Terry's Chocolate Orange is a chocolate product created by Terry's in 1932 at Terry's Chocolate Works in York, England. In 1823, chemist Joseph Terry joined a York sweets company, where he developed new lines of chocolate, candied peel, and marmalade . At the onset of World War II, confectionery production was immediately halted. The factory was taken over by F. Hills and Sons of Manchester as a shadow factory to manufacture and repair aircraft propeller blades. With the factory handed back to the company post-war, production was difficult due to continued rationing in the United Kingdom, and limited imports of raw cocoa. [source: Wikipedia]
Sculpture of a Terry's Chocolate Orange at The Chocolate Works residential site in York
By GhostInTheMachine - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
In the North American market, where it has had a variety of importers over the years, it was briefly sold as a Tobler (maker of the Toblerone) product.
The company opened the Art Deco-style factory known as Terry's Chocolate Works[5][6] in 1926, and began launching new products.[7] These included the Dessert Chocolate Apple (1926), Terry's All Gold (1931) and the Chocolate Orange (1932).[8]
In 1954, production of the chocolate apple was phased out in favour of increased production of the chocolate orange.[7] In 1979, Terry's launched the Chocolate Lemon, but it was withdrawn three years later.[8]
The Terry's Chocolate Orange comprises an orange-shaped ball of chocolate mixed with orange oil, divided into 20 segments, similar to a real orange, and wrapped in orange-skin patterned foil.
Since 2018, the Terry’s Chocolate Orange is produced in Strasbourg, France, by Carambar.
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