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Uhhhh, Choco Taco?

As the weather grows warmer during these blooming weeks of May, there's just one thing on the minds of junk food junkies. The hot sun and warm breeze ushers in a celebrity like none other, and when this guy hits the red carpet, we all get a little bit fatter. Welcome home, Mr. Ice Cream Man.

When you walk up to that familiar truck window, keep an eye out for the nontraditional yet completely delicious cult icon known as the "Choco Taco." Made by Klondike, these off-the-wall entrees seem to have faded into obscurity in recent years, but make no mistake: Choco Tacos are still out there, waiting to assault your tongue with fourteen kinds of chocolate and the spirit of the South.

Fashioned quite like any regular meat-stuffed taco, Klondike's version features a sugar cone shell containing frozen vanilla ice cream, topped with everything from chocolate syrup to peanuts. It's like eating a dozen kinds of junk food simultaneously. A warning label on each wrapper sums it up perfectly: "This is not a reduced fat food." We're allowed to treat ourselves once in a while, and gaining 6,000 pounds is a small price to pay for a treat so shamelessly filled with Mexican froza treata.

With sixteen grams of fat, Klondike promises a snack worth taking a long nap after. More rarely seen in your local grocer's freezer section these days, Choco Tacos are still regularly stocked in ice cream trucks. Much like that frog-shaped pop with the bubble gum eyes and those strange strawberry cones with more layers than an eighty-year-old redwood, Choco Tacos force us to chase escaping vehicles down long streets, screaming all the way. The best pleasures are the ones we suffer for, so get your running shoes on.

Choco Tacos have gained a sort of underground fame in recent years, in part because of their previous inclusion on Taco Bell's dessert menu, but mostly because they've grown so elusive. Those fortunate enough to have an abundant supplier of Choco Tacos are in the minority, while the rest of the world glumly pines for the slick silver wrapper and gooey chocolate crunch. Finding a Choco-Taco might seem like a low-rent fantasy, but have you ever tasted these things?

If you can't live without seeing a Choco Taco's guts, click here.

Posted by Matt on 05/17/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 126 comments

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Choco Taco
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Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

My highschool sells them in the freezer. $1 for one.

Chestnuts roasted by Takomaster @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Woo-hoo! Free Choco Taco!

O Taco,
Esta bueno
Mi estomago
Soy muy hambriento
Para tu delicioso
O Taco!

Chestnuts roasted by T.G. @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

A Choco haiku:

Taco of Choco
Ice cream innards so yummy
Get in my belly

Chestnuts roasted by psyduckx @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Here in Peoria, IL, Choco Tacos are EVERYWHERE.

Chestnuts roasted by JohnnyZero @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Yep, got these at my High School as well, though I’ve never seen them anywhere else. More tragically, the last time I saw an ice cream truck here in Northern Virginia was around 5 years ago. Truly we live in desperate times.

Chestnuts roasted by Evil Urchin @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

I’ve never had these, because they’ve never had them around where I’m from… but DAMN they look awesome!

http://www.vishalpatel.com

Chestnuts roasted by Vishalpatel @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

I hate to do this… sigh… but since I’ve lost my sweet tooth nearly completely in my adult age, I cannot comment on the ChocoTacos… However (cringe) I do have to comment on the cicadas… There is more than one type of cicada. The longest living ones have life cycles of 17 years… these are the ones that are popping out now on the East Coast… There are also cicadas with a life span of 13 years… There are other cicadas with a much shorter life span, just a few short years… The Tibicen Cicada has a life cycle of one year…. These are the ones I’d see every summer when I lived in Alabama… they’d leave their molted exoskeletons on the trunks of all the pinetrees… They definitely were not locusts,… they looked NOTHING like grasshoppers… these were the nightmare-inducing creatures that resembled bizarre alien insect life.

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Nacho – yeah, and people eat them. No, I’m not kidding. Do a Google search for “Cicada recipies” (or, alternately, spell it properly since I suck at spelling) and you’ll be amazed. Simmered with butter, sauteed, deep fried, you can do it all with these bugs. Some dude in Indiana had a severe allergic reaction to eating, I shit you not, 30 of these things sauteed in butter, parsley, and oregano. Apperantly, he had to eat the ones his wife didn’t want. There’s no accounting for taste, or even sanity.

Chestnuts roasted by No, you're not. @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Boy could I go for some ChocoTacos now! They used to be sold at the movie theater I worked at, but that was years ago. I bet Ice Cream Jones has something to do with their disappearence!

Chestnuts roasted by JWalters @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

I love those thingies! They’re small as fuck, and don’t actually cool you off, but they’re good.

Chestnuts roasted by Mikayla @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

I absolutely love choco tacos. They are one of my all-time favorite ice-cream treats. I also love the nutty-buddy, which is very similar to the choco taco; but nothing compares to the sweet chocolatey goodness of a ice-cold choco taco.

Chestnuts roasted by throckmorton @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

ChocoTaco’s are crap in a sac. Ten pounds of crap in a five-pound sac, to be exact. I’ve only ever eaten one, and though it was years ago, I still remember it. It was that bad.

Chestnuts roasted by Third Rate Ninja @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

I’d take triple chocolate Drumsticks any day of the week. I have never had a Choco Taco but since my taste for sweets has really dwindled i doubt that time will come. Back in the day when we used to have an ice cream man I was all about ice cream sandwhiches, froggy pops, those pac-man pops, and the jet pops (red, white, and blue). The jingle jangle sound of his truck was a huge part of my summer besides playing our Atari 5200. If I could only be 4 years old again…

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Ha ha losers. Chaco Taco is still alive and well in my town. They are endless. Why dont you just order them by the boxes and sell/eat em like gas stations and convenince stores? idots

Chestnuts roasted by EukerGod @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

At college, the Taco Bell still sells them, and we would buy several, despite the fact that we have no freezer. so we’d put them in the fridge expecting them to keep for the night. When we would go to eat them they’d be all gross and liquidy so we would just drop them off the balcony onto the sidewalk. Man they make a satisfying noise.

Chestnuts roasted by Ned @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

never really seen one ..but im not really in shape to chase a ice cream truck half a mile anymore..but your article makes it almost worth it.Maybe you should take up advertiseing matt?

Chestnuts roasted by Mr.Fun @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Hey! Another excellent thread! Congratulations for no idiots announcing what post they are. It makes me proud that people have grown up or that the idiots have left.

Either way, Choco Taco’s are great. But not as good as though rootbeer float pops from Schwan.

Chestnuts roasted by ZacWax @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Are Choco Tacos really so rare? They’re all over the dang place here in North Carolina! Man, for once I actually have something to be happy about living in this crappy state!

Chestnuts roasted by The Mysterious Dr. X @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

I still see Choco Tacos every now and then in Southern New Jersey, especially during the summer. I’ve never tried them myself, mostly because they just sound like overkill, but if Matt can eat them and survive, then maybe it’s not so bad…

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

God damn, I love these but they’re so expensive. Yeah, all the ice cream trucks have ‘em, for like $3.50 a pop! KOKY, our local ice cream truck-woman driver lady always rolls by and I never buy shit from her. It sounds fucked up, but I leave choco tacos for really special days such as: when I have money.

Chestnuts roasted by Jorge @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

they sell those bad boys at my school. they’re awesome… the only downside is that the sugar cone shell is always chewy, and sometimes a little soggy :p

nevertheless, choco taco rocks.

Chestnuts roasted by lise @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

I live in North Dakota and there are more choco tacos at our grocery stores than our population can handle. I never knew that they were obscure. I guess I’ve always taken their chocolatey goodness for granted.

Chestnuts roasted by Cuskey @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

Uh, is it midnight yet ?

Anywooz, I think they were released in England by Nestle and had some stupid named like “Panda’s Testicles” or something. You know, like Panda Pop, only green.

In the end, they sold so poorly that the company who manufactured them would post a voucher for a free panda testicle, until people got their free PT and realised how much it really did taste like a Turklish kebab butcher’s jizz (not that I’d know) but they cam back a year or so later promoted with some Polar Bear fetish or whatnot.

Chestnuts roasted by Doctor Bear @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

My town is full of the Choco Tacos

Ice cream trucks have them, dollar stores have them, hell I think Taco Bell even still has them here.

Yes, joyus Westerly, Rhode Island: The Land That Time Forgot When Dealing With Klondike Taco Products

Chestnuts roasted by Maxx @ 05/17/2004 2:31 PM

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