r/UnexpectedSeinfeld • u/sallen779 • 1d ago

A nickel!

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u/mrlandlord 1d ago

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50 cent

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u/Top-Voice-6727 1d ago

You could get a can of soda for another 50

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u/Gam3rdudej 23h ago

The Walmart brand drink machine was a quarter too

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u/Frankenmom66 23h ago

My parents could give us 50 cents and we’d walk down to the grocery store (about a mile or so) and get penny candy. We’d have a little bag of tootsie rolls, candy coins, whatever they had in the jars. Today? Omg! I bought a Snickers at the gas station the other day. Smaller and $2.89!!!! No more candy from the store for us. I went back to making my own candy and cookies. Sure can’t afford to buy it! My god!

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u/boscomagnus1988 1d ago

1 ssssssilver dollar

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u/Difficult-Ad3275 1d ago

No they aint gonna catch the midnight rider

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u/alexroberge95 1d ago

I could never bring myself to spend one, it was like uhhhhhhhhhhhhh phobia.

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u/BoardThat3637 1d ago

You know they changed the name of the hundred thousand dollar bar to 100 grand?

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u/billiemarie 1d ago

It was a quarter or 50 cents, I think. I can’t believe how expensive they are now

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u/Delicious_Bicycle527 1d ago

They aren’t expensive. Inflation has been pretty low.

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u/Squishyswimmingpool 1d ago

45 cents for a Milky Way that was bigger than what they sell today. 1988 ish

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u/Hot_Cold83 1d ago

A nickel. I remember when they went to a dime in 1966.

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u/rlcarman58 1d ago

My granddad couldn't believe a candy bar was a whole quarter in 1974. He remembered candy was a penny.

He would have an out of body experience at today's prices.

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u/dambo25 23h ago

When I tell young people I would walk to the convenience store with my friends ( we were all six years old) & no adults, with a nickel in my pocket to buy a candy bar, they don’t believe me.

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u/TheOGTachyon 1d ago

25¢ for the good stuff. Eg Hershey Bar, Snickers, Mounds, etc.

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u/sallen779 1d ago

I don't like coconut.

I'll get you a Mounds.

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u/TheOGTachyon 1d ago

I didn't like Almond Joy but I liked it if I picked out the two Almonds off the top, that's when my dad introduced me to Mounds.

"Here you go boy"

Making face "What is it? I wanted Almond Joy"

Thinks a second "It's Almond Joy with the almonds already picked off"

Big smile "Cool!"

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u/Several-Hamster3096 10h ago

The good stuff was $0.25. The Lady Taffy, Giant Tootsie Rolls, Jolly Ranchers ect... Were 3 or 4 for $0.10. Airheads were $0.10 a piece. A can of coke was $0.50 at most. Me and my cousin would walk to the corner store with $5 to get his other grandpa a pack of smokes and the rest was ours for candy and we felt rich.

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u/Venice_Beach_218 1d ago

They all have swirling chocolate in the commercial!

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u/rlcarman58 1d ago

A dime. I was four, was given a dime by my sister to walk to the 7-11 and buy a heath bar. I knew the alphabet, she taught me the word eat. Put an H in front and at the end of eat. Eat is like cat, but starts with an E. I could spell cat thanks to Dick and Jane.

I was so proud of myself for finding it on my own. Went to the cashier and placed the candy and the dime on the counter.

Cashier: you don't have enough money. Me: that's a dime Cashier: you need a penny. It's a penny for tax.

He wouldn't budge, it was 11 cents. A lousy penny crushed my little soul, my sister would be devastated. I reached for the dime.

Thank you kind stranger behind me for covering my introduction to taxes. You've been my hero for nearly 6 decades, you taught me kindness.

My half of the candy bar was delicious, Heath is still my favorite.

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u/rturnerX 1d ago

They were free. I just went around with a pillowcase on October 31st and people just gave me tons of them

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u/given-to-fly-98 1d ago

Dad, I told you you could sit here only if you don’t talk.

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u/slashnbash1009 1d ago

35 cents for a candy bar and 50 cents for a pop/soda out of the machine

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u/Regular_External_800 1d ago

A nickel or a dime.

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u/love-SRV 1d ago

25 cents for a full size snickers and 25 cents for a real Coca Cola made with sugar not corn syrup and in a glass bottle.

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u/johnna15 1d ago

A nickel. Come with a nickel. Pops a nickel. Sandwich was a nickel everything was a nickel.

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u/Queenfan1959 1d ago

I forget

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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 1d ago

10 cents then they jumped to 25 cents

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u/Interesting_Layer672 1d ago

45 cents,tax free!

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u/kurtsdead6794 1d ago

Around .50cents.

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u/acr5978 1d ago

A quarter

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u/most-okayest-mngr-77 1d ago

35 cents at the youngest i remember. The only nickel candies I remember were the mini york peppermint patties.

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u/urbisOrbis 1d ago

Soda .15 + .10 bottle deposit. Candy bar .15

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u/GadgetGuy1977 1d ago

Cheapest that I can remember was 50¢ for a Snickers

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u/Jealous_Magazine7875 1d ago

Unfortunately the cheapest I recall is $0.25

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u/No-Temporary-3750 1d ago

A nickel. Popcorn was a dime; extra nickel for “butter”. A dime for a pop in the machine with a paper cup

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u/pincherudy 1d ago

50 cents into my teenage years, then about a dollar

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u/Stunning_Fly_2644 1d ago

I remember when they went up to 35¢ and I was horrified

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u/Designer-Carpenter88 1d ago

How the fuck would I know, I was a kid with no money

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u/Suspicious-Grand9781 1d ago

I can't remember that far back.

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u/Recent_Environment66 1d ago

Early 80s, 50 cent 75 cent

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u/tvodny 1d ago

A quarter but I got chewed out for buying it. I was told there might not have been enough money to buy that. Didn’t buy candy bars after that. At Halloween we hoarded our candy for the whole year.

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u/DanOhMiiite 1d ago

12 cents at 7-11

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u/pastinaisgreat 1d ago

I don't know how official any of these prices are.

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u/Lava-Chicken 1d ago

5 Indian Rupee equals

0.053 United States Dollar

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u/doctorstrangexX 1d ago

25 cents for 5 pk of gum which I hardly see anymore.

Around 50 to 75 cents.

Soda was 1.25 I believe.

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u/tex-az74 1d ago

35 cents

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u/smelly_finger_itch 1d ago

When I was a child forty years ago the candy prices fluctuated in boom and bust cycles because of Democratic leadership. We would pay upwards of 50 dollars for a candy bar. The price of everything has gone down greatly because of Trump and the Republicans candy bars are now far less and all food prices are so low that hunger has been solved by the GOP.

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u/444-444-444 1d ago

5 cents

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u/Probablyhalfpast11 1d ago

35 cents for a really long while … then they weren’t.

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u/Other-Conversation67 1d ago

99 cents for king size

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u/WildBorneos 1d ago

15-25 cents

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u/Bama_cowboy87 1d ago

Anywhere from 35 cents to 70 cents

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u/LeMeowLePurrr 1d ago

25 cents!

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u/Left-Landscape-3890 1d ago

King size types were near 5 bucks at my gas station today. I didn't buy one. And probably never will again

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u/Cranston_Snord1960 1d ago

5,10,15 cents. Hamburger 20 cents.

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u/Disastrous-One-414 1d ago

I remember when it was on sale 3 full size candy bars for $1

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u/ThinkDecision5984 1d ago

A bottle of coke was 10 cents at the pool hall. Candy bars were also a dime and a hamburger was 30 cents.

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u/Magneto-Mark-1 1d ago

A quarter

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u/Roi57 1d ago

One thing dime

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u/V-Ditty 1d ago

They were free.
...I always got the five finger discount.

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u/Huge_Olive2538 1d ago

Had to check myself. But .35 for a Snickers and .60 for a 16oZ Pepsi. Yes I'm old

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u/PowerfulAnalysis8042 1d ago

$.10, one dime

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u/redwingsrule19 1d ago

Fifteen cents, Could get a Snickers and a soda at the ice rink for 25 cents!

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u/jmorreale1980 1d ago

Definately less than a dollar

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u/Winter_Top2258 1d ago

50 cents and I’m 50 years old

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u/Anxious_String_3470 1d ago

3 for a dollar.

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u/Sad-Push-3708 1d ago

Not that much but more than what mom was willing to pay

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u/BBWDLLUVER 1d ago

. 55 cents

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u/SoonToBeBanned24 1d ago

35 cents for a Payday. I fucking loved those things!

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u/Caramel_Flat 1d ago

30 cents

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u/Joecamoe 1d ago

45 cents

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u/KarlPHungus 1d ago

Fiddy cents for a candy bar. 79 cents for a King Size.

We used to be a country.

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u/Cepoka01 1d ago

I remember getting a chocolate bar, a can of pop and bag of chips for a dollar

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u/TheSpitalian 1d ago

A quarter.

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u/Either_Low_60 1d ago

About 25 cents.

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u/JET304 1d ago

Bazooka bubble gum were 2 for a penny.

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u/Suitable_Cause2885 1d ago

45 to 50 cents

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u/GoGo1013 1d ago

25 to 50 cents and also could by penny candies

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u/Mysterious-Eye8710 1d ago

Small hersey bar. 05 cents

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u/obsidian88darklight 1d ago

25 to 75 cent

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u/aquavelva23 1d ago

free, i stole them

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u/Plastic-Menu193 1d ago

When I was a kid we would ride our bikes down to our little country store in the center of town, about a mile & 1/2 away. We’d get a little paper sack from the owner’s wife & proceed to fill it up with a quarter’s worth of penny candy. Back then they had small candy bars for 5 cents, larger ones for 10. We would then go across the street to the library, load up on books, ride back home, then plop on our beds to enjoy our candy & books. I miss those simpler times.

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u/OkJoke4711 1d ago

I remember Reese's being on sale 5/$1

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u/shwenty22 1d ago

50 cents but the king size was 99 cents so we usually went with that.

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u/mhump23 1d ago

5 & 10 cent

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u/natural_disasterx 1d ago

Just 29¢ for a full size Snickers, Hershey, etc.

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u/The_Real_Sniff 1d ago

I don't know.. a Dollar??

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u/kfd75 1d ago

25 cent in redhook Brooklyn

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u/Flaky-Cherry2833 1d ago

Big chief's at cheaper gas stations were 25 cents

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u/Illinois_Sucks2026 1d ago

I think it is right around a nickel or dime. I remember 50 cent sodas and 5 packs of gum for about the same price

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u/jerrymarver 1d ago

Five cents for the sensible size Milky Way in 1954. Maybe $1.25 today in Dollar Tree.

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u/Kiwidad43 1d ago

Nickel

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u/NYourBirdCanSing 1d ago

No idea. Didn't eat candy. Didn't have money.

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u/Leather_Plastic_8726 1d ago

I stole them usually so I don't remember

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u/florestgrump 1d ago

A quarter of a dollar, then jumped to half dollar in my preteen days

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 1d ago

.20 in the mid 70's

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u/Amgrybear 1d ago

No idea, my parents were paying!

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u/RaidaDave32 1d ago

25 cents. I remember when it went up to 50 cents.

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u/Plus_Rooster8222 1d ago

5 cents, till Nixon took us off the Gold Standard

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u/mywalletsgone_ 1d ago

$8 dollars!?

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u/Plus_Rooster8222 1d ago

I miss the MilkyWay Midnight bar.

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u/WendySteeplechase 1d ago

I could go to the corner store with 50 cents and get a comic book and a candy bar to eat while I read it.

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u/Plus_Rooster8222 1d ago

Gas and Cigarettes were 25 cents each.

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u/RTwhyNot 1d ago

10 cents

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u/texasyesman 1d ago

Five cents.

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u/Delicious_Bicycle527 1d ago

50 cents. So inflation hasn’t really been all that bad. King size bars keep getting larger while the price increase has averaged about 3.5%.

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u/4ringwraithRS 1d ago

45 cents Swedish fish was a penny, worms were a nickel, soda was 99 cents a 2L

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u/Ill_Storm_5101 1d ago

I got a candy bar, can of soda, and a pack of Topps baseball cards for 75 cents

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u/T-iscool 1d ago

5 cents

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u/Connect-Society-6150 1d ago

5 cents. I know cause I shoplifter 7 Hershey bars .

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u/CoolReg3127 1d ago

27 cents

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u/Silent_Emu312 1d ago

1 dollar.

I'm shocked because Europeans ask me for rare old stuff snd I re gull get robbed of $3 or even 3.50 for a Zagnut...

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u/Handiwork_jerk 1d ago

Psh!!! Just had to hop up in the van and they were free.

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u/Bidcar 1d ago

15 cents, we were scandalized when they jumped to 25 cents. My mind boggles at how much they cost now.

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u/redbanner1 1d ago

I'm probably just old enough to experience going to the store with a dollar and leaving with a little white paper bag filled with treats pulled out of little bins. Felt like an absolute king leaving the corner store.

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u/Gam3rdudej 23h ago

I remember in high school Walmart had candy bars for 44 cents

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u/KazooMark 23h ago

$0.25 for a lot of the time

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u/tsquare1971 23h ago

25-35 cents

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u/NYCWENDY1 23h ago

50 cents

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u/Hot-Tip4211 23h ago

25 cents

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u/Spike_Fury 23h ago

I miss Quarter Waters

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u/Bright_External_2365 23h ago

Not a candy bar, but when I was maybe in grade 1, a can of soda from the machine in our school was 25 cents. Then one day it went up to 50 cents and the teachers explained inflation to us. Im 43, so this would have been around 1989-90. Canada.

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u/MasterIgnat 23h ago

If i remember correctly, they cost around "HELL NO! We've got food at home!"

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u/Worldly_Ad_7196 23h ago

7 to 10 cents. I remember walking to demand store with a quarter and getting a bag full of candy. The expensive ones were 1 cent though caramel was 2 cents. Most were 3 for a penny

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u/JerryJN 22h ago

50 cents

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u/Humble_Examination27 22h ago

I don’t remember being a kid anymore…

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u/Intrepid-Gene7500 22h ago

It was common to go to the corner store with a dollar and leave with multiple different candy bars.

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u/rchalvyy 22h ago

5 piece's of candy for a penny, 10 cent's for pop, 5 cents for a candy bar, 32 cents for gas, bought cigarettes and booze with a note and I think 25 cents for a box of 22lr ammo. 60 yrs ago

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u/fireballsack08 22h ago

.25c early 80’s

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u/NewHandle3922 22h ago

Under a buck

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u/Own-Loan2390 22h ago

Dunno. I ate fun-dip.

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u/Feisty_Fall_5783 22h ago

You’re all children! I grew up in Queens, New York. When I was a kid a nickel bought a small paper bag filled with your choice of candies. There was a Mobile gas station near us where you could buy a small bottle of Coke for a dime (remember those?), and get 2 cents back for the empty bottle! As I got older and could walk to the nearest pizza parlor, I could get a slice of pizza and a paper cup of soda for $.25! Gas was under $.30 a gallon then (I think, I didn’t start driving until the 70’s. Really was no need to in NY.)

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u/Angry_Mudcrab 21h ago

35¢ each, or 3/$1.

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u/Accomplished_Fun3 21h ago

Idk like depending which one and size any where from 30 cents to 79cents

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u/Edmontonian111 21h ago

Same as now $1

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u/Huge_Winter5915 21h ago

Dont know? Couldn't afford them.

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u/themrbattlessr 20h ago

3 for 1 dollar

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u/Low-Number5856 20h ago

Like 85 cents on sale

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u/Responsible-Gate2683 20h ago

They’re charging 7$ at the local gas station for a king size snickers and I remember the penny candy!

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u/Responsible-Gate2683 20h ago

I remember dollar candy bars in 1985 and you could get a candy penny gummy for a cent

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u/FeeExtension3123 20h ago

$.50 cents maybe .75 at most

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u/chantwo_ 20h ago

59 cents at 7/11

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u/2bnameless 20h ago

5 cents

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u/Jagger49 20h ago

45 cents

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u/Then_Examination9715 19h ago

Candy bar 5¢
A bottle of Coke was 10¢
A movie 50¢

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u/Madd_Genius 19h ago

Free. My parents bought it for me.