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Happy World Nutella Day 2008!

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Yes, there is a World Nutella Day, to celebrate everyone's favorite hazelnut spread. In Italy, Nutella can't be labeled a chocolate spread because it doesn't meet minimum cocoa requirements. Those Italians, they take their chocolate very seriously. We should take note. But whether you call it chocolate, hazelnut, or just good, Nutella is in a class of its own. Here are a few of our favorite things to do with Nutella:

• Smear on a chunk of fresh baguette and eat for breakfast with a cup of really strong coffee. In Italy, we started every day like this.

Sandwich between sugar cookies

Swirl into ice cream

Put in homemade Pop-Tarts

• Eat with a spoon.

Also, check out a whole blog celebration and roundup of Nutella recipes and posts at Nutella Day.

Comments (21)

Sorry, but you forgot my favorite... a peanut butter and Nutella sandwich.

posted by kafern on 2008-02-05 15:55:50
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Peanut butter and Nutella crepes! SO good!

posted by bumblebeechicago on 2008-02-05 16:15:39
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Is that a photograph or illustration? In either case, it's very good.

Oh, yes, Nutella. Love it!

posted by practicallydone on 2008-02-05 16:29:02
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My cousin in Paris puts a New England spin on nutella sandwiches and eats them with Fluff when one of us Americans is kind enough to send him some.

posted by caitlinp on 2008-02-05 16:47:22
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here Nutella has too much sugar - in Europe less - it is better on the other side of the ocean

posted by Anusha73 on 2008-02-05 16:50:34
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Nutella and banana pressed sandwiches. Mmm...

posted by Sasha on 2008-02-05 16:53:51
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when i was in germany, we ate it for anytime meals on the most delicious rye bread. and the family i stayed with had their own bread slicer - come home from the bars and have nutella on german rye. i still dream of it.

posted by alexia on 2008-02-05 16:55:25
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Nutella and blackberry jam on toast is what we'll all eat in heaven.

posted by Doppelganger on 2008-02-05 17:14:51
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They serve Nutella at least once a week for "gouter" at my daughter's Montessori here in Suisse... Funny, how back home it was just fruit, veg or cheese&crackers at snack time, but here, it is chocolate at the end of classes just about every afternoon...

posted by monika1 on 2008-02-05 17:21:31
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Cupcake frosting by itself or swirl with some PB.

posted by bipolarbear on 2008-02-05 18:17:45
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A Nutella panini topped with whipped cream and some fresh strawberries - the first time I had it was at a wine bar and just couldn't get enough of it

posted by choby on 2008-02-05 21:03:28
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You haven't had a real breakfast until you've tasted my Nutella/banana panini!

posted by Eve in Hochelaga on 2008-02-05 22:24:08
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remember fluffernutter sandwichs, try it with nutella instead. You'll never go back.

posted by bbt on 2008-02-05 22:32:13
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I also am partial to Nutella Peanut butter combinations... smeared on toast, for instance.

posted by Mike D on 2008-02-06 09:44:06
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How long will Nutella keep? Just curious, I know this shouldn't be a problem, lol; but I was wondering.

posted by Nathan Aaron on 2008-02-06 12:19:42
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Every day should be a Nutella day!

posted by gregory on 2008-02-06 16:27:59
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One year and about 6 months ago, my mom sent me to the store for some crackers. While cruising the isles, I saw a shelf with NUTELLA.
I asked the girl next to me if she had ever had it, and she WENT INTO CONVULSIONS!! While leaning over her carriage (kinda to the side), she kept saying... "O....M....G!!!" Then she was like... "You HAVE to buy it! It's the BEST thing EVAH!"

I was cracking up laughing! So we chatted, and needless to say, I bought a jar of Nutella. During our talk, we discovered that we really had a LOT of the same taste in food. So it really took EVERYTHING i had NOT to open the jar (while I was in the car) and stick my finger in!

After I got home I tasted it (finger). O.....M....G!!!!!! It is the BEAST substance EVAH!!!!! It made me weep with it's tasty goodness. While I was crouched in the corner, with tears staining my cheeks, and my finger floating from the jar to my mouth, I sent up a silent prayer asking for eternal blessings to the Oh So Cool Chick at the grocery store.

I'm getting verclempt just thinking of my Nutella... the jar that is at home, waiting for my arrival, like a patient lover.

Just so my right index finger won't shrivel to just a nub, i've decided to try some of your recipes for it. I think I'll start with the Fluff and Nutella sandwich.

Thanks for the ideas and for recognizing such an AWESOME product!! Cheers for Nutella!!

posted by Sleek on 2008-02-08 14:33:59
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I meant the BEST substance, not the Beast substance.

posted by Sleek on 2008-02-08 14:36:04
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My family is fresh off the boat, and my grandparents used to put Nutella on everything. I remember way back when receiving boxes of it from relatives in Italy because we couldn't find too much of it in Brooklyn. Thus, it is an important part of my childhood.

Nutella and chocolate crepes. Yum.

posted by Squeegee Beckenheim on 2008-02-08 14:59:45
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Nutella pizza drizzled with honey. Yum. Or I just put a cup of Nutella in the fridge for an hour, then eat it with a spoon.

posted by Kat on 2008-02-10 06:08:14
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Nutella in ice cream!? It always hardens and sticks annoyingly to my spoon when I try this... not that I really mind, but I'm certainly unable to "swirl" it in.

posted by juni on 2008-02-12 13:58:19
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