Eating in the 50s

And the money;
Ha'penny
Penny
Tuppence
Threppence
Tanner
Shilling
Half a crown
Ten bob note
Pound note...

Memories. :love:
I remember that some people called a 'half crown' a 'half dollar', presumably because in those days a 'crown' (5 bob = 25p) must have been worth an American dollar!
How times change.
 
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Who remembers bar Six?
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Why do they so often stop doing things that were popular?

I'm not sure if these were around in the fifties (I'm WAYYYY too young), but I remember buying them for my mother's birthday every year as a kid (and eating most of them myself). I saw this piccy the other day which brought back memories. Mmmmm, I'll have the lime one...and the orange jelly...and the raisin fudge...and the lemon slice!!

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I remember that some people called a 'half crown' a 'half dollar'
yes, why was that? My granddad used to give me 'half a dollar' for pocket money.
...presumably because in those days a 'crown' (5 bob = 25p) must have been worth an American dollar! :D
How times change.

You lucky, lucky bastard. All I got was a 'Sunday sixpence' = 2 1/2p (yes, really).

Of course, times were hard in those days.
 
Interesting.

Apparently before there were official exchange rates, you would have had to buy gold here, take it to the US and sell it.
Where you would have got four or five times as many dollars as the pounds you paid but with the expense of travel.

Now, of course, it depends on whether the casino has confidence.

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http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/dollhist.htm
 
Have we reached the "When I wer' lad, we sucked a piece of coal for breakfast and lunch, but only if we were good" stage yet?
Don't be ridiculous. Coal was far too expensive to eat.

Not when you could get grass.
 
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