If you're like me, you can remember the days when you could pop into your corner shop with a £1 coin and purchase what felt like a extraordinary amount of goodies. Now, when I walk past the confectionery aisle and look at the prices of some of my childhood staples, I can feel my eyes water.
If you needed another stark reminder about the ever rising rate of inflation, and cost of living, seeing a Freddo listed as 26p will be it. True, it is lower than the dizzy heights of 30p which it reached in 2017, but for reference, the last time Freddos were 10p was in 2006 (oh, the good old days).
For those of you who have not been blessed enough to have enjoyed this treat, a Freddo (originally Freddy the Frog in the 1970s) is a chocolate bar brand shaped like an anthropomorphic cartoon frog. It was originally manufactured by MacRobertson's, an Australian confectionery company, but is now produced by Cadbury.
