Nutella needs to be a controlled substance

[Jakub]

I buy some, I try it, I eat some more and then some more and then some more. Then my stomach starts hurting and I put it aside but only for a while. I'll eat it until it's done.

Reminds me of those anti-cocaine commercials about the monkey that would pick coke over food, water, even its children.

[Talisker]

I feel the same way about these (http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1647,131179-248198,00.html), which is why I never make them. (been that way ever since I was a kid)

[Pogo]

Is that the same stuff that goes into Ferrero Rocher chocolates?

Also:
Per 13 OZ Jar (371g) (USA & Canada Product)
Calories 1950
Fat 110g - Saturated 35g - Trans 0g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 150mg
Carbohydrate 220g - Fiber 10g - Sugars 210g
Protein 30g

Stop eating whole jars, man!

[Leah C]

Mmmmmm Nutellla.

I reached my ultimate Nutella low about six years ago when I discovered that it tastes REALLY REALLY GOOD sandwiched between two soft baked chocolate chip cookies. My friend and I went through half a jar in a night making those.

[Charlatan]

I have never had (to my knowledge) Nutella. So you're saying it's good?

I vaguely think it's some sort of chocolate spread. Why then is it not called Choctella?

[tiohn]

It's a hazelnut chocolate spread.

I binged on Nutella a lot in college. My health thanks me for having not eaten it in several years, although my mind does not.

[Leah C]

It's a chocolate/hazelnut spread. The name is based on the word "nut".

[Pogo]

Ok some Wiki research shows that this is what they use inside of Ferrero Rocher chocolates.

I'm finding some of this stuff ASAP

[Creole Ned]

To be completely accurate, I suppose they might call it Choconutella.

I loved the stuff. I would sometimes just scoop it out of the jar with a spoon and eat it straight up. But it doesn't go well with a pre-diabetic diet, so it's off-limits now.

[Sol Invictus]

I ate a whole vat of this once, several years ago. That was the last time I ever ate it.

[Jakub]

Yeah it's the stuff they put in Ferrero Rocher.


It's absolutely terrible for you. Short of lard, I don't think there's a more calorie-dense foodstuff out there. Unlike lard, you can easily consume a couple of pounds per day - and enjoy it (though perhaps not the stomach aches). It really doesn't help that I can chow down hazelnuts like a fat kid goes through cookies and I used to be a huge chocolate milk/cocoa buff.

[tromik]

I ate a whole vat of this once, several years ago. That was the last time I ever ate it.
Speaking of eating stuff that comes in vats, I used to eat muffin batter right out of the tub when I worked at McDonald's. One scoop into the pan, one scoop into my mouth. I also drank shake/Flury mix in its liquid stage. Made a great coffee cream replacement.

[ydejin]

It's absolutely terrible for you. Short of lard, I don't think there's a more calorie-dense foodstuff out there. Unlike lard, you can easily consume a couple of pounds per day - and enjoy it (though perhaps not the stomach aches). It really doesn't help that I can chow down hazelnuts like a fat kid goes through cookies and I used to be a huge chocolate milk/cocoa buff.

I dunno. Looking at the Nutritional Information (http://www.nutellausa.com/nutInfo.htm) it doesn't look that bad. It's high calorie, but it's not particularly high fat for the number of calories, and the saturated fat levels aren't all that high.

Compare that to say for example a serving of Ben & Jerry's (http://www.benjerry.com/our_products/flavorWorld.cfm) Chunky Monkey. One Nutella serving gives 200 calories and 10% of your daily saturated fat. One serving of the Ben & Jerry's gives you 290 calories and 50% of your daily saturated fat.

If you ate nothing but Nutella, you wouldn't be exceeding your daily saturated fat levels. 2000 calories of Nutella would give you exactly 100% of the recommended saturated fat for a 2000 calorie diet. I'm sure there would be other problems to a Nutella pure diet, but saturated fat wouldn't be one of them.

[Jakub]

Have you seen how small a single serving of nutella is? :)

[Machfive]

Two cinnamon graham crackers. Chunky peanut butter on one cracker. Nutella on the other. Form into a sandwich.

Break off a piece. Dip into milk. Eat.

Notice how 2 weeks later, you're out of nutella, peanut butter, and you seem to be 10 pounds heavier.

[Skipper]

When I lived in Italy they would serve hot flaky croissant like things for breakfast and Nutella to spread in them. Jesus that shit was good. There was also a version of a white chocolate spread but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it.

[Brendan]

This stuff makes awesome body paint for nocturnal activities.

[Pogo]

The bitter saltiness of poon doesn't really go with chocolate.

[Brendan]

The bitter saltiness of poon doesn't really go with chocolate.

You and I clearly haven't been with the same women.

[Rimbo]

yeah... i was once with a girl who tasted like bread

bread goes fine with nutella

*shrug*

[wumpus]

used to be a huge chocolate milk/cocoa buff
Would you say you are a.. chocoholic?

[Chris Nahr]

Nutella is a kind of nougat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nougat) which refers to all kinds of chocolate mixed with nuts. The stuff in Ferrero Rocher is not exactly Nutella but also a kind of nougat. I'm sad so many people here don't know nougat because it's the best food ever.

[Orinoco]

I'm sad so many people here don't know nougat because it's the best food ever.

Remember that you're talking to Americans - they think that Hershey chocolate is edible.

[Hanzii]

Nutella is a kind of nougat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nougat) which refers to all kinds of chocolate mixed with nuts. The stuff in Ferrero Rocher is not exactly Nutella but also a kind of nougat. I'm sad so many people here don't know nougat because it's the best food ever.


Come taste my homemade nougat/marzipan chocolates then. I make them every christmas.


We have freshly baked buns and nutella every saturday here (also lemon curd). Only saturday, though, and a jar lasts for several months.
I reccomend moderation (and I'd never eat it without bread, my kids probably would, but they don't get to decide)

[Bill Dungsroman]

Remember that you're talking to Americans - they think that Hershey chocolate is edible.

http://www.totalheuristics.com/images/eurotrash.jpg

[Athryn]

The bitter saltiness of poon doesn't really go with chocolate.

There's more than one place to spread nutella on a woman.

[Bad Neighbor]

I will give you a dollar if you manage to make marzipan taste good.

Remember that you're talking to Americans - they think that Hershey chocolate is edible.

Ok, Mr. Fancypants, find me a decent chocolate bar that doesn't cost $3+ a bar.

[Brendan]

There's more than one place to spread nutella on a woman.

Also, if we are going to get all educational : food + vagina = probable infection

[Kalle]

Ok, Mr. Fancypants, find me a decent chocolate bar that doesn't cost $3+ a bar.

No. You get what you pay for.

[GyRo567]

They're all $2 here, and 70% cocoa is about as low as it goes. Of course, it'll make anything from Hershey's taste fake after you take a bite. Even if you eat less of it, it's still worth it.

[krise madsen]

In Denmark, a guy ran for parliament with a demand for Nutella in field rations as his political platform. He was elected.

Respectfully

krise madsen

[Athryn]

No. You get what you pay for.

This is actual truth.

BTW: there are several good US chocolate manufacturers that aren't Hershey. Scharffen Berger (http://www.scharffenberger.com/) and Guittard (http://www.guittard.com/home/index.html) are a couple of the many delicious chocolate makers based in the US. :D

And yes, they both have European roots but that's where some of the finest chocolate making is, anyway! :P

[Siren]

Scharffen Berger is good, but Leonida's (http://www.leonidas.com/pralines?id=INTRO) gets my money.

[RepoMan]

Remember that you're talking to Americans - they think that Hershey chocolate is edible.
Not all of them, snobberoo.

[Destarius]

Not all of them, snobberoo.

I highly recommend Royce chocolate from Japan. That stuff is legal crack.

[Machfive]

I will give you a dollar if you manage to make marzipan taste good.



Ok, Mr. Fancypants, find me a decent chocolate bar that doesn't cost $3+ a bar.

Dove chocolate bars are far better than Hershey's, though you get about 40% less chocolate for your $0.80.

On the upside, the chocolate you DO get doesn't taste like fucking wax.

One step up from that is Lindt, which might cost $1.50 to $2.00 per bar, but is really fucking tasty.

[Scrax]

Dove chocolate bars are far better than Hershey's, though you get about 40% less chocolate for your $0.80.

On the upside, the chocolate you DO get doesn't taste like fucking wax.

One step up from that is Lindt, which might cost $1.50 to $2.00 per bar, but is really fucking tasty.

No fucking way?

[Pogo]

You and I clearly haven't been with the same women.
I'm sure your women taste like fucking strawberries when you're going down to town, but mine were universally bitter/salty in varying degrees. Not that I think that's bad at all.
Nutella is a kind of nougat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nougat) which refers to all kinds of chocolate mixed with nuts. The stuff in Ferrero Rocher is not exactly Nutella but also a kind of nougat. I'm sad so many people here don't know nougat because it's the best food ever.
From Wikipedia, but there's no guarantee of this information.
"The sweets consist of a whole roasted hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with nutella/hazelnut cream and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts."

[Machfive]

No fucking way?

Am I pointing out the obvious or something? Cat Master seemed to genuinely think decent chocolate was too expensive.

My memory was a bit fuzzy on the pricing and sizing. It looks like Dove is only 15% smaller for the same price as the Hershey's, and while Lindt is over the $3.00 mark, it's 3 times as much chocolate as the Dove.

Hershey's Bar 43g ($0.80) (1 star, barely edible. Good for when the only other pseudo-chocolate is a bar of carob.)
Dove Bar 36.9g ($0.80) (3 stars. Good, but not phenomenal.)
Lindt Bar 100g ($3.50) (4 stars. Total noms, but 60% more expensive by volume compared to the dove.)

[Orinoco]

Am I pointing out the obvious or something?

I think he was refering to the various f-words in your post.

OK, so not ALL American's like Hersheys, but as a Brit living in Philly I seem to have to explain frequently why I don't want to share a candy bar; or put it on ice cream; etc. A colleague went to London recently and asked me why the Kit-Kat tastes better - BECAUSE IT'S NOT COVERED IN BROWN EAR-WAX!

Thanks for the link to Leonida - looks like they have a store in Philly so I'll check it out.

[Gordon Cameron]

Remember that you're talking to Americans - they think that Hershey chocolate is edible.

If you think something's edible, then it's edible.

[Gordon Cameron]

OK, so not ALL American's like Hersheys,

I'm an American and I like Hershey's.

Shall I challenge you to a duel, or something?

[Orinoco]

If you think something's edible, then it's edible.

Monkey brains are edible - doesn't mean I'll ever eat them.

But I get your point.

[Orinoco]

I'm an American and I like Hershey's.

Shall I challenge you to a duel, or something?

Yes - we shall fight with kippers while on a raft floating down the Mississippi!

Wait - I think I left out an s

[Pogo]

I picked some up today...

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2563/nutellaid2.jpg

Oh yeah, I'm going there.

[Jojo]

I'll join your raft team Orinoco. Hershey's is foul. As well as the wax-flavour it has a vomity aftertaste.

[Leah C]

My friend's four year old has been making Nutella and salami sandwiches when left on his own in the kitchen.

[Funkula]

One of my friends tried putting Nutella on herrings a few years ago. He claims that, in the entire possibility space of flavor combinations, it is unequivocally the worst.

[Talisker]

Sour Patch Kids dipped in convenience store extruded nacho cheese is worse, I assure you.

[Siren]

That may be, but Sour Patch Kids with buttered theatre popcorn is amazing.

[Jakub]

In Denmark, a guy ran for parliament with a demand for Nutella in field rations as his political platform. He was elected.

Respectfully

krise madsen
That's actually a brilliant idea. It's very calorie-rich, it doesn't go bad, it's very tasty (unlike anything else in field rations), portable, and something you could trade in a poor country.

[wumpus]

It's true, European chocolate is way better than Hershey's. NYT says so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/dining/11cand.html

And I for one concur.

[Brendan]

Do Reeces Peaunut Butter pieces qualify as trash?

Because I'm rather fond of them.

[dogbert]

I swore off Nutella after seeing my sister's puke from eating a container's worth back in high school.

[Glenn]

BTW: there are several good US chocolate manufacturers that aren't Hershey. Scharffen Berger (http://www.scharffenberger.com/) and Guittard (http://www.guittard.com/home/index.html) are a couple of the many delicious chocolate makers based in the US. :DScharffen Berger has been owned by Hershey for several years. I don't know if they changed their manufacturing process at all after they were bought, but I do remember the price doubling.

[shift6]

Am I just a NorCal weenie for loving me some Ghirardelli (http://www.ghirardelli.com/)? They have a giant mixing vat there which you can watch make chocolate. I'm not saying I want to have sex with it, but I would be willing to have sex in it.

[Omniscia]

They do make good beverage cocoa.

[fire]

Do Reeces Peaunut Butter pieces qualify as trash?

Because I'm rather fond of them.

Mmm, as far as trashy chocolate, I'm a big fan of Milky Way Midnight.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/496230053_138a2d5f46.jpg

Soooooo good.

[Lunch of Kong]

Mmm, as far as trashy chocolate, I'm a big fan of Milky Way Midnight.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/496230053_138a2d5f46.jpg

Soooooo good.

In college, I survived on a diet of dark chocolate milky way bars and mr pibb from the vending machine near the computer lab.

I know your heaven.

[Athryn]

Scharffen Berger has been owned by Hershey for several years. I don't know if they changed their manufacturing process at all after they were bought, but I do remember the price doubling.

They still produce better tasting chocolate than the parent company!

Am I just a NorCal weenie for loving me some Ghirardelli? They have a giant mixing vat there which you can watch make chocolate. I'm not saying I want to have sex with it, but I would be willing to have sex in it.

I love their chocolate too, their chocolate chips make some of the best chocolate chip cookies.

I am also a sucker for See's (http://www.sees.com/) and associate it with fond childhood memories. My grandmother loved them, and my mom still does. Very much a West Coast tradition, and a billion times better than those crappy Whitman's samplers, or whatever the ones are you get at the drugstore.

[Morberis]

.... I think I need to take a trip to... buy... things...

But yes Nutella is f*cking nuts.

One of my favourite recipes is a sandwich made with
buttered toast
sliced bananas, lots of bananas
Nutella

Sometimes it's just great to add to a banana, dickerdoodle style - though you do need to heat the Nutella up a bit to apply correctly.

[Machfive]

It's true, European chocolate is way better than Hershey's. NYT says so.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/dining/11cand.html

And I for one concur.

Anyone with any iota of a palate and more than 25 years on this earth should have a memory of Kit-Kat bars and Reese's Peanut Butter cups that didn't taste like fucking ass.

I can't eat half the candies I did as a kid because their formulas have been altered and messed up beyond recognition.

The only US-centric candies I'm fond of these days are Peanut Butter M&Ms, Reese's Crispy Crunch bar, and Twixes.

[Wendelius]

As a Belgian, I fully support and encourage all the Nutella love. The stuff is great on sandwiches, on baguettes, on toasts, on thin (continental style) pancakes and probably on many more things. Didn't realise it was that popular that far out of our little Kingdom. I'm off to buy shares in the company. Keep binging on full jars! :)

Wendelius, who found a way out of the credit crunch

[Tom Ohle]

I am also a sucker for See's (http://www.sees.com/) and associate it with fond childhood memories. My grandmother loved them, and my mom still does. Very much a West Coast tradition, and a billion times better than those crappy Whitman's samplers, or whatever the ones are you get at the drugstore.

Eww... for some reason I always buy See's when I'm at the airport in SF or some other See's-sporting city... but the stuff is so damn sweet. Ack. Decent if you're only eating one or two pieces, but not good for binging.

As for Nutella... well, yeah, as a German I think it's part of my required-eating DNA. I haven't eaten it in a long time, though, because of a few binges. Jar of Nutella, loaf of Wonder"bread"... mmmm. Come to think of it, though, that last binge may have been the last time I ate Wonderbread, too.

[wisefool]

Short of lard, I don't think there's a more calorie-dense foodstuff out there.

In other words, it's the perfect food stuff for hikes and the zombie apocalypse.

Goshdarnit. Apparently, since 2003, UK diluted chocolate can now be sold to the rest of Europe. (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/16/chocolate.war/) BAH!!

The worst chocolate I've eaten is from China (for Chinese domestic consumption.) It tastes like Nestle Quik. Cakes, ice cream, everything.

[Anders Hallin]

Other things that I love the UK for: shortbread stem ginger cookies and crisps.

[Morberis]

As a Belgian, I fully support and encourage all the Nutella love. The stuff is great on sandwiches, on baguettes, on toasts, on thin (continental style) pancakes and probably on many more things. Didn't realize it was that popular that far out of our little Kingdom. I'm off to buy shares in the company. Keep binging on full jars! :)

Wendelius, who found a way out of the credit crunch

It was actually my european relatives that turned us on to the stuff 10 years or more ago. They also tried to hook us on this weird sugar snack that you pour out of a box onto toast but yeck.

Edit: Just read that article and Mmmm who doesn't want to eat something called vegelate.

[krise madsen]

I like this thread. It has google ads for candy. Nice to get the fat homo ads off my back for a change.

It was actually my european relatives that turned us on to the stuff 10 years or more ago. They also tried to hook us on this weird sugar snack that you pour out of a box onto toast but yeck.


Brown sugar?

Respecfully

krise madsen

[MonkeyPunky]

IHOP has Nutella crepes on the menu. Crepes with Nutella and bananas inside and strawberries on top.

[Chowhound]

See's is pretty awesome. I get some for myself when I can, and almost always buy as gifts for family and coworkers overseas.

[Morberis]

I like this thread. It has google ads for candy. Nice to get the fat homo ads off my back for a change.



Brown sugar?

Respecfully

krise madsen

Nah brown sugar is good (+cinnamon, oh delicious).

Ok I just phoned home and had them dig up the old box we didn't eat (lol), the name of the stuff is De-Ruijter (http://www.deruijter.nl/).

http://www.holland-at-home.nl/images/De-Ruijter-chocolade-hagel-melk.jpg

[Jojo]

Ooh chocolate sprinkles. I can't quite figure out why they form part of breakfast for some people, but I'm not complaining. Yum!

[Talisker]

Ok I just phoned home and had them dig up the old box we didn't eat (lol), the name of the stuff is De-Ruijter (http://www.deruijter.nl/).
That's the name of the company; the stuff in the box is hagelslag (aka sprinkles). They sell it at the grocery store hereabouts (they sell balkenbrij too -- that's what happens when you live in Holland (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=holland,+mi&ie=UTF8&ll=42.783307,-86.099854&spn=6.047365,8.64624&z=7)).

[Orinoco]

I like this thread. It has google ads for candy. Nice to get the fat homo ads off my back for a change.

Respecfully

krise madsen

I get weight-loss ads. And they probably imply that I'm a homo.

Deliciously,

Orinoco Womble