"dsi1" wrote in message
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On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 9:41:09 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:23:50 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
> >Ophelia wrote:
> >>
> >> "Gary" wrote in message ...
> >>
> >> jmcquown wrote:
> >> >
> >> > The idea of Nutella
> >> > never attracted me because I can't imagine spreading jarred chocolate
> >> > on
> >> > anything.
> >>
> >> I agree. And the commercials I saw showed "Mom" serving it to her
> >> young children for breakfast (Nutella spread on toast) before
> >> leaving for school. wow and yikes!
> >>
> >> ==
> >>
> >> I have never eaten Nutella so I have no idea what it tastes like, but
> >> why do
> >> you make it sound so poisonous?
> >>
> >> Surely it is not or it wouldn't be on sale?
> >
> >Not poisonous. Just doesn't sound like a very healthy breakfast
> >for children (or adults). Toast with a chocolate spread?
>
> Nutella is mostly a nut butter, contains some small amount of
> chocolate... just like goober is mostly peanut butter that contains
> some small amount of concord grape jelly. We don't like peanut
> butter, instead we have almond butter.

Technically, you could call it a "nut butter" - it has some nuts in it and
you can spread it on stuff. OTOH, what kind of nut butter is mostly sugar?
Nutella in the US is nearly 60% sugar. My guess is that European Nutella has
somewhat less sugar.

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I don't know.