Chocolatey Orange Chunk

What is it?

Chocolate and orange is a British fixture more than an American one, which makes it an unusual thing for a Vermont brand to carry. The pairing works on a technicality: limonene, the compound behind the smell of orange peel, is fat soluble, so it dissolves into cocoa butter and spreads through chocolate instead of sitting on top of it. Here the orange is in the ice cream and not in the inclusions. The chunks are plain chocolatey pieces against a flavoured base, which inverts how the flavour usually gets built in confectionery, where the orange goes into the chocolate and there's nothing else in the bar. Chunk matters for size. A chip disappears into a spoonful; a chunk has to be bitten, so the two elements stay separate right through the tub.