₦airaland Forum

DeloitteNG:
This 7UP bottle cap says ₦25.

There was a time in Nigeria when ₦25 could buy a bottle of soft drink.

Today, that same bottle costs hundreds of naira.

Inflation in one picture.

Think about it:

₦25 soft drinks
₦5 sweets
₦10 biscuits
₦100 felt like real money

Now ₦1,000 disappears in minutes.

This isn’t just nostalgia it’s a reminder of how drastically the value of money has changed in Nigeria.

If you remember those days, drop a comment with something that used to be cheap but is expensive today.

nairalanda1:
1. One bottle of soft drink used to cost less than 2 naira self. Or kobo self. And back then , the economy was very hard. Even middle class families in the 1980s bought drinks occasionally self.

2. I can even remember when sweets were less than one naira. Then, SAP was sapping us well well.

3. Biscuits self ,same prices

4. I can even recall when 20 naira was real money self.

Don't vote for anyone who tells you they will bring Nigeria back to those prices though.

Vote for leaders who have a plan to industrialize our country. Industrialization means a strong economy. Please abeg don't vote for apc or tinubu. No way.

But remember that even when soft drink was one naira or less, not everyone could afford it. People were still saying country hard back then.

alanto:
Even that 25 naira was high. I bought coke for way less but that 25 you bought it that time isn't different from now because minimum wage was like 5,500 in 2002. Let's assuming that's when they were selling coke for 25 naira. There was no time our minimum wage bought two bags of rice. You need to understand that we earn more with inflation. Yes, something's are really expensive right now but so will your own charge be for a service rendered, if you offer a service.

helinues:
But no be everybody fit afford those amount then.. Pepsi Walkamania

I still remember the soft drinks as we sell it, it's for those with extra not someone hungry

alanto:
I don't expect better or constructive anything from you. You belong to the other side and all your views is based on that.

Samueltemi337:
Was that the question?

budaatum:
7Up was 10 kobo in 1974. We drank it on special occasions only because ma said the sugar was no good, though I'm certain it was because she could not afford it on her about ₦150 salary a month, and her saving for cement. I had a friend though who'd guzzle like 4, a bottle in one gulp just to show he could. He's invested in diabetics now, I'm told.

HenryWilliams:
This is blatant lie.
No one got diabetes back then drinking 7up

helinues:
Read and comprehend. Check others comments as well
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Make una stop this nonsense trolling without substance

franchasofficia:
Defenders of failure and corruption already doing what they are only good at doing up there.



God forbid I support Peter Obi and he wins and turns Nigeria upside down like Tinubu has done and I still continue to support him because he is an Igbo man like me, I repeat God forbid!!!

helinues:
When GEJ was the president, how many Nigerians had cars?

Remember it was Obasanjo who brought GSM, during GEJ'S term how many of you have access to ordinary internet?

Everything shouldn't be about opposing the government or blaming them.

Type skid row on YouTube and also question why are there so many homeless people in America

franchasofficia:
I have no comment on this ridiculous comment of yours because I don't think you were in Nigeria during GEJ regime, maybe you were seeking for asylum in Burundi, so I will excuse your ignorance bra

DeloitteNG:
This 7UP bottle cap says ₦25.

There was a time in Nigeria when ₦25 could buy a bottle of soft drink.

Today, that same bottle costs hundreds of naira.

Inflation in one picture.

Think about it:

₦25 soft drinks
₦5 sweets
₦10 biscuits
₦100 felt like real money

Now ₦1,000 disappears in minutes.

This isn’t just nostalgia it’s a reminder of how drastically the value of money has changed in Nigeria.

If you remember those days, drop a comment with something that used to be cheap but is expensive today.

budaatum:
7Up was 10 kobo in 1974. We drank it on special occasions only because ma said the sugar was no good, though I'm certain it was because she could not afford it on her about ₦150 salary a month, and her saving for cement. I had a friend though who'd guzzle like 4, a bottle in one gulp just to show he could. He's invested in diabetics now, I'm told.

AlphaTaikun:
No doubt 7UP (and Crush) soft drinks were way sweeter back in the 1970s right to the 1980s. The manufacturer changed the 7UP recipe as the years evolved by reducing the sugar content.

So, the diabetes of your friend could indeed have been triggered by taking too much of soft drinks like 7UP and other foods containing high carbs.

I have a sweet tooth but I know full well that I have to regulate my intake of sweet things with high carbs, so I try as much as possible to take more foods containing larger portions of "LOW GLYCEMIC Index" and "Medium Glycemic Index" over blood sugar-spiking "High Glycemic Index" foods such as excessive pounded yam.

The dire consequences of sustained diabetes are just unimaginable. From amputations of limbs, blindness, kidney failures, high BP, etc.