🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Nutella Creator Francesco Rivella Dies At 97 (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Down on the cutting room floor today and sad news Amanda.
Italian chemist Francesco Ravella, the inventor of the world famous
hazel nute coca spread known as Natella, passed away on
Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
He was ninety seven years of age.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
See, my kid's never really had Nataella. Jack has an
allergy and so we never really had an a teller
in our house. It's just like a big yummy chocolate spread.
How can that?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
How can that be a loud?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, it's like spreading chocolate and everyone goes, that's okay.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I remember being a kid and some kid had in
a teller and I said, how do your parents even
how did they even give you this?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
He also had a trail bike and a pinball machine.
His dad was an sp bookie, though, so there might
have been lean news as well.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Two years later I think it was all gone, yeah
in a box. Interesting fun fact about Natella. It was
invented by soldiers in the war making their chocolate ration
go Alonger. They got some hazel nuts grounded up with
choky and turned it into a paste. And originally the
guy that took that and ran with it, he turned

(01:16):
it into into a loaf. It was like a loaf
of bread.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
And then it says here that they transformed it into
a creamy.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Pasty product what we as know it nas now.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
In nineteen fifty one, and then of course went on
to be you know, the spread that everyone loves.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I'm going to come out and say it. I just
think it's punching above its weight a long time. I
always feel that when you go somewhere and they give
you an ataella donut or antell or ice creaming.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Okay, you know, did you prefer playing?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I just like chocolate. I like chocolate and I like nuts.
I don't necessarily like them together, but I do like
fruit and nut chocolate. So it makes me a bit
of a dichotomy.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, this is interesting too. I like that chocolate too.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Francesco I went on to be a senior management manager
and the right hand man of mister Ferrero's son Michael
Ferrero from Ferrero Chocolate fame Ferrero Roshi. Michael Michelle Ferrero
inherited the family business and would you believe this, Michelle
Ferrero died also on Valentine's Day ten years ago, so

(02:19):
the Ferrero roshare guy Valentine's day. Then tell guy ten
years later dies on Valentine's Day. Sort of both items
that you associate with romance and Valentine's Day, that is
next Valentine's Day. Maybe a Roses guy's going to hit
the dust. Maybe this is some kind of mafia thing.
Do you think I'm overthinking it?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Either you are, Caramel Koala is getting a bit right
for that was a thank you very much for you
for being my misses.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
No I meant red roses things that are associated ah,
not that box erased you sing me the song. Thank
you very much for being my misses. Thank you very much.
Thank you very very very much.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Thank you very much much for doing their dishes.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thank you, very very very very I think I.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Got dishes and missus round the wrong way. That were
simple times is when the woman.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Dishes and the missus were the same thing.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
You buy her.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Thank you very much for having her degree. Thank you
very much. Thank you very very very much.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Thank you for all being a big wokie.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. For going
halves in the mortgage. Thank you very much. Thank you
very very very much. Kick you in the crutch. Ah,
let's leave it there.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
For the simple times.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh, thank kids.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's it for today. Come off for more