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I found a shopping reciept from 1996

168 replies

KindergartenKop · 05/12/2020 13:40

Ok, so it's not quite a badly written shopping list but close. So retro! I found it in a book I bought from Amazon.

Interestingly, the date is the day I started my periods!

What were you up to in 1996? What is Mexicorn?

I found a shopping reciept from 1996
I found a shopping reciept from 1996
OP posts:
PTW1234 · 05/12/2020 13:43

How cheap is all that fruit and veg!!

Cherryberrypies · 05/12/2020 13:44

It’s all so cheap!!!!

JanewaysBun · 05/12/2020 13:45

Wow! The tea is 72p!

Butterymuffin · 05/12/2020 13:45

Being young and carefree! The 90s were good times. Had been to a festival that summer and was enjoying flat sharing. Ate all sorts of things at the time but never came across Mexicorn!

NotDavidTennant · 05/12/2020 13:46

Mexicorn was tinned sweetcorn with little bits of bell pepper added to make it 'Mexican'.

vomcomvomcom · 05/12/2020 13:46

I think Mexicorn was a tin of sweet corn with chopped up red and green peppers in it

BobbinThreadbare123 · 05/12/2020 13:46

That Marmite hasn't gone up than much, for almost 25 years. It's £2.69 for 250 g now.

smallandimperfectlyformed · 05/12/2020 13:47

I wonder if mexicorn is tinned sweetcorn with peppers inside it?

TheQueef · 05/12/2020 13:47

I had a DC in 96 Grin
Mexicorn was like beanfeast iirc.

NoraLuka · 05/12/2020 13:47

Beanfeast! Does that still exist? Reminds me of when I just started being vegetarian 😊

Spied · 05/12/2020 13:47

Wow. Parisian baguette!
No idea about the mexicorn.
1996 I was an off the rails 16yr old on a mission to self-destruct. I certainly wasn't out shopping.

vomcomvomcom · 05/12/2020 13:47

Love how I can’t remember to pay a bill but can easily remember obscure foods from 30 years ago haha

I found a shopping reciept from 1996
Aroundtheworldin80moves · 05/12/2020 13:48

Sweetcorn with beans in it?

I was at primary school.

NannyR · 05/12/2020 13:49

Mexicorn was tinned sweetcorn with bits of pepper in it, green giant brand I think?

formerbabe · 05/12/2020 13:50

Oh I love this...it combines my two passions, nostalgia and supermarket shopping!

TheQueef · 05/12/2020 13:50

No junk though, looks like they were doing SW.

AndIquote · 05/12/2020 13:51

Fig rolls, can you still get them?

LaurieFairyCake · 05/12/2020 13:52

I'm shocked how cheap NOW Rich Tea biscuits are - this is one of the reasons we have an obesity crisis, our reliance to feed children crap if you're poor Sad as fruit/veg much dearer than biscuits etc

Kez0777 · 05/12/2020 13:53

Beanfeast, how I started my veggie years! I am so pleased we have all the stuff we have now!

Fabuleuse · 05/12/2020 13:53

Also started my period in October 96 although it was the 7th... at school, traumatic! Thought I was weird for remembering the date.

HagenDaz · 05/12/2020 13:53

Nope, Weight Watchers: “WW Tasty Cheese” which means it was probably vile.

StopGo · 05/12/2020 13:53

£30 in 1996 would be roughly £48 in 2020. That said I'm not convinced it would be enough for that list today.

grafittiartist · 05/12/2020 13:54

Awe- Beanfeast was a staple on my shopping lists in 1996 too!!

wellthatsunusual · 05/12/2020 13:54

I think food is much cheaper now in comparison to income than it was in 1996. I was a student then and I remember a pint of milk being 45p. It's only 50p now almost 25 years later. Same with bread, a loaf cost around 80p and now I can buy a cheap one in Tesco for around the same price or a nicer one for around £1.

BlackboardMonitorVimes · 05/12/2020 13:56

Oh my goodness, that was our main supermarket back in the day. I shopped in there in the 80s as a child with my Mum! I think it's still there.