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Yorkies

  • 04-05-2021 3:01pm
    #1
    DS86DS
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    Are Yorkies basically Nestle's answer to the Dairy Milk?


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  • #2
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,065 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Any man's man truck driver would not seen be eating a Dairy Milk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0l5aH7RbVo


  • #3
    blade1
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    They are gone to shìte.
    I remember when they came out you'd nearly break your teeth trying to bite a square off


  • #4
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,281 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


      blade1 wrote: »
      They are gone to shìte.
      I remember when they came out you'd nearly break your teeth trying to bite a square off

      stick it in the freezer, its cos nowhere had heating when they came out !

      My weather

      https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



    • #5
      blade1
      Registered Users Posts: 12,091 ✭✭✭✭blade1


      ednwireland wrote: »

        stick it in the freezer, its cos nowhere had heating when they came out !

        No that's not the reason at all.
        Have you seen the gap between the sections these days?


      • #6
        odyssey06
        Registered Users Posts: 27,836 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


        Not for girls.

        * Any girl eating a yorkie shall be deemed to be a boy.

        "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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      • #7
        The J Stands for Jay
        Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


        I remember the nordie version used to have more chunks


      • #8
        GBX
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        blade1 wrote: »
        No that's not the reason at all.
        Have you seen the gap between the sections these days?

        Exactly what Toblerone has done as well. More gap, less chocolate. Similar in that you'd near break your jaw trying to chow down on it. Both gone to ****e these days.


      • #9
        rob316
        Registered Users Posts: 17,936 ✭✭✭✭rob316


        Like everything its about a 3rd the size of the original. I used to get that biscuit and raisin one and you'd be full after it.


      • #10
        Ficheall
        Registered Users Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭Ficheall


        The biscuit and raisin ones are grand. The blue ones are Nestle's usual ****e chocolate.


      • #11
        Del2005
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        sugarman wrote: »
        Its because theyre almost half the size they used to be at this stage! They were 70g and now just 46g :eek:

        People will only spend a certain amount for a bar. With costs going up the only way to maintain the price is to reduce the size of the product.


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      • #12
        blade1
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        Del2005 wrote: »
        People will only spend a certain amount for a bar. With costs going up the only way to maintain the price is to reduce the size of the product.

        The only bar left that's gives you a half decent satisfactory chew is a double decker.
        And even the duo one is needed for that.

        Star bar is nice but too small.


      • #13
        Hello 2D Person Below
        Registered Users Posts: 13,755 ✭✭✭✭Hello 2D Person Below


        Not as bad as Snickers but in the vicinity.


      • #14
        Bobblehats
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        Trigger Happy wrote: »
        Any man's man truck driver would not seen be eating a Dairy Milk.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0l5aH7RbVo

        He’s now rasping on a Milky Way


      • #15
        EmmetSpiceland
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        I try to avoid Nestle “products” on principle.

        They’ve made this much easier since “discontinuing” the Drifter bar.

        The tide is turning…



      • #16
        buried
        Registered Users Posts: 9,671 ✭✭✭buried


        I remember somebody telling me somewhere that original recipe for the original 'Yorkie' bars was the same recipe for the chocolate bars that the British army used to use in their army ration packs they used to dish out after WW2 when the Cold War was in full swing and chocolate bars needed to be of a design that lasted 1000 years in some shape of tin can.

        "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



      • #17
        razorblunt
        Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


        EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
        I try to avoid Nestle “products” on principle.

        They’ve made this much easier since “discontinuing” the Drifter bar.

        They’ve done what to the Drifter? The fúckers.


      • #18
        [Deleted User]
        Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


        I didn't know there was a bar called Yorkies.Thought the thread was about the yappie little rat dogs.


      • #19
        Capt'n Midnight
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        DS86DS wrote: »
        Are Yorkies basically Nestle's answer to the Dairy Milk?
        Rowantree Mackintosh made them. And they didn't shrink them. Dairy Milk bars shrunk to wafer thin to keep the price down, like melt on your tongue thin. Yorkie's stayed big.

        Slightly darker chocolate than Dairy Milk , more like Galaxy which was Cadbury's answer to Yorkie


        The Nestle bought them out and replaced chocolate and coca butter with insipid sugary goo , and Cadbury's got bought out and there the milk was replaced by palm oil or whatever is was cheaper than used chipper oil. They are better than the cheapest German supermarket chocolate. But not by much so I don't ever seeing my self paying a premium for them again.

        A pox on both their houses.


      • #20
        [Deleted User]
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        Like everything in life the past decade, they're way ****ter than they used to be.


      • #21
        Hamsterchops
        Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


        Trigger Happy wrote: »
        Any man's man truck driver would not seen be eating a Dairy Milk.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0l5aH7RbVo

        "Good rich and thick a milk chocolate prick brick".

        Ah, takes me back to the school yard in the 1970s.

        Are they still making them?


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      • #22
        rob316
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        Deleted User wrote: »
        Like everything in life the past decade, they're way ****ter than they used to be.

        All these bars don't even taste like chocolate anymore. The christmas chocolates are horrendous to eat these days.


      • #23
        Capt'n Midnight
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        rob316 wrote: »
        The christmas chocolates are horrendous to eat these days.
        work gives you a box of quality street and you know you are going to eat them but it's more like a habit than enjoyment

        Back in the day the branded chocolate was much nicer than the generic stuff used on other brand biscuits and bars. That distinction has gone. Now it's generic German supermarket Jaffa cakes and in other flavours too !


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