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[–] 53 points 7 months ago (14 children)

I am Italian and, living in Scandinavia, apart from being mostly disgusted by the other chocolate spreads, I am always very surprised to see the office managers, offering breakfasts on select days, defaulting to a teaspoon in the Nutella jar.

I grew up with a taboo for that and the only way I would ever have Nutella is by scraping some with a knife-side and spreading it thinly on a slice of bread.

It's funny to see people do such things and then coming with the question: "you Italians have pasta, pizza and Nutella and you still manage to be so thin. How?!"

Check your portions.

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

    Yeah as a Norwegian I've always been a bit weirded out when thinking about chocolate spread for more than two seconds. Tbf, I feel like you're making it out to be more normal than it is (but idk how it is in Sweden or Denmark). Among adults I very very rarely see chocolate spread on bread. Among children however... Not great for their nutrition. I think most parents think "better they eat something than nothing" but I'd argue maybe that's not always the case.

    On another note: holy crap the regional chocolate spread (nugatti) is like 10 times better than nutella. Nutella households are weird.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair I definitely think Nutella used to have better ratios because it used to taste better.

    I make my own now with far more hazelnuts

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Never considered that possibility. Do you have a recipe? Would love to try.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    I can't remember which one I used last but if you look up a "healthy" one it'll usually give you a better ratio of nuts to sugar. There are tons of recipes out there for homemade Nutella, so it's kind of a process of trial and error to play with the ratios to find what you like best

    I find the homemade stuff tastes way better since it's more like hazelnut butter with chocolate

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