“McDonald’s restaurants in Italy serve it on hamburger buns. Lifestyle websites cheekily offer lists of “signs you’re addicted to Nutella.” And at least one German soccer team dropped a player who couldn’t stop eating it.
Yes, a legion of snackers live for the hazelnut spread. And they’re not happy.
Nutella confirmed on its Twitter feed Wednesday that the recipe “underwent a fine-tuning” after Germany’s Hamburg Consumer Protection Center said on Facebook that it appeared the recipe had changed.”
“‘Real cool,’ wrote one user, adding, ‘why not draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa too?’”
— “‘How dare they’: Nutella changes recipe, sending its fans to the edge,” Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post
More:
“Choc horror: fans outraged by Nutella’s secret recipe change,” Rebecca Smithers, The Guardian
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