Mildly Interesting

Oh god who would do such a thing!?! Next you'd tell me some people would scrape their fingers all around the inside of the jar and lick them making sure they get every last remaining chocolate of that sweet sweet nector of the gods. And even stick their tongue inside, making out style with the jar, making sure no more chocolate taste left 🤤

Once read a thread where someone was asking the best way to eat it. There were suggestions like on toast, or with banana slices. But the best answer—and the one that had me laughing in tears—was:
With your whole hand.

I think the surprising part is that this guy got a jar that was seperated and layered. Mine just comes as one consistant spread.

They sure tried advertising it as a health food in the USA 20-ish years ago when it was relatively new to the market—“simple, quality ingredients like hazelnuts, skim milk, and a hint of cocoa.” They were sued for deceptive advertising and had to pay millions of dollars.

But yeah, one bite or a look at the ingredients and nutrition label should be enough to warn anyone. The first ingredient is sugar and more than 50% of the food’s mass comes from added sugar.

Knowing it has sugar is one thing. Seeing the volume of sugar relative to the other ingredients is still a shock

There's a shocking number of people who see words like "hazelnuts" and think its healthy like plain hazelnuts.

The sugar and fat is why I eat it

Palm oil is bad though. Besides that, I get what you mean

Yeah as a Norwegian I've always been a bit weirded out when thinking about chocolate spread for more than two seconds. Tbf, I feel like you're making it out to be more normal than it is (but idk how it is in Sweden or Denmark). Among adults I very very rarely see chocolate spread on bread. Among children however... Not great for their nutrition. I think most parents think "better they eat something than nothing" but I'd argue maybe that's not always the case.

On another note: holy crap the regional chocolate spread (nugatti) is like 10 times better than nutella. Nutella households are weird.

No it's a new food trend, haven't you heard? It's called "deconstructed food", where they just throw the raw ingredients at you and leave it up to you to do the actual work. At the same time they sell it at a premium price brainwashing you into believing this is a new high end dining experience. /j

European here. Sorry, but it is so ridiculous that labels don't just show some standardized "per 100 g" so things are easily compared without math.

One of the biggest things about capitalism is that they charge what people are willing to pay in order to maximize profit. Capitalism encourages this behaviour.

Because people will evidently pay that much for it. No idea why.

Are you my mother in law? She does that and her bakes are awful.

I think it's better just to make and eat desserts less frequently than try to mess with the sugar ratios, especially with baking. Like if you want something healthy maybe make a fruit tart instead of something that involves something like Nutella or cake icing where it's supposed to be very sweet.