Looking at the cafe prices in 1973 doesn't half make me nostalgic for the old days :'(
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Agree bought some chips last night for £1.60 wish they were stil 12p ,the menu changed from bog standard pies to roast with veg plus the café was definitely smarter in the end.Watching the first series the café was horrible as was the food it matched Compo well/
I was thinking that might be meat pie and chips :-\Whatever it was with chips at 25p must have been a gourmet meal!
People didn't earn as much back then and the 70's was actually a period of quite high price inflation in the UK, peaking between 20-30% a year. Hard to imagine but relatively speaking the cost of living was probably just as bad back then as it is today for many people. Price inflation is built in to our financial and economic system, it's just that most of the time inflation happens slowly so people don't notice it. Of course they would notice if their take home pay was the same now as in 1973.
http://inflationdata.com/articles/2012/12/14/cost-living-fish-chips/
People didn't earn as much back then and the 70's was actually a period of quite high price inflation in the UK, peaking between 20-30% a year. Hard to imagine but relatively speaking the cost of living was probably just as bad back then as it is today for many people. Price inflation is built in to our financial and economic system, it's just that most of the time inflation happens slowly so people don't notice it. Of course they would notice if their take home pay was the same now as in 1973.
http://inflationdata.com/articles/2012/12/14/cost-living-fish-chips/
That is a very interesting link Mr. Philosopher........I learn something new every time i sign on to this forum! And people actually put mayonnaise on fish & chips? I may have to try that.
I first saw mayonnaise on chips in Belgium in 1959 quite shock to a sheltered British schoolboy from N London who did have any idea of this dark art! The 1970,s were hard I can remember money was tight even though I was doing well at my sales job ,mark you petrol was cheaper then but mortgage companies made life hard when you wanted a house loan.Personaly I don't have fond memories of the 70,s and have wiped most memories now thank goodness.
Gone a bit off topic here I think