The " Honey I'm home and I'm bloody starving , what's for dinner " Thread.

[Deutsch Wolf]

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

£10 though. You’re at the fucking football not in a restaurant.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

£10 though. You’re at the fucking football not in a restaurant.

I think you're falling into the trap I sometimes fall into of thinking it's still 2001.

I can get lunch from Pret for free if I'm in the office. Just order online and bill it to the company, gets delivered, no fuss. I did it on Wednesday - £6.99 for a chicken and bacon caesar baguette.

Don't get me wrong, it was fine, but I'd never have spent 7 notes on it out of my own wallet. Everything is fucking expensive. The price of McDonalds/KFC etc (not that I use them) compared to 10 years or so ago is insane.

 

[lemonjelly]

Found myself doing the same @Deutsch Wolf & what's worse is have taken the piss out my parents for doing the same for years!

It's amazing how everything has gone up by so much. Most fast food places, you'll struggle to get change from a tenner "feeding " (it's not really food, or a meal, but that's a different argument) one person.

PS good choice on your sandwich!

 

[sycophantia]

Fish and chips from the chippie makes me suck my breath in currently. Don't mind things going up in price provided it's value for money.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I think you're falling into the trap I sometimes fall into of thinking it's still 2001.

Oh, definitely. My wife takes the piss out of me for it all the time!

 

[sycophantia]

2001? I still think it's the 70s and I'm 18.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

It's going to be unwieldy to eat, especially in a ground with hundreds of people directly around you.

I'd also be concerned that the hefty loaf would absorb the gravy quickly and you'd end up with a claggy mess as it cooled.

Hundreds of people - did you not notice it’s at Birmingham?!

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I think you're falling into the trap I sometimes fall into of thinking it's still 2001.

I can get lunch from Pret for free if I'm in the office. Just order online and bill it to the company, gets delivered, no fuss. I did it on Wednesday - £6.99 for a chicken and bacon caesar baguette.

Don't get me wrong, it was fine, but I'd never have spent 7 notes on it out of my own wallet. Everything is fucking expensive. The price of McDonalds/KFC etc (not that I use them) compared to 10 years or so ago is insane.

80p for a packet of Extra chewing gum.

I remember when they were 30p, seems like it wasn't long ago

*yet another old man post

 

[UKYankieWWFC]

Surely the barometer of food price increases is the humble Freddo?
(Of which we don't get in the States)

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

80p for a packet of Extra chewing gum.

I remember when they were 30p, seems like it wasn't long ago

*yet another old man post

I still remember when I was 14 (30 years ago) 50p would get me a pack of chewing gum for 18p and give me the correct change (32p) for the bus!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I said smoking was an expensive habit and vowed to give up when they hit £2.50 a packet.

 

[sycophantia]

Can't remember the last time I bought chewing gum, maybe 50 years ago! No-one chews gum after the age of 18 do they? Football managers aside obviously.

 

[lemonjelly]

I still remember when I was 14 (30 years ago) 50p would get me a pack of chewing gum for 18p and give me the correct change (32p) for the bus!

Bet in your head a chocolate bar is 25-30p. Crisps similar. Can of pop 35p, etc...

 

[pagey]

Bet in your head a chocolate bar is 25-30p. Crisps similar. Can of pop 35p, etc...

Kids laughed at me paying £1.20 for a can of pop, when I told them I recalled paying 18p at their age.

The Mrs asked me pick a loaf up last week and fuck me, I thought I was being mugged!

And a Mars was 16p

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Bet in your head a chocolate bar is 25-30p. Crisps similar. Can of pop 35p, etc...

Yeah, I remember when a Mars was 24p. No it’s 30p for a fucking Freddo.

My wife does most of the shopping so she thinks it’s hilarious that I have no idea how much things cost and basically walk around the supermarket shouting HOW MUCH?.

The price of a can of pop is scandalous

 

[pagey]

And the Mars, like so many bars of chocolate was mahoosive, compared to the bite size you get today.

 

[Hereford Wolf]

I swore I would never drink another pint in a pub when the price reached £1

 

[leedswolf]

My fresher year at Aston Uni;

Pint of milk 6p
20 No 6 tipped 21p
Pint of bitter in Old Contempibles 12p

Only 51 years ago...

 

[ROVERT47]

Pretty sure I used to pay about 20p for a pint of Bank’s mild in the Firs mid seventies.