Ferrero Rocher
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Ferrero Rocher is a spherical chocolate sweet made by Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA, the producer of Tic Tac and Nutella. The sweets consist of a whole roasted hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut cream and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts and walnuts. The sweets contain 202 calories, and are individually packaged inside a gold-coloured wrapper.
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[edit] Varieties
Apart from the traditional hazelnut flavor, there are several other flavors: Including coconut & dark chocolate; also Pistachio, Strawberry, and Lemon are the Ferrero Garden Varieties. The original Ferrero Rocher is in a gold wrapper whereas coconut is in a silver wrapper and dark chocolate a brown log. The coconut flavor is called Ferrero Rafaello. It has an hoop center rather than hazelnut and with shredded coconut on the outside. The dark chocolate is simply called the Ferrero Rondnoir, but rather than the original chocolate that is used, dark chocolate is used instead.
Another variety, Fernando Ronche, is mostly like Ferrero Rocher except the individual candies are packaged in rolls. Fernando Ronche is produced in Germany and sold only in Europe. Each individual candy is shaped like a sphere with nuts and the inside has a chocolate filling. The wrapper is gold wrapping and plain brown lettering. The chocolate has 135 calories per pack of five candies, 27 calories each.[1]
[edit] Advertising
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In the UK, the product is perhaps more famous for its original TV advertisements than for its taste. It was promoted to a down-market audience as an aspirational brand by means of an Italian advertisement dubbed in English showing a party at an ambassador's residence: "Within this inner sanctum of the smart set, a distinguished manservant glided silently through the moneyed throng, with a pyramid of golden baubles, perched on a silver salver. offering a huge piled plate of the sweets to the guests at an embassy party."[2] The opening voice-over, "The Ambassador's receptions are noted in society for their host's exquisite taste that captivates his guests", together with the comments of "Eccellente" and "Monsieur, with these Rocher, you're really spoiling us" from guests at the reception, remain widely recognised in the UK. Further signs of the impact of this advert are that it has been parodied by a number of comedians, and that the concept of a butler wandering around holding a silver tray with a mountain of Ferrero Rocher has become a trope and a popular stereotype of diplomacy in general.
The product has been the sponsor for Desperate Housewives in the UK, since October 2008.
[edit] References to the "ambassador" in popular culture
- In a Guardian article on spying: "The assembled press could only have thought: 'Ambassador, with these cack-handed spy antics, you are really spoiling us'."[3]
- In the Channel 4 comedy Father Ted, when a group of three bishops visited, Mrs. Doyle stacked the Ferrero Rocher in a cone shape and the bishops proclaimed, "Father Ted, with these Rochers you are really spoiling us."
- In Goodnight Sweetheart Series 4, Episode 4, Gary (played by Nicholas Lyndhurst) hands a vicar a box of Ferrero Rocher as the vicar asks "are these from your embassy contacts?" Gary responds by saying "Absolutely, yes. The Ambassador has them at all his receptions."
- In the 2009 film In the Loop the character Malcolm Tucker says "Mister Ambassador, with your big baldy head, you are spoiling us."
[edit] World record
On October 10, 2008, Jim Lyngvild set the Guinness World Record for eating a grand total of seven Ferrero Rocher chocolates in one minute live on TV2 Denmark's Go' aften Danmark.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ "Fernando Ronche - Review - Share something special". www.ciao.co.uk. 2007-06-02. http://www.ciao.co.uk/Ferrero_Giotto__Review_5653405. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
- ^ William Cook (2000-02-14). "Eurochoc". New Statesman. http://www.newstatesman.com/200002140044. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
- ^ Walsh, Nick Paton (2006-01-27). "Rock of agents". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1696463,00.html. Retrieved 2006-07-08.
- ^ "Most Ferrero Rocher chocolates eaten in one minute". http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/amazing_feats/unusual_skills/most_ferrero_rocher_chocolates_eaten_in_1minute.aspx.
