The average Italian consumes 25kg of pasta per year.
Men find it hard to fly the coop! More than half of Italy’s male population between the ages of 24 and 35 still live with their parents. It is believed that the attachment between Italian men and their mothers, is one of the biggest risks to marriage in the country today.
Italian Police drives a Lamborghini Huracan to transport vital organs for crucial surgeries.
Don’t be surprised if your hotel in Italy doesn’t have a 17th floor. Italians believe that this number is unlucky because when the Roman numeral for 17 (XVII) if rearranged is looks like VIXI, which means “I have lived,” a symbol that’s associated with death.
Italians believe that if someone brushes over a single person’s feet with a broom that he or she will never get married.
There is bronze statue of Jesus Christ submerged in the Mediterranean Sea off San Fruttuoso.
The island of Poveglia is said to be so haunted that public access is prohibited.
In the city of Turin, dog owners must walk their pooch at least three times a day or risk being fined. Woof Woof
In 2012, the town of Falciano del Massico in Campania made it illegal for residents to die because the town’s cemetery is full.
On the beaches of Eraclea on the Venetian Lido, it’s illegal to make sandcastles or any other kind of sand structure.
This sparkling delight is made with real fruit juice and pulp from Sicilian oranges, water from natural springs in the Italian Alps and, best of all, it achieves its delicious taste and appearance without any added colour or preservatives. A truly natural refresher.
Water, 12% orange juice, sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, carbon dioxide, acidifier: citric acid, flavorings.
PANDORO CLASSIC
The classic Italian star shaped cake in a mini format. Translated as 'Golden Bread' - The pandoro is light and airy and can be enjoyed for breakfast, dessert or snack time.
Wheat flour, Fresh eggs (Free range), Sugar, Butter, Natural yeast (Wheat flour, water), Emulsifier: mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, Cocoa butter, Skim milk powder powder, Salt, Flavourings.May contain nuts, mustard and soy.
Who would of thought lime and pink pepper could go so well together. A natural and simple product with a lot of flavour.
Potatoes, vegetable oil (palm oil, sunflower), paprika seasoning smoke flavouring, wheat flour, lactose (milk), paprika and spices, whey powder (milk), flavour enhancer. monosodium glutamate sugar mustard, colouring agent: annatto, iodised salt.
Produced in a factory using celery and soy
The most famous puffed popped chips in Italy. Cipster crisps have been around for longer than 70 years.....Now that's a long time so they must be good.
Potato flakes and starch 80%, palm oil, salt, antioxidant (rosemary extracts), turmeric.
May contain wheat and milk
Ham flavoured baked pretzel crackers.
Wheat flour, vegetable oils, salt, flavors, sugar, malted barley flour, skimmed milk powder, yeast
Balocco's Hazelnut wafers are made with two layers of exquisite hazelnut and chocolate cream. These wafers literally melt in your mouth.
Wheat flour, coconut oil, dehydrated glucose syrup, sugar, hazelnuts 10,8% in the cream corresponding to 8,5% of the total ingredients, whey powder, soya flour, skimmed milk powder, low fat cocoa, dextrose, emulsifiers: lecithin (soya lecithin), raising agents: sodium hydrogen carbonate, disodium diphosphate, salt, natural flavouring: vanilla berries.
May contain traces of other nuts and peanuts.
Ferrero Tronky is a masterpiece of hazelnuts and a work of art of chocolate, enclosed in a crisp and delicate wafer. OK we might have over done it a bit but it is seriously good.
Sugar, hazelnuts (19%), wheat flour, whey powder, vegetable oil, vegetable fat, low fat cocoa powder (3%), skimmed milk powder, whole milk powder, emulsifier: lecithin (soy), salt , raising agents (sodium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate), aromas
This bar has a crunchy biscuit filled with milk chocolate and puffed rice, then dipped in milk chocolate.
Milk chocolate 32% [sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, whey powder, milk fat, emulsifier (soy lecithins)], wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oils (palm, palm kernel, coconut, rapeseed, sunflower in varying proportions), extruded cereals 2.5% (rice flour, oat flour, wheat flour, malted wheat flour, sugar, whey powder, salt, dextrose), low-fat cocoa powder 2.5%, whey powder, glucose-fructose syrup, coconut powder, raising agents (ammonium carbonates, sodium carbonates, calcium phosphates), salt, emulsifier (soy lecithins), flavourings.
May contain eggs and nuts.
PAN DUCALE ALMOND BISCOTTI
Pan Ducale biscotti are still made using an antique family dough recipe that is prepared semi-manually under the watchful eye of family experts.
Whole wheat flour, raw cane sugar, pasteurised fresh eggs, almonds (17%), butter, honey, raising agent (ammonium bicarbonate), salt, natural flavouring
Two crumbly shortbread biscuits combined with a delicious cocoa cream. These definitely go down well and once you try them, you will definitely understand why.
Wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oils and fats (sunflower, coconut), vegetable fat (coconut, palm kernel, palm), invert sugar syrup, cocoa powder (3.5%), raising agents: ammonium and sodium hydrogen carbonate, mono potassium tartrate, wheat starch, eggs, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, salt, powdered skimmed milk, milk proteins, flavourings.
May contain nuts and soy.
The unique famous, double-sugary candy with fruit taste that is the joy of the little ones. Goleador Fruit unmistakable flavour.
Ingredients: (double flavoured gum flavour Fruit) glucose syrup – sugar – food jelly – acidifying: citric acid – aromas – vegetable oil – dyes: curcumin, carminii, anthocyanin – coating agent: beeswax.
Gluten free.
Let yourself be tempted by Goleador Cherry Xplosion, gummy sweets filled with cherry flavor, for an explosion of taste.
Glucose syrup - sugar - food jelly - acidifying: citric acid - aromas - vegetable oil - dyes: curcumin, carminii, anthocyanin - coating agent: beeswax. Gluten free.
Soft chewy milky creamy toffee .
Ingredients: sugar, glucose syrup, whole milk powder, coconut oil, modified maize starch, colour E150d, food jelly, glycerin, salt, flavours.Gluten Free
Contains milk.
Made in factory that uses nuts
Some of our products may contain common food allergens; if you are unsure if a product contains an ingredient that may cause an allergic reaction, do not eat it. The products are manufactured externally, and we therefore cannot guarantee that the ingredients are accurate or that cross-contamination did not occur.