Nutella is more than a food item - it's a global craze. The chocolate hazelnut spread has taken the world by storm over the past several years and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. However, despite the fact that Nutella has spent a considerable amount of time in the spotlight and under the scrutiny of the public eye, there are still some things that many people don't know. With that in mind, here we present our list of things you probably didn't know about Nutella. Well, what are you waiting for? Check it out for yourself below!
Number Ten: You Can Thank Hitler for Your Nutella Addiction
The prices of chocolate skyrocketed during World War II because of rationing in Europe. One infamous pastry artist - Pietro Ferrero - decided to add hazelnut to chocolate, dubbing it "Pasta Gianduja" in 1946. It was renamed "Nutella" in 1964.
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This breakfast, which involved a gathering of 27,854 people eating little more than Nutella, earned the title of the "Largest Continental Breakfast" in the book of Guinness World Records.
Number Eight: One Jar Is Sold Every 2.5 Seconds
You knew Nutella was insanely popular, but most people don't realize just how popular it is. One jar of the addictive stuff sells every 2.5 seconds. Considering a new baby is born every eight seconds, that's a lot of chocolatey hazelnut deliciousness.
Number Seven: It's Inspired a Few Crimes
In 2013, some thieves got away with 5.5 metric tons of Nutella inside a parked truck. And that's not the only crime the delicious spread has inspired. Columbia University came under fire in 2013 as well for spending a whopping $6,000 every week to supply one of its dining facilities with Nutella.
Number Six: The Story Behind The
While Europe and the United States account for most chocolate consumption, the confection is growing in popularity in Asia and market forecasts are optimistic about the prospects in China and India (Nieburg, 2013, para 9). According to the CNN Freedom Project, the chocolate industry rakes in $83 billion a year, surpassing the Gross Domestic Product of over a hundred nations (“Who consumes the most chocolate,” 2012, para 3). If chocolate continues grow popular in Asia, it stands to become even more lucrative.
“His decision to focus on the production of the Hershey milk chocolate bar is now hailed as one of the most important decisions in the history of American business” (Milton Hershey 1). Certain aspects of Milton Hershey’s life are impossible to not take notice of. A simple chocolate bar completely changed the world of business, Milton S. Hershey impacted the world in a huge way.
An average human will eat almost 19,000 chocolate chip cookies in their lifetime. And the great person who let us have all those cookies, is the person that invented it, which is Ruth Wakefield. But, did you ever think about how it was before that cookie was invented? Probably not, the chocolate chip cookie, started so many other inventions. Imagine life without chocolate chip cookies, we would miss so much more than just than the one treat. Your last chocolate chip cookie probably wasn´t very long ago, that´s why you will be interested in this topic. Today I am here to convince you that Ruth Wakefield, the creator of the chocolate chip cookie, needs to memorialized for her invention. In my speech today I will cover why Ruth Wakefield should
Before Milton Hershey had a world wide known chocolate business, he had a small, not so well known caramel business. Milton Hershey began his chocolate making business in 1893, when his father and him traveled to Chicago to attend a big job fair (Tarshis 14), but it wasn’t until 1900 when Hershey succeed in making the first milk chocolate candy bar (The Hershey Company). Hershey attended an exhibit hall of new and amazing inventions around the world at the fair in Chicago. As Hershey walked into the exhibit hall, he was struck by a delectable smell (Tarshis 14). “Hershey was already a leading candy maker. He had created the largest caramel factory in the country, but he became convinced that the future of his business would be chocolate. At the fair in Chicago, Hershey Bought chocolate-making equipment. He had it shipped back to his caramel factory in Pennsylvania. Then he hired two chocolate makers. Soon the company was churning out chocolate candies in more than 100 shapes” (Tarshis 15).
The videos provided for this subject builds a great understanding on what happens behind the scenes and how the production cycle of chocolates turns deadly for few. The chocolate industry is being accused having legit involvement in human trafficking. The dark side of chocolate is all about big industries getting their coco from South America and Africa industries. However, it is an indirect involvement of Hersheys and all other gigantic brands in trafficking (Child Slavery and the Chocolate Factory, 2007).
Madelyn McQueen - Twin Falls Idaho Have you ever wondered how the delicious, classic treat came to be? Well, any event you can think of after the date of 1938, the cookie was bound to be there. Several stories about how the country’s favorite baked good came to be, have been spread and believed by thousands. For example, Ruth Wakefield unexpectedly ran out of nuts for a regular ice-cream cookie recipe and, in desperation, replaced them with chunks chopped out of a bar of Nestle bittersweet chocolate. Another story is said that the vibrations from an industrial mixer caused chocolate stored on a shelf in the Toll House kitchen to fall into a bowl of cookie dough as it was being mixed. Sadly, all of these stories are false, says Carolyn Wyman in her recently published “Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book.” In her book, Wyman offers a more believable version of how the cookie came to be. Wyman argues, that Ruth Wakefield, who had a degree in household arts and a reputation for perfectionism, would not have allowed her restaurant, which was famed for its desserts, to run out of such
Until 1996, the FDA received over 10,000 complaints from consumers against NutraSweet. This corresponds to 80% of all complaints on food additives, but the FDA does nothing to alert the public, which assumes that a product advertised as healthy as it should be safe. Not the first time the FDA approved a drug harmful.
University of North Carolina, 2010. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. <http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/1866> Coe, Sophie D., and Michael D. Coe. The True History of Chocolate.
Chocolate bars are thought of as impulse buys, which means they require no thought. This is due to how inexpensive they are. However, if an ingredient such as sugar was to rise drastically, so will the cost of the chocolate bar therefore changing the buyer's perspective on the product class.
Society, with everyday that passes by, seems to go faster always constantly moving. What Honey Nut Cheerios conveys to the consumer is to have a positive attitude and the energy need just by enjoying a bowl of cereal. As a society, having the sufficient energy for the day is valuable and many products uses this to sell since consumers try to find some source to keep them going all day. Honey Nut Cheerios provides the energy consumers need in a healthy manner in which we receive all the nutrients our bodies need to produce the energy. With the honey mentioned in the product people get the idea that even though the product is meant to be healthy there is still a sweet side to it. Having a sweeter view of life is one of the goal of the company.
How many items in your pantry contain a corn product? Whether you know it or not, chances are that all of them do. When one thinks of corn, images of corn on the cob or popcorn may come to mind. Corn however is not grown solely for those summer barbeques or movie theater snacks. From the edible to the inedible, corn appears in all shapes and sizes.
I eat flattened fruit ‘n’ pastry bars from a side pocket in my purse and wish for
Many people know that bread became really famous throughout the American years. It comes from different countries with different varieties. Bread is one of the main sides that can combine with almost everything. Americans can’t get enough.
Less companies overseas importing the chocolate meant less export receipts. Because the company was also earning less money the amount they were paying in governments tax would also decrease affecting the Governments income and its