In Germany THIS product is Nuss-Nougat-Creme (nut-nougat-spread). It's NOT because of the cacao, but because of the lack of it! In Germany chocolate has to contain cacao-butter (and no other types of fat), while THIS product uses palm oil.
yes some countries have banned chocolate, i believe they claim it's an addictive.
[citation needed]
And you know, it's actually poisonous.
In absolutely ludicrous doses, sure. More than a human could reasonably be expected to eat in a single sitting. I'd wager that more people have died from water poisoning than chocolate poisoning.
Bet they haven't tasted >80% cocoa content dark chocolate then.
Pfft we were crazy kids back in the day. Dared each other in high school to eat an entire 'tablea' chip (we call the end result of the painstaking process of roasting and grinding the hell out of the beans into thick coin-sized chips 'tablea') with money in the pot. Never gonna do that again...
I don't know what the others are talking about in re chocolate bans, but in a lot of places (such as Germany, as sanitaeter noted), Nutella doesn't contain a high enough proportion of cocoa solids to meet the legal definition of chocolate, so the manufacturer can't call it a chocolate product.
Historically, Nutella is derived from an older Italian product called gianduja, which was invented specifically to stretch limited cocoa supplies, so not containing much cocoa was the whole idea.
