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Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske
I don't eat fast food or processed bag snacks (except for Pirate Bootie, but that's an occupational requirement); however back in the day, when I was a lad in college, Nutella could only be purchased in Europe. I had a friend who travelled to the continent once or twice a semester and would pick some up for me. We served it at Friday Happy Hours, on real baguettes from the french patisserie with a nice Cru Beaujolais (not the Nouveau plonk). However, once the stuff came to America, I gave it up. I stick with artisanal chocolate now.
fwiw, ymmv.  |
When I was a kid we went to Italy (the parental homeland), and we all fell in love with Nutella. We convinced our mom to buy a ton of the stuff to bring it back home -- it wasn't available in the US at the time.
After we got home, we tried it, and none of us liked it. Not at all. We decided it was because that was really the only sweet, other than ice cream, that we got while in Italy, while in the US the roost was ruled by confections like the blessed Snickers bar, which was completely unavailable and almost unheard of in Italy (especially in the small town where we primarily stayed).
