Marketing Morsels: RIP Choco Taco, Cheesecake Candles and More

A sampling of this week's brand moves

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Welcome to Marketing Morsels, a menu of delightful (and in this case, tragic) news items from the past week. Enjoy the assortment!

Morsel #1: RIP, Choco Taco



Klondike and parent company Unilever announced this week that they are discontinuing the beloved Choco Taco following “an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio” that resulted in the brand having to discontinue some products to meet demand for its others, including Klondike Cones, Shakes, Sandwiches and Bars. Some of the social responses from the likes of Stephen Colbert and Stephen King have been pretty entertaining, and The Daily Show did a whole segment questioning whether people really loved it that much in the first place.

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