• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    It’s amazing that anyone was fooled by this marketing. It shows you the power of it I guess.

    The first time I tried Nutella I immediately knew what it was: chocolate hazelnut cake frosting. The fact that people slather it on their toast every day seemed as absurd to me as eating cake frosting every day.

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      10 days ago

      North America has long had sweet treats as breakfast or early morning food so I’m surprised you’re surprised.

      Things like Danish, donuts, pop tarts, toaster strudel, breakfast cereal… Etc etc

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Hold up the Dutch straight up put chocolate sprinkles onto buttered toast and you’re coming at exclusively at the US? And Danish were named after somewhere. Strudel… that sounds awfully germanic… I think Europe is gaslighting us. Also I’ve had European milk chocolate, holy shit.

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          9 days ago

          The danish aren’t all overweight though. 50% of white people in the US are now. 60% or more of the general population last I checked, and it takes an immigrant on average 7 years to become as overweight as the average American.

          So something is different.

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          10 days ago

          I mean we have a cereal that’s openly marketed as just a box full of mini chocolate chip cookies