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Video: Are there alternative spreads to Nutella? Time chooses Nocciolata Rigoni
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
Like any Dissapore whatsoever, the site of the well-known American magazine Time has compiled a ranking of valid alternative spreads to Nutella, Ferrero's nectar. We had done it long ago, with a certain scientific nature, without however choosing an alternative product, tout court superimposable to ours. Does not exist.
Because the truth is one: Nutella has no alternatives. If Nutella were to disappear from the world tomorrow, we would not make a reason: never. We should give up on something. There would be no space in our lives, a security, a companion. Nutella is proof that no uniqueness is truly replaceable. More than love affairs, more than burrata and caciocavallo, more than Leopardi's Operette Morali (er, maybe).
There are no substitutes, there are no artisan attempts to produce an inexplicably inimitable cream: there are different products, and different classifications, different loves and different qualities.
Many have tried to classify them, none like the spectacular group “Nutella Alternatives” on Flickr.
The fact is that the search for an alternative to Nutella is based on a wrong assumption: the search for Piedmont hazelnuts. It is a right assumption a priori: it is a hazelnut-based cream, an alternative artisan product must contain them and they must be very good. But we are not looking for Piedmont hazelnuts, we may not even care that Nutella contains Piedmont hazelnuts (in fact in France it contains Breton hazelnuts and has a similar taste).
So, if I start looking for a vaguely nutellose flavor in Piedmont hazelnuts, the best alternative to spread on a crepe is the Rigoni Nocciolata cream.
I don't want to say "we said it", but here it is: we said it. Now Time confirms: even in a rapidly expanding market like the American one, it is the alternative that most resembles us. Here, I said it. After all those premises … It costs a little more than Nutella, but nothing excessive.
The others are pretentious if they taste too much of hazelnut, if they are more dense they are too buttery, the ones that taste of gianduia are very good. But precisely: they taste of gianduia.
However, since on Dissapore the distinction between authors and readers is very subtle, and your opinions count as much as mine, I have collected a number of alternatives to Nutella. Without following a precise order (more or less artisanal, more or less expensive) and commenting in italics on the ones I tasted.
So what's the best Nutella alternative? Are there any others?
1) Despar brand (no way)
2) Guido Castagna
3) Guido Gobino (refined, too much, but very good)
4) Sledding
5) Baratti Milan (it's ok)
6) Magnum
7) Giacometta by Giraudi
8) Caffarel (no)
9) Lindt (it's ok)
10) Venchi (it's ok)
11) Coop (better than Despar, but nothing special).
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