> that stuff is the best food item on the planet, hands down.
>
> when I get really rich, i'm gonna have a swimming pool filled with nutella.
>

*Choking*. Please. That stuff is definitely MORE LETHAL than Marmite and peanut butter sandwiches.


> > My daughter just came back from a trip to Frankfort and brought me some German candy.
> > On the wrapper, it says, "Confetteria" and "Raffaello" and "Ferrero" and "Kokos" and "Cocco." All of that sounds more like Italian or Spanish to me, but it was really good stuff. The outer shell was coconut with a syrup inside and a hazel nut floating around in that. It's round, and white, and looks like a golf ball built to 5/8 scale. I'm still wondering how she got German (Spanish? Italian?) candy in the capitol of Kentucky.
> > How"oh, *that* Frankfort"ard

Heh. The "Confetteria Raffaello" you tried, Howard, is the coconut counterpart to the chocolate/hazelnut delicacy "Ferrero Rocher". I suppose that would explain the Italian words "Cocco" and "Kokos" on the label. Now that you bring it up, it does seems strange that a Belgian candy with an Italian name was no doubt derived from the famous German 'Mozartkugeln' (fine marzipan, hazelnut-nougat creme and dark chocolate, shaped into a golf ball) of the 1700s.

What I find unforgivable about all this is that the dreaded glue-your-mouth-shut-with-sugar spread called Nutella is made (or was made originally) by the same Ferrero Confectionary. Argh! Nutella wouldn't be half bad if it didn't have so much sugar, but... ARGH!