What is the lowest price of a candy bar that you remember?

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What is the lowest price of a candy bar that you remember?
1. Under 5 cents 13%  13%  [ 2 ]
2. 5-10 cents 38%  38%  [ 6 ]
3. 10-25 cents 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
4. 25-50 cents 25%  25%  [ 4 ]
5. 50-75 cents 19%  19%  [ 3 ]
6. Over 75 cents 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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10 Dec 2014, 9:40 am

I've always been fascinated by the prices of things in the old days, ever since my grandfather talked about the nickel hot dog, the nickel hamburger, etc.

I expressed my choices in American money--but I'd be interested in costs in non-American currency as well.



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10 Dec 2014, 10:58 am

I think about 20p in England which is about 27c?



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10 Dec 2014, 11:31 am

I'd have to know the year. But if it's after the 'decimalization" of the English currency in 1971, a pence, more or less, has been between 1.5 and 2 American cents.

Before that point in 1971, 20p would have been equivalent to about 1 US dollar.



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10 Dec 2014, 11:42 am

^ In the late 1960s, a standard bar of chocolate (eg Mars Bar, Crunchie) was around 6d (pre-decimalization), that's 2.5p in decimal. That would've been about 6 cents in US currency at the time,

BTW, the exchange rate in the years before decimalization was £1 =$2.40 , therefore a Dollar was worth about 42 pence.



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10 Dec 2014, 12:40 pm

I remember when chocolate bars in Canada were around 49 cents. Then I remember when they were around .65c and thinking at the time that was really expensive and why couldn't they be .49 cents again? Haha.

I also remember when a McDonald's hamburger was .60 cents.



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10 Dec 2014, 2:43 pm

I stand corrected, DeepHour.

I believe it was about 5 to 1 for most of the early part of the 20th century.

It's good to be precise.



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10 Dec 2014, 2:47 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I'd have to know the year. But if it's after the 'decimalization" of the English currency in 1971, a pence, more or less, has been between 1.5 and 2 American cents.

Before that point in 1971, 20p would have been equivalent to about 1 US dollar.

Around the mid-eighties



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10 Dec 2014, 3:22 pm

A nickel.



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10 Dec 2014, 3:33 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I stand corrected, DeepHour.

I believe it was about 5 to 1 for most of the early part of the 20th century.

It's good to be precise.



Can't work out whether your comment is intended to be ironic or not, but it is good to be precise anyway!

The US Dollar was at about 4:1 vis a vis the Pound for most of the first half of the 20th Century.

But there was a massive devaluation by the Atlee government in 1949, and another by the Wilson govt in 1967. Since the introduction of floating exchange rates in the early 1970s, the Pound has drifted even lower, so that the rate is now 1.56:1.

A Mars Bar is now about 60 pence, by the way! :D



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10 Dec 2014, 5:34 pm

I checked 5-10 cents although the price I mean is actually 6gr (about 2 cents) since its more accurate considering average wages in Poland and US. I believe 6gr for someone working in Poland was just like 6cents for someone working in US.

Anyway - the 6gr was a little candy bar sold in the corner shop near my house. I was buying often few of them on my way home for the change left from my daily school food money (I was getting 3PLN everyday - a sandwich was 1pln, juice 80gr, chips about 1pln... I was always ending with a change and I didn't like carrying it around).



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10 Dec 2014, 5:56 pm

No irony here. It is always good to be precise.



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11 Dec 2014, 3:26 am

10 øre for a small piece of licorice when I was about 7 or 8.

I think things may have been even cheaper when I was younger, but since I never bought it for myself back then, I don't know. But we still had 1, 2 and 5 øre back then, so maybe.


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11 Dec 2014, 7:27 am

I remember our indignation when candy bars soared from 5 to 7 cents. My first experience with inflation. I can't remember if they stopped at 6 cents at all. But its an early hazy memory... a corner candy store run by an aged couple. I think their names, or nicknames, were Manny and Minnie.



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11 Dec 2014, 8:17 am

I remember buying a small chocolate bar from a vending machine attached to a wall outside a small sweet shop opposite my grandma's house. I'm sure it was 2d [tuppence] but I clearly remember at school we could buy a small bag of crisps at break time and they were 2½ p


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11 Dec 2014, 6:26 pm

The lowest price for a chocolate bar that I remember has been 50 cents. That was back in the early to mid 80s in Canada. Too bad they can't be that cheap, now.


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11 Dec 2014, 6:36 pm

I remember when "Mike," who owned the candy store where I went to often, had a 5-cent section and an 8-cent section. This was in the late 1960s.