, it does, Lizzie. I usually do it when I am trying to talk myself out of buying something I might want but don't need ::) ::)
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1961 king george shilling is worth a bit, very rare apparently. i remember my dad used to collect them but never found one.
I would imagine it is extremely rare - like hen's teeth or rocking horse poo.
The last King George we had died in 1952. :)
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Slightly off topic, but this thing about us all having some old coinage or notes of UK or indeed any other currency.
I saw a snippet on UK TV about one type of £20 note that is going out of circulation soon (end of this month I believe). Now you can go to a bank or B/S for a few weeks to change them and thereafter only by personal visit to the Bank of England (who will honour them in perpetuity).
There are apparently £3,000,000 worth still in circulation . ;D ;D ;D ;D I wonder how many are under peoples mattresses!!
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1961 king george shilling is worth a bit, very rare apparently. i remember my dad used to collect them but never found one.
I would imagine it is extremely rare - like hen's teeth or rocking horse poo.
The last King George we had died in 1952. :)
Indeed Jereboam, and in fact it is the 1951 shilling that is extremely rare :D :D ;) ;)
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)
Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d
I can almost taste them E :y
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)
Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d
I can almost taste them E :y
The shame is Zulu, like Tizer and Wagon Wheels, the fruit salads and black jacks of today do not taste the same as they did all those decades ago! :'( :'( :'( ;)
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1961 king george shilling is worth a bit, very rare apparently. i remember my dad used to collect them but never found one.
I would imagine it is extremely rare - like hen's teeth or rocking horse poo.
The last King George we had died in 1952. :)
Indeed Jereboam, and in fact it is the 1951 shilling that is extremely rare :D :D ;) ;)
Not forgetting the 1933 1d :y
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)
Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d
I can almost taste them E :y
The shame is Zulu, like Tizer and Wagon Wheels, the fruit salads and black jacks of today do not taste the same as they did all those decades ago! :'( :'( :'( ;)
.....and not the same size ...Lizzie...the tight bastards..
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I don't think decimalisation was the principal reason for the hyper-inflation of the 1970s, although it certainly contributed to the problem. There were other reasons why a 6d choccy bar ended up costing 6p (or 14.4d in old money - one and tuppence ha'penny, near enough).
And not all Cockneys talk like that, and certainly not all Londoners. My late father was born within the sound of Bow Bells, and he spoke like a BBC announcer. But that might have been because he went to a public school. :)
spoke like a BBC announcer
Seemingly a lost art among the current crop of BBC talent.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc7FcrOwWjQ[/media]
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1961 king george shilling is worth a bit, very rare apparently. i remember my dad used to collect them but never found one.
I would imagine it is extremely rare - like hen's teeth or rocking horse poo.
The last King George we had died in 1952. :)
Indeed Jereboam, and in fact it is the 1951 shilling that is extremely rare :D :D ;) ;)
Not forgetting the 1933 1d :y
I have been searching for that one, and the Edward VIII 1937 penny proofs, for decades but I think I know now I will never find even one!! :'( :'( :D :D ;)
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1961 king george shilling is worth a bit, very rare apparently. i remember my dad used to collect them but never found one.
I would imagine it is extremely rare - like hen's teeth or rocking horse poo.
The last King George we had died in 1952. :)
Indeed Jereboam, and in fact it is the 1951 shilling that is extremely rare :D :D ;) ;)
Not forgetting the 1933 1d :y
I have been searching for that one, and the Edward VIII 1937 penny proofs, for decades but I think I know now I will never find even one!! :'( :'( :D :D ;)
I have a very worn 1898.....late Victorian penny...Is it worth much?. I doubt it.... :'( :'( :'( :y
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1961 king george shilling is worth a bit, very rare apparently. i remember my dad used to collect them but never found one.
I would imagine it is extremely rare - like hen's teeth or rocking horse poo.
The last King George we had died in 1952. :)
Indeed Jereboam, and in fact it is the 1951 shilling that is extremely rare :D :D ;) ;)
Not forgetting the 1933 1d :y
I have been searching for that one, and the Edward VIII 1937 penny proofs, for decades but I think I know now I will never find even one!! :'( :'( :D :D ;)
I have a very worn 1898.....late Victorian penny...Is it worth much?. I doubt it.... :'( :'( :'( :y
In a word - NO - sorry Optimist! ;) ;)
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My most treasured coin is a 1873 third of a farthing, and when I last looked in VGC, which it is, it is worth c. £100 ;) ;)
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It has to be said all the same that we had a very exotic range of coinage at one time when you consider the likes of the 3d bit, the little silver sixpence and the satisfyingly large half-crown.
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It has to be said all the same that we had a very exotic range of coinage at one time when you consider the likes of the 3d bit, the little silver sixpence and the satisfyingly large half-crown.
Along Zulu with the "silver joey", the silver round 3d piece, the florin, the shilling, the lovely large penny, the half penny, the farthing, and third of a farthing :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)
Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d
I can almost taste them E :y
The shame is Zulu, like Tizer and Wagon Wheels, the fruit salads and black jacks of today do not taste the same as they did all those decades ago! :'( :'( :'( ;)
In earlier times, Lizzie, we had young and eager taste buds -- has the black jack changed, or has our sense of taste !?
Same applies, I feel, to bacon ----- modern stuff tastes nothing like it used to!
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)
Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d
I can almost taste them E :y
The shame is Zulu, like Tizer and Wagon Wheels, the fruit salads and black jacks of today do not taste the same as they did all those decades ago! :'( :'( :'( ;)
do not taste the same as they did all those decades ago!
Little seems to do so now, E :( When I think back however there was some dangerous stuff lurking on the shelves of the corner shop when you think of Cowan’s Highland toffee (with the cow on the wrapper).
And, when you were well financed, the same product - only chocolate coated. :-*
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)
Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d
I can almost taste them E :y
The shame is Zulu, like Tizer and Wagon Wheels, the fruit salads and black jacks of today do not taste the same as they did all those decades ago! :'( :'( :'( ;)
In earlier times, Lizzie, we had young and eager taste buds -- has the black jack changed, or has our sense of taste !?
Same applies, I feel, to bacon ----- modern stuff tastes nothing like it used to!
That is the question HC :y :y
I wonder how much is our taste buds, that do change without doubt as we get older, and / or the change of ingredients that are now "allowed" to be in these products compared to the days of our childhood ::) ::)
There is no doubt that food technology has advanced greatly, but at what cost to those wonderful 'old' tastes? :-/ :-/
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It has to be said all the same that we had a very exotic range of coinage at one time when you consider the likes of the 3d bit, the little silver sixpence and the satisfyingly large half-crown.
Along Zulu with the "silver joey", the silver round 3d piece, the florin, the shilling, the lovely large penny, the half penny, the farthing, and third of a farthing :-* :-* :-* :-*
Yep, a pocketful of 'change' was an impressive burden then ;D :y
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Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat. ::) ::) ;)
Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)
Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d 8-) 8-) 8-) ;)
16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d
I can almost taste them E :y
The shame is Zulu, like Tizer and Wagon Wheels, the fruit salads and black jacks of today do not taste the same as they did all those decades ago! :'( :'( :'( ;)
do not taste the same as they did all those decades ago!
Little seems to do so now, E :( When I think back however there was some dangerous stuff lurking on the shelves of the corner shop when you think of Cowan’s Highland toffee (with the cow on the wrapper).
And, when you were well financed, the same product - only chocolate coated. :-*
Indeed Zulu, and I answered HC's post before seeing yours, and I think it is all very relevant. When you think though that many houses of at least my early childhood had lead water pipes, and we were encouraged to let the water run when first using the tap in the morning, or after any lengthy period of non-use!
Things have to change I suppose, and to keep on the subject of Skruntie's thread, yes decimalisation was a wonderful commercial exercise of much worth to us in the retail trade in 1971, but the change was necessary to simplify the process of calculation when buying and selling goods across the international financial world and our customers. Believe me, for staff like me at the time, a stock valuer, it was a tremendous help to use a fully decimalised system ;) ;) ;).
It was just a shame we stuck to an imperial packaging system of dozens, grosses, etc! ::) ::) ::)
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All this remenising over the old money is making me fell a little bit old :( :(when I was a kid I lived mostly in germany (dad was in army) it was a bit of a shock trying to get me head round £ S P .Luckily me dad got posted back in 69 just before the change over,so i got used to it ,then in late 70 back to germnay we went for another 4 years,so to me a mars bars was allways to me 50 phennig :) :) But they never tasted the same as uk ones anyway.
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All this remenising over the old money is making me fell a little bit old :( :(when I was a kid I lived mostly in germany (dad was in army) it was a bit of a shock trying to get me head round £ S P .Luckily me dad got posted back in 69 just before the change over,so i got used to it ,then in late 70 back to germnay we went for another 4 years,so to me a mars bars was allways to me 50 phennig :) :) But they never tasted the same as uk ones anyway.
No, they don't ! The receipe is subtly altered to suit the taste of the local markets.
As for feeling old -- remember ... we were all born last century ::) And, in the case of a few of us (by which I mean "them"), the century before that ::) :D