The next time Europeans make fun of Black Friday...

[makattak]

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/01/26/in-other-news-this-is-what-happened-after-there-was-a-big-sale-on-nutella-in-france/

Just refer them back to this.

A sale on NUTELLA causes fights to break out. Not several hundred dollar discounts on TVs, a few bucks of on NUTELLA gets the French fighting.

[bedlamite]

If two French guys get into a fight, do they both lose?

[HankB]

If two French guys get into a fight, do they both lose?

No, they either retreat or collaborate.

[Ben]

I can tell you from experience that euros are nutty for the Nutella.

[Scout26]

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/01/26/in-other-news-this-is-what-happened-after-there-was-a-big-sale-on-nutella-in-france/

Just refer them back to this.

A sale on NUTELLA causes fights to break out. Not several hundred dollar discounts on TVs, a few bucks of on NUTELLA gets the French fighting.

Well, we'll know what to tell them the next time the Germans invade...A couple of Euro's off Nutella...in Berlin only.

[just Warren]

Man, that's just hazelnuts.

[MillCreek]

I understand that Nutella is so packed with sugars and fats that your pancreas pretty much explodes and your coronary arteries clog after a jar.

[Ben]

I understand that Nutella is so packed with sugars and fats that your pancreas pretty much explodes and your coronary arteries clog after a jar.

Yeah, it's pretty close to an instant coronary, but it's good stuff. Lotsa kraut baked goods have nutella filling.

[makattak]

Yeah, it's pretty close to an instant coronary, but it's good stuff. Lotsa kraut baked goods have nutella filling.

I like Nutella, but I've found that I only like it in small doses.

For example, I'll use a good amount when I first open the jar, and then it sits because I don't want any more for a long while.

[PEfarmer]

Speaking as a hazelnut farmer, you bastards will eat your Nutella, have your coronaries, and like it.

[Regolith]

A lot of fields out here have been converted into hazelnut orchards in the last two or three years, following a year where hazelnut prices were very high due to a large crop failure in Turkey (their hazelnut orchards froze at a critical time). I've been questioning the wisdom of that, figuring that the market's going to get saturated before most of those groves mature, but maybe not...

[MillCreek]

They grow a metric buttload of hazelnuts in Oregon, but when I am down there, I am told they should be called 'filberts'.

[Scout26]

Speaking as a hazelnut farmer, you bastards will eat your Nutella, have your coronaries, and like it.

My third platoon sergeant was married to a German, we had to almost call a couple of "Time-outs" when we were out in the field so he could run and buy a new jar.  He ate that stuff like a 10-year old eats peanut butter.

And yes, I have jar here.  The kid will make a sandwich with it (in lieu of PB) about once a week or so.

[Ben]

I like Nutella, but I've found that I only like it in small doses.

For example, I'll use a good amount when I first open the jar, and then it sits because I don't want any more for a long while.

I'm the same way. Which is really bad when I buy it at Costco, because that means there's around 49lbs left (which should make PEfarmer happy).  

[PEfarmer]

They grow a metric buttload of hazelnuts in Oregon, but when I am down there, I am told they should be called 'filberts'.

We've decided that we grow filberts, but sell hazelnuts.

[Andiron]

My third platoon sergeant was married to a German, we had to almost call a couple of "Time-outs" when we were out in the field so he could run and buy a new jar.  He ate that stuff like a 10-year old eats peanut butter.

And yes, I have jar here.  The kid will make a sandwich with it (in lieu of PB) about once a week or so.

A wise man,  your Sgt.

I used to mow down on that stuff during FXs.  Beats the ever living *expletive deleted*it out of MRE for breakfast.  Nutella and MRE wheat snackbread was almost civilized.

[RoadKingLarry]

My third platoon sergeant was married to a German, we had to almost call a couple of "Time-outs" when we were out in the field so he could run and buy a new jar.  He ate that stuff like a 10-year old eats peanut butter.

And yes, I have jar here.  The kid will make a sandwich with it (in lieu of PB) about once a week or so.

I like a sammich with peanut butter and Nutella on whole wheat toast.

[RocketMan]

They grow a metric buttload of hazelnuts in Oregon, but when I am down there, I am told they should be called 'filberts'.

We Oregonians tend to call them filberts.  I don't know why.  They're good in a lot of things, but nutella is a bit over the top for me.

[Regolith]

We Oregonians tend to call them filberts.  I don't know why.  They're good in a lot of things, but nutella is a bit over the top for me.

I've heard a couple of explanations. One is that the filbert, a species of hazel related to the common hazel, were imported in large numbers into Oregon in the late 1800s. The other blames the early French settlers, who may have been the first to import the trees and called them filberts in honor of St. Philibert, whose feast day occurs about the same time that hazelnuts ripen.

[just Warren]

Nah, there was once a guy named Bertram who ate way too many one day and died as a result.

To honor his memory they started calling them FillBerts from that day on. In time the second L was dropped and the B lost it's capitalization and thus we have the name know today.