Back in the day…popped up on my FB feed – Mint 1970’s Tayto packet. The story goes… “Found amongst the rubble during the refurbishment of the science rooms at Newpark School, my guess is it was stuffed behind a cabinet or bench in the 70’s and remained there ever since”.

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  2. 3p??? Wow. Those were the days. I remember when 10p would buy you two Tayto’s and you’d still have enough change to go to the pictures and take the bus home afterwards.

  4. It almost looks like it could have been manufactured recently.
    It makes me think of all the plastic in the landfills that won’t degrade for thousands of years tbh. Archeologists will be digging out Tayto packets in 3050 AD.

  6. I remember a bunch of us found a bag just like this stashed in a crack on a big rock under a load of moss out the back of our primary school when we were in junior infants in 1990.

    We genuinely thought we had found some forgotten treasure which would make us millionaires and proceeded to have a silly argument over which one of us could claim ownership of it.

  8. Finished a Cold War book recently and was caught off guard by a mention of Taytos founder Joe Spud Murphy.
    As the story goes, MI6 were exfiltrating a KGB double agent (Oleg Gordievsky) out of the USSR in the 80s at the Finnish border. The lad was in the boot of a Saab and the Soviet border patrol had guard dogs sniffing about the car. MI6 agent pulls out a bag of cheese and onion crisps and empties them into the ground. The dogs had never smelled such a luscious scent and go beserk lapping them up, throwing them off the scent and leaving the car through.

  9. Back in the day the old folks would give us 5p on a Sunday after mass. You could buy a packet of Taytos and a 2p toffee bar. I’m thinking about 1978ish. Good times.

  11. Because There were 4 thrupennies in a shilling, it meant you could buy 4 bags of Tayto with a decimal 5p coin.

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