Opinion on nutella

I distinctly remember the first time that I got a taste of Nutella. It was a snowy morningin January after our typical Friday night cousin sleepover when I awoke to a mouth-wateringwaft of pancakes and bacon circulating my cousin’s house. I jumped out of my sleeping bag,rushed into the kitchen, and was instantly welcomed with a warm cup of marshmallow hotchocolate by my lovely cousin.She beamed from left to right as she said, “Get ready for the best breakfast you are evergoing to have. Ever.”I smirked and replied, “You feed me bacon and pancakes every time I sleep over at yourhouse. You burn the pancakes every single time. Keep dreaming.”As I sat on the kitchen counter, she whipped out a container labeled “Nutella” from thepantry and set it right next to my plate. Smiling like a two-year old who just stole a cookie fromthe cookie jar, she exclaimed, “You should spread some of this amazingness on your pancakes!”I hesitated for a moment before I opened the jar and spread the chocolate-like spread onmy pancakes with a butter knife. I thought, “Okay, this looks a little bit like peanut butter exceptthinner and the color was deep dark brown. This can’t be that bad.”Seconds later, the chocolate hazelnut spread melted in my mouth and the thick and sweetflavor set off fireworks on my taste buds. As the sweet chocolate taste swirled in my mouth, Iknew from that moment on that I was in love with Nutella.Although my first taste of Nutella didn’t happen until the 2000s, Nutella has been inproduction for a long time, rooting back to Italy in the 1940s. Pietro Ferrero, a patisserie owner1
 
and founder of the Ferrero Company, created Nutella in 1945. Because of cocoa rationing inWorld War II, there was very little chocolate. However, hazelnuts were in abundance in thePiedmont region of Italy. In dire need of an available ingredient to use in his baked goods, hedecided to use hazelnuts to stretch the supply of chocolate. The original spread was called “pastagianduja,” “pasta” meaning paste and “gianduja” being a well-known carnival character in thePiedmont region (History).