Ray was gobsmacked when I told him the price of british cherries in asda today
£7.98 per kilo !! :o :o
I well recall my mother's dismay many years ago when the price of steak was reaching £1 per 1lb!! ;D ;D
I remember when the price of bread 'skyrocketed to 1 shilling, drove my mum crackers ;D ;D
I can tell you the price of green seedless grapes 39yrs ago. 1s 6p per ld. I was having my eldest daughter & ate them by the ton. My house keeping was £4. per week as was the rent.
We never had them, they were 'expensive'.
I remember my Mum was flabbergasted when we moved from Portsmouth to Weymouth back in 1960, that cabbage was 6d a pound in the shops down there when she'd been paying 6d EACH in Pompey.(And cabbages used to be huge back then)
Today she told me that they were now £1.50 each in a supermarket this morning, for ones not much bigger than your fist.
Due to all the floods, apparently pea prices are going to skyrocket. Glad my next lot of alderman are in flower!
Mum and dad had a small greengrocery shop. I remember a lot of the prices. Old potatoes about 3d per pound, onions 6d, bananas 1s/4d. Year in year out the prices never seemed to change. Inflation was an unknown word in those days.
Dad had an enormous greenhouse 45' x 15'. At this time of year it would have been full of tomatoes. He also had an allotment with runner beans, etc. He had an orchard where he grew gooseberries. blackcurrants, raspberries, as well as the apples and pears. He also had an area in the orchard where he grew dahlias for cut flowers to sell in the shop. Waiting in the wings would be chrysanthemums, which would replace the tomatoes in the greenhouse.
grawrc, I remember steak hitting the £1 per lb, it wasn't long after that fish hit the same price, but dammit, when cheese reached £1 per lb, well that was the giddy limit!!
Looking back, I don't think mum and dad made much profit on strawberries. I always ended up with what was termed 'an acid rash' = overdosing on strawberries.
Whilst the prices bear no resemblance to today's, neither do the wages!!
valmarg
i can remember when chicken was so expensive we only had it for christmassunday joint was beef or lamb. people only ate pork when there was a R in the month. we used to eat rabbit sometimes
marg
3 sticks of rhubarb in merthyr Asdas £1.48
Bagfull from my plot in season £0.50
Bagfull of my Runner beans £1.00
their price £0.98 for 6 yes SIX runner beans
My profits towards seed and repairs to shed
I think the problem is that UK produce is sold at the same price as non uk fruit and veg, even with this being a poor year i dont think the prices would be much different. And i wonder how much more has actualy gone to the farmers.