# Explain Yorkie bars to me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848 "2019-02-19T19:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/1 "2019-02-19T19:16:36Z")
I was watching an old episode of “Inspector Morse” last night, and Morse and Hathaway were talking about masculinity and homosexuality. Hathaway said only real men eat Yorkie bars. Can somebody explain the context to me? Wikipedia didn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/2 "2019-02-19T19:23:58Z")
Chunky chocolate bar, marketed (increasingly tongue-in-cheek) as suitable only for macho men. Ads: [Yorkie - It´s NOT for girls - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcjlzSod0CE) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/3 "2019-02-19T19:37:01Z")
[Man Fuel For Man Stuff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwVx8S6XEXs) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/4 "2019-02-19T20:01:40Z")
Is it better chocolate or worse than Cadbury? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/5 "2019-02-19T20:37:59Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Chunky chocolate bar, marketed (increasingly tongue-in-cheek) as suitable only for macho men. > > Ads: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcjlzSod0CE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcjlzSod0CE) The bar itself looks similar to a Snickers. Is my guess right? ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/6 "2019-02-19T20:49:32Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Is it better chocolate or worse than Cadbury? If they’re the same as they were in the 70s and 80s, when I last tasted one, they’re fucking disgusting. They’re the Madame Tussauds of chocolate; a waxy imitation of the real thing. Stick to Cadbury, or even better, Galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/7 "2019-02-19T20:57:44Z")
They are a bar of five of six solid blocks of chocolates. There was a jokey campaign back in the day about them being eaten by lorry drivers and very macho only for men. In retrospect it could be taken very differently nowadays. About same quality as cadburys Dairy Milk chocolate bars. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/8 "2019-02-19T21:00:19Z")
I never heard of this before. I assumed the thread title was a cutesy reference to the American _York Peppermint Patty_. From the commercial and the Wikipedia article, though, it appears that Yorkie Bars are sort of blocky chocolate bars that come in various types, from plain milk chocolate or dark chocolate to a variety of inclusions: > [@](#): > > Original (milk chocolate)[8] > Raisin & Biscuit > Honeycomb[9] > White[citation needed] > Dark chocolate[citation needed] > Peanut (discontinued, relaunched as a ‘Limited Edition’ on 13 October 2014, now discontinued again.) > Almond (discontinued) > “The Nutter” (mixed nuts - discontinued) > Yorkie Blue Ice (crunchy mint flavoured chips - discontinued)[10] > Yorkie Hot Stuff Hot Rum (rum flavour Christmas limited edition) > Biscuit (is a biscuit made with Yorkie original chocolate) > Yorkie Pro (Protein chocolate with crispy pieces - Protein: 24.7g per 100g / 10.5g per serving) > **[Yorkie (chocolate bar)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkie_(chocolate_bar))** > > Yorkie is a chocolate bar made by Nestlé. It was originally made by York-based company Rowntree's, hence the name. > In 1976, Eric Nicoli of Rowntree's spotted a gap in the confectionery market for a "manly" chocolate bar, and so the company launched Yorkie as a chunkier competitor to Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Production was at York and Norwich until 1994. > The Yorkie bar has historically been marketed towards men. From the bar's launch until 1992, the "Yorkie bar trucker" was the famous "rough, tou... If I were marketing a bar For MEN! I’d probably fill it with habanero peppers and grit, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Dahu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahu/32/3416_2.png) [@Dahu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahu)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/9 "2019-02-19T21:05:37Z")
Used to love them, still do. Raisin and biscuit my fave. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/10 "2019-02-19T21:29:12Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > The bar itself looks similar to a Snickers. Is my guess right? No, Yorkies are solid chocolate bars, with some varieties having bits mixed in. It’s not a layered thing like Snickers. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/11 "2019-02-19T22:06:59Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > No, Yorkies are solid chocolate bars, with some varieties having bits mixed in. It’s not a layered thing like Snickers. A closer U.S. analog seems to be the [Chunky bar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_Chunky) (though the shape is different). There’s only one variety of Chunky these days, with peanuts and raisins mixed in, but there were formerly other varieties, including one that was just milk chocolate with no extras. ---
**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/12 "2019-02-19T22:42:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I was watching an old episode of “Inspector Morse” last night, and Morse and Hathaway were talking about masculinity and homosexuality. Hathaway said only real men eat Yorkie bars. > Can somebody explain the context to me? Wikipedia didn’t help. Don’t want to nitpick but it couldn’t have been Morse and Hathaway. Morse’s sidekick was Lewis, later on he got his own series and Lewis’s sidekick was Hathaway. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/13 "2019-02-19T23:06:27Z")
> [@Eclipse\_Chaser](#): > > Don’t want to nitpick but it couldn’t have been Morse and Hathaway. Morse’s sidekick was Lewis, later on he got his own series and Lewis’s sidekick was Hathaway. You’re right, it was Inspector Lewis. One of those episodes where they keep hinting that Hathaway might be gay, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/14 "2019-02-19T23:54:45Z")
As someone who was weaned on German, Belgian and Swiss chocolate and who used to be a chocolate taster for Nestlé, Yorkies are pretty horrible chocolate-ish bars. If I remember correctly, there used to be a sign at York railway station stating “Welcome to York where the men are hunky and the chocolate’s chunky!”. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-yorkie-bars-to-me/829848/15 "2019-02-20T09:01:26Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > They are a bar of five of six solid blocks of chocolates. There was a jokey campaign back in the day about them being eaten by lorry drivers and very macho only for men. > > In retrospect it could be taken very differently nowadays. > > About same quality as cadburys Dairy Milk chocolate bars. Nowadays? I think the tag line was ‘Don’t feed the Birds’ with the little crossed-out woman glyph c.2003-04. When it went, I couldn’t actually say.