Things that used to be rare/ luxury/ unusual but now really common

[Chubbychic]

When tablets (iPads etc.) Came out, I thought what on earth is the point. There's phones and laptops why would you need basically a combo. No way anyone but tbe very rich will own them...

And now I have one, dh has one, ds and dd have one.

Also lip fillers/ botox
Back in the day only celebs had it done. Now nearly every other person on my Facebook have had their lips done and quite a few have had botox.

Contract phones actually too. Used to all be pay as you go but that seems really rare these days!

Foreign holidays regularly, not just for the posh. Cars on the council estate, when I was growing u they were for the poshies.
Pedigree dogs and dog grooming parlours everywhere, I didn't know any dogs growing up that were not a mongrel or went for routine grooming.

Party's every year at organised places, hardly ever at home

McDonalds lol! Only after a trip to the GP that involved a jab.

Owning a horse

Definitely eating out, as a kid we would eat out maybe a couple of times a year and but with all of the cheap places to eat like Harvester, Spoons and carveries it is really common.

I bought my first PC in 2000 as a student for around £900, now you can buy a PC/laptop for a couple of hundred.

Prawns, used to be for Christmas prawn cocktail only but are within the price range to eat regularly, similarly salmon is now an everyday food.

BMWs, Range Rovers and Mercedes cars.

Pineapples. As a child I never saw a real one: they'd all been processed by the man from Del Monte.

I had never stayed in a hotel until my honeymoon. Holidays were mostly visiting relatives. Chinese and Indian restaurants were a novelty.

I think we could fairly accurately guess people's ages from this thread.

Takeaways
Prawns
Dishwashers
Vienetta

Pasta.

Take aways, I remember hearing the door after I had went to bed and snuck in the living room to see dm and dsd tucking into a Chinese!
Lucazade was only when you were sick
Birthday parties sounds ridiculous but I had been to two my whole childhood and they were family members normally you would have a wee tea in the house with a Victoria sponge and some mini rolls, my ds has been to 4 this month alone!

Avocados, I remember the first one we ever had, I was about 20 and we all sat round the kitchen table staring at it and trying a bit. I'm only 49!

Having a drink when you were shopping. If you were thirsty you waited til you got home.

Yes! - and coffee shops, for you to go to when shopping. Coffee used to be the exotic alternative to tea, and you never got nice coffee in a cafe.

Olive oil was only available in chemists in tiny bottles. Used for dry skin, blocked ears etc.

Strawberries. We used to only get them in season for a few weeks in June/July, but we get them all year round now. And pretty tasteless they are, too.

Sky TV. I was a kid in the 90s and we couldn't afford it. If you had anything more than 5 TV channels you were posh.

I'm a single mum now and I have Sky

Mcdonalds birthday parties 😂😂

Eating out. I remember my brother at 15 having to wear a tie to birthday party at what was basically a pub meal.
My teenage son has already been for more pub meals than I did before I was 20.

Coke. The drink. Only for special occasions.

Interior decoration. The amount of lovely stuff for homes is unreal. Lucky to get curtains and a shade of paint that wasn’t magnolia in my day.

I remember my mum making a pizza - recipe from a magazine - it involved a packet scone mix and patting it into a rectangular swiss roll tin. She served it with mashed potatoes and peas and would not have it that a) pizzas were generally round b) they were not made with scone mix and c) that they were never served with mashed potatoes.

I remember scone mix pizzas. They were good but they weren't pizzas.

I think things may be the other way round.

I remember shopping in the city for clothes for holidays, or uniforms for the start of another school year. My mother would take me for afternoon tea while in the city. We would have sandwiches, biscuits and cakes. There was tea in what might have been a silver teapot. Sugar and milk were in a sugar bowl and little milk jug. We were served by ladies in black dresses and white aprons. They had little headdresses like a cotton tiara. There was no carry of your own tray and you were seated at a spotlessly clean table before ordering.
I think that was a much nicer experience and much more luxurious than going to a McDonalds or Costa where you queue standing up, carry your own tray and often the tables are littered with other people's rubbish.

They were good but they weren't pizzas

Exactly!

I was in my 20s when I first ate broccoli or avocado!

The were a herby big flattish scone with slices of tomato and a bit of cheese sprinkled on top. Ah! Nostalgia.
I also remember tiny glasses of orange juice as a starter.

*Tea addict 235
I'd say your choice of words makes it pretty obvious that you're a racist