Ferrero Rocher
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Ferrero Rocher are small, spherical sweets made by Ferrero SpA.
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. The sweets are individually packaged in a gold-coloured wrapper.
Marketed towards the luxury market, one of their more famous advertisements showed an ambassador serving huge plates of Ferrero Rocher to his guests. "Eccellente," commented one guest. "Monsieur, with these Ferrero Rocher, you're really spoiling us," said another. The advert has been parodied by a number of comedians and features relatively frequently in the Discworld series of novels. Indeed, 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.