Why is that whenever someone mentions Freddos being 10p in the 90s someone will insist they remember them being 5p in the 90s?

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Iamascifiaddict@reddit

When i was a child in the early 1970s it was 2p. Mind you I got very little pocket money so every penny counted.

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Beartato4772@reddit

Yeah, they were 2p when discontinued and 10 when they came back. As op points out they were never 5.

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Thrilalia@reddit

I would not be surprised if they were both correct, since Freddos could easily have been different prices (5p, 10p etc) depending on location, store and when in the 90s they're talking about.

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As per the information provided in the caption, they launched at 10p in 1994 having been discontinued way back in 1979. Further, local shop keepers may have sold the odd out of date Freddo at a loss but none of them would be pricing them at 5p on a regular basis as then they’d be literally giving them away for less than they cost.

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St2Crank@reddit

Solid chocolate Freddo’s 5p and the caramel versions (Taz) were 10p in corner shop near me as a kid in the 90s. Always the extra 5p for caramel.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Nah they were both 10p.

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St2Crank@reddit

How do you know the shop I’m on about?

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Unless your local shop was selling fousty out of date chocolate they’d be making a loss on every freddo they sold. So my guess is, you are misremembering.

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St2Crank@reddit

Both are probably true to be fair

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ThatRenf@reddit

Because when they were relaunched in the UK, the price on the packet was 10p, not 5p. Why would stores sell them half price when they didn't have to?

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St2Crank@reddit

Was the price 10p on the packet? I’m asking why are they so confident it was never 5p?

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ThatRenf@reddit

It was, yes. They're confident because Freddo's have never been priced at 5p in the UK. They were 2p when withdrawn, then 10p when relaunched.

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St2Crank@reddit

I didn’t ask if they were confident, I asked why.

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Fionnathos@reddit

I also remember the sweety shop by my school selling the caramel ones for more, and if I had to guess I'd say they were 5p and 10p, like others have said, but it coulda been 10p/15p. This shop also used to let you buy individual sweets for 1p that would normally come in packs (like opal fruits), so I suspect they might have been buying multipacks and splitting them.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Even then selling them at 5p would mean they were losing money.

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St2Crank@reddit

Where’s the proof to this? You keep saying thy were never 5p but nothing to back it up.

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The_Final_Barse@reddit

This is my memory as well, Glasgow in the early 90s.

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Bad_UsernameJoke94@reddit

That was his brother, Frankie.

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RoutineCloud5993@reddit

90s Freddos had the price on the packet

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presterjohn7171@reddit

Nobody was storing Freddos for 15 years and margins are tight on small chocolate bars so they aren't being sold for less than cost either.

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TSotP@reddit

**Freddo**s were always 10p, it was **Taz**es bars that were 15p. At the same time, **Wham** bars and other chew bars were 10p. **Chomp**s were 10p and **Fudge**s were 15p.

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BasisOk4268@reddit

They were definitely free at point of access

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chat5251@reddit

They paid you to take them during the great Fredo depression

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Steenies@reddit

It was a dark time.

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Jamesyroo@reddit

Say NO to privatising Freddos

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Throwaway91847817@reddit

Its a performative british meme.

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AmarilloMike@reddit

Luxury! When I were a lad they were a penny a pop but you 'ad t'work 28 hours a day down t'mine to earn that penny! Or something like that.

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XS-Force@reddit

You think you had it bad? I had to get up 3 hours before I went to bed, and walk ti Mine in bare feet in minus 23 degrees, just to pay them for me working there! Kids, tha don't know tha living noodays......

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Master-Necessary7560@reddit

Remember when fish was £1 ? Have a have a look £1 fish

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XS-Force@reddit

🎶 Come on ladies, come on ladies, 1 pound fish 🎶

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CyndersParadigm@reddit

Very very good, one pound fish. Very very cheap, one pound fish

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Throwaway91847817@reddit

Six for five pound, one pound each.

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xxMegaBabexx@reddit

The worst kind of meme

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Otherwise_Koala4289@reddit

People misremember things that happened yesterday, let alone 30 years ago.

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Not_Alpha_Centaurian@reddit

I made that exact same point yesterday when i was speaking to the pope.

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rev-fr-john@reddit

Yes, only yesterday crisps went from 2p a packet to 5p a packet.

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Academic-Gate-5535@reddit

And all the colours changed!

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Gnomio1@reddit

History, for anyone interested: https://www.vice.com/en/article/walkers-crisps-switch-colour-packet/ It’s almost certainly just because an older brand (and many others now) have it the other way around. Blue should always be salt and vinegar, green cheese and onion. Walkers are wrong, damnit.

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mainukfeed@reddit

Weird because in the whole of Europe, walkers crisps are Blue for salt and vinegar and green for cheese n onion. As a kid I was so excited to go on holiday and find they "still had them the right way around".

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Walkers didn’t change their colour though they just muscled golden wonder off the top spot which made it seem like the colours had been changed.

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mainukfeed@reddit

I'm too young for Golden Wonder.

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pajamakitten@reddit

It was Golden Wonder that had it the other way around. Walker's gained market ground in the 90s and people now think they switched colours, rather than Golden Wonder fading out.

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EvilTaffyapple@reddit

WTF I remember then being the other way around myself. Did I just imagine that? I don’t realise this was a thing. I’m genuinely freaked out haha.

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mattjimf@reddit

I think part of the issue with this is in the 80s and most of the 90s the prevalent crisp manufacturer's were Smiths and Golden Wonder (at least that I can remember) who had the salt and vinegar blue and cheese and onion green. Then Walkers started becoming more widespread in the 90s, and so everyone thinks that Walkers must have been the same as Smiths and Golden Wonder.

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lonefox22@reddit

Sadly, I am old enough to remember that a bag of Tudor crisps were 2p a bag. I remember when they released the curry flavour and just our school kept them in business for that one flavour. Happy days.

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This_Suit8791@reddit

I’m the opposite of this, can remember things in vivid detail from 30 years ago but can’t remember stuff I did yesterday.

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jmcomms@reddit

I can remember without any shadow of a doubt that a Cadbury's Curly Wurly was at least a metre long when I was growing up in the early 1980s.....

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Austen_Tasseltine@reddit

See, this is the problem. You think that, but it can’t possibly be true: we didn’t have metres in Britain until the 1986 Single European Act forced them down our (very long) throats. Curly Wurlys were 3’4”.

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gogybo@reddit

My throat is longer than yours

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Happy_Chief@reddit

You don't remember either accurately. The stuff from 30 years ago is a cemented fabrication.

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Resident-Reward2002@reddit

This guy telling people what they remember and what they don't

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Academic-Gate-5535@reddit

But the problem is, you can think you remember something, but the brain has a habit of, ya know. Thinking it's right. Because it knows no difference. Hence why documentation is important

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Resident-Reward2002@reddit

I don't disagree with that, but it's still wrong to just assume that what everybody remembers is incorrect.

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This_Suit8791@reddit

I do remember things, not everything though

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JACKDEE1@reddit

I remember they used to be a hape-me

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R-Mutt1@reddit

A Chomp was definitely 10p while a Wildlife Bar was 15. I was misguided on Freddos, believing that had some sort of filling (I think that was a Taz) and never bought them but I feel at 10p I wouldn't considered them comparatively poor value.

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creepinghippo@reddit

I definitely remember them being 5p but this was like a mobile tuck van that used to sell broken biscuits etc as well. They had Taz, which was a caramel version, but I think they were 20p for some reason.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

https://preview.redd.it/v7iujxjuy7zf1.jpeg?width=868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e51e15cdafb3fa8f5f006f8dfd1e7b98cb4dc12 Even through they had 10p marked on them?

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Chemical_Head_5842@reddit

Shops didn't sell everything for the marked prices back in the 90s, in fact a lot of shops sold items for quite a bit below these prices

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Yeah but in the case of things like Freddos they wouldn’t have sold them cheaper without making a loss. It’s so strange to me how many people insist on arguing about this. They were 10p at relaunch and they stayed 10p until the mid 2000s. They cost shops about 7p each. If you ever got one for 5p it was probably out of date. Or maybe they were 10p and people just don’t remember properly.

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Chemical_Head_5842@reddit

How do you know how much they cost shops? You're putting modern pricing strategies on 90s pricings. In the late 90s early 2000s bottles of coke were often marked as £1 each but were routinely sold at 3 for £1. When I hit drinking ages, those 3 litre bottles of strongbow were marked at £3.50 yet routinely sold cheaper. Things also 'fell' off the back of lorries a lot in those days too and accounting practises weren't as stringent. Everything was cash payments and money could disappear quickly.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

You could do all that mental gymnastics or you could accept you’ve misremembered something.

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Chemical_Head_5842@reddit

Or you could accept I lived through that time and gave you a few examples of prices on packages not being followed. But, you are probably right about the rrp prices, I don't remember ever seeing a 5p price on the packets, but I do remember buying them for the prices mentioned.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

I lived through the 90s as well bud.

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Chemical_Head_5842@reddit

So you're telling me you never bought anything below the marked prices in that time period? Because that is what you're arguing here. If that's the case, I guess that is the case for you, friend. For me it was a common occurrence for prices to not match up to the marked price. Speaking of those corner shop days, this conversation also just unlocked the memory of sitting in one squashing all the bags of crisps trying to find the free £5 note they put in them. I never successfully found any while squashing them, but did find one when randomly buying a pack during a big supermarket trip and felt like I'd struck gold when I got home.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Marked prices were always the price you paid unless it was out of date. This is from my direct recollection of using about thirty different corner shops all over Scotland.

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Chemical_Head_5842@reddit

Marked prices were pretty much never followed in corner shops from my experiences in Newcastle and the 3 corner shops I was brought up around. Your experiences don't marry with my experiences. That doesn't mean either of us is wrong, just that in different areas, different things happened.

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creepinghippo@reddit

Did you read my post? I said it was a tuck van that also sold broken biscuits. It is so strange that you cannot accept that the van could easily have been selling things far below RRP or even countrywide typical prices.

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creepinghippo@reddit

I probably didn’t emphasise the “I think” part enough. I should have said as I recall but it was 30 years ago.

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korg64@reddit

Fredo 10p Taz 15p maybe people remember seeing the 5p in on the similar product.

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Halry1@reddit

Oneupmanship. I remember them being 4p!

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SorryGarbage1551@reddit

It was Taz bars (from Taz of Tasmania fame) that were 5p. Same size, different shape. Easy mistake to make when looking back 30 years

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dilzebub@reddit

I swear taz bars were 5p. There's an article from the Daily Mail stating they were, but I can't find any credible sources.

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pajamakitten@reddit

> There's an article from the Daily Mail stating they were, but I can't find any credible sources. Who would have thought the Mail would lie about something?

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

They weren’t 5p either. They were 10p https://preview.redd.it/x2qiqlpbp7zf1.jpeg?width=868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fdb98f54a796867a0965ec81a0588f0301de2cf1

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SorryGarbage1551@reddit

Don't do this to me

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Kimbo-BS@reddit

I think I do remember Taz's sometimes looking like they had been through the washing machine, so maybe they sometimes got reduced? That or people just misremembering.... or trying to one-up each other in a Monty Python-style way.

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Danglyweed@reddit

Nah im sure taz bars were always more expensive than freddos

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Voidhunger@reddit

Yeah I saw that thread this morning too. Should be a good karma run.

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OkPea5819@reddit

|Year|Actual Freddo Price|Inflation-Adjusted Price (from 2p in 1973)|Notes| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |1973|£0.02|£0.02|Launch price| |1980|£0.10|£0.04|Price jumps ahead of inflation| |1990|£0.10|£0.06|Still outpacing inflation| |2000|£0.10|£0.09|Nostalgic benchmark year| |2010|£0.15|£0.12|Slightly ahead| |2015|£0.25|£0.13|Nearly double inflation| |2020|£0.30|£0.15|Shrinkflation begins| |2025|£0.35|£0.16|Some pricing up to £1|

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Not really sure how you can have data from the 80s when they weren’t on sale then.

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OkPea5819@reddit

Bad AI!

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One-Cardiologist-462@reddit

I distinctly remember them being 9p at one point, but I don't recall 5p.

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UniquePotato@reddit

To be honest I don’t actually ever recall seeing Freddos in the 90s.

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Mean_Pause_1508@reddit

I'm glad my chat hasn't got that desperate that I'm discussing the price of a Freddo 30 years ago tbh 😂

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pvaa@reddit

Oh no, you're chat has become desperate 😲

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Arthur_Dented@reddit

admittedly according ti Ai but * **Mid-1990s to Early 2000s:** The bar was relaunched in the 1990s and was priced at 10p for a time, but later dropped to 5p during the late 1990s and early 2000s before increasing again.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Yeah that’s definitely misinformation.

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St2Crank@reddit

Where’s the proof they were never 5p though?

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RandomPlanespotting@reddit

Yes they were 'officially' 10p, but some shops sold them for 5p, which is why some people remember them at that price. My local newsagent in the 90's was one of them.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

So many people say that but I highly doubt it. Selling Freddos at 5p in the 90s would have meant selling them at a loss. You maybe got the odd out of date one for 5p.

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Mammoth_Spend_5590@reddit

I think they're confusing products like space raiders being 5p. I miss Panda Pop more than anything, r.i.p

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AdventurousTart1643@reddit

freddo's and chomps were a 10p staple

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AdventurousTart1643@reddit

i am 100% sure Freddo's and chomps were 10p a piece in the 90's, so much so that i've just done some google digging to confirm it. some labour MP has started a [change.org](http://change.org) petition and a campaign to bring them back to 5p, which is just confusing, but that takes them right back to the 70's, however, when the first launched: "The original Freddo bar, which was launched in 1973, was even cheaper at 2p"

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wasdice@reddit

Two for a farthing in the 1890s

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SilkySmoothRalph@reddit

Two for a farthing? That’s outrageous. Inflation kicking us in the arse since the 19th century.

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TwoPlyDreams@reddit

I just used to eat frogs. Like the French.

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CreativeAdeptness477@reddit

They used to give us them for free in the 80s m80. Back when it was Freddo grants rather than Freddo fees.

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k8blwe@reddit

The lowest I remember is 25p. But thats early 2000's. I think people just say a lower number to exaggerate inflation

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XuzaLOL@reddit

Walkers crisps were 30p, freddo was 10p and mccoys crisps were filled to the brim now everything is like triple the price and half empty lol.

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BroodLord1962@reddit

Who cares? It was 30yrs ago

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RoutineCloud5993@reddit

It is a meme that became Mandela effect. They were never 5p. Original Freddos were 2p, before being discontinued in the 70s, but when they relaunched they were 10p.

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setokaiba22@reddit

The same when you see cost of pints tbh - with most items to you have a price in mind that correlates to young adulthood or childhood. Irrespective that costs rise and wages, energy and such so prices change over a decade or two. We all do it.

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Railuki@reddit

Because in the 90s they went from 2p to 5p to 10p to 15p to 20p by 2000s. So, they were multiple prices in the 90s (and early 2000s because people alive in the 90s may not quite remember the exact year they were those prices).

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

No they didn’t. They were discontinued in 1979. Relaunched at 10p in 1994 and stayed 10p throughout the 90s If you read the caption I already provided that information.

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Railuki@reddit

See, my brain must be going insane because I definitely remember them having 5p on the packet and buying 2 for 10p, one each for my brother and I.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

Unless your local shop was selling out of date stock I can’t see it being possible. The shops had to pay about 7p for the freddo there was barely any profit in selling them at 10p.

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blissnabob@reddit

I remember when the local metro train was 5p for a child ticket. People I went to school with deny this was ever a thing. I even showed proof that was featured in an ad campaign. Ppl just be stupid sometimes.

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Vehlin@reddit

I definitely remember Freddos being 5p and Taz being 10p. Would have been somewhere between 1988 and 1992

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

When Freddos weren’t even in the shops? Read the question.

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Scared_Research_8426@reddit

The 90s were 10 years long. There was variation

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

You didn’t read the question.

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Superspark76@reddit

Freedos were 2p when they were launched in the 70s. I don't remember them being 5p in the 90s, I do remember that the caramel one was usually 5p more expensive and was originally called Taz, these were 10p at one stage and could be where the 5p has came from. But in the 90s retailers often priced below rrp on packaging, now that is rarely ever seen.

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SteamerTheBeemer@reddit

I think your last point may be the answer. I’m sure they were 5p at some point… maybe somewhere like woolies made a loss on them to get people in the door, like how they were known for their pick n mix.

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Throw_umbrage@reddit

If this is the biggest worry of your day, I envy you.

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FamSender@reddit (OP)

It’s just a lighthearted question. Sorry I’m not asking about some significant existential crisis. I’ll remember to only pose really depressing or deeply philosophical questions from now on.

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Fit_Swordfish5248@reddit

Mate, just because they didn't RRP at 5p doesn't mean shops didn't sell them for 5p. We had a little mini market that sold close to best before stuff. They was always 5p of cheaper in there

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Aggravating_Band_353@reddit

So, free?

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matmah@reddit

But I remember them being 2p in the 90s.

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Unfair_Original_2536@reddit

I remember the shopkeeper used to pay you 1p to take them.

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squesh@reddit

I remember the great Freddo Rain of 1560 when Freddo's rained from the sky

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gazchap@reddit

Did the Mayor of Warsaw then randomly appear and spontaneously combust?

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pencilrain99@reddit

That was kwicksave baked beans

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Melodic-Document-112@reddit

Those were the days

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matmah@reddit

I do recall getting them free from the shopkeeper, but that was more when he was out the back not watching us.

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cryptonuggets1@reddit

They were thruppence when I were a lad.

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pencilrain99@reddit

They were called Taz bars in the early 90s

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christofilth@reddit

That was just the caramel ones!

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jungleddd@reddit

I remember when they paid you 10p to eat one.

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Worried-Penalty8744@reddit

Sounds exactly like something a Mandela Gremlin would say. Now give us back our 5p Freddos and Fruit of the Loom cornucopias damnit

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QtheMagnificent@reddit

All I know is a Taz bar was 5p more than a freddo at my local village shop.

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jake_burger@reddit

I remember when they were 1/2d

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Acrobatic_Volume_344@reddit

Did you come up with this by sipping on Yorkshire Gold while eating Branstons Beans on toast?

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cgknight1@reddit

So as you allude to - I'm both too old and too young to care about Freddos! It is a cultural touchstone that passed me by!

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