[wackro]

Milka, Nutella, Lindt, Kinder.

Kinder Bueno is a good example of what I'm taking about. I know it has hazelnuts in. There's no bitter cocoa 'kick', just a sticky sweet taste. It's like chocolate for people who don't like the taste of chocolate.

[messe]

Nutella is literally and explicitly hazelnut flavoured, there is a hint in the name. That is a terrible example; quite possibly the worst you could have used. I cannot emphasise enough how bad an example that is, and how much it implies that you haven’t done your research into this.

As for Milka and Kinder, they’re not exactly high quality brands. Milka is even owned by Mondelez, same as Cadbury. They are not indicative of the quality of most European chocolate (in the same way that Hershey’s is in no way indicative of the quality of good American chocolatiers)

I’m confused with Lindt though. I’ve had plenty of their dark chocolate, from barely above milk-chocolate to 99% cacao solids, and none of it has ever had a distinct hazelnut flavour. I have to seriously ask: are you sure you know what hazelnut tastes like?

[dragonwriter]

> Nutella is literally and explicitly hazelnut flavoured

Given that (at least in the US) it isn't marketed as chocolate or a chocolate spread but as a “hazelnut spread with cocoa”, I’d say that's a bit of an understatement.