When the hazelnutcream waffle was sold as “Manner Original Neapolitaner Schnitte” for the first time, Austria had an emperor and its state reached from from todays Italy (Trieste) to the Ukraine (Lviv).
The company Manner was founded in 1890. Only 8 year later the Viennese candy manufacturer was able to create the world famous wafer creation. At the beginning the wafers were sold in single amounts, so also people from the working class were able to enjoy the sweet hazelnut flavour of Manner. The philosophy of Manner was, as everybody in Vienna knew: “chocolate for everyone”. In that time chocolate was pure luxury for the working class.
Since 1924 the hazelnut waffles are packed in the famous two five rows in one package. First in a paper box, and since 1949 in a package of aluminium film, how its sold today.
The title “Neopolitaner” on the package comes from the halzelnutcream. In former time the hazelnuts for that cream were bought in the Italian city of Naples.
