#Choco taco ice cream full#

But in a tweet designed to look like a press conference from a Choco Taco, Klondike insisted that 'it's not a PR stunt. Some on Twitter speculated that the discontinuation was a marketing stunt designed to generate excitement around the future return of the product. The backlash grew so large that Klondike updated the options that callers to its phone number receive, with the automated voice telling them 'if you are calling to share feedback about the discontinuation of the Choco Taco, press two.' Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian proposed buying the rights to the Choco Taco and restarting production himself, while Forbes reported that restaurants around the country were taking advantage of the news cycle to introduce Choco Taco tributes of their own.Ĭonsumers also flooded the Choco Taco's reviews page, slamming the firm's decision to kill the product without giving any prior notice.

#Choco taco ice cream full#

CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Klondike had announced at the end of last month that it was ceasing Choco Taco production thanks in part to 'an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio' which resulted in the company needing to make 'very tough decisions to ensure availability of our full portfolio nationwide.'įans of the Choco Taco, which first debuted in 1983, were outraged by the announcement and rushed to social media to make their complaints heard. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account Patrick Shriver responded that he’d “go in on this.” “I’d like to buy the rights to your Choco Taco and keep it from melting away from future generations’ childhoods,” Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian tweeted at Unilever, Klondike’s parent company. Some notable fans are already trying to figure out ways to resurrect the Choco Taco. Others may have more recent memories, especially because Taco Bell - which used to sell the product years ago - brought it back to some stores for a limited time earlier this year. “With the Choco Taco you’re getting the ice cream, cone, nuts, and chocolate with just about every bite.”įor many, the Choco Taco conjures long-ago memories of biting into a cold, sweet treat on a hot summer’s day. “When you eat a sugar cone, you generally eat the nuts, chocolate, and ice cream on the top,” Drazen told Eater. But ice cream in a taco shell - that was a game changer, according to inventor Alan Drazen. Ice cream in a waffle cone with toppings is not all that innovative. Eventually, Unilever, which now owns Klondike, began to distribute the product more widely. At first it was available mostly through ice cream trucks. The Choco Taco was born in the early 1980s, according to a 2016 article in Eater. The Choco Taco, a vanilla ice-cream core topped with peanuts and crispy chocolate and wrapped in a sugar cone-like shell, was especially beloved by connoisseurs for the way it was possible to get.