Under The Counter has a notoriously sweet tooth. Not literally – he’s been sporting falsers since before the last time Scotland qualified for a major football tournament.
Let’s just say he enjoys a dessert. So, the Auld Boy was disconsolate to discover American brand Klondike had axed the Choco Taco.
If you’ve never heard of the Choco Taco, it’s a chocolate-coated taco-shaped waffle cone packed with ice cream, peanuts and artificially flavoured fudge. Based on that description, UTC wondered why it got the chop. “It sounds a million times better than a boring Magnum,” he said.
Oddly enough, both Magnum and Klondike are owned by Unilever – the world’s largest soap producer, according to the Auld Boy.
This is ironic, given the lather US shoppers got into over the Choco Taco’s demise. A Twitter storm erupted, the co-founder of Reddit offered to buy the manufacturing rights, and a Senator threatened to invoke legislation to keep the frozen treat in stores.
Quite right too, said UTC, standing foursquare behind his American cousins. Until he learned that Klondike had tweeted it was “working hard to find a way to bring Choco Taco back to ice cream trucks”.
This got a frosty reception from the Auld Boy, who despises the American bastardisation of the mother tongue almost as much as he hates vegetables. “Ice cream trucks?” he fumed. “It’s ice cream vans. And any daft Yank who says otherwise will get my boot in their fanny.”
