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  1. Nutella. I once treated my daughter to a Nutella sandwich on her birthday, and she came home with a nasty note from the teacher, who called it a chocolate frosting sandwich and a nutritional crime. We ate Nutella on toast for breakfast for a solid week, and she brought nutritious chicken sandwiches to school – which she invariably threw away.

    • Nutella went on sale and some French markets dipped into chaos
      KSBW | 1/26/18

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      Nutella ‘riots’ spread across France
      MSN News | Jan 25, 2018 | BBC News

      “A woman had her hair pulled, an elderly lady took a box on her head, another had a bloody hand,” one customer told French media.

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      World’s first Nutella Cafe to open in Chicago
      ABC 7 Chicago | 19 May 2017

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      Nutella Pushes Back Against Cancer-Scare Study
      New York Post | January 12, 2017

      Ferrero, the Italian confectionery company that makes Nutella, slammed the European Food Safety Authority’s claims that palm oil — the second ingredient of the decadent spread — is more carcinogenic than other vegetable oils when it’s heated above 392 degrees Fahrenheit.

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      Migrants burned down refugee centre causing €10 million in damage…there wasn’t enough Nutella…
      Daily Mail | 11/22/16

      A hall which was being used as a refugee centre [in Düsseldorf] burned down because angry migrants were furious about the lack of Nutella and gummibears, it has been claimed.

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      Muslims Riot And Burn Down Their Own “Asylum Center” Because They Were Mad… [No Nutella]
      Shoebat | 11/21/16

      The man who did it was finally arrested, and as it was revealed he started the fires as a protest over the shelter running out of Nutella at the food buffet during Ramadan.

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      U.S. Government Quandary: is Nutella Dessert or Jam?
      CTV News | Friday, November 4, 2016

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      Man Punches Elderly Man Over Nutella Waffle Samples
      NBC Bay Area | 9/24/15

      A 24-year-old man has been charged in connection with punching a 78-year-old shopper in the face after the victim protested about how many samples the man had taken at a Nutella waffle tasting station at a Costco in Burbank, police said.

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      French minister says Nutella is destroying the world: France should stop eating it
      National Post | June 17, 2015 | Business Insider

      France’s Ecology Minister Segolene Royal wants people to stop eating Nutella because it’s essentially destroying the planet. Royal said in an interview with French television network Canal+ that people should stop eating the popular chocolate spread because harvesting one of its key ingredients, palm oil, leads to deforestation that is damaging the environment. Nutella is a huge deal in France — the country consumes 26% of all Nutella produced globally by maker Ferrero. Royal said in the Canal+ interview: “We have to replant a lot of trees because there is massive deforestation that also leads to global warming.”

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      CNN shares insight into ISIS’s recruiting techniques … (kittens, Nutella and emojis)
      Business Insider | February 18, 2015

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      Judge: You cannot name your baby ‘Nutella’ (France)
      nytimes.com | January 26, 2015

      A French judge spared a baby girl from being named Nutella – changing her name to Ella instead to save her from a lifetime of teasing. “The name ‘Nutella’ given to the child is the trade name of a spread,” the court ruled, according to a La Voix Du Nord. “And it is contrary to the child’s interest to have a name that can only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts.”

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