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21st Aug 2015

You’ve spent your whole life mispronouncing the word ‘Nutella’

Hard to swallow

Carl Kinsella

This is harder to swallow than actual Nutella.

Nutella is a staple of the Irish diet, from play-school to the grave. It’s a delicious hazelnut-chocolate spread, perfect for the snacking between meals that we aren’t meant to do. And we thought we could trust it.

But no, even though it is made from hazelNUTS, you’ve been making a mistake by pronouncing it like ‘nut-tella’.

The makers of Nutella, who are Italian, somehow think that the best way to pronounce their product is ‘NEW-tell-uh’.

Hard as this is to accept, we’ve got cold, hard evidence from the Nutella website…

nutella 1

We’ll zoom in, just in case you missed that.

nutella 2

I don’t really think we’re willing to make this change. It’ll always be NUTella to us.

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Food