• Malgas@beehaw.org
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      Which, ironically, is the actual reason Kinder Surprise are illegal in the US: It’s not a specific ban, it’s that you’re not allowed to put non food inside of food. Which is prima facie completely reasonable.

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    Not like they’d miss anything. Just buy a bag of sugar and throw a fingertip of cocoa and some coloring and other inferior crap in it. Still better than all those “chocolate”-shits that are priced like it’s 100% pure cocoa made by hand by the CEO.

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    Kinder Surprises are inferior to Yowies and you can fight me over this.

    Or at least, they were. Prior to 2005. Then they got discontinued and brought back over a decade later with inferior Kinder-style simple solid plastic toys.

    Apparently though, both the new Yowies and Kinder Surprises are available in America these days.

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    Ugh, don’t remind me, I get annoyed whenever I see them in the checkout lane.

    Yes we actually still have them, but we have them in the most insulting way, basically one half of the shell is a candy part and the other is the toy and each half is separate by its own film covering.

    I bet it was because one kid in the 80s or some shit was in some freak accident or something and the Pearl Clutchers of America™ rode in on their high horse to protect everyone lol

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      Yes we actually still have them, but we have them in the most insulting way, basically one half of the shell is a candy part and the other is the toy and each half is separate by its own film covering.

      In Europe (or Germany, at least) they are sold under the name “Kinder Joy”, so we can choose between those and Kinder surprise.

      I bet it was because one kid in the 80s or some shit was in some freak accident or something

      Actually, that’s not the case. Kinder Surprise is banned under a law from 1938, long before the product was even conceived.
      https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/342
      https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/331