1970s Shopping | The cost of your weekly shop | The price of food | Good Afternoon | 1974

[@torg0]

Shopping content aside, for it's age, the quality of this videotape is outstanding!

[@marcse7en]

Early colour videotape recordings were made on 2" Quad, which was very high quality for its time. You often find that EARLY colour recordings (late 60s onwards) are really good quality. The reason is obvious. The equipment was NEW, and performance from tubed cameras and VTRs deteriorates as the equipment ages and wears. Also important, is how often the tapes were played, the generation, storage conditions, and when they were transferred to a new digital format.

[@sylvesterlennon8925]

Very interesting TV programme that would not seem out of place today. Tony Bastable was a 70's TV legend.

[@martinvarley3511]

This programme needs to come back on screen if only to shame the politicians and big supermarkets who only seem to reduce all the stuff you don’t want and would never buy.

[@loveconnection1118]

AMEN

[@yasmindawoojee6831]

This is so useful - a lot of people spend far too much on junk food really good for low income families how they survived. I noticed people ate a lot of meat and their kids must have been healthy.

[@Markcain268]

Food was better quality back then, especially the meat

[@ajs41]

Really?

[@Markcain268]

@156op955 all of it, have you seen the amount of water that comes out of meat when it's cooking these days?

[@helenkelly4355]

you could fry bacon then it was delicious.

[@Markcain268]

@156op955 it even says 'with added water' on the label lol

[@DarylDevine]

Mate everyone ate like shit in the 70s

[@paulharrison6452]

Fantastic Clip. Thank you

[@mrdarcy9379]

This is really interesting insights on comparison shopping. In Australia we have very poor special prices in our supermarkets. I realise that this was 40+ years ago But I think we need this sort of program again now. To help people get the best prices. And to keep the supermarket Giants on their toes from price gauging.

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Bastable in every sphere of the 70s TV!!!

[@iainmackenzie3704]

Interesting that Birmingham had cheaper carrots than Glasgow but more expensive cod than Bristol. Leeds meat prices have alway and will always be cheaper than Maidstone's. Astonishing investigative journalism from 1974.

[@davelowe1977]

That food is expensive. Carrots at 5.5p / lb which is 46p/lb in today's money. They're only 20p/lb today in Tesco.

[@ctrlaltdelboy]

Where can I get that booklet? Just about to go shopping I’d be lucky to get 2 of those items on the list for a tenner

[@alexmckee4683]

You can buy a two lbs or a kilogramme of chicken for £4 (legs, thighs - cheap because not popular as breast meat) celery carrots onions and seasonal green vegetables such as broccoli or beans, 2.5 Kg of potatoes - all of which can cost less than the six remaining pounds, and with some stock, a few herbs and spices that will make a week's worth of meals for two adults. I am mostly vegetarian so I don't do this myself any more but I used to. Push the boat out to £20 and buy some flour, eggs and raisins or sultanas, some fresh fruit and some butter and you can make puddings, desserts and cake for a week too. Sponge cake, fruit cake (can be eaten with custard for a pudding), make a sponge flan base and put fresh fruit on it with quick gel, etc. Seriously, it's not difficult to eat quite well indeed but you do need to do some work in the kitchen.

[@derin111]

I grew up in the 1960s and 70s. Don’t believe the people who can’t see through their rose-tinted Nostalgia Glasses and tell you how much better it was then or even how the food was better then. It wasn’t…..it was shit! It was poor quality, unimaginative, unadventurous, often highly processed sugar and animal fat-laden fayre and relatively expensive to boot. So much so that ordinary, working class people couldn’t afford a decent diet at all! That’s why we were all so flipping slim! At home, we’d have meat or a can of tuna (between me, my parents and my sister) once a week. We couldn’t afford more…and neither could most people. A banana sliced on two pieces of buttered Mother’s Pride White Bread was a bonafide supper for us kids. The reason we have an obesity crisis now is the massive explosion of a myriad of tasty foods from every corner of the Globe and all at relatively affordable prices in comparison over the last three decades. They described that ‘Shopping-list’ in the video as a “long list”. No! That was just about the FULL list of available foodstuffs that you could buy! 🤣 The people who want to go back to that diet can easily do so because most of that stuff is still available. Of course, they will have to stop buying “foreign muck” like…….spaghetti! 🙂

[@4legsgood]

Well said

[@marcse7en]

1974 (yes, I was there!) would be shocked by 2023 prices! 😲 EDIT: I wonder how many decades Master Butcher, Jack Berwick, has been dead?

[@groovygraham]

Strange that pork is so cheap now and lamb is hideously expensive.

[@marklola12]

Well that is a load of crap now @9.40 him saying supermarkets have bigger overheads and so local butchers can do it cheaper lol it is totally the other way around and that goes for local fruit and veg shops too. they all have too charge more hence why most have been closing down

[@user-zm8ov6hc7s]

Technically you could multiply the prices by 8 to bring them to today’s prices.

[@holtridge7337]

I live in America. I have no idea how much a pound is in American money.

[@CashelOConnolly]

$1.29 United States Dollar to 1.00 pound British sterling P.S Britain no longer has a half penny( half a Cent) it was phased out Decades ago ❤️👍🏻 I’m from Ireland where we use the Euro. One U.S Dollar =0.97 euro Cent

[@cazharris5581]

I bet he uses Grecian 2000…

[@kaithescreaminglemon8768]

I, born in 2007, could only dream of prices like this today in 2023

[@user-zm8ov6hc7s]

It’s all relative to wages and you’ll find food today is actually cheaper.

[@msjujuz266]

I grew up having to eat liver and other awful offal 😐😖

[@indiekid74]

I loved liver and onions it was ofally good.

[@GuessMyName234]

My nana used to make that and I always hated it

[@anybodyoutthere3208]

Love eating liver still Man it’s energy food. At 60 it makes a person feel great…. I put a lump of pesto on it and it’s all good

[@yinhonglin9592]

Decades ago the weight was pound and nowadays it is price unit😂

[@rafaellopezmontes3553]

cooking a Spanish tortilla is 134% more expensive now than three months ago. 36p increase!🤣🤣

[@sahmed80]

London lamb chops the cheapest!

[@melgrant7404]

Alan partridge.

[@46FreddieMercury91]

Who's the chick in the red blouse?

[@AlanLeese]

Joan Shenton... she is now 80!

[@knockshinnoch1950]

The food on display looks rancid! The prices are of course ridiculous in comparison to 2022 prices but of course so were wages. 50 years of inflation. Surely we could find a much better system than money?

[@pinkdiamond1847]

What system do you suggest? Also I'm pretty sure that's just how food looked back then nowadays we have additives and preservatives to keep food fresher and better looking for far longer than they did back then.

[@andymerrett]

It's been sitting under hot studio lights what do you expect.

[@annstewart9693]

send for the police I see a golliwog lol

[@andymerrett]

I don't think they'll be interested now.