It is always fun to look back at what our favourite food items and brands used to look like decades ago – and people are reminiscing over the Yorkie bar which looks totally different to the ones found in shops today
Many of us will remember the days when you would walk into a shop to pick up a chocolate bar and see the words ‘It’s Not for Girls’ or ‘Man Fuel for Man Stuff’ written on stacks of Yorkie bars. The iconic blue and yellow branding is hard to miss, but it has changed a lot over the years; the slogan associated with female exclusion was removed by 2012. Now people are reminiscing about how big the bars used to be – and one old special edition version of the Yorkie bar has left people in awe.
In a post shared on Reddit recently, one individual shared a picture of a little boy holding a giant Yorkie bar, so big that it is wider than the width of his body. The individual wrote: “Oh how things have shrunk since the 2000s, jokes aside I can’t find the existence of this thing anywhere. Any help?”
Sharing his memory of the treat, the chocolate fan added: “I remember when I was a kid getting this Yorkie bar I’m pretty sure it was Yorkie’s equivalent of the 1kg Cadbury bar they still do now but I can’t for the life of me find any images or anything of its existence online.”
“I remember this thing was ludicrously hard to eat and break up I’m pretty sure you have to use a knife to cut pieces off because it was so thick,” he added.
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One individual said: “I 100% remember them this big. Same with Wagon Wheels, they used to be as big as a frisbee.” One noted: “That’ll be a special Xmas bar or something. Not standard.”
Another shared: “I got one in my stocking Christmas morning, I proceeded to wake my older brother up by whacking him with it. Which led to the rest of the house waking up ant 6am.”
Someone else who was lucky enough to get this bar, added: “One Christmas in the 00s I definitely had a giant solid Yorkie bar. I remember gnawing at it for hours never saw it again.”
“I can remember getting one too,” insisted another.
One other shared: “I can’t remember that specific one, but I remember one similar to the 300g dairy milk bars but as a Yorkie. It was 5 or 6 rows of it spelling Yorkie and was quite thick too.”
Meanwhile, another disappointed individual said: “Shrinkflation is so depressing.”
The original Yorkie bar weighed 58g back in the 1970s, and over time shrunk to 52g. In the 2000s, it increased to a whopping 70g. It has since settled at its current weight of 46g.
Another shared a story, speaking about the old branding, and wrote: “Seeing that ‘Not For Girls’ packaging reminds me of McCoy’s crisps. I’ll never forget riding the train with my two older sisters (I’m also a girl) and eating some McCoy’s and my sisters making fun of me and calling me a man; I think their marketing at the time was something about being crisps for men. I started hysterically sobbing and wouldn’t touch them for several years, it truly devastated me.”
“When I was little I legitimately thought that the Yorkie bar would make women ill. I thought it was a medical warning.”
Some say they have previously seen the giant bars on eBay and Amazon over the years, priced at approximately £15 per bar. You could also check local sweet shops or British import shops.
