(Picture: Terry’s Chocolate Orange/metro.co.uk)

RED ALERT: Christmas is ruined and everything is awful.

Following the announcements that Quality Street has killed off our favourite chocolate and Wetherspoons will no longer serve Christmas dinner, Mondelez International has driven the final nail into the Christmas coffin by shrinking Terry’s Chocolate Oranges by 10%.

What. The. F***.

In the last few months, the Terry’s Chocolate Orange arriving on supermarket shelves has shrunk from 175g to 157g – making it 10% smaller than it was last year.


Which would be heartbreaking in itself. But what’s really prompting outrage is news that despite the shrinkage, most supermarkets are still selling the smaller Terry’s Chocolate Oranges for the same price they were before.



Right at this moment, Tesco is selling the 157g Terry’s Chocolate Orange for £2.

The horror. Oh, the horror. They might as well just call it a Terry’s Chocolate Satsuma.

Apparently the shrinking happened over the last few months, unnoticed by the general public.

But thankfully, a Facebook group called ‘Mondelez are shrinking our Terry’s Chocolate Oranges’ has brought this very serious issue to the world’s attention. It currently only has 35 likes, but we reckon outrage is simmering and growing just in time for Christmas.

In short: trust no chocolate brand. Trust no one.

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