Why are Kinder Eggs banned in the US?

Americans are so fat they just ate the whole egg and people choked to death because of it.

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Choke on a toy egg.

Fuck niggers.

They're not anymore, idiots. worldmarket.com/product/kinder-joy-egg-for-boys.do?sortby=ourPicks&from=Search

black on the outside, white on the inside
but the very center, my friend, is yellow...

RIP

this entire thread is retarded.

It's because of a food regulation implemented in the early 20th century that said food could not contain inedible materials. It was started because food packing companies had fucking disgusting practices that made their food incredibly unsafe.

Because we're fucking dumbasses

Because we are stupid and would choke to death on toys concealed inside chocolates, unable to resist the allure and likely swallowing it without chewing like the gluttonous bastards we are.

A bad parent somewhere probably accidentally killed their kid in a similar incident, sued, claimed "ignorance makes me inculpable", won/settled, we get a new law. It seems plausible.

There are still probably millions of bags left of cracker jacks. Bags not boxes.

I wonder if anyone here is old enough to remember toys/prizes in with the cereal. Not just in the box but in the actual cereal. Opening a box and digging around at the bottom to find it (they nearly always fell to the bottom, unless they were really thin/cheap plastic, those floated to the top often). Pulling it out with your cereal-dust covered fist. It was part of the fun. And you'd have a plastic jumping frog to fuck with for a few hours. Those were simpler times.

>Kinder Joy

That has existed for the past decade or so, and it's completely different that the Kinder surprise eggs

A delightful chocolate egg with a toy in it, perchance?

We prefer our eggs to be meaner.

Only Kinder Death was in Europe
And in America, we don't care about tat, we have higher quality toys outside of every grocery store for a fucking quarter, Kinder Eggs offer nothing

but eating olives is fine? why can nature put things inside food but people can't? even when the package specifically warns there is plastic inside, unlike with olives

>chokes to death
>firefighters managed to resuscitate the child
wut

That's the "Joy", not the "Surprise", you fucking retard.

She died later from the brain damage that happened while she was choking.

>before she succumbs to brain damage

A lot of kids die every year from chocking on toys in general, 1 case from Kinder Eggs is nothing.
If they're really scared about it, they could use some type of Child-resistant packaging like prescription bottles that only the parents could open.

>Kinder Eggs offer nothing
The chocolate is really nice, you cant buy it from them that thin in any other product, i wish they sold it without the toy.

Because we realized putting inedible things in food was a bad idea.

Why is there a tiny minion inside the eggs?

at this point it's more about lobbies than actual safety concerns

>Only Kinder Death was in Europe
Well no shit, they're illegal in murica.

>It was started because food packing companies had fucking disgusting practices that made their food incredibly unsafe.

Stop confusing a The Jungle with reality.

'cause germany is an arab country.

might be a terrorist weapon in that egg.

i don't want a dirty bomb for easter.

If you put an olive with pit inside something else, that would be unlawful and at least get you sewed when someone cracks a tooth.

Is that shitty milk chocolate made with butyric acid (source of vomit's predominant odor) like Hershey's?

I remembered Kinder's surprises 20 years ago having an excellent quality.

Now all of them have surprises with crappy material, although the chocolate is excellent and i end buying a Bueno (from the same branch, Ferrero) instead

>If they're really scared about it, they could use some type of Child-resistant packaging like prescription bottles that only the parents could open.
Actually, I could see the problem being the case itself and not the toy once it's out. The cases were hard to open with your hands. They were made of smooth shiny plastic that would get greasy from being surrounded by chocolate. The easiest method of opening it would be to shove the whole thing in your mouth and bite down on it, because your teeth pressing on it would pop it open. It's the perfect size to completely block off your airway if you do it wrong.

t. someone who got a lot of kinder eggs for gifts as a child.

Nowadays they're made of matte plastic and don't get very slippery, and they have a cap that pops up but remains attached, with a little tab to lift it up (thus no longer tempting kids to shove it in their mouths).

is the old kind of case. Pic related is the new one.

>The chocolate is really nice, you cant buy it from them that thin in any other product, i wish they sold it without the toy.
I think they sell easter ones that are hollow, but I don't remember what was in them. It's either toys or more chocolate (kinder mini eggs, delicious).

We have something similiar to Kinder eggs, A product called Yowie. Can find them in local Walmarts. The thing is, the chocolate doesnt completely encase the pastic product. I think thats why they can get away with a very similiar product to kinder eggs.

forgot photo

eggs in the US have to be refrigerated and grocery stores kept putting them in the candy isle so they were banned

cause its cancerous

>In January 2011, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) threatened a Manitoba resident with a $300 (Canadian dollars) fine for carrying one egg across the US border into Minnesota.[22] In June 2012, CBP held two Seattle men for two and a half hours after discovering six Kinder Surprise eggs in their car upon returning to the US from a trip to Vancouver. According to one of the men detained, a border guard quoted the potential fine as US$2,500 per egg.

Land of the free. I understand if they don't allow it for sale, but this is bullshit.

>we shouldn't obey laws
Fuck off lefty anarchist.

so Greek or Niçoise salad is illegal in the US?

no. it's not.

>if it's a law then it can be nothing other than right and just
ok kid

>rule of man trumps rule of law
Ok kid, Your parents might be ok with it when you crank up your punk music after being asked to do your chores, but society doesn't work that way.

no jackass, morality trumps legality, if a law is immoral to abide by or to enforce then it should be cast aside. you can't be a just nation with a stack of unjust laws on the books

This. We have Kinder Joys here.
>saw them in a store a week ago

>obey US laws
>don't ever possess drugs
>driving back home from casino and get pulled over for a broken tail light and cops find your $10,000 cash in casino winnings.
>confiscate cash as suspected drug money, don't charge you with a crime or even write a ticket for busted tail light.
>talk to a lawyer who says you're fucked, under US law they get to keep it.

Yeah, land of the free, you fascist police state scum. Enjoy losing all your rights in the never ending war on drugs and terrorism.

pits are edible (albeit not fun)
plastic isn't edible at all

do people who make them get sued a lot?

No, why would they?

The olives in that are not concealed inside anything, and we're not too lazy to remove pits before serving.

It's mostly a choking risk thing.

nytimes.com/1997/09/28/us/giants-in-candy-waging-battle-over-a-tiny-toy.html

The application of a regulation is different from the actual law. The way laws are interpreted for the purposes of enforcement is up to the federal bureaucracy, with the courts checking this power via the ability to say if their particular interpretation is within the law, and congress checking it via the ability to make new laws amending the language of the old.

The Kinder Surprise situation is one in which the FDA upon consideration decided that they were a public safety risk because they presented an unacceptable choking risk, especially to young children.

I'd rather have a surprise than joy thanks

>old enough
Nigga i remember this and im 26. Hope im not the second oldest on this gay board..

But they should be. Olives are fucking disgusting and should be banned, especially the kalamata ones.

You haven't eaten any sausage lately, huh.

Because fun is illegal in America.

They haven't been illegal in the US for a while now. If they are, it's varied by state. I travel from arizona to texas hitting up colorado and new mexico along the way frequently, and I see kinder eggs all the time, in each state, usually in local grocery stores.

I'm 29 and I cant recall ever having toys in cereal.

Your parents deprived you as a child.

Look, I'm not saying you're a fucking retard, but this has been explained repeatedly in this thread. What you are seeing in stores is the Kinder Joy, which is a completely different thing from the Kinder Surprise. The prohibition is federal and doesn't vary state-to-state. Just because you're too fucking stupid to comprehend the difference doesn't mean that the rest of us should be subjected to your inane drivel. Now fuck off.

>pits are edible (albeit not fun)
they are edible but not digestible, right? same as with plastic as long as it doesn't have pointy edges or something

Kinderschokolade are made of the same chocolate.

>What you are seeing in stores is the Kinder Joy, which is a completely different thing from the Kinder Surprise. The prohibition is federal and doesn't vary state-to-state. Just because you're too fucking stupid to comprehend the difference doesn't mean that the rest of us should be subjected to your inane drivel. Now fuck off.

This.

To be fair a lot of small grocers and liquor stores/bodegas in the U.S. used to sell Kinder Eggs in the U.S. well before the introduction of Kinder Joy because small orders would slip through customs/the Canadian border crossing and the stores don't know any better/don't care.

But not as thin.

Getting their asses fined out of existence by the FDA tended to put a stop to that, though. But I guess some of them are stupid.

why?

>Not just in the box but in the actual cereal.
It was always in a separate bag. The toy never touched the cereal.

38 here. I used to pick out the cereal I wanted based on the toy. My OCD prevented me from getting another brand/type until I collected all 6 nascar cars. But my parents had a unitasking big bowl. I would pour the cereal out in the big bowl and dig around for the toy. I would then pour the cereal back into the bag and let it go stale. I always hated the ones where you had to collect the upc and send it off, It would always take two months to get the toy.

Nope. You gotta go farther back. I'm In my 40s, and the toy wasn't always in plastic back then, generally it WAS plastic.

>yuropoors have to literally examine each meal for hidden non-edibles because they don't have the rule of law protecting them

How do you even """live"""?

He said Kinder Eggs, not Kinder Surprise. Learn to read, retard.

>Kinder Joy =/= Kinder Surprise

Does it really fucking matter?

In the end, it's still the same chocolate and the same shitty toy.

>Does it really fucking matter?
Quite a bit. Surprise has the toy. Joy does NOT have the toy, which explains why you can find it readily in the USA.

>the main selling point is the toy

You can't be serious.

They're actually legal now

money.cnn.com/2017/05/22/news/kinder-eggs-us/index.html

Who said anything about the "main selling point"?

Read the thread for chrissakes. The point is that one of them is illegal to sell in the USA because it contains a toy and therefore violates an FDA rule about inedible objects packed inside food, whereas the other is perfectly legal to sell because it lacks said toy.

Fuck yeah this 4x4 truck came with a free m4 i love murica

>Back at home

>Watching tv commerciala like the fatass 400kgs red neck i am
Omfg dis kinder egg shud be bannd its so dangerous

>jelous of American culture

youtube.com/watch?v=1uUNL6rW-Ck&

youtube.com/watch?v=YQpoSNCpwLU

youtube.com/watch?v=L4Y6VVdk2XY

>'murica
>culture
Pick one

>Olives are fucking disgusting
>t. twelve year old

Once on thanksgiving, when I was 7 years old I tried beef jerky for the first time and loved it. So I ate three bags of it without my mom knowing. And keep in mind, this was mid 90's beef jerky LOADED with bad perservatives that have been banned since. Then I went to my grandmas house for dinner, and at an entire jar of green olives and an entire jar of black olives. I got so fucking sick. I was vomiting for the next three days. And it took me over a decade to be able to eat beef jerky and olives again

why are euros so obsessed with america? is it jealousy? daddy issues? mad because big dick america has more fun than tiny chode europe?

Same story but carrot and corn instead of jerky and olives

that sucks. Carrots and corn seem harder to avoid than beef jerky and olives

t. depressed hamplanet

It doesn't say they're legal, it says they're launching a new version compliant with the existing laws because the toy isn't inside of the chocolate.