About Terry's Chocolate Orange Large Bar
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The story of Terry's Chocolate Orange Large Bar
Tap it, then guard it
You know the ritual. One sharp tap on the table, peel back the foil, and it falls open into segments. Then everyone in the room suddenly takes a keen interest in oranges. Terry's began making the Chocolate Orange in 1932, and the segments and that famous tapability made it an instant success. The tap was the selling point then and it is the selling point now. Nobody has ever opened one quietly, and nobody ever will.
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Before the orange, an apple
One for the pub quiz. The very first Terry's product was a Chocolate Apple, and the brand was originally Terry's Chocolate Apple, before the orange version existed. The apple had its moment. The orange got the slogans: first 'Tap it and unwrap it', then the rather less polite 'Don't tap it...whack it!' Generations of kitchen tables have taken that advice very much to heart.
A sweet shop near Bootham Bar
Terry's of York goes back to 1767 and a small shop near Bootham Bar, selling boiled sweets and candied fruit, with larger premises in St Helen's Square from 1818. Joseph Terry, born in Pocklington, trained as an apothecary, set up as a chemist in Walmgate and later joined the Berry family confectionery business. Terry's stood alongside Rowntree's and Cravens in York's famous confectionery triumvirate. In 1963 the company passed from the Terry family to Forte Group, then to Colgate-Palmolive in 1977, United Biscuits in 1982 and Kraft Foods Inc in 1993.
Passed round like a segment
Kraft closed Terry's Chocolate Works in York in 2005 and moved production to its factories in Europe. The old works is luxury apartments now, which is one way to live in a chocolate factory. The business returned to the UK in 2019 as Terry's Chocolate Co, based in London. Today Terry's is one of the brands owned by Carambar & Co, a French confectionery company founded in 2016, and is made in Strasbourg. EU regulators authorised Ferrero's planned acquisition of the parent group CPK in October 2025, so another change of hands looks likely. The tap stays the same.