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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Aimee Levitt

The Choco Taco, a beloved American treat, is dead. Or is it?

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The Choco Taco has existed for nearly 40 years. Photograph: Claire Grummon/AP

America’s ice-cream lovers suffered a blow this week when Unilever confirmed rumors that it was discontinuing its Klondike Choco Taco bar, a favorite on treat trucks and in supermarket freezer cases for nearly 40 years. But the Choco Taco is only the latest in a long string of casualties over the past two years as large food corporations have adjusted to inflation and supply shortages by adjusting their product lines.

“We’ve experienced an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio and have had to make very tough decisions to ensure availability of our full portfolio nationwide,” the Klondike Twitter account wrote on Monday.

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