1 – World’s Nutella Day
In 2007, two Italian bloggers decided to show his love for hazelnut cream in a different way. For this, they established the February 5 as World Nutella Day (Nutella Day). On that date, the goal is to eat Nutella, share recipes with the product, view photos dishes done with it and celebrate everything else that is related to sweet.

2 – Nutella is the true coffee of Champions
According to the Guinness record, the company held a breakfast held in 2005 in Germany, to mark the 40th anniversary of Nutella. The event broke the record of Biggest Breakfast – in all, 27,854 people gathered to share the meal which included bread, orange juice and Nutella, of course.

3 – Nutella is a sales sucess
A Nutella jar is sold every 2.5 seconds around the world. And a body responsible for counting the US population, records that a baby is born every 8 seconds. Just do the math.

4 – Nutella around the world
This title is not only because the hazelnut cream is a bestseller and can be found in 75 countries. The fact is that the amount of Nutella sold in a year is enough to cover more than a thousand football stadiums.

5 – Everyone loves Nutella
In 2009, the Nutella fanpage on Facebook gathered more than 2 million fans, which guaranteed him the 3rd place of the most tanned pages on the social network. The fanpage lose only to Coca-Cola and the Barack Obama. The profile is no longer on top of Facebook, but currently has more than 17 million fans.

6 – Napoleon and Hitler were responsible for vitiating the world Nutella
In 1806, Napoleon tried to stop the British trade as a way to win the war. The result was that the continental blockade caused the price of chocolate to increased absurdly. Thus, the Italian confectioners of the Turin area began adding chopped hazelnuts to chocolate so that it yielded as much as possible. This mixture was named “gianduja”.
A century later, the chocolate was again a very expensive and scarce commodity in Europe due to the Second World War. Then, an Italian confectioner called Pietro Ferrero appealed again for hazelnuts for in 1946, creating the “Gianduja cream” that would be renamed “Nutella” in 1964.

7 – The origin of the name Nutella
The gianduja – which was the cream that led to Nutella – has its name from a character in the Commedia Dell’Arte, a typical Italian theater movement. According to tradition, Gianduja was a Piedmontese character always smiling, who walked around town carrying a “Duja” which in Piedmontese dialect means “pot”. The main function of Duja was storing wine, but there are those who believe that the pot has also been used to store the hazelnut cream. The Gianduja character illustration even appeared in the first ads of Nutella.

8 – Nutella and the curious tastingBefore long, the product became so popular in Italy that traders started offering tastings of Nutella to any child who appeared with a piece of bread. The action became known as the “tasting” and was a successful marketing strategy. Needless to say everyone was addicted to delicious hazelnut cream.

Coca-Cola history began in 1886 when the curiosity of an Atlanta pharmacist, Dr. John S. Pemberton, led him to create a distinctive tasting soft drink that could be sold at soda fountains. He created a flavored syrup, took it to his neighborhood pharmacy, where it was mixed with carbonated water and deemed “excellent” by those who sampled it. Dr. Pemberton’s partner and bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, is credited with naming the beverage “Coca‑Cola” as well as designing the trademarked, distinct script, still used today.

Did you know? The first servings of Coca‑Cola were sold for 5 cents per glass. During the first year, sales averaged a modest nine servings per day in Atlanta. Today, daily servings of Coca‑Cola beverages are estimated at 1.9 billion globally.

Prior to his death in 1888, just two years after creating what was to become the world’s #1-selling sparkling beverage, Dr. Pemberton sold portions of his business to various parties, with the majority of the interest sold to Atlanta businessman, Asa G. Candler. Under Mr. Candler’s leadership, distribution of Coca‑Cola expanded to soda fountains beyond Atlanta. In 1894, impressed by the growing demand for Coca‑Cola and the desire to make the beverage portable, Joseph Biedenharn installed bottling machinery in the rear of his Mississippi soda fountain, becoming the first to put Coca‑Cola in bottles. Large scale bottling was made possible just five years later, when in 1899, three enterprising businessmen in Chattanooga, Tennessee secured exclusive rights to bottle and sell Coca‑Cola. The three entrepreneurs purchased the bottling rights from Asa Candler for just $1. Benjamin Thomas, Joseph Whitehead and John Lupton developed what became the Coca‑Cola worldwide bottling system.

Among the biggest challenges for early bottlers, were imitations of the beverage by competitors coupled with a lack of packaging consistency among the 1,000 bottling plants at the time. The bottlers agreed that a distinctive beverage needed a standard and distinctive bottle, and in 1916, the bottlers approved the unique contour bottle. The new Coca‑Cola bottle was so distinctive it could be recognized in the dark and it effectively set the brand apart from competition. The contoured Coca‑Cola bottle was trademarked in 1977. Over the years, the Coca‑Cola bottle has been inspiration for artists across the globe — a sampling of which can be viewed at the World of Coca‑Cola in Atlanta.

The first marketing efforts in Coca‑Cola history were executed through coupons promoting free samples of the beverage. Considered an innovative tactic back in 1887, couponing was followed by newspaper advertising and the distribution of promotional items bearing the Coca‑Cola script to participating pharmacies.

Fast forward to the 1970s when Coca‑Cola’s advertising started to reflect a brand connected with fun, friends and good times. Many fondly remember the 1971 Hilltop Singers performing “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”, or the 1979 “Have a Coke and a Smile” commercial featuring a young fan giving Pittsburgh Steeler, “Mean Joe Greene”, a refreshing bottle of Coca‑Cola. You can enjoy these and many more advertising campaigns from around the world in the Perfect Pauses Theater at the World of Coca‑Cola.

EVOLUTION OF THE COCA-COLA BOTTLE

The 1980s featured such memorable slogans as “Coke is It!”, “Catch the Wave” and “Can’t Beat the Feeling”. In 1993, Coca‑Cola experimented with computer animation, and the popular “Always Coca‑Cola” campaign was launched in a series of ads featuring animated polar bears. Each animated ad in the “Always Coca‑Cola” series took 12 weeks to produce from beginning to end. The bears were, and still are, a huge hit with consumers because of their embodiment of characteristics like innocence, mischief and fun. A favorite feature at the World of Coca‑Cola is the ability to have your photo taken with the beloved 7′ tall Coca‑Cola Polar Bear.

Did you know? One of the most famous advertising slogans in Coca‑Cola history “The Pause That Refreshes” first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1929. The theme of pausing with Coca‑Cola refreshment is still echoed in today’s marketing.

In 2009, the “Open Happiness” campaign was unveiled globally. The central message of “Open Happiness” is an invitation to billions around the world to pause, refresh with a Coca‑Cola, and continue to enjoy one of life’s simple pleasures. The “Open Happiness” message was seen in stores, on billboards, in TV spots and printed advertising along with digital and music components — including a single featuring Janelle Monae covering the 1980 song, “Are You Getting Enough Happiness?” The happiness theme continued with “Open the Games. Open Happiness” featured during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, followed by a 2010 social media extension, “Expedition 206″ — an initiative whereby three happiness ambassadors travel to 206 countries in 365 days with one mission: determining what makes people happy. The inspirational year-long journey is being recorded and communicated via blog posts, tweets, videos and pictures.

1. A 32oz McDonald's sweet tea has as much sugar in it as two and a half Snickers bars.

So when you think you're making a healthier choice by ordering the "tea" instead of pop, think again. Both are loaded with candy bar levels of sugar. Plus, the sweet tea has about 100mg of caffeine to super-charge your sugar rush and leave you feeling horrible in a few hours.

2. "With cheese" doesn't really mean you what you think it does.

In fact, it means about half of what you think it does: only slightly over half of what's called "processed cheese" on your burger is actually cheese. The other half is filled with added whey, salt, emulsifiers, milk, preservatives and artificial food colorings. The distinction between real and processed cheese is legally mandated, too. That's right, it's illegal to sell processed cheese as "cheese;" instead, it has to be labeled as "cheese food."



3. Fast food salads are one of their unhealthiest menu items.

Many have been benchmarked against the infamous Big Mac with horrendous results. For instance, this lower-calorie salad, called the "Chicken BLT Garden Fresh Salad," from Burger King will still set you back 550 calories, 37 grams of fat and a tremendous 1640 milligrams of salt. Might I remind you this is for a SALAD?!

4. McDonald's "strawberry milkshake" has 59 ingredients...

and sadly, not one of them is strawberries.

5. Fast food meat for sandwiches often contains hearts, tripe, intestines, stomachs, flour bleaching agents and heavy doses of added salt.

Mmmm! Not.


6. Nearly half of all soda pop fountains tested found bacteria on them that grew in fecal matter.

Oh dear...



7. Bright red fast foods are made with carmine. That's crushed abdomens from female beetle-like bugs.
This is what they look like:



8. And if it's not beetles coloring your food, it's likely artificial dyes.

Yes, there are mixed results about the consequences of consuming too many artificial food dyes, especially in regards to children's health. However, that doesn't negate studies that have shown consuming artificial food dyes, especially red and yellow, can cause increased hyperactivity in children.

Ingredients

For Pasta:
-8 ounces dried spaghetti, linguine, or fettuccine or 1 pound fresh fettuccine or linguine
-2 cups broccoli flowerets
For Diavolo:
-1 cup chicken broth
-2 tablespoons cornstarch
-2 tablespoons Dijon-style mustard
-2 tablespoons lemon juice
-1 tablespoon drained capers
-1 pound fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined, or 12 ounces frozen peeled and deveined shrimp, thawed

Ingredients

-2 tablespoons cooking oil
-3 tablespoons butter
-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/3 pounds in all)
-1 teaspoon salt
-1/2 teaspoon fresh-ground black pepper
-1/2 red onion, chopped
-2 cloves garlic, chopped
-3/4 pound fresh Brussels sprouts (or one 10-ounce package frozen), cut into quarters from top to stem end
-1 cup canned low-sodium chicken broth or homemade stock
-1/8 teaspoon dried red pepper flakes

Ingredients

-8 cups water
-3/4 cup garlic cloves
-1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
-1/2 cup sliced white onion
-1/3 cup sliced celery
-1/3 cup sliced fennel
-1/2 cup dry white wine
-4 fresh thyme sprigs
-1/2 teaspoon fresh rosemary leaves
-1 bay leaf
-5 cups chicken stock
-2 1/4 cups heavy cream
-1 slice coarse country-style bread, preferably day old, cut up

Ingredients

-1 tablespoon cooking oil
-1 small red onion, chopped
-2 jalapeno peppers, seeds and ribs removed, chopped
-1 zucchini (about 1/2 pound), cut into 1/2-inch dice
-2 1/4 teaspoons dried oregano, or 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
-1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
-1 quart canned low-sodium chicken broth or homemade stock
-2 cups water