🆕 New names on Amsterdam menus in 2008
Every name written for the first time on a dated menu in 2008, in date order, with the shop it appeared in. Snapshot of 2026-11-03.
In 2008 the archive holds 41 dated price lines from 1 shop, between 2008-11-19 and 2008-11-19. 19 names are written for the first time in that window, and the wave started at Stix with 19 new names first written on its menus.
Read this year with its size in mind: 41 lines from 1 shop is a thin slice of the archive, not a market event.
📋 Names first seen in 2008
all years →Ordered by the date of the first menu. "Records" and "Shops" count the dated lines and the distinct shops that wrote that name during 2008; "now €/g" is the median of the per-gram prices on menus dated in the last 30 days, and "shops today" counts the shops that have it on one of those menus.
| # | Name | First seen | First shop | Records | Shops | Now €/g | Shops today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bubble gum | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | € 8.00 | 1 |
| 2 | buddha | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 3 | caramello | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | € 12.00 | 1 |
| 4 | cheese haze | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 5 | cream | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 6 | diesel haze | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 7 | maroc/tabacco-joint | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 8 | polm | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | € 6.50 | 4 |
| 9 | purple outdoor | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 10 | royal stix | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 11 | silver haze | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 12 | skunk special | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 13 | stix-gunpowder | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 14 | stix-ice | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 15 | stix-marihuana mix | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 16 | temple ball | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 17 | weed/tabacco-joint | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 18 | weedmix | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 19 | white widow | 2008-11-19 | Stix | 2 | 1 | € 10.00 | 14 |
How these numbers are made
The first appearance of a name is the oldest menu date on which that name is written. The algorithm walks every dated line of the catalogue, keeps the earliest date per name and remembers the shop that wrote it; when several shops wrote the same name on that date, the one that lists it most often is named and the number of shops is shown in the table.
The "now €/g" column is a median over the per-gram prices of the menus dated in the last 30 days of the catalogue snapshot (2026-11-03). It is a price written on a menu, not a verified shelf price, and a dash means the name is not on a recent menu, not that it is gone.
Nothing here says a product is better, stronger or worth buying. This is a dated record of what was written on menus in Amsterdam. 18+, information only, no sales.
❓ Questions
How many new names appeared on Amsterdam menus in 2008?
19 names are written for the first time in 2008. The archive holds 41 dated lines and 21 different names for that year, from 1 shop, between 2008-11-19 and 2008-11-19.
What does 'first seen' mean?
The earliest menu date in the archive where the name appears. The oldest menu we have is dated 2007-04-17: before that date we know nothing, so a name first seen in 2008 may well have existed earlier in Amsterdam without leaving a trace in the archive.
Are these prices current?
The "now €/g" column is the median of the per-gram prices written on menus dated in the last 30 days of the catalogue snapshot (2026-11-03); "shops today" counts the shops that have the name on one of those menus. A dash means no recent menu carries that name — the price was not deleted, it simply is not fresh.
How much of 2008 is real data?
Careful with this year: 41 dated lines from 1 shop. That is a thin slice of the archive, so the list is a record of what one or two menus contained, not a market event.
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