Citations:Nutella

Noun: do not identify product at all

• 2009, Marion McGilvary, A Lost Wife's Tale: A Novel, page 252:

  He was slender, brown, and incredibly pretty, with dark-fringed eyes as rich as Nutella. I could imagine him naked— small and smooth and perfectly formed— but that was as far as I got: imagining.

Noun: do not identify product, only suggest it is edible

• 2004, Martin Page, Adriana Hunter, How I became stupid:

  [...] those who like Nutella and those who like Brussels sprouts.

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  He stood up and filled his arms with Nutella, foie gras, salami, cheeses, blinis, and all manner of victuals.

• 2006, Frank Trentmann, The making of the consumer: knowledge, power and identity, page 263:

  By contrast, in the Ostalgia shows celebrities now happily eat Nudossi, the Nutella of the East, by the spoonful.

• 2008, Joseph Meyers, Katie Han, Allison Davis, Inside New York 2009, page 145:

  To finish, share the pleasure of dipping raspberry-filled beignets in Nutella. The dining room gets noisy at peak hours, but the food is so satisfying that it all fades into the background.

• 2010, Lucy A. Snyder, Shotgun Sorceress, page 226:

  We kissed; his mouth tasted like Nutella, as if we'd just come in from making a mid-morning snack in the kitchen. His skin smelled like fresh gingerbread and clean healthy man.

• 2011, Lisi Harrison, Top of the Feud Chain:

  His pale blue eyes found Skye's blue-green ones and quickly flicked away, but not before a warm, gooey excitement spread through Skye's chest like Nutella on a fresh crepe.

Noun: do identify product, only its category (sweet, chocolate, dessert-like food)

• 2009, Marilyn Chin, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, page 59:

  But smarty-pants says, "What if they give me Brad Pitt dipped in Nutella? What if they give me Will Smith smeared in crushed Oreos and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups? What if they give me Jude Law smothered in Cool Whip?"

• 2010, Stephanie Dolgoff, My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the Other Side of Young, page 19 and 152:

  This is not so much because I used to have a better body for jeans, before I had twins and before my metabolism slammed on the breaks at 40 and decided it would tolerate no more Nutella.

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  Self, is it worth it to completely forgo pretty much all the foodstuffs that bring you enormous joy, such as Nutella and pasta with pesto, in order to be thinner?

Noun: do identify product quite specifically

• 2010, Lauren Chattman, Mom's Big Book of Cookies: 200 Family Favorites You'll Love Making, pages 181–182 and 211:

  nutella brownies

  Makes 16 brownies

  If you've never tried it, Nutella is a tempting chocolate-hazelnut spread that has been popular in European for years and is now widely available in this country (look for it next to the peanut butter at the supermarket).

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  3/4 cup Nutella