I remember when ... (Icy Poles were tuppence [2d])

[Pushka]

You are not that old are you?

It was considered a necessary skill. Like Latin I guess. But I am older than you!

 

[jukebox333]

Not so much an "I remember..." but a "Does anyone else remember...?"

Newcastle, early 1970's, there was a biscuit not unlike a Tim Tam, but larger, and sold in a single serve at Milk Bars (!!), called a Zac. Chocolate buscuit with a flavoured cream - peppermint, and perhaps other flavours available...

They disappeared into the ether, and I've never found anyone else who remembers them... anyone else from The Hunter of "an age" that know of this elusive treat?

 

[NM]

Was that when Mr Whippy ice cream trucks played the Green Sleeves music?

My father convinced me they only played the music when they had sold-out of ice cream

 

[Hvr]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

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In Australia 6d and 3d were zacs and dina's


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Actually a dina (or bob) was a shilling, 3d was a trey.

 

[Deleted member]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Actually a dina (or bob) was a shilling, 3d was a trey.

I stand corrected.

 

[Hvr]

I see there hasn't been any mention yet of Choo Choo bars or fa_s (later renamed Fads).

As a child in the Latrobe Valley we used the word 'chonks' for lollies and everybody in the region including adults understood what you meant.

 

[anat0l]

Whose idea was it to change the title of this thread to state that you could get coughography for tuppence?

 

[medhead]

Whose idea was it to change the title of this thread to state that you could get coughography for tuppence?

Maybe they missed an X and it is beer for tuppence...

 

[froggerADL]

I remember that when I started driving in 1977, petrol was 11 cents per litre. I paid 13 times that the other day! Mind you, I worked full time at Woolies with overtime on Saturday mornings for $55 per week at the time. I earn a lot more than $715 per week now, so maybe it's not so bad after all.

As always you have to consider both the earn AND burn rates.

Oh, and a full side of lamb was $1.50 in 1974.

 

[TheEmu]

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube

 

[Pushka]

I remember petrol being sold by the gallon.

 

[JohnK]

I remember that when I started driving in 1977, petrol was 11 cents per litre. I paid 13 times that the other day! Mind you, I worked full time at Woolies with overtime on Saturday mornings for $55 per week at the time. I earn a lot more than $715 per week now, so maybe it's not so bad after all.

And what about those that are not earning $715 per week?

 

[medhead]

I remember that when I started driving in 1977, petrol was 11 cents per litre. I paid 13 times that the other day! Mind you, I worked full time at Woolies with overtime on Saturday mornings for $55 per week at the time. I earn a lot more than $715 per week now, so maybe it's not so bad after all.

The first gulf war happened about 3 weeks after I got my first car. Petrol jumped from something like 20 cents a litre to 40 cents a litre.*

I remember petrol being sold by the gallon.

And a dude would actually pump the gas for you, check the oil and do the windscreen.


* In line with the memory theme, the actually prices could be very different to my recollection.

 

[cove]

We could go to Margaret River surfing (4 of us) in a VW Beetle for $2.50 each in fuel from Perth and back.

 

[coles525]

"Do you remember when" (radio tune, every sundsay night on melb. Talkback):

1) Return for deposit on bottles at QLD milkbars (early / mid 80s)

2) comalco cash a can in at least 1988!

3) Peters ice cream comp (tv ad):

"Buy a peters billabong, choc wedge or split and inside the wrapper there are prizes like this. If you get 4 boxes in a row the same, you win that prize like a trip on a plane.

ZAP THE WRAP, ZAP ZAP ZAP, ZAP THE WRAP

See a space shuttle launch in the USA, with $3,000 dollars to spend on the way.

ZAP THE WRAP, ZAP ZAP ZAP, ZAP THE WRAP."

4) Streets Calipso ice creams.

I will stop there

 

[medhead]

"Do you remember when" (radio tune, every sundsay night on melb. Talkback):

1) Return for deposit on bottles at QLD milkbars (early / mid 80s)

2) comalco cash a can in at least 1988!

3) Peters ice cream comp (tv ad):

"Buy a peters billabong, choc wedge or split and inside the wrapper there are prizes like this. If you get 4 boxes in a row the same, you win that prize like a trip on a plane.

ZAP THE WRAP, ZAP ZAP ZAP, ZAP THE WRAP

See a space shuttle launch in the USA, with $3,000 dollars to spend on the way.

ZAP THE WRAP, ZAP ZAP ZAP, ZAP THE WRAP."

4) Streets Calipso ice creams.

I will stop there

I was doing cash a can when living in Caloundra and we left there in about 1982.

Funny thing is my children collect billabong sticks for prizes these days. Register on the interweb to see if you won.... The same but different.

 

[Rallo]

I see there hasn't been any mention yet of Choo Choo bars or fa_s (later renamed Fads).

As a child in the Latrobe Valley we used the word 'chonks' for lollies and everybody in the region including adults understood what you meant.

Loved Choo Choo bars and the proper White Knights and didn't mind the fa_s (can I say that nowdays ?)

 

[Pushka]

My first salary as a Uni grad was $12,000 which was considered excellent. And interest rates were 18%.

 

[Shelf]

I remember being 5 and tying a brown onion around my belt, as was the style of the time.

 

[Pushka]

I remember being 5 and tying a brown onion around my belt, as was the style of the time.

Say what? Which time?