Comments on: Where can I buy Cadbury Chocolate Oranges?

Question: Where can I buy Cadbury Chocolate Oranges?

emptybowl — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:18:31 -0800

Anyone know where I can get some Cadbury Chocolate Oranges? I buy them for my family every Christmas, but this year, I've checked all the usual suspects (supermarkets, CVS, Rite Aid, Target, Wal Mart, K-Mart) and have come up empty. I've tried asking at the stores, and they look at me like they have no idea what I'm talking about. Have they stopped producing them?

Actually, I'm wrong. They're not made by Cadbury, but Terry's.

By: the cuban

the cuban — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:24:48 -0800

No, they haven't stopped producing them - there's an abundance of them in the shops here (UK).

I'm presuming you're in the US.

By: boomchicka

boomchicka — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:27:02 -0800

You don't say where you live, but if you have a World Market store near you, you should definitely be able find them there.

By: cass

cass — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:28:48 -0800

They're everywhere around here (in Illinois). Try your local grocery store.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:54:16 -0800

Ooooo! Ooooo! I found Terry's at World Market yesterday but my problem is that the family tradition is to have a Droste's chocolate apple and I can't find one anywhere after having blithely assured my mom I would bring one.
I went online and the few sites that sell them seem to be out of stock or call the venerable item "discontinued." Anyone know where I could get one, or whether they are really discontinued?

By: biffa

biffa — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:01:01 -0800

You can get them online at britsuperstore, though this comes out of a search and I do not vouch for whether they're any good or not. Specifically, chocolate oranges are here - note you have a choice of milk or plain, I know what I'd be having. The company appears to be UK based though, so sadly may not be useful this year.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:05:54 -0800

E.T. loves Terry's, too. I can't find them anywhere, either. We don't have World Markets here, unfortunately. I saw the Droste a few days ago at the Acme near me, CunningLinguist.

By: matildaben

matildaben — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:14:20 -0800

I would say Cost Plus or Trader Joe's in U.S. West Coast.

By: FreezBoy

FreezBoy — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:20:11 -0800

Don't know where you are in the states, but my local Shaw's (grocery store) has them with their big bags of candy, and also in the seasonal holiday aisle. I also saw them at Trader Joe's yesterday.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:31:53 -0800

Bought one yesterday at the CVS in Madison, CT.

By: lodurr

lodurr — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:00:24 -0800

I get them from my sister every year, which means that they carry them at Aldi's in the Albany-Saratoga NY area. Here in western NY, CVS, Tops Markets and RiteAid are all reliable sources.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:04:46 -0800

Yeah, I buy one every year for family members; I get them at CVS. (Originally in NJ, now in DC)

Now, actual Cadbury candy (like Crunchie), that's tough.

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:17:36 -0800

Droste was the original, Terry's is an (inferior) knockoff.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:31:03 -0800

Right. Which is why I'm looking for Droste. I'm assuming all the answers above, save iconomy's, are re Terry's.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:33:24 -0800

XQU - there's a place just over the Key Bridge that has lots of overpriced British and Irish imports. Email me if you want me to dig up the address.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:39:01 -0800

CL- thanks, but we have a supplier already. Plus, friends going to school in Canada. ;)

By: spilon

spilon — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:47:17 -0800

I think the hurricanes earlier this year in Florida caused a shortage. Oh wait..... I don't know what I'm talking about....

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:21:41 -0800

I just saw Terry's at CVS not ten minutes ago - regular and milk varieties.

By: twine42

twine42 — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:26:48 -0800

For the UKers, do they still have the dark chocolate one in the red foil?

You can keep the white chocolate ones... I just want the dark ones!

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:29:58 -0800

I've seen Terry's at Walgreens and at Jewel-Osco here in the Chicago area.

As for actual Cadbury candy, there's a small grocery store called Casey's in Naperville which stocks a small but good selection of all sorts of British and Canadian candy. I've seen all sorts of things...Smarties, Flake, SnowFlake, Aero bars...you name it. Now if only they'd stock Citrus Trident. : )

By: Monk

Monk — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:31:30 -0800

Droste was the original, Terry's is an (inferior) knockoff.

Are you sure? Terry's Chocolate Orange has been around since 1932. I don't know when Droste’s version was introduced since their site only has a corporate history with no mention of the (excellent) oranges.

Besides, I was more a fan of the Droste Chocolate Apples; something I haven't seen in years.

As for the whereabouts of Terry's Oranges; every Canadian supermarket, convenience store and gas station I've been to has a good selection of white, dark and milk chocolate oranges as well as chocolate raspberries. Perhaps a friendly Canadian could send you some.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:52:42 -0800

I was more a fan of the Droste Chocolate Apples; something I haven't seen in years.

We had one last year but they seem to have vanished this year, even from online retailers. It would be awful if they quit making them.

By: norm

norm — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:01:02 -0800

In the Twin Cities metro area, you can get them at Byerly's or Lund's, if not everywhere.

(By the way, I always thought empty bowl was a much more, uh, subversive name, until I went and checked the linked homepage.)

By: emptybowl

emptybowl — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:14:22 -0800

I always thought empty bowl was a much more, uh, subversive name

Haha....I actually get that a lot, so you're not alone. :)

I checked a few more places at lunch, and still can't find them. Thanks for the tip, CunningLinguist , but I don't think they're worth going all the way across the Key Bridge. My family will just have to do without.

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:26:53 -0800

Are you sure? Terry's Chocolate Orange has been around since 1932. I don't know when Droste's version was introduced since their site only has a corporate history with no mention of the (excellent) oranges.

H'm. I thought I was sure, but research is proving inconclusive. I did learn that Terry's was originally an English company. Although there's nothing I can find on the web to prove it, I would wager that, despite the perky ad copy from Kraft-owned Terry's, Droste might actually beolder -- just a hunch, because Holland and Belgium mastered the chocolate arts earlier and better than the British or Americans. I will e-mail them to find out.

Chocolate history is an unbelievably interesting topic. One day I'll do up a nice FPP about it.

By: roboto

roboto — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:00:09 -0800

So what ever happened with your 20 questions gift, you never replied to your own post.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:17:28 -0800

I think also Droste's first came up with the idea of the chocolate apple that you whack, no matter which company is older. It's certainly been around for nearly 40 years, whereas Terry's orange seems to be fairly new.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:18:57 -0800

Terry's Chocolate Orange has been around since 1932.

God I wish one could delete one's own posts. One might be able to continue fooling the world into thinking one wasn't a moron. But noooooo.

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:38:09 -0800

It does seem that this widespread distribution for Terry's is new. I never saw a Terry's orange until maybe 7 or 8 years ago, while I remember the Droste from my entire lifetime. Seeing Terry's in CVS and grocery stores is a fairly recent phenomenon -- maybe coinciding with their purchase by Kraft? Still working on it. The Dutch folks haven't written me back, yet, either.

True that the apple was first -- maybe Droste led the way with the apple, and Terry's expanded upon the idea with the orange. Only the Dutch can tell us.

By: biffa

biffa — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:59:43 -0800

Miko, maybe distribution in the US, but in the UK I've been stuffing my face with chcolate oranges since I was a small child and they are solidly embedded in UK culture. There's even a joke about them in the film 28 days later.

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:03:31 -0800

Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying -- in my earlier post I noted that Terry's was an English company, so distribution in the US is more widespread in itself, and I believe it is relatively recent.