Picked a few up a few weeks back at Target. They are a poor stand in for Kinder Eggs. My quick review here
http://ronsrandomstuff.blogspot.com/2013/02/ultimate-spider-man-choco-surprise.html
This may surprise the non-U.S. residents among you to know, but Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs, containing capsules with snap-together toys inside, are prohibited in this country by law. Seriously, you can mount a better legal defense in my state of California for selling marijuana than you can a chocolate egg with a toy under the shell.
The theory: that we are too stupid not to let kids choke on tiny toys. The actuality: those regulations can be gotten past, and now have. How?
Two things: Choco Treasure eggs have a ridge around the plastic capsule inside the egg that keeps the candy from ever being fully sealed, thus circumventing the rule against non-foods being completely encased in a food.
(Side note: U.S. laws would rule out the Irish cake known as Barm Brack, a fruitcake into which were baked several tokens that supposedly prefigured various futures; I got a pea in elementary school, meaning poverty.)
Second: the toys are bigger than the legal standard for choking hazards. And Spider-Man is the first major licensed character among them.
And yet as cool as this may be, they will never top this particular Kinder commercial for disturbing genius. EVER. Maybe deranged Humpty Dumpty is the real reason this shit was illegalized.
Tags: WTF?
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@DoctorOddfellow budget. And health. Though we can always hypnotize people into buying and eating eggs and giving us the toys. ;)
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Well thanks a lot for the nightmares that will last forever Luke! Why is humpty made of flesh?!?!?!
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@Rick_Bastardly Oh ho, he's not made of flesh, silly! Why, that's just the skin of his latest victim, stretched out over him & worn as a trophy in tribute to Gazuga the Dark One! And you thought he was actually made of flesh, how droll...
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The question here is do you eat the chocolate before or after you assemble the toy? Personally, I like to eat the chocolate after as a little reward for building something.
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"...thus circumventing the rule against non-foods being completely encased in a food."
Wait, that's a rule in the United States? Well, that's kind of a shock to me, because if Luke's reviews are any indication, fast food restaurants across America have been constantly breaking this rule for quite some time now.
I was going to buy a bunch of Kinder Surprises here, display the toys, & chug all the chocolate as way of gloating, but I'll take that commercial as a sign that you have several forms of revenge prepared just in case, so I'll clam up. My god, what was that...thing...o_O
Luv Luv Luv kinder eggs - J had a collection and the only part she tried to eat was the chocolat when she was a kd
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I lived in Germany for a couple of years in the late 90's, and let me tell ya...I spent way too much money on Kinder eggs. Probably more than any grown man should.
Saw this in the Easter section at Target today and bought two. (one for my brother and one for me.) it was only $1 each. We wound up with two different SD Spideys. The egg inside opens at the middle, but the band of plastic that looks like plastic model flash that someone forgot to trim goes around the egg from top to bottom as opposed to around the center..
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The article was kinda confusing...can I buy them in the US or not? I want those big head spideys dammit!
A friend and I tried to sneak some in to the state once. That didn't go well.
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You guys in the US do not have Kinder eggs? That is madness...
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Thank God those things are illegal. Up to one kid almost dies every year in the US from swallowing a toy inside candy.
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I've unrepentantly eaten Kinder Eggs in the USA. Well, uh ... here's to crime!
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I found a new Kinder Egg at the Polish market here (Canada). The egg is divided into halves (long way). One side is this chocolate filling goodness with two chocolate balls stuck in there. The other side is the toy. They're both separate and sealed. I wonder if this will be in the U.S. soon?
@PopRewindOnlineThat's not a Kinder Egg though, it's a Kinder Joy. Looks alike, tastes different. http://vdiskont.eu/images/VD003.jpg
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Nestle in the late 90s tried to do a Kinder Surprise-style toy encased in a hollow ball of chocolate, but they quickly got pulled because of that regulation and the toy was replaced with Sweet Tarts, which was laaaame.
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@NobleCherry Wonderball. Besides the Sweet Tarts, they also had stickers of some sort inside, I think.
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As Kinder Eggs have been illegal to sell and import into here since about 1983, it's a bit strange that I recall seeing some The Incredibles-branded Surprise Eggs being sold at a mall kiosk that offered foreign foodstuffs and candy some years back.
When I've been to that mall more recently, the foreign food/candy kiosk is nowhere in sight...I wonder...
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@ToplessRobot Where do I buy this knockoff amazingness?! Apart from online, which is a weird place to get food.
@MarasaurusRex @ToplessRobot
Target has them. World Market is supposed to but mine didn't have them.
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@MarasaurusRex Aside from online, I do not know. Try the largest candy stores you can find.
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I have never had Kinder eggs, but I have heard many tales of their legendary taste.
I must ask, are they true?
I hate traveling, but I may try and go to Canada one day, and I think they sell them there too.
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@Timely-Tardis-Lego Honestly, they don't taste all that fantastic IMO. There are other Kinder chocolate products available here to try, just not the eggs.
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@LYT @Timely-Tardis-Lego Sweet! But that does give me less excuse for operation maple run. I'll just find another excuse one of these days.
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Wait, the Kinder Surprise is banned over there??
I'm so sorry. I used to eat those as a kid. They were good.
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It's absurd indeed - every year there's a story that pops up about some guy getting nailed going back to the US with Kinder Surprises.
A real shame indeed that Americans can't get them unless they visit here.
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such laws are not made to provide for the common good, they exist to allow a handful of moronic delusional busy bodies to live the illusion that they are the smartest people in the world and certainly more qualified to make decisions than any of us in the great unwashed masses
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@Gallen_Dugall Yeah! Damn the man! They're totally just trying to stick it to us with their regulations from the 1930s that prohibit non-nutritive additives from being added to food, so the robber barons of the time couldn't add something like cardboard to ensure volume cheaply!
...except, you know, that's kind of where the law came from. Seriously. Go look it up yourself. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938.
I agree it's ridiculous that there haven't been exceptions for things like Kinder Surprise, where the toy is clearly not a part of the food, but this isn't the result of a law from "a handful of moronic delusional busy bodies" so much as legislation that actually intended to keep us safe from unscrupulous businessmen.
@AdamRuining @Gallen_Dugall Not to mention it's not preventing "non-nutritive additives" from being put in food in any way either. sure it might keep cardboard out but the crap they put in some food nowadays isn't much better.
@AdamRuining @Gallen_Dugall and yet somehow other nations manage to keep cardboard out of food stuff without banning perfectly safe products as well, no matter how you cut it the USAlund law was never intended to keep consumers safe it's purpose is to allow the "lawmakers" to feel important and it's what separates the USAlund system of political patronage from a rational and workable system of government.
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No...I thought I forgot about that abominable commercial! Damn you Luke!
