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A Terry’s Chocolate Orange ice cream is coming to UK stores very soon

Chocolate orange fans, assemble...

Georgina Pellant Georgina Pellant - 6th March 2023

With its original round shape and fun personality, Terry’s Chocolate Orange has long been a Christmas stocking must-have.

Soon, though, it’ll be just as tempting in the height of summer as bosses reveal plans to release a new Terry’s Chocolate Orange ice cream in the UK.

Promising to deliver the chocolate orange flavour we all know and love ‘with a frozen twist’, the new ice creams will be available in both tub and ice cream stick form later this month.

Retailing exclusively in Iceland, both the tubs and lollies will be made up of chocolate orange ice cream swirled with a chocolate orange sauce with sticks sold in packets of four.

Sharing the news via its social media pages on Friday 3 March, the Terry’s Chocolate Orange brand wrote: “Clear out your freezer…introducing our brand new Terry’s Ice Cream range.

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“The chocolate orange flavour you know and love, but with a frozen twist.

“Our delicious tub and ice cream sticks are coming to selected Iceland stores later this month, so watch this space .”

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It’s not the first time that Terry’s Chocolate Orange has wowed fans by releasing an ice cream version of their favourite chocolate treat.

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In 2012, Fredericks Dairies released Terry’s Chocolate Orange ice cream sticks comprised of vanilla ice cream with a chocolate orange sauce, covered in milk chocolate with orange oil.

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In the four weeks leading up to Christmas 2012, the ice cream became the firm’s best-selling ice cream product.

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This Manchester bar serves a bottomless cheese fondue with endless beer and wine

Georgina Pellant Georgina Pellant Bottomless cheese fondue at The Mews on Deansgate in Manchester

There’s a bar in Manchester serving a bottomless cheese fondue with endless wine and beer, and it honestly sounds like the perfect treat.

While it might scream cosy winter night in, with a huge outdoor terrace, The Mews is also a firm favourite during the summer months.

Add in a board of melt-in-the-mouth charcuterie, springy pieces of garlic sourdough and a host of crunchy cheese biscuits, and you’ve got yourself the ideal afternoon if you ask us.

But there’s more. Alongside all that cheese and meat and bread, included in the price of The Mews’ bottomless fondue, cheese lovers can also enjoy 90 minutes of non-stop drinks.

Bottomless cheese fondue at The Mews on Deansgate in Manchester
Bottomless cheese fondue at The Mews on Deansgate in Manchester
Bottomless cheese fondue at The Mews on Deansgate in Manchester. (Credit: The Manc Eats)

Costing £37.50 each, included in the deal is a huge pot of melted Italian Fontina cheese served with homemade garlic croutons, sourdough crackers, and slices of British charcuterie.

You’ll also get to enjoy an hour and a half of endless pints of house pilsner and carafes of red or white wine to enjoy alongside.

Serving up to six people, the bottomless cheese fondue is available only when you pre-book, so make sure to get in touch ahead of your visit to let The Mews know that you’re coming.

If you’re not on the sauce, you can opt for the cheese fondue alone. Without the booze, it’s quite a bit cheaper at £25 for one, and £2.50 on top for any additional people who want to get stuck in.

Housed up on Deansgate Mews, just behind the main hustle and bustle of Deansgate, there’s plenty of space inside as well as a large, secluded terrace that is quite the suntrap (when the Manchester sun is shining).

To find out more and book, visit The Mews website HERE and follow the bar on Instagram.

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‘The average cost of a pint’ in the UK by region, according to the latest data

Danny Jones Danny Jones the average price of a pint in the UK by region

Does it feel like pints keep getting more and more expensive almost every week at this point? Yes. Yes, it does, and while you can’t expect a city as big as Manchester to be one of the cheapest places to get one in the UK, we do often wonder how it compares to other parts of the country.

Well, as it happens, someone has recently crunched the numbers for us across the nation, breaking down which regions pay the most and the least for their pints.

The data has been examined by business management consultancy firm, CGA Strategy, using artificial intelligence and information from the latest Retail Price Index figures to find out what the ‘average cost of a pint’ is down south, up North and everywhere in between.

While the latest statistics provided by the group aren’t granular enough to educate us on Greater Manchester’s pint game exactly, we can show you how our particular geographic region is looking on the leaderboard at the moment.

@the.manc Just trying to walk home and the Northern Quarter keeps tempting me in for a pint. 🙈 #themanc #manchester #mcr #northernquarter #spring ♬ original sound – The Manc

The average price of a pint per region in the UK

  1. Wales – £4.21
  2. North East – £4.28
  3. Northern Ireland – £4.42
  4. Scotland – £4.42
  5. Yorkshire and the Humber – £4.42
  6. North West – £4.42
  7. West Midlands – £4.42
  8. East Midlands – £4.42
  9. East England – £4.56
  10. South West – £4.93
  11. South East – £4.94
  12. London – £5.44

That’s right, we Mancunians and the rest of the North West are technically joint mid-table when it comes to the lowest average cost of a pint, sharing the places from 3rd to 8th – according to CGA, anyway.

Powered by consumer intelligence company, NIQ (NielsenIQ) – who also use AI and the latest technology to deliver their insights – we can accept it might seem like it’s been a while since you’ve paid that little for a pint, especially in the city centre, but these are the stats they have published.

Don’t shoot the messenger, as they say; unless, of course, they’re trying to rob you blind for a bev. Fortunately, we’ve turned bargain hunting at Manchester bars into a sport at this point.

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We might not boast the lowest ‘average’ pint cost in the UK, but we still have some bloody good places to keep drinking affordable.

London tops the charts (pretends to be shocked)

While some of you may have scratched your eyes at the supposed average pint prices here in the North West, it won’t surprise any of you to see that London leads the way when it came to the most expensive pint when it came to average cost in the UK.

To be honest, £5.44 doesn’t just sound cheap but virtually unheard of these days.

CGA has it that the average cost of a beer in the British capital is actually down 15p from its price last September, but as we all know, paying upwards of £7 for a pint down that end of the country is pretty much par for the course the closer you get to London.

Yet more reason you can be glad you live around here, eh? And in case you thought you were leaving this article with very little, think again…

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