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The contents of a jar of Nutella (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 18 points 7 months ago (11 children)

It’s amazing that anyone was fooled by this marketing. It shows you the power of it I guess.

The first time I tried Nutella I immediately knew what it was: chocolate hazelnut cake frosting. The fact that people slather it on their toast every day seemed as absurd to me as eating cake frosting every day.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    North America has long had sweet treats as breakfast or early morning food so I'm surprised you're surprised.

    Things like Danish, donuts, pop tarts, toaster strudel, breakfast cereal... Etc etc

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Hold up the Dutch straight up put chocolate sprinkles onto buttered toast and you're coming at exclusively at the US? And Danish were named after somewhere. Strudel... that sounds awfully germanic... I think Europe is gaslighting us. Also I've had European milk chocolate, holy shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    The danish aren't all overweight though. 50% of white people in the US are now. 60% or more of the general population last I checked, and it takes an immigrant on average 7 years to become as overweight as the average American.

    So something is different.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Sure but not a chocolate cake. Putting Nutella on a piece of bread is basically having a piece of chocolate cake for breakfast.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I mean we have a cereal that’s openly marketed as just a box full of mini chocolate chip cookies

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Everyone knows those cereals are for kids and only as a special treat, not an every day thing.

    If someone wants to have banana Nutella crepes for breakfast once a month I don’t think that’s a big deal. But having toast with Nutella every day (or cookie cereal) is not a normal thing to do.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Lol, the commercials for said cereal were always literally about everyone saying it was cookies for breakfast, and who doesn't have the same breakfast every day? If there was a box of cereal, that's what we were eating until it was gone and then you open the next box of cereal or switch to toast/waffles/pancakes/biscuits/oatmeal until that box is used up, and so on and so forth until it's time to go back to the grocery store.

    If your parents bought the cookie cereal (and there were apparently enough to keep it on the shelves for years) then you were eating it everyday as a normal thing.

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