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In 2022, a rumor started to circulate on social media that Klondike, the ice cream company, had discontinued its taco-shaped, waffle-cone product called choco tacos. This is, unfortunately, true. The Choco Taco has been discontinued. When we reached out to Unilever, the company that owns Klondike, a spokesperson confirmed to us that the Choco Taco, which was invented in Philadelphia in 1984, had been discontinued. The spokesperson wrote: When this rumor first started circulating, Klondike had yet to make any statements about the discontinuation of the Choco Taco. When we originally addressed the rumor, we labeled it False, in part, because we didn't want to believe that it was true. Additionally, Klondike had dispelled these rumors just a few weeks earlier, writing that while the 4-packs had been discontinued, the single-serving products were still on offer: Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. In 2016, The Eater took a deep dive into the Choco Taco's storied history. While the piece is worth reading in its entirety, we'll leave you with this undoubtedly embellished quote from Alen Drazen about the company's inspiration for inventing the Choco Taco: Snopes has debunked numerous rumors about other ice cream products over the years. Here's a sampling:
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