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I remember when Ramen was 10 for $1.00

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True story: I ate ramen for years w/o the benefit of adding water. We would take it on camping trips and just break off hunks and eat them. The flavor packet could be used like margarita salt between the thumb and finger.
 
K7SN said:
Nope; bought middle grade gas in Texas for 18.9 cents a gallon in the 60s; good 17 cent burgers in high in 1962; they raised the price to 19 cents in about 1964. Tax on gas is three time that now.

Matinee movie with a serial was 50 cents and my mom would expect change from the silver dollar she game allowing for popcorn and a drink; 1954; cokes were bottled locally and cost a dime when I was a kid around 1950 through 1954 when the bottles started getting smaller 8 ounces . Before I got draft 110 octane gas at the Chevron dealer was between 29.9 to 34.9 and regular gas was 2 bits a gallon.

After I got out of the service in 1969 prices were still in the 50/60 cent range then the lines got long and gas started costing over a dollar when you could get it. had a speed shop from 1972 to 1976 and still had a quarter soda pop machine but pop came in cans, not bottles, and cost me to stock the machine $3.85 for a case of 24 so I barely paid for the electricity to keep the soda cold but every mechanic within five blocks would fetch parts from my store as opposed to the new 50 cent machines elsewhere. They liked my penny gumball and peanut machines also.

Coke was a nickel before and during WWII but I'm too young to remember that; barely.
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Prices today are about the same as you remember back in the 1960s. You just have to use the same silver coins you used back then. Gas today is about $2.20 which is about two silver dimes. Two or three silver dimes will get you a burger and Franklin half dollar can pay for a matinee movie ticket.
 
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IronWing said:
True story: I ate ramen for years w/o the benefit of adding water. We would take it on camping trips and just break off hunks and eat them. The flavor packet could be used like margarita salt between the thumb and finger.
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There are Ramen snacks that are meant to be eaten like this.
 
cheapest gas i ever paid for was $.75 a gallon. this was in 93ish.

Mcdonalds used to have deals where you could get hamburgers for $.10 each and cheeseburgers for $.15 with a limit 10. or 2 big macs or quarter pounder for $5

Raman was on sale often for 10 for $1

Soda used to be around $3 a case. fuck this shit with it being $9 a case now. i rarely get soda anymore
 
GoPackGo said:
Not only have prices gone up but the amount you get for that price has declined.
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Tuna went from 6oz to 5.5oz to 5oz...ice cream from 1/2 gal to 1.75 quarts to 1.5 quarts...and I think I saw orange juice at 58oz instead of 64oz a few weeks ago, too.

Sigh.
 
BoomerD said:
Cigarettes $1.80/carton in the commissary...over $4.00 per carton in the stores...

I remember thinking..."If cigarettes ever hit $.50 per pack...I'm gonna quit!" When I finally quit, Marlboros at the cheapest place I could get them were almost $50/carton. (and as much as $75 in the regular stores)
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I remember when the DOD came out with a rule that said cigs could be no more than 5% less than the local price off base. (2003-ish?) Commissary price doubled or tripled in some places.

Kinda made sense, the price disparity was getting so big that troops would sell cartons to friends off base for a tidy profit.
 
i have a 12 pack of that cheap ramen that's past the best by date and i'm still working on it. only ate half of the packs so far. We used three to make Budae-jigae. http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/budae-jjigae

Budae-jjigae a.k.a “Army Base Stew.” It’s a spicy, savory, Korean-American fusion dish made from an umami-rich broth, Korean hot pepper paste, flakes, kimchi, and American Spam, beans, and sausage.
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Awesome drinking food.
 
IronWing said:
Dang it, I want to be a special flower and you are deflowering me. Stop it. 😡
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70-71, they cut the water to the Army compound I was on, went to a nearby Air Base, bought two twelve packs, got change back from a five.

Beer was cheaper than soda. Had a walk in cooler in our kennel.

If my memory is correct, a carton of cigarettes, at the same air base, was about $1.50.

A few years later, at school, Campbell's Tomato Soup was 12 cents a can, Kraft Mac and Cheese was 22 cents a box, Turkey pot pies 5 for a dollar. During happy hour, beers were a quarter...

Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.

Uno
 
Chicho's - Virginia Beach - late 80's/early 90's: $0.50 beers, $1.00 pepperoni pizza slices on Tuesday or Wednesday nights (can't remember which). Place was always packed on that night by military and college kids... Oh I miss those days.
 
ponyo said:
Prices today are about the same as you remember back in the 1960s. You just have to use the same silver coins you used back then. Gas today is about $2.20 which is about two silver dimes. Two or three silver dimes will get you a burger and Franklin half dollar can pay for a matinee movie ticket.
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As a native Nevadan we used silver dollars till at least 1964; when my family would go east to visit relative (two week vacation each summer) my dad would get a $20 roll and leave them for tips along to and from upstage New York; they were not used east of the Rockies and once in a while a waitress would come outside to return the silver dollar which had obviously been left by mistake; when they found out it wasn't a mistake they were always overjoyed. I'm sure those dollars made it to a draw to be found by their heirs many years later.
 
I remember when things were cheaper too. Didn't matter because I had less money then. Best I can hope for is to have even more money when things inevitably get more expensive in the future.
 
Train said:
I remember when the DOD came out with a rule that said cigs could be no more than 5% less than the local price off base. (2003-ish?) Commissary price doubled or tripled in some places.

Kinda made sense, the price disparity was getting so big that troops would sell cartons to friends off base for a tidy profit.
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When I was deployed on the Independence cigs were 2.00 a carton and we had a ration card to limit the number you could buy in any month to cut down on blackmarketing them. When I quit smoking in 1984 they were a 1.05 in 7-11's in Virginia.
 
ponyo said:
Prices today are about the same as you remember back in the 1960s. You just have to use the same silver coins you used back then. Gas today is about $2.20 which is about two silver dimes. Two or three silver dimes will get you a burger and Franklin half dollar can pay for a matinee movie ticket.
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prices never changed, it's just that your currency (not money) is worth less.
 
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