Cost of living in the 1970s | Price of shopping | 1970s Food | Food Prices | Money Go Round | 1977

Has the cost of your weekly shop gone up? Joan Shenton and Tony Bastable takes a look!
First shown: 28/01/1977
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[@tourcreole854]

Speaking as a Yank from the U.S. who was 19 years old in 1977, this answers a question I've had ever since I started watching vintage Mary Berry and Judith Chalmers on Afternoon Plus and what little there is of Fanny Cradock cooking away for Christmas in the 70s - they focus a great deal on economy. Berry continually talks about buying "whatever's cheapest" and almost harps on saving money and economizing. Now I understand why. Thanks for posting this.

[@zeddeka]

There were very similar problems in the USA. The oil shock of the early 70s sent inflation absolutely soaring across the whole western world. President Carter made his famous 'malaise' speech in 1979, in part about how the huge inflation had destabilised society in the USA. He called for people to take much more care with how much fuel they were using, and had solar panels installed in the White House.

[@johnd8538]

Britain was in a desperate state in the 70s but as a kid I kinda enjoyed the power cuts and almost "rationing" life was very basic and we just played out in the woods with no chance of becoming obese, not enough food for that!!

[@johnd8538]

It's all about "climate change" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😋😂😋😂😂

[@oldblueshirtguy]

@@johnd8538 I think you're commenting on the wrong video. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😋😂😋😂😂

[@jonathanlandau-litewski7405]

​@@johnd8538 what we had was enough. Never went to bed hungry and never ate rubbish unlike these days.

[@cblack1green]

As a young child in the 70s my Dad who worked as a builder was the only wage coming into the home, my mum like so many back then was a house wife , we never went hungry or cold and times were certainly much more simple and less greed, in the evenings we talked as a family with just watching a few favourite programmes on the telly with its 3 channels, best times of my life.

[@zeddeka]

There was plenty of greed around then. Human nature doesn't change. If you think there wasn't, you were looking at the world through the eyes of the naive child that you were at the time.

[@ScratchyBaws]

My Ol' man like most of them was always in the pub till closing after work. Us three kids didn't know what being greedy was because we never had anything to be greedy with and as for greed itself MAN has always been greedy as far back to when time began. Simple maybe but as for greed you are way off.

[@colinlock-lv9vv]

100% born in 72 now 52 yrs old

[@robertedwards2442]

@@cblack1green My father walked up the road (🍺) for 55yrs. He passed out in his local. I was with him when he collapsed the memory 😭 it was lung cancer. I have so many memories of me and my dad walking up the road. 💙

[@chrism1102]

There was indeed greed a plenty back then. Corporate greed was huge. American companies were notorious for turning out shoddy dangerous goods back then. That's why we're lawsuit happy today. It's the only thing that keeps them in line.

[@evo5dave]

And food inflation is back with a vengeance. Difference is I am not a kid any more so it's much less fun

[@marcse7en]

You found food inflation "fun" as a kid? ... How very odd! ... I'll wager your parents DIDN'T share your sense of fun?

[@Readybear77]

​@@Julie-tc2ks😂

[@Readybear77]

​@@marcse7en😂😂

[@Readybear77]

Bet your fun at parties

[@evo5dave]

@@Readybear77 I am. I wander around saying 'you're' not 'your'.

[@iancruise6927]

Money Go Round was a brilliant programme

[@americanmanhood]

£1 in 1977 is equivalent to £7.95 ($10.01) today. 20.5p for the dog food would be £1.63 ($2.05) today, and 71p for the Nescafé coffee would be £5.64 ($7.10) today. A monthly shop of £27.81 would be £221.09 ($278.29) today.

[@MrDirkles]

According to the bank of England inflation calculator £1 in 1977 is equally to £5.57 today

[@MarkPMus]

⁠@@MrDirklesYeah this is what I got too. A loaf of bread, 18p in 1977 would be 5.57 x 0.18=1.002 - let’s say a quid for a loaf in 2023. The coffee would work out as about £3.95. Morrisons are selling 100g of Nescafé Original for £2.99, so 71p in 1977 was really steep. The same amount of Nescafé Gold Blend is only £3.49. I object to Nestlé, and can’t afford Douwe Egberts my fave, but Sainsbury’s Gold for 200g eg double quantity of Nescafé is only £2.49! I often read comments about inflation adjustment and wonder if there is some other system for calculating it, because figures seem to vary wildly sometimes. For the record, £5.57 was obtained from the Bank of England website.

[@MrDirkles]

@@MarkPMus they have constantly altered inflation by adding and removing items. For example, house prices. Removed from inflation in 2004 for Gordon brown. Furthermore we need to take into account the quality of a loaf of bread. The processed shit we have nowadays is inedible whatever the price imo

[@zeddeka]

@@MrDirkles You seriously trying to say bread wasn't processed in the 70s??? Food standards were appalling back then

[@MrDirkles]

@@zeddeka you could buy processed bread of course but you can't compare chocolate in the 70's to the vegetable fat laden muck they sell today and this is what makes it difficult to compare foodstuffs

[@carmencornelianastase1240]

Amazing & interesting to see this memories now .....beautiful....🌸🍀🎥

[@simonh870]

Back then a family could survive with just one parent working and earning a normal wage. Now families with both parents working are struggling.

[@MissRoseLily]

& These days the prices are daylight robbery. Good video, nice going back in time every now& then :-)

[@NoosaHeads]

In Leeds, UK, in 1970, a mini-mansion was for sale at an asking price of £18,000. That house is conservatively worth 3.5 million now. My parents paid £4000 for their house in 1956. It would be worth a minimum of £500,000 now. (They sold it for £7000 in 1969). I bought a dump of a terrace house in 1970 for £1000. It's now worth £120,000. My point being that houses have gone up from an absolute minimum of 70 times to about 120 times the price they they were in the late 60s. Cars? A Ford Cortina was £650 in the late 60s. An equivalent Ford would be £30,000 now (45 times the 60's price). A large white bread was 8d - ie about 1/50th a pound. They're now about £2 (100 times more expensive). A Mars bar (bigger than today) was 6d, cutrent cost about 90p (35 times). A made to measure suit at Burton's was £12. (I had one made, as a 15 year old, I was 6ft, so it was an adult cost). Price now is £250 BUT this is now for a Asian made suit ie 20x the 60s cost. My point is that if you compare a whole lot of things, we need for daily life , you'd have to multiply 1960s prices by an absolute minimum of 30x for 2023 equivalent prices. If you use these " online inflation calculators" they'll tell you the increase is about 12x. This is utterly absurd and the incongruity suggests the creators of these inflation calculators have been "got at." Money has been eroded by dishonest governments with "quantitative easing" - ie printing money. If you or I did this counterfeiting, we'd be locked up forever. Politicians in England get knighthoods and promotions. Politicians in America get laurel leaf crowns (by the New York Times and Washington Post) for their brilliance and foresight. If you "invest" $1 in a bank in the USA, those bastards can lend up to $100 of your $1 and, get back $4 per year for the dollar that you gave them. However, if you miss a couple of payment on a bank loan, you might find the bank less than sympathetic. They'll come round with the tow truck and repossess your car before you can say Jack Robinson. Governments aren't just dishonest and dishonourable, they are actually evil.

[@MrDirkles]

@@NoosaHeads excellent post

[@kaynwells6936]

Every moment of this takes me back to being a young child. A way better time

[@kamsavesmoney]

Of course your parents were paying then

[@colinlock-lv9vv]

you were child then so happier times,so was i.but it was better in uk 3 channels on tv.no mobile phones no social media.hardly any drugs lot less population hardly any illegal immigration and maybe borstal sort young offenders out.

[@davidbowie2046]

These were very expensive in the day. Remember shopping with my Mum in the 70's and she was always talking about food prices going up. Remember, there wasn't a lot of alternatives to the big brands too back then. Wasn't really till the early 90's when food prices were literally "cheap as chips" No Frills and Tesco Value cam along and you could get bags full of shopping for a tenner!

[@TheWacoKid1963]

It was actually in the early 1980s when supermarket no frills started, main player was Fine Fare with it's yellow labeled products

[@davidbowie2046]

@@TheWacoKid1963 might of been, but real cheap food prices started in the early 90's Fine Fare had the first budget label Tesco value beans for 3 p and a value loaf for 11p. Food had never been cheaper

[@popsical2935]

Heinz always cashing in even back then.

[@PLuMUK54]

I began my working life the year before this was broadcast. I was in what many considered to be a fairly well-paid job. My monthly salary was £100! That's the equivalent of about £570. After rent, utility bills, and travel, there was not that much left. Now, as a pensioner, I have an income 23 times larger, but life does not seem any easier.

[@j0pj0p]

Ah, good old fashioned RP, even on ITV

[@gaycha6589]

Angela Rayner would not have thrived then 😂😂😂😂

[@najmabegum5789]

I'm supprised the coffee jar design didn't change at all😊

[@onepalproductions]

It's all the same, except the jam jar. 👀

[@FrankJCarver]

Back in the 1970s, I remember feeding my dog 'Master McGrath' and 'PAL' tinned dog food and 'Bonio' dog biscuits.

[@KevinDoyle-r1w]

My mum bought her first house for £900 back in 1969, Not even a deposit these days eh

[@sarahlouise7163]

they wouldn't dare do a food prices programme these days.

[@Tokolos]

Keeps getting worse and worse, globally

[@leeosborne3793]

Funny to hear references to "Nessull" rather than "Ness-lay"!

[@Ray.Norrish]

We rang "Nessels". None of your foreign pronounciation nonsense on this program!

[@netto6681]

It’s amazing how relatively expensive the bacon was.

[@cilibalint3169]

I was surprised about that, too!

[@gaycha6589]

It was a luxury

[@netto6681]

@@gaycha6589 Really? I’ve had elder family members who had bacon and eggs every day, and they definitely weren’t rich.

[@pincermovement72]

My father cooked one meal a week , Sunday morning full English breakfast, this was the only time we had sausage or bacon. My mother always did a cooked meal on a night , liver and onions, faggots and peas , pork and lamb chops or belly draft on Thursday when the money had run out. Chips on Friday , sandwiches Saturday and a roast beef dinner on Sunday. Breakfast was cereal or toast , lunch sandwiches or beans on toast , we never went hungry and my mother was a fantastic cook.

[@ooo4616]

In 1996, I'd do a fornightly shop for myself and my son, who was a toddler at the time. It averaged £18. My son is now 28 years old and still at home. ( he can't afford to move out) Today, we did a weekly shop that averages around £58. January of 2024, a Mcdonalds Toffee laté (a favourite of mine) was £1.95. Today, it's not far off £2.50. Convid supported mass economic greed by corporations.

[@Bertie_Ahern]

£5 burgers in 2020 became £10 burgers today. It's unbelieveable.

[@tc9634]

Considering Aldi now do bacon for £4.50/kg it seems that's barely gone up at all since the 70s!

[@gedruk]

This is a brilliant video I remember being in the back of my mum and dad's car in the early 70s and I heard my dad say oh no petrol has gone up to 22 and a half pence The way he said it was like the world was going to end😂😂😂 I always remember this every time I get petrol for my car

[@gooderspitman8052]

Not looking back with rose tinted glasses…But white goods were very expensive in the 70s, but rents, utilities and the water rates were in with your council rent. Also bus fares were peanuts and beer and fags were as cheap as the local chippy. My weekly rent in 1976 was £2.50 a week and being a miner I got nine loads of coal a year for free or a gas allowance, I never worried because my wages were enough to pay for me and my family. The change arrived in 1979 and the standard of living for the workers plummeted with the advent of Thatcherism, which meant your wife needed a job and so did your kids and there’s been no change in political direction since. I’m now a pensioner and I will never vote again, because as a pensioner my future is limited, therefore it is up to the youngsters to demand a change to the neoliberal dystopia that is modern Britain.

[@kevphillips02]

It could be a lot worse .

[@gooderspitman8052]

@@kevphillips02 correct, for we could be looking at the lid.

[@veronicaboyce6794]

Agreed and Best Comment Made💯!

[@Juliukas101]

You must have lived in Horden to have paid such low rents!

[@mezbrookscarter8289]

Council rent, in my area, did not include gas or electricity and you still had to pay for your TV licence. Rent included rates and water rates only. Plus in the 1970s you paid your rent and rates over 50 weeks and you got two weeks "free weeks" which you could use when you went on holiday in the summer and at Christmas. It wasn't really free - you just paid over 50 weeks instead of 52, so you paid a bit more each week to have a couple of weeks without your largest bill. At least in the council area I lived in that was the case. I remember my mother being very upset that she lost the 2 "free" weeks when the system changed from that to the rent rebate system, a forerunner of housing benefit, in the early 1980s. For me, the cost of living crises was in the late 1980s when rates were abolished and the water companies were privatised. We were paying £45 a week rent to the council which included rent, rates and water rates. Still, after the changes we were paying £54 per week rent, because the council applied an inflationary increase on the total amount paid previously and did not take into consideration that part of it was rates and water rates. We also had to find the money for the community charge and pay for the water rates which were a lot more than the charges we paid under the previous system. Our wages did not go up. When the minimum wage was introduced in the late eighties I did not benefit from it as I was already earning more that that already, by 20 pence per hour. But it didn't stop the huge price rises of the late 1980s after the financial crash in 1987. We went from paying £45 for rent , rates, and water per week to £54 for rent, plus about £6 or £7 per week for community charge, and another £6 or £7 per week for our water rates, in a very short period of time. Given that at this time, I was earning £45 a fortnight and my husband was earning about £90 a week an increase of about £23 a week was significant.

[@zekeedwards7904]

I'm 50 next year, Britain has turned exponentially horrible, those were simpler times, everything was better and more wholesome, people spoke properly, and had manners, absolute shithole now

[@marcse7en]

"People spoke properly" ... "Absolute SHITHOLE now!" Yes, people with manners, who spoke properly, often used the word "shithole!" 🤣

[@sharonboot478]

less than 80pence for a jar of coffee!! I saw it today in Sainsbury for £7.50 a jar i would rather drink water for that price

[@bens1972]

80 pence is equivalent to £4.56 now roughly. For a (4 oz) 100g jar of Nescafé Tesco charges £3.25. £7.50 is for the 300g (10.5 oz) jar

[@sharonboot478]

@bens1972 whoever buys the small jar of coffee is clearly not drinking much coffee so it is still in my opinion a ridiculous price even with the time frame taken into account

[@ladygardener100]

World coffee prices very high, so better buy a bottle of Camp

[@marcse7en]

£2.00 for a 200 gram jar in Aldi!

[@sharonboot478]

@marcse7en yes, no doubt it is that, but unfortunately, it is like all own brands. I was talking about decent branded coffee

[@wutang6020]

lol my parents were from Northern Ireland I grew up on fresh veg and meat every night my old ma could make a meal from nothing 👌 they were hard times but do yous know something they were also the best of times real family times I miss my mum an dad and the laughs we had

[@Home8rew]

It’s amazing that most of those items retail for roughly the same prices 50 years on so food was amazingly expensive then and took a huge % of wages. In real terms, food has never been so cheap.

[@MarkPMus]

What was Roy Hattersley doing about it? Dribbling, probably! 😂😂😂

[@caeserromero3013]

Into his tub of lard

[@DCunn-hy9io]

Can't speak properly silly cunt

[@hakushinX68000]

Unlike Maggie who has MADE BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN. Thank you, Margaret!

[@Steven-ox3wh]

Ah yes..the good old half pence..😂

[@Mark3ABE]

I can remember the first supermarket which came to our town, in 1962 - when I was about six years old I went shopping with my mother. She bought the week’s groceries for 17/6 so received change from a pound note. There was massive inflation between then and 1977. Prices almost doubled. I can remember bread being 10d (4p) a loaf and milk four pence three farthings (about 2p) a pint.

[@Bill-cv1xu]

Bloody hell, take a look at the prices nowadays.. No jolly old shopping basket, hes quite depressed actually. 😂😂

[@zeddeka]

You do understand that £1 had a higher value than £1 now? That's what inflation does. Multiply the prices here by 8.63 to get the equivalent in today's prices. A lot of stuff substantially cheaper in real terms these days,

[@sarahlouise7163]

@@zeddeka we do understand that. even so, prices are eye watering. unless you want to insist that "in real terms" we've never had it so good?

[@4legsgood]

In 'real terms' despite the huge food inflation of then last few years; people still spend less on food than they did then. Crazy I know!

[@PeterWilson-ow8dm]

They really were good old days when England was England

[@Virginie-a]

Belgium is now Africa (& africans still dare to play the victims of rasism!!!)

[@nicholasbuttery511]

The 1st of January 1985 Imperial measurements on most items in Britain had been diminished and then everything Cemicals/Food etc was truncated in tens and tenth`s thus encouraging waste. If you ever see a New Build house or Replacement roof tiles there are building materials still bound up that are never used just disposed of .

[@fluffy-Muffin]

Also back then, buyers didn’t come out with trolleys over flowing with groceries, week in week out.

[@korma9732]

I remember the bread strike and coffee going through and mum buying chicory instead.

[@UKGeezer]

Same here, my parents owned a grocery store and I remember the massive queue outside the shop daily, all queuing for bread.

[@andymerrett]

Ahh, back in the '70s when you pronounced Nestlé like having a little snuggle :)

[@simonluckin8]

That’s Joan Shenton. She co-hosted the second ever programme on Capital Radio with Tommy Vance 1973 - 1974

[@davidfelix2594]

Truly fascinating.......

[@marcse7en]

​@@davidfelix2594 Did my sarcasm detector just twitch? 🤣

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

I would 😈 (like she was, back then)

[@mezbrookscarter8289]

I had to have a giggle at a jar of coffee going up to 71 pence when the same size jar of coffee costs £5 or more now.

[@zebedep]

Wow - Nestles!

[@Juliukas101]

Nestlé actually!

[@DenisMclean-e9o]

Joined the RAF 1971 and was paid £3.20 a day.

[@lucaschapman2188]

I remember going food shopping with me mum back in the early 1980’s her weekly shop came to £25 pound . I remember saying bloody hell mum ! After slapping me around the head for swearing. She told me and me sister. How we haven’t got a bloody clue ! So it was alright for her to swear lol 😂. Good old days

[@beausexon7546]

In increase of an amazing 50 and a half pence!

[@grumpy_poo]

My weekly wage in 1970 was £7.7/6d... Decimalisation came in in 1971 so this must be as least 1971.. when decimalisation came in they rounded all the prices up....

[@ekspatriat]

1977 literally says it in the title!!!!!

[@MarkPMus]

71p in 1977 according to Bank of England website, given that £1 = £5.71 in 2024, makes 0.71x5.71 . A teensy fraction over £4. 4oz =113.4 g. 100g of Nescafé (Sainsbury’s online) is £3.25. Even adjusting for the extra coffee in a 1977 jar would make coffee round about the same price nowadays as it was. I buy Sainsbury’s own Gold Blend and it’s even cheaper, and doesn’t come with Nestlé’s immoral ethics re investment in Israeli genocide, baby milk and bottled water scams. Anyway it’s quite amazing how food prices have remained fairly stable over the years.

[@ScratchyBaws]

£27 might just get you a large box of soap powder and a large pack of bog rolls nowadays and don't start on Coffee prices.

[@marcse7en]

£27.00 gets me two large bags of shopping at Aldi!

[@trevorford8332]

Surprisingly I can remember, but wasn't broke like I am now.

[@jajabinx35]

So did your wages improve in the eighties to balance out the cost of living. Because i doubt they'll do that today to make it feasible again

[@susanemmerson]

What goes round, comes round again.

[@garyowens1517]

71p for a jar of coffee! Around £5 or more now.

[@ronatopaz2793]

With a voucher I managed to purchase a fortnight’s worth of food for £54.80. I’m shopping for myself only. And I think I did quite well, considering my average fortnightly spend is between £90-110. No wonder food banks exist. Sigh.

[@royalbiscuits8442]

Thats really good going. You would think by now alot of the problems would have been sorted. Sadly its no different.

[@sithlegacy5417]

Greed ans corruption are timeless.

[@Barnaby_bo]

I used to think pedigree chum was the best dog food there is.

[@andymerrett]

Just what is Roy Hattersley doing about it? [clip ends] :)

[@dtulip1]

18p a loaf...people would faint knowing it around 60p-1.00 or if you have the misfortune of being coeliac THREE POUNDS FIFTY Pedigree chum 450g (the 16oz here) .201/2 p.....today 385g .96p I miss Ha'pennies...also we had stamps like green shield stamps and co-op vouchers Roy Hattersley..labour mp....fun fact he is still alive and is BARON Roy Hattersley

[@David-jx4gw]

Why would a coeliac even take risk eating a expensive loaf just eat meat at that price.

[@andrewc8441]

18 pence a load daylight robbery 😂😂😂 no but what I do find very interesting is how fluid the rices were atm the cost of living has prices going up but none seem to be going down at least some did back then… although it is possible some prices are dropping now and no one’s reporting on it media is made up of alot more hit pieces nowadays

[@michaelkavanagh5947]

What's a 1/2 pennny?

[@arthurvasey]

Pre-decimalisation, they used to have the farthing (a quarter of a penny) and, even further back in time, the half-farthing (a quarter of a penny) - this is an old penny - when the letter d stood for pence! - the old (half) farthing and half penny were abolished before I was born, leaving the lowest value of coin the 1d - then we went decimal, so that saw the return of the ha’penny - but even that was done away with!

[@barryausten6882]

two farthings.

[@marcse7en]

It's HALF of a penny! ... Glad I could help! 👍🤣

[@chipbuttytime3396]

Scotland's GDP for 2024

[@mus139]

The bacon prices have more or less stayed the same?

[@deejsilvosa6610]

This is mental 😂 50p damn wish we'd be that lucky that's a good £60 worth of food now days 😂😂😂😂

[@oldblueshirtguy]

Remember the average weekly wage in 1975 was under £50/week compared to £742/week today. In real terms that shopping basket cost £401. 50p was the same as £7.52 today.

[@Tokolos]

Coffee, lamb and butter are now luxuries here ))

[@TheFlaneur-up1ft]

So I just checked today 19th October 2024, Tesco bacon is now £1.75! YES! £1.75!! What a huge increase in 47 years from £1.07 I’m appalled.

[@zaftra]

No idea who the woman is but her eyes are dreamy.

[@juliemcleod9869]

What was the weekly wage back then?

[@isaachunt5799]

i started work in 1981. 30 quid a week

[@jasongentle6446]

That’s why mam always did a baking day bread cakes 😂😂🇬🇧👍

[@garypoulton7311]

44 years on, and same story....

[@marcse7en]

Your calculator needs a new battery! ... 1977 was 46 years ago!

[@myday2704]

It was stable for so long then went crazy again from the lockdowns. There was so much money printing, increased demand for housing, supply chain issues from that time that launched inflation problems again.

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

1:50 imagine how mouldy those chops would be by now?

[@marcse7en]

Around £1.99 at Aldi! 👍😋

[@JaneEasterbrook-bn3ux]

My dogs ate Chappie, their favourite . My cats ate anything but Whiskas! My cats I have now love Go cat for breakfast and for dinner they have Felix .

[@darrenruscoe4988]

I wonder if the bosses of the supermarkets back then got huge bonuses and the companies had record profits during that cost of living crisis?

[@csb7376]

Thought that was Julian Clary in the thumbnail for a second.

[@davidfelix2594]

get your eyes tested.

[@XDFRailRoadCooler]

There is a question! Why is there every year. People want more money. What for? (Rhetorical ?). Everything everywhere goes up. It's a stupid. For example people can't get on the property ladder, because of exorbitant house prices! Why doesn't things stay the same, apart from healthy competition!

[@CraigSolo]

Why did you guys change the Rainbow channel to Flashback Kids, then not update it? Thames should either reupload the episodes or start a subscription streaming service with all of its back catalogue rainbow, this week, etc . I’d pay for it and I’m sure others would too.

[@daviniarobbins9298]

I wish things were that cheap today. I miss the half penny.

[@marcse7en]

I don't! ... Fiddly little bloody things! 👎🤣

[@adrianm296]

I remember how we used to pronounce Nestle as “Nessle”. When did we get all pretentious and start saying “Nest-Lay”??

[@SeenThisDoneThat]

It was always pronounced nessles in England up until the mid 1980s - remember the 'Nessles Milky Bar' ad? It changed after that. For some reason I think it was something to do with Esther Rantzen and a That's Life investigation - something to do with baby milk, if memory serves me right. She and the other presenters used to emphasize ness-lay, which is how the French company would have said it and it was the first time I'd heard it said the 'proper' way.

[@Bruce1983]

An e like this é has an a sound

[@LeeRestoration1275]

I wish the increases were the same today

[@Jim68-s5d]

That lady is really julian clarey

[@robertedwards2442]

I remember 1\2 p sweets.

[@MegaBadgeman]

Them fruit salad and Black Jacks?

[@robertedwards2442]

@@MegaBadgeman ha ha! Yes

[@shinkansenshinkansend8316]

@@MegaBadgeman 1971. 8 Fruit Salads or 8 Black Jacks for 1 new penny in our local sweet shop.

[@charisse234]

Holy moly was that for real?😲

[@marcse7en]

No, it was fiction!

[@brianjohnston3707]

We never bothered about the price of food back then' we had none so it made no difference 😂

[@jasonluckhurst2854]

We should have these prices back now. It would increase sales and everyone in the country would be happy

[@ajay999999]

How much was fish n chips?

[@c.a.k.marriott4858]

That was very expensive compared with the early 70s !

[@emmajanewatts4388]

Julian Clarys looking very young on this 😂

[@gv-k4f7g5b9]

Its not good news for dogs" - has that woman been talking to Donald Trump recently? 🤣🤣🤣

[@pit_stop77]

Nothing really changes then 😂

[@geraintwilliams531]

not an advert !!!

[@drmoss_ca]

Ah, back when we could unashamedly say "Nessles" instead of "Nesslay"!

[@davethomas8410]

18p a loaf 😂oh my god

[@marcse7en]

28 years later, in 2005, I was paying £0.19 for a loaf at Kwik Save. In 2024, it's £0.47 at Aldi.

[@MG63]

Shocking. 😆

[@mrjohncharlesbrown]

My 1973 Rolls Royce Cor Corniche cost £14,000

[@johnaspinall3200]

And look at the prices now .treble the prices of the 70s

[@jeffknott1975]

Feeling old when I recognise the packaging 🙄

[@daverees9344]

This is 1977 guys, expect 26% inflation.

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

3:45 : & that costs £5:00 now!! These were the days! I don't know what they are complaining about.

[@John-tl1gn]

Scandalous, on a pension of only £220 per week, we can't afford food now.

[@97channel]

I think I've stumbled upon Nestle being a Mandela Effect. I was also watching some old UK Milky Bar adverts on here recently, and it was pronounced "Nes-uls" right up until the late 80's, just as in this video with the coffee. It seems that the pronunciation randomly changed to "Nes-lay" around 1990. I swear that it was never pronounced "Nes-uls" in the UK. I grew up with "Nes-lay" for years before then. "Milky bar so creamy white. Nes-lay Milky Bar.". Always.

[@laurencecope7083]

Try £4.50 for a 970g bottle of tomato ketchup at Tesco.

[@tanx5620]

Who is this Guy..

[@bens1972]

We’ve got used to absurdly cheap food for many years and we’re not used to inflation like they were in the 1970’s. Food is actually much cheaper now than it was then factoring in inflation. Plus we eat far more calories than we need and than we did in the 1970’s and obesity is costing the NHS billions. But, we still want cheaper food and more of it, without a care for the environment or who produces it.

[@davidfelix2594]

eco loon alert

[@fritzdrybeam]

That's the problem with capitalism, folks. Reject it, and fight for better.

[@mart4995]

We rung "nesells"

[@kennethgiles-nu9dk]

remember tony barstedpool