Terry’s Chocolate Orange fans feel ‘robbed’ after discovering axed product from 1950s
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Terry’s Chocolate Orange has launched a number of exciting products in the last few years – everything from new flavours, to hot chocolate bombes and truffles.
They also caused controversy after axing an ‘unreal’ product just days before Christmas, with many mourning the loss of the White Chocolate Orange. But most recently it’s not a new item that’s got chocolate lovers in a spin, it’s actually a very old one – the Terry’s product that came before the iconic orange.
Fans of the brand are just discovering that before the chocolate giants created the famous treat, they first made a Chocolate Apple, which launched in the UK in 1926. The Chocolate Apple was intended to be served as a dessert centrepiece at dinner parties and was designed to resemble the fruit it was named after. However, that’s where the similarities stopped, as it was not apple-flavoured.
Terry’s Dessert Chocolate Apple was produced until 1954, when it was discontinued following World War II. At this time, coca was being rationed and the Chocolate Orange (released in 1932) had massively grown in popularity, so the brand decided to focus on their bestseller instead.
But these aren’t the only chocolate fruits the brand has ever made. An archive post shared on social media by the University of York’s Borthwick Institue for Archives reveals that there was once a Terry’s Chocolate Greengage – although it seems there’s little information available about this one.
