Price differences

I remember the first time I bought wine for our first dinner party in 1970
and it was 9s - 6d . . that was more than the rest of the meal put together.
I think the rent on our flat was 5 guineas a week!

Mild is certainly to be seen in good pubs round here (East Midlands). Stout which is even darker is enjoying a revival I read somewhere recently.

I always used to think it was strange that mild was darker in colour than bitter!

Thanks kittylester, my brain is on strike today ;) Not sure it's even possible to buy Mild anywhere these days.

Just a bit more that 3p trishs

I have a picture of me and some friends drinking in a pub which was then my local in Winchester c.1969. I remember that half of Mild cost 8d, whatever that equates to now!

2/6d for a shoulder of lamb from Mickey Finn (honest) our butcher in 1967 when we first married. Lasted half the week.

Me too, Sel!

Noooo! I used to be so good at biting off the chocolate without touching the biscuit!

Jacobs Club biscuits used to have cream in the middle and were covered in really thick chocolate. Now the cream`s gone, and the chocolate`s only just thick enough to cover them, AND the biscuit`s not as nice.

I wait a couple of years before I buy any new electronic gadget. I may get an ipad next year - I will be happy to have one that is going cheap because of planned obsolescence. It is amusing to see how eagerly young people lap up the hype and change their phones, etc. on a yearly basis.

Measuring Worth -i have it bookmarked to tell me the relative value of the pound.It's very useful when people say how cheap things were.I agree about the phone-it was a luxury.

isthis maybe in terms of wine, it's economies of scale. It's produced in industrial quantities now. I don't remember anyone drinking wine when I was young but then it wouldn't have been easy to buy outside of the cities I presume. There are two wine merchants within walking distance of me and of course multiple supermarkets.

I think the one thing that is tremendously cheaper is technology of any sort. I remember when very few people owned a TV; it was rented because that was affordable (I think too because they were constantly breaking down!)

Having a phone is surely cheaper now - I have free landline calls and international/long distance calls are a fraction of what they were. My brother emigrated to NZ in the 60s and a phone call was a Christmas treat.

Sorry gracenan I wasn't clear. I meant drink to buy in shops and supermarkets, not in pubs.

Some drinks might be cheaper, but not all. Much as I enjoy Coronation Street and Emmerdale, I have to smile when the factory workers buy a round of drinks. It must cost a day's wage!
At least in most European countries you get a good measure of spirits - in England a measure barely covers the bottom of the glass.

Take a good look at Penguins, they are so small and thin you can hardly see them anymore..

Ella46 I can remember biting and then pulling the banana toffee you'd end up with a long string of toffee before finally it broke free of the bar... strong teeth needed indeed.. maybe its not a bad thing you can't get them anymore

I agree about the sizes, gracesmum - remember how huge Wagon Wheels and Mars Bars were? Not just because we were smaller ourselves - Mars admitted to reducing the size of their bars a few years ago! And Milky Ways are now tiny.

Do you remember penny dainties? A huge chunk of creamy toffee that shut you up for ages because you couldn't speak with it in your mouth lol. Now they're just small bits of disappointingly oversweet confectionary that don't last a minute in the mouth.

PS that mortgage rate of 6d in the pound is 2.5 %, which is not that much less than some mortgages available today.

Oh this is such a sign of ageing - (one of the 7?) Don't go there!
But I disagree with jessM re the size of bars of chocolate - they used to be much bigger.
Did anybody see Nigel Slater in sweetshop heaven last night? That was a blast from the past [yum yum] emoticon

Maybe because the grass grows all the year round in NZ absent Hence the Anchor Butter cows etc not kept indoors half the year. Costs of less intensive style farming work out cheaper?

JessM Yes, an aitchbone of beef, leg of lamb or leg of pork were typical Sunday lunches in my childhood. The price of lamb is absolutely unreal these days and I still can't understand why imported New Zealand lamb is cheaper than English or Welsh in season. Chicken only became cheap because of battery farming. That also made it tasteless.

Beef was cheap - we did not have much money in the 1950s - but often had a big "H bone" sunday joint.
Chicken on the other hand was an expensive luxury, only Christmas really. Turkey never.

round = round here

tanith Banana toffee bars, I used to love them but my teeth must have been very strong!