Chocolate Bar Claims, 'Not for Girls'

Posted by Lesli

Ya, right. Unless the chocolate bar also claims to have high quantities of testosterone or man cooties, I'm going to eat it!

Imagine my surprise when I was visiting a specialty candy shop this summer when I saw:

(Photo by Lesli Christianson-Kellow)

The Yorkie bar from the United Kingdom. It was a big, substantial milk chocolate bar with huge chunks to bite off and chew or let melt in your mouth. (Not the modest sized chunks that sadly make up our bars in North America.)

The catch is, that it claims it's not for girls. Yes, that's what it says on the wrapper. Which, of course, made me want to buy it and try it all the more. How dare someone censor the chocolate I eat - I will decide when I eat my chocolate, how I eat my chocolate, why I eat my chocolate and of course, I am in charge of what kind of chocolate I eat.

No chocolate bar wrapper was going to tell me that the contents weren't for girls. I can handle any chocolate just as well, if not better, than a man. (Is that something to be proud of? I'm not actually sure...)

In any case, I bought the bar. Actually I bought 6 Yorkie bars. As I unwrapped the wrapper and examined the chunky chocolate for anything that might be of harm to me as 'a girl', my mouth started watering 'cause not only did the bar look like something you'd want to have on your tastebuds, but it smelled like a product straight out of Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory.

After deeming my 'not for girls' bar safe, I put a chunk in my mouth. I'm telling you the chunks are so big! I let it melt slowly in my mouth, biting it a bit, just to be get my teeth into into. Yum!

I doubt I have ever tasted a milk chocolate bar so delicious. It was sort of a mix between milk and dark chocolate, but definitely more milk chocolatey.

I ended up eating 4 of these bars, hogging them from my husband.

It was the right thing to do. Far be to have such a sexist chocolate bar laying around for my daughters to see...

...I took the high road and ate the evidence...

Figuring it out a I go,

- Lesli

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summerfun37 said:

I'm from the UK, and know exactly what you mean. My brother loved to exploit this, and the fact that he knew I loved Yorkies, whenever possible. What's worse, though, is the advertising, showing a girl trying to convince a shopkeeper she was a boy, in order to buy one.

Lesli says: ...I'd dress up like a guy in order to get a Yorkie ;) (...I'm glad you know what I'm talking about...)

Posted at 02:26 PM, on September 20 2007

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Tim said:

So, the advertising worked then!

Posted at 11:09 AM, on December 28 2009

Chocolate Bar Claims, 'Not for Girls'

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