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[Dishevelled Den]

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

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.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

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

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

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? :-/ :-/

[Dishevelled Den]

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

[Lizzie_Zoom]

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

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!

[LaserLance]

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.

[HolyCount]

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