ATTENTION:
Before reading: every time that there is the word “Nutella” you have to read “Natela”.
<<God bless the person who exported Nutella also to the other side of the world>> an Italian boy said some days ago. I know, maybe it’s stupid but I think that little things are those that make you feel at home: facebook, Barilla pasta or Oral Shampoo and finally the most important, “her”: Nutella.
I’m sure that everybody loves it, but how many of them know the true story of Nutella?
There are people who thought that it is German and people who think that it’s only spread hazelnuts. The truth is that it is from Italy and it has a complicated story. Nutella, as we know it today, was invented in 1964, but we have to go back to 1945, when Pietro Ferrero, in the back shop of his bakery in Piedmont wanted to make a new chocolate product that was tasty and cheap, because the population had economic problems and so, they couldn’t spend it on sweets. At last Mr. Ferrero had the idea to add some coconut butter to the famous dough of gianduia chocolate. When the dough became cold, it was a compact square that you could cut into slices. It was the “Giandujot”, Nutella’s progenitor. But how did this product become the famous Nutella?
There are two stories about this: the first says that during the really hot summer 1949 the Gandujot was melting like snow under the sun and so shopkeepers decided that it was better to put it into some jars. The second one says that chocolate melted in the warehouse in Alba and the product was immediately put inside glasses and jars and after sold with the name of “Supercrema”. Michele Ferrero, Pietro’s son, made the last step, when he decided to make the Supercrema softer and called it Nutella, from the word Nut.
And now all of us, students on exchanges, bless the person who exported Nutella also to the other side of the world. Because at the end if you are homesick what is better than a spoon and a Nutella jar?
Sofia D’Angelo (4C)
Con l’aiuto di Chiara Milanta,
compagna di scorpacciate di Nutella dall’altra parte del mondo.