90p a pint :)

manicguitarist

Tesco, or at least my Tesco sell Banks’s Ale for 90p a bottle. Happy daze. 

fandango

manicguitarist said:

Tesco, or at least my Tesco sell Banks’s Ale for 90p a bottle. Happy daze. 

That price reminds me of the watered down beer at college.

manicguitarist

Yeah.... me too. It’s good though. 

rlw

I was saying to friends only yesterday that I remembered getting pissed for a quid when John Smiths was 2 bob a pint in the local - that’s 10p in modern money......

manicguitarist

I can recall when I landed at Uni you could buy Newcastle Brown for 50p a bottle...and on a Friday you could get 3 pints for £1 between 6 and 8pm in the main student union. Happy daze

boogieman

I’m on a Facebook group for my old college. Someone has just reminded us that in 1973 a pint in the union bar was 10p. You could get completely slaughtered and buy a pack of 20 fags for less than a quid. I sometimes wonder how we all survived. 

manicguitarist

Yeah....I often look back at my earlier life and think... “how the hell did I survive?”

Grangousier

You had a lot less money. Because inflation. Although I just checked with an inflation calculator and 10p in 1973 was the equivalent of £1.26 now, so you do have a point, because in the intervening forty-five years they've piled on the alcohol tax. But still. 

Bellycaster

Tesco near me has had Bank's for 90p for about year! They'd reduced their Tesco brand Bleach to 45p though....and the bottle's bigger. Every Little Helps

Maynehead

Try the Morrison’s own brand bitter... 90p for 4 cans! And they’re only 2% so you can drink as many as you like. They don’t taste bad either!

revsorg

Maynehead said:

...you can drink as many as you like.

[Narrator's voice]

You can't.

markj

manicguitarist said:

Tesco, or at least my Tesco sell Banks’s Ale for 90p a bottle. Happy daze. 

My drink of choice for quite a while. They’re 89p at Asda.

bloodandtears

It's been dirt cheap in Aldi for a long time too.... It was my tipple for the long summer nights

robgilmo

Grangousier said:

You had a lot less money. Because inflation. Although I just checked with an inflation calculator and 10p in 1973 was the equivalent of £1.26 now, so you do have a point, because in the intervening forty-five years they've piled on the alcohol tax. But still. 

It's the same with most things, youngsters never had it so good my arse.

manicguitarist

Leave your arse out of this please.

And yes, alcohol/fuel/everything tax these days is furkin rubbish. If only ppl would vote for low tax government and not “free” everything government. 

munckee

I went to an eat all you can Chinese last night which was £30 a head including beer then to a wetherspoons pub for the first time in years, a round for 6 people was under £20. that was a really cheap night out. 

littlegreenman

manicguitarist said:

Leave your arse out of this please.

And yes, alcohol/fuel/everything tax these days is furkin rubbish. If only ppl would vote for low tax government and not “free” everything government. 

Considering that it's the Conservatives that are the party of low taxation and charge everyone for everything, who do you suggest they should be voting for?

On topic, when I first started high school (1980) the bus fare for the 3 mile journey was 2p. Same trip now would be £2:30!

manicguitarist

This “conservative” government are not a party of low taxation. Mrs May’s first instinct seems to be regulate & tax. She’s a female, less charismatic Blair. 

Nitefly

When I were a lad, you could go out with ten bob, have eleventeen pints of mild, fish and chips for supper, tram-fare home, and STILL have change for a paper in the morning...

fields5069

fandango said:

manicguitarist said:

Tesco, or at least my Tesco sell Banks’s Ale for 90p a bottle. Happy daze. 

That price reminds me of the watered down beer at college.

Old Peculiar was 96p when I was in Uni. Very happy days.

fields5069

Although the best thing to do with Banks's is surely to go half-and-half with Banks's Mild?

"Point o' meex, plees loov".