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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ros Taylor

Perfectly round

We take it David Cameron wasn't looking for a Terry's Chocolate Orange at the bottom of his Christmas stocking this year.

The Tory leader used a speech on the NHS today to attack WH Smith for its two-for-one Chocolate Orange giveaways, which he said contributed to Britain's obesity problems.

Terry's parent company, Kraft, can hardly deny this - they have, after all, employed Dawn French, a woman unashamed of her size, to advertise the product.

Chocolate Oranges are something of a British weakness: Kraft boasts that they "sell like crazy" in the UK. The concept has been around since 1926, though the first Terry's fruits were Chocolate Apples - a curious flavour combination that survived until 1954.

A brief experiment with Chocolate Lemons in 1979 proved ill-advised, though a recent peppermint oil-infused special edition did enjoy some success.

Mr Cameron is no doubt aware that each one contains 55g of fat - well over half the amount Britons are advised to put into their bodies each day.

Nowadays, those trying to control their Chocolate Orange consumption can buy packets of individually wrapped segments. A dark Chocolate Raspberry is available in the US, but something tells me it ain't going to count towards your five-a-day fruit'n'veg target, either.

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