WHEN WAS THE last time you bought a penny sweet? Or ten penny sweets for ten pennies?
We’re guessing it’s been a while, seeing as ‘penny sweets’ can now cost anything from 2c to a jaw-dropping 5c, and of course by rights we should be called them ‘cent sweets’, which is just nonsense.
A recent post on the Irish arm of Reddit has got us thinking about the price of sweets and how 20p used to get you a Big Time bar, a packet of 5p crisps AND five penny sweets. Now it wouldn’t even buy you a Stinger.
Here’s the Animal Bar outrage:
Animal Bars gone up to 30c?! This country has gone to sh*t.
And the Redditor is not alone…
Remember when a Chomp was 10p?
How much will a Chomp set you back these days? (Big Time bars were 10p too
You can buy them online for anything from 35c to 65c (A packet of crisps was 12p, and then 14p… and even 3p at one stage!
(You could get Sparklers, and they were 10p:
Unilever archives/HB Ice Cream Memories)
1988 HB prices (