Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoWhat is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?message-squaremessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1178arrow-down16
arrow-up1172arrow-down1message-squareWhat is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agomessage-square185fedilink
minus-squareCarighan Maconar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·7 months agoOr we just don’t actually have that many hazelnuts. Or Ferrero just makes some really yummy stuff and hence it’s bought in insane amounts.
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·7 months agoIf its such a lucrative business for Ferrero, how come there aren’t competitors enough to make it so they can’t hog 25%?
minus-squareCarighan Maconar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 months ago80% goes to the EU confectionery industry, according to what I could quickly Google. So 65% go to Ferrero like companies that aren’t Ferrero.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·7 months agoAmerican candy manufacturing mostly uses peanuts and/or almonds instead, so they compete but not for filberts/hazelnuts. I will also contend that they’re not that good a nut on their own, they need chocolate to achieve their true destiny.
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoI have to downvote you on the hazelnuts not being very good. They’re one of my favorite nuts, and they look cool!
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoTo me they look like chickpeas wearing windbreakers, and I prefer pecans. But you are welcome to your own preferences, enjoy! I do think hazelnuts are the very best nut with chocolate, even over pecans.
Or we just don’t actually have that many hazelnuts. Or Ferrero just makes some really yummy stuff and hence it’s bought in insane amounts.
If its such a lucrative business for Ferrero, how come there aren’t competitors enough to make it so they can’t hog 25%?
80% goes to the EU confectionery industry, according to what I could quickly Google. So 65% go to Ferrero like companies that aren’t Ferrero.
80% - 25% = 55%
This is me, math genius. 😒
American candy manufacturing mostly uses peanuts and/or almonds instead, so they compete but not for filberts/hazelnuts.
I will also contend that they’re not that good a nut on their own, they need chocolate to achieve their true destiny.
I have to downvote you on the hazelnuts not being very good. They’re one of my favorite nuts, and they look cool!
To me they look like chickpeas wearing windbreakers, and I prefer pecans. But you are welcome to your own preferences, enjoy! I do think hazelnuts are the very best nut with chocolate, even over pecans.