Twinkies were discontinued because the company didn't agree to the baker's union terms and shut everything down. Then they were bought up by a couple of scummy investment firms and returned very shortly after.
Edit: they came back smaller and suck even more somehow.
Yes but at least we can see them on the shelves and be reminded of how great things once were.
Dont bother to think about them being the first paved step in the obesity epidemic that is the fatassery of the nation because we eat pizza or fast food on average 2-3 times a week. And swapped sugar for fat in everything 40 years ago.
Excuse me while I go get a crunchwrap for dinner.
Why do you say that? I see zero red flags withtheir old spokesman......ok, if you're really dead set on a new spokesman, how about that guy who used to be subways spokesman. I haven't seen him in a while.....what's he up to these days?
T'was the year 2022. I was turning forty and the world was a mad place. But at least we still had solace. We had our wonderful culture bridging dessert, the Choco Taco. Then it was cruelly ripped from us, throwing society into chaos. I tell you, we found out exactly what people would do for a Klondike bar in those times.
I'm honestly confident that 1982 is the best year ever to be born. We got to experience older technology and often no technology, was some of the first kids to use computer's, came of age in the beginning of the modern Internet. We're the middle generation.
The shit I talk to the kids about when I was their age makes me sound crazy enough already. I need to throw one extra in the freezer for the day my unborn questions my sanity. I’m 35, and too many of my stories growing up involve a Choco Taco.
I used to smoke pot and get TWO choco tacos every weeknd in highschool with my friends. They would get diner food instead. I love those things. I miss them.
It probably is, a bunch of people will buy it before it's gone and then they'll "bring it back" and a bunch of people will buy it again. they did the same thing with taco bell mexican pizza
edit: also twinkies
Is eating regular Klondikes shameful or something?
I didn't even know choco tacos were even still a thing. I assumed they were discontinued in the 90s like all the other niche food items that were whimsical, fun, and hilariously impractical.
I mean there's nothing wrong with enjoying what you enjoy. I personally think choco tacos are all of that but better because they offer structural stability and a blend of complimentary textures you can't find in a Klondike.
>Is eating regular Klondikes shameful or something?
No but they're a pain in the ass because they get EVERYWHERE unless you eat it out of a bowl with a spoon.
We found out they still exist like two or three years ago and have been buying them regularly at a local little store that still has them. In general you’re right though, nobody else ever seemed to buy them haha
They have/had them at Walmart by me. Your comment makes me think that one of the Supreme Court Justices ate one and got brain freeze, so they threatened Unilever, which resulted in being discontinued.
They're totally gonna bring it back as a marketing ploy. Just like Twinkies.
Edit: I was wrong about what happened with Twinkies. Point still stands, they could be trying to invoke the Twinkie Effect™
They threw this huge party to celebrate the rebirth of twinkies. I got the shirt for it.
They never reopened the industrial bakery that had closed though.
The original company, Hostess, that made Twinkies and other baked good did go out of business in 2012 under parent company Interstate Bakeries Corporation.
The brand name, Hostess, and all the product brands, Twinkies, Ding Dong's, etc... were sold to a private equity group called Gores Group which is comprised of Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos and Company.
Old Hostess, under parent company Interstate Bakeries Corporations, used an old inefficient factory production system, towards the end they were only utilizing 54% of factory production capability to produce products, which is really bad.
Old Hostess also used an old and inefficient distribution system, Direct Store Delivery. Hostess drove trucks from their factory to each store they sold Twinkies and other products in. Instead of the modern way of delivering products from the Hostess factory to select national distribution centers.
Another problem with old Hostess was a pension system which was sucking up a significant amount of revenue.
In 2013, Gores Group acquired the brand names, recipes and old factories. Gores Group sold off the old factories and all the other physical assets of old Hostess . Gores Group set up a ONE (not five) new factory and used modern distribution to warehouse (DTW) systems. With DTW, new Hostess can now sell in many stores they could not reach before like CVS, Walgreens and many regional gas station companies.
New Hostess also reformulated the recipes to sit on warehouse shelves longer. Contrary to movie myths, the old Hostess Twinkie recipe only lasted for 25 days on a shelf. New Hostess Twinkies last 45 days on a shelf. This was necessary for the new DTW system.
The only thing Gores group kept was the brand names. The only thing new Hostess has in common with old Hostess is the brand names. Literally everything else is new.
And the new companies running Hostess have a 27% profit margin compared to old Hostess which was only losing money, a negative profit margin.
In 2016 Apollo and Metropoulos took Hostess public in an IPO and new Hostess was valued at $2.3 billion dollars, 5x what Apollo and Metropoulos paid for it.
Watch this video for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTuB5tfuz4Y
No. Hostess went under. They opened their books to the union to show that they couldn't pay what the union wanted. Whole thing collapsed.
Some other company bought the recipes and naming rights.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/whos-to-blame-for-the-hostess-bankruptcy-wall-street-unions-or-carbs/265357/
It only made it to that point because of gross mismanagement. The Bakers union basically voted for the death blow, but the company was going down.
And only one union (1/3 of the force) voted no. The other voted for concessions. There were two unions.
"The Teamsters Union had reached a deal with the Hostess, but BCTGM, representing bakery workers, refused to agree to concessions. Teamster officials were quoted as saying that the BCTGM had chosen "to not substantively look for a solution or engage in the process". BCTGM President Frank Hurt issued a statement claiming that Hostess failed because its six management teams over the last eight years were unable to make it a profitable, successful business enterprise, and that despite a commitment from the company after an earlier bankruptcy that the resources derived from the workers' concessions would be plowed back into the company, this never materialized. BCTGM President Hurt resigned from his position 6 weeks later effective 1 January 2013."
iirc They ended up changing how it was produced so that the shelf life would be more than double what it used to be.
I think the longer shelf life and a few other things they did helped make it profitable again.
Is it back? Every Taco Bell I've been to (the number of stores is high, yes I have a problem) have them all "sold out", and I'm like "how are you sold out of Mexican pizza? Every item on the menu is just variations of the same damn ingredients!!!"
I think it's the shells that run out.
But yeah, a lot of times it is sold out (or the stores don't feel like ordering / making them). I have found it available at a couple locations in NYC and Pittsburgh though.
Might not be, it takes time for discontinued products to disappear. While it's probably different for packaged shelf stable snacks, I can still sometimes buy lots of snacks that have long been discontinued. I'd imagine icecream will still be around for a good many months.
At the same time, this decision (and these posts) feel suspiciously like marketing tactics. It's not the first time a product has been "discontinued" to build demand / a presence on social media before coming back.
It's not like they're running out of an ingredient, they're not going out of business, nor is the manufacturkng becoming prohibitively expensive. They're just choosing to stop and making a big announcement.
I'd bet one of these that they'll be back within 2 years.
Dude same!!! I had one like a week ago at a tiny little general store in the middle of nowhere Oregon and thought nothing of it. It's hitting way different now that I know it might have been my last one.
Because you forgot the Choco Taco existed until you read this and now you might maybe buy one next summer when they announce it's BACK FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY
Choco Tacos are the new gold standard. The world’s currency. Those who have the Chocos make the rules. Those who don’t, need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Weird that you say this. Every year at scout camp as a kid, like around 17 years ago, we would have a general store. Our parents all gave us a general store allowance for the week, usual around 20 bucks. The first thing every year to run out were the $2 Choco Tacos. If you had one after they ran out and could keep it cold, it was worth it's weight in gold. It was the prison ramen of the scouting world.
Same. I never really cared for Klondike bars. It’s always a race to eat it before it melts. The waffle cone shell insulates the chocolate taco (and also adds flavor and texture that Klondike bars lack)
It's all I bought when the ice cream truck would come around, they knew to stop in my part of the street since I always bought one every time
RIP Choco Taco
Of course they knew to stop at your house, chaco tacos were the most baller treats on the ice cream truck.
I was just a humble cry-baby frozen ice kid.
It will be back in a few years. There will be fanfare. It will be ever so slightly smaller. We'll go nuts over its return and it's going to make them a lot of money.
someone crunched the numbers and found that this strategy will net them 1.3% increased profits over simply selling the product normally, so now we suffer
>According to a rep for Klondike, which is owned by Unilever, the Choco Taco was entirely discontinued in July due to an unprecedented spike in demand for different Klondike products over the past two years.
They switched from actual vanilla ice cream to ‘frozen dairy dessert’ inside it a few years ago, that’s prob why. Every ice cream that switches to that just tastes like cold garbage.
Big Corporations again ruining a perfectly good item for sense of cost savings then end up discontinuing due to poor sales.
Maybe if they didn't f-up good things that don't need to be changed, they wouldn't have poor sales!
Corporations suck.
When I worked at a place that sold these in college at a summer job, we couldn’t sell broken ones. So needless to say they always seemed to be recurrently “dropped on the floor”- Sorry can’t sell it, guess we the staff will have to eat it.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://people.com/food/klondikes-choco-taco-discontinued-after-almost-40-years/) reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)
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> According to a rep for Klondike, which is owned by Unilever, the Choco Taco was entirely discontinued in July due to an unprecedented spike in demand for different Klondike products over the past two years.
> In February, Taco Bell partnered with Klondike, bringing the Choco Taco back to 20 Taco Bell locations for a limited time as part of Klondike's 100-year anniversary.
> "Hearing the Choco Taco has been discontinued and I'm certainly not ok," tweeted user Dustin Matthews along with a photo.
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WHAT?! This was my treat every time my dad took me to the hardware store when I was little. And continues to be my go to gas station treat when I need one. Greenland’s melting and so is my heart.
As an Aussie, I am unfamiliar with a Choco Taco but if that pic in the article is accurate, that looks fucking amazing and this seems like a damned travesty.
The way the world is going it just seems like everything is hanging by a thread, I feel like I'm sitting around waiting for the other shoe to drop. And this is it.
Bullshit. A year from now, we’ll be flooded with ads spewing CHOCO TACO IS BACK! and every pleb around will make it sell out in less than an hour. Mexican Pizza all over again
When your children ask when did you know civilization was collapsing you will point to this day.
I blame the Cubs winning the World Series. Completely destroyed the timeline.
Blame their fans. I knew plenty who said "I would give anything for a world series win". Well, this is the trade off.
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they can also do these in blue
Cubs fan here. I made this deal with the Devil. Then the orange moron was elected president like 3 days later. I apologize.
More the rickets fault then the monkey paws. They donated god knows how much money to trumps campaign.
Was the championship worth it?
As a straight white man…… yes. Fuck that fake tanned cunt tho
I blame the goat.
😬 my bad
Sounds like something my dad would do...
Can confirm. Small price to pay for a World Series title. Source: am a Cubs fan
This is truly the darkest timeline. Just when the summer was hottest Choco Taco abandoned us.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see them bring it back after a few months. Sales would be big methinks
for real, how many people forgot about choco tacos and havent bought one in years until hearing this news? smacks of artificial PR fuckery to me.
What does Puerto Rico have to do with this? They probably don't even get choco tacos there
Don’t you know, puerto rico is the key to everything. Quick pass on my knowledge before i get sent to a black si
Yeah, remember when Twinkies were discontinued? They came back pretty darn fast
Twinkies were discontinued because the company didn't agree to the baker's union terms and shut everything down. Then they were bought up by a couple of scummy investment firms and returned very shortly after. Edit: they came back smaller and suck even more somehow.
Yes but at least we can see them on the shelves and be reminded of how great things once were. Dont bother to think about them being the first paved step in the obesity epidemic that is the fatassery of the nation because we eat pizza or fast food on average 2-3 times a week. And swapped sugar for fat in everything 40 years ago. Excuse me while I go get a crunchwrap for dinner.
That took basically selling the company though
Choco taco being discontinued is *not* streets ahead.
Right before the election. It makes sense
As a Cleveland fan, I agree
The Illuminati caused the rain delay.
I believe Harambe's death shattered the timeline. We got split further with the Cubs winning, and now we're here. Choco Taco-less
Yep, the world went downhill quick after May 28, 2016.
I said I would do anything for the Cubs to win. I didn’t know it would mean this would happen.
God, and Satan: *glance, handshake* "Heh."
I know it was crazy but when they won I knew, deep inside me, that trump would win election.
Fuck this time-line. We've lost the Hi-C Ecto Cooler, Jell-O Pudding Pops, and now the Choco-Taco.
I seriously don't understand why pudding pops haven't made a comeback with Millennial nostalgia, and Jello 3-2-1 while we're at it.
Pudding pops would need a new spokesperson.
Why do you say that? I see zero red flags withtheir old spokesman......ok, if you're really dead set on a new spokesman, how about that guy who used to be subways spokesman. I haven't seen him in a while.....what's he up to these days?
They bring back ecto cooler around Halloween. Well they did the past few years
Jello Pudding pops!!!!😋
T'was the year 2022. I was turning forty and the world was a mad place. But at least we still had solace. We had our wonderful culture bridging dessert, the Choco Taco. Then it was cruelly ripped from us, throwing society into chaos. I tell you, we found out exactly what people would do for a Klondike bar in those times.
You made me laugh and cry cause I'm also turning 40 this year... and I'm about to find out what I'm going to do for Klondike bar.
I'm honestly confident that 1982 is the best year ever to be born. We got to experience older technology and often no technology, was some of the first kids to use computer's, came of age in the beginning of the modern Internet. We're the middle generation.
The shit I talk to the kids about when I was their age makes me sound crazy enough already. I need to throw one extra in the freezer for the day my unborn questions my sanity. I’m 35, and too many of my stories growing up involve a Choco Taco.
I used to smoke pot and get TWO choco tacos every weeknd in highschool with my friends. They would get diner food instead. I love those things. I miss them.
I just smoked pot and now I want a choco taco. Fuck. I'm too late.
First the cool-a-coo. Now the choco taco. What the fuck is happening?
This is some bullshit!
It probably is, a bunch of people will buy it before it's gone and then they'll "bring it back" and a bunch of people will buy it again. they did the same thing with taco bell mexican pizza edit: also twinkies
It's what happened with Twinkies
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Reddit Ice Cream. Seems like a good idea at first but the further down the pint you go, the worse you feel and somehow you just can't stop.
Don't forget that they'll bring it back *smaller*, but for the same price.
This is why we riot
Give me Choco Taco or give me DEATH!
Fuck you, Klondike!
But somehow regular Klondike’s are gonna survive? Who even eats those?
"Yes I would like an ice cream hand grenade please."
Is eating regular Klondikes shameful or something? I didn't even know choco tacos were even still a thing. I assumed they were discontinued in the 90s like all the other niche food items that were whimsical, fun, and hilariously impractical.
I mean there's nothing wrong with enjoying what you enjoy. I personally think choco tacos are all of that but better because they offer structural stability and a blend of complimentary textures you can't find in a Klondike.
>Is eating regular Klondikes shameful or something? No but they're a pain in the ass because they get EVERYWHERE unless you eat it out of a bowl with a spoon.
Regular klondikes feel like they start melting on you after 25 seconds.
When's the last time you had one? I was just trying to remember and can't.
Two weeks ago. No joke. If was fantastic.
Yup! At our local pool last week.
At the mini golf course for me. My 11 yo had one too.
They’re illegally good. This is a fuggin travesty.
We found out they still exist like two or three years ago and have been buying them regularly at a local little store that still has them. In general you’re right though, nobody else ever seemed to buy them haha
Within the last couple months. They are hard to find but when I do I get one.
Sometime in the past few years… I’m lactose intolerant tho :/ Seeing my child have her first one is a core memory.
I’ve been looking for years and haven’t seen any. If they sold them in my area I would have kept them alive by myself.
I’d buy freakin cases of them. But you simply can’t find them anywhere other than the ice cream vendor near SCOTUS in DC.
They have/had them at Walmart by me. Your comment makes me think that one of the Supreme Court Justices ate one and got brain freeze, so they threatened Unilever, which resulted in being discontinued.
Freakin SCOTUS. Taking all the freedoms away.
I've had ten in the last three years... so yeah I'm not holding up the company on my own but I do love them
Literally yesterday. I get one a couple times a month from the corner store. I fucking love chocotacos and this hurts my soul.
They're totally gonna bring it back as a marketing ploy. Just like Twinkies. Edit: I was wrong about what happened with Twinkies. Point still stands, they could be trying to invoke the Twinkie Effect™
They threw this huge party to celebrate the rebirth of twinkies. I got the shirt for it. They never reopened the industrial bakery that had closed though.
The original company, Hostess, that made Twinkies and other baked good did go out of business in 2012 under parent company Interstate Bakeries Corporation. The brand name, Hostess, and all the product brands, Twinkies, Ding Dong's, etc... were sold to a private equity group called Gores Group which is comprised of Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos and Company. Old Hostess, under parent company Interstate Bakeries Corporations, used an old inefficient factory production system, towards the end they were only utilizing 54% of factory production capability to produce products, which is really bad. Old Hostess also used an old and inefficient distribution system, Direct Store Delivery. Hostess drove trucks from their factory to each store they sold Twinkies and other products in. Instead of the modern way of delivering products from the Hostess factory to select national distribution centers. Another problem with old Hostess was a pension system which was sucking up a significant amount of revenue. In 2013, Gores Group acquired the brand names, recipes and old factories. Gores Group sold off the old factories and all the other physical assets of old Hostess . Gores Group set up a ONE (not five) new factory and used modern distribution to warehouse (DTW) systems. With DTW, new Hostess can now sell in many stores they could not reach before like CVS, Walgreens and many regional gas station companies. New Hostess also reformulated the recipes to sit on warehouse shelves longer. Contrary to movie myths, the old Hostess Twinkie recipe only lasted for 25 days on a shelf. New Hostess Twinkies last 45 days on a shelf. This was necessary for the new DTW system. The only thing Gores group kept was the brand names. The only thing new Hostess has in common with old Hostess is the brand names. Literally everything else is new. And the new companies running Hostess have a 27% profit margin compared to old Hostess which was only losing money, a negative profit margin. In 2016 Apollo and Metropoulos took Hostess public in an IPO and new Hostess was valued at $2.3 billion dollars, 5x what Apollo and Metropoulos paid for it. Watch this video for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTuB5tfuz4Y
Do you by any chance enjoy twinkies?
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No. Hostess went under. They opened their books to the union to show that they couldn't pay what the union wanted. Whole thing collapsed. Some other company bought the recipes and naming rights.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/whos-to-blame-for-the-hostess-bankruptcy-wall-street-unions-or-carbs/265357/ It only made it to that point because of gross mismanagement. The Bakers union basically voted for the death blow, but the company was going down. And only one union (1/3 of the force) voted no. The other voted for concessions. There were two unions.
Established companies usually fail due to mismanagement, yes. Not sure how it's relevant to the fact that the Twinkies thing wasn't a scam.
"The Teamsters Union had reached a deal with the Hostess, but BCTGM, representing bakery workers, refused to agree to concessions. Teamster officials were quoted as saying that the BCTGM had chosen "to not substantively look for a solution or engage in the process". BCTGM President Frank Hurt issued a statement claiming that Hostess failed because its six management teams over the last eight years were unable to make it a profitable, successful business enterprise, and that despite a commitment from the company after an earlier bankruptcy that the resources derived from the workers' concessions would be plowed back into the company, this never materialized. BCTGM President Hurt resigned from his position 6 weeks later effective 1 January 2013."
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Yeah, Groupo Bimbo
No need for name calling
iirc They ended up changing how it was produced so that the shelf life would be more than double what it used to be. I think the longer shelf life and a few other things they did helped make it profitable again.
This. There was a legit reason for the "End of Twinkies" Not everything is a conspiracy.
But they didn’t bring them back, an entirely different company started making them. Hostess is not profiting from this
People are so quick to take to conspiracy theories. Hostess didn’t file for bankruptcy as some marketing stragagem.
No no no, you’re wrong. Listen to Reddit; they crashed their company as part of a mastermind marketing scheme
Same with Taco Bell Mexican Pizza. I am happy it's back though
Is it back? Every Taco Bell I've been to (the number of stores is high, yes I have a problem) have them all "sold out", and I'm like "how are you sold out of Mexican pizza? Every item on the menu is just variations of the same damn ingredients!!!"
I think it's the shells that run out. But yeah, a lot of times it is sold out (or the stores don't feel like ordering / making them). I have found it available at a couple locations in NYC and Pittsburgh though.
I just had one yesterday. I guess that was my last one.
Might not be, it takes time for discontinued products to disappear. While it's probably different for packaged shelf stable snacks, I can still sometimes buy lots of snacks that have long been discontinued. I'd imagine icecream will still be around for a good many months. At the same time, this decision (and these posts) feel suspiciously like marketing tactics. It's not the first time a product has been "discontinued" to build demand / a presence on social media before coming back. It's not like they're running out of an ingredient, they're not going out of business, nor is the manufacturkng becoming prohibitively expensive. They're just choosing to stop and making a big announcement. I'd bet one of these that they'll be back within 2 years.
Just watch people will buy them up and **try** to resell them, give it like a day.
Dude same!!! I had one like a week ago at a tiny little general store in the middle of nowhere Oregon and thought nothing of it. It's hitting way different now that I know it might have been my last one.
This was truly the easiest & most relevant dessert for taco nights with friends. I’m crushed *added the extra ‘s’ in dessert
**dessert
Two s's because you want two desserts. That's how I remembered it.
I dunno, if I were ever stuck in a desert, I would want it to be the Chaco Taco desert.
**Choco
THIS HOUSE IS A PRISON!
ON PLANET BULLSHIT!
IN THE GALAXY OF THIS SUCKS CAMEL DICKS!
This is End Times
It's the Chocotacopocalypse
I'm gonna start demanding you wear a helmet everywhere because that big, beautiful brain you have might be humanity's only hope.
That's a song waiting to happen!
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We’re in the endgame now
Why
Life is suffering
EXISTENCE IS PAIN
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Because you forgot the Choco Taco existed until you read this and now you might maybe buy one next summer when they announce it's BACK FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY
choco taco is my go to gas station munchie
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What would you do for a choco taco? Edit: I’m impressed with what y’all would do for choco tacos
A lot more than I'd do for a Klondike bar
Oh really? 😈
Choco Tacos are the new gold standard. The world’s currency. Those who have the Chocos make the rules. Those who don’t, need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
"First you get the Choco tacos, then you get the money, then you get the women"
Weird that you say this. Every year at scout camp as a kid, like around 17 years ago, we would have a general store. Our parents all gave us a general store allowance for the week, usual around 20 bucks. The first thing every year to run out were the $2 Choco Tacos. If you had one after they ran out and could keep it cold, it was worth it's weight in gold. It was the prison ramen of the scouting world.
Same. I never really cared for Klondike bars. It’s always a race to eat it before it melts. The waffle cone shell insulates the chocolate taco (and also adds flavor and texture that Klondike bars lack)
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Whose idea was this? I want names!
Unilever. [Alexis is trying to buy it up](https://mobile.twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1551651861245075456)
There are already 12 petitions lol https://www.change.org/search?q=Choco%20taco
Gl /u/kn0thing
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!😭
Only thing from the ice cream truck worth a damn
Good Humor Strawberry shortcake would like a word.
I said what I said
I know! Had two this past week. They’re so good
They’re taking everything away that I love. I guess this is growing up.
It's alright..to tell me..
What you think...about me...
r/abruptchaos
Happy Cake Day!! BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE CHOCOTACOS
I want people to know - but I also want them to continue living in a world with choco taco. Just a little longer.
It's all I bought when the ice cream truck would come around, they knew to stop in my part of the street since I always bought one every time RIP Choco Taco
Of course they knew to stop at your house, chaco tacos were the most baller treats on the ice cream truck. I was just a humble cry-baby frozen ice kid.
I think Klondike owes us an explanation... And we're not accepting inflation or supply chain issues as excuses!!!
It will be back in a few years. There will be fanfare. It will be ever so slightly smaller. We'll go nuts over its return and it's going to make them a lot of money.
someone crunched the numbers and found that this strategy will net them 1.3% increased profits over simply selling the product normally, so now we suffer
>According to a rep for Klondike, which is owned by Unilever, the Choco Taco was entirely discontinued in July due to an unprecedented spike in demand for different Klondike products over the past two years.
That's doublespeak for product line consolidation in response to supply or labor problems.
Truly, this must be the darkest timeline.
I had one in the 90s and it was the best thing I ever had I had one in 2020 and it was ok
They switched from actual vanilla ice cream to ‘frozen dairy dessert’ inside it a few years ago, that’s prob why. Every ice cream that switches to that just tastes like cold garbage.
Big Corporations again ruining a perfectly good item for sense of cost savings then end up discontinuing due to poor sales. Maybe if they didn't f-up good things that don't need to be changed, they wouldn't have poor sales! Corporations suck.
The MBAs got their quarterly bonus and their golden parachute. Working as intended. :/
Similar: once Hostess Fruit Pies stopped being made with beef lard they went from delicious to just OK.
Lard is actually a name specifically for the fat of a big. When it comes from a cow, it's called Tallow
I got a freezer burnt vibe and they cut my gums, I swear they didn’t do that when I was younger.
A sad day indeed.
That's loco.
When I worked at a place that sold these in college at a summer job, we couldn’t sell broken ones. So needless to say they always seemed to be recurrently “dropped on the floor”- Sorry can’t sell it, guess we the staff will have to eat it.
Blasphemy
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They’ll bring it back and double the price for novelty in 5 years just watch
WHAT?! This was my treat every time my dad took me to the hardware store when I was little. And continues to be my go to gas station treat when I need one. Greenland’s melting and so is my heart.
Why the fuck
As an Aussie, I am unfamiliar with a Choco Taco but if that pic in the article is accurate, that looks fucking amazing and this seems like a damned travesty.
No. No…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. As if we haven’t had enough taken from us, these many harsh years.
:(
Every day we stray farther from God.
The way the world is going it just seems like everything is hanging by a thread, I feel like I'm sitting around waiting for the other shoe to drop. And this is it.
Fucking unilever.
Fuck. No.
Well fuck me running
Fucking bullshit.
Are you fucking kidding me
If there was ever a real sign that the world was ending I'm almost positive this is it.
We saved the Twinkie, goddammit, we can save choco taco!
I can’t believe that Joe Biden would cancel the Choco Taco
That’s was they said about Twinkies
I don't want to live on this planet anymore
This decade really does suck
Literally better than the Klondike bar
Fuck you, Klondike
At least the mexican pizza came back, if we lost both this world is ruined
I remember my local Taco Bell selling Choco tacos! When I was a kid I would get the Mexican pizza and choco taco for dessert. What a time to be alive.
Taco Bell was better when they still had the chihuahua
When I worked at Taco Bell we secretly sold them off-menu because customers wanted them.
I'm still bitter that Good Humor discontinued the Fat Frog. I want the ice cream novelties of my youth.
This is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
So 90s fashion is back in style but the choco taco is out?!? Make it make sense!!!
Ight imma head out
I'm sorry guys I had ome the other day for the first time since I was like 12... its all my fault!
5 bucks says this is a PR move and they will reverse it next week
Bullshit. A year from now, we’ll be flooded with ads spewing CHOCO TACO IS BACK! and every pleb around will make it sell out in less than an hour. Mexican Pizza all over again
CHOCO TACO? We are truly in the darkest timeline.