Tell Me! Kinder Surprise Eggs

[thebitterguy]

Can you get them where you're at?

I've got a Google Notifier for Smart Car mentions, and the strangest thing about one of this morning's posts was that he said they can't get Kinder Surprise eggs in the US.

Really?

Comments

[rdansky.livejournal.com]

I had one of the guys in my department say the same thing.
Then I told him about the place about six blocks from the office where you could get them. *sigh*

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

They're illegal here, and the company that manufactures them honors that ban, but they often wind up being imported from secondary markets by specialty shops.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

This boggles me; you don't have Ferrero chocolates? (What's funny is that a lot of people think they are German: they aren't, they're Italian. Probably, this is because Ferrero put the nicest toys inside the eggs sold in Germany; although now that MPG is making the toys, all the Euro-eggs have the same toys.)

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

The ban is on confections with non-nutritional "ingredients" in them. Evidently, some government agency has stated that a candy with a plastic toy in the center poses a choking hazard for small children and the hard of thinking.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I will now be using that bit of information *any* time an American calls Canada (or anywhere else) a "nanny state".

[tenzil.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

[thebitterguy]

They are candy with a toy inside.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Illegal Kinder Surprise and fake Smarties? Those poor deprived people.

[thebitterguy]

At least they're finally learning how to make beer.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

True. There's a brewpub in Vermont called the Alchemist which is frankly spectacular.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

As others have mentioned, there are many places to buy them in the US... they're just generally not sold in standard grocery stores (although they've been showing up in some of our local ones lately, now that I think of it).

Not that this stops me from making border runs to go grocery shopping (something we have planned for this weekend, in fact).

[sarahnade.livejournal.com]

There's a European-like Produce Market and a German Deli that has them near me (NorCal). Not really places kids would go, so that's probably why. But the last one I bought the toy was not that fantastic.

And also I think the chocolate is kinda ass.

[thebitterguy]

I dunno. The chocolate is kinda tasty. I like the white/milk chocolate duality.

[palintheist.livejournal.com]

I wish they hadn't changed the toys. Back in my misty youth [the eighties] the toys were, well, real toys - little wooden paintboxes and wooden buildings and amazingly detailed plastic models that were like real models, made for children to put together.

Now, every time I buy a Kinder Surprise I am vastly, vastly disappointed.

[thebitterguy]

They are not as impressive these days, but a few years back they had a series called "Cairo Kitties" that were all little ancient Egyptian themed ones that were kind of neat.

We bought a lot that year.

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[foxandmaus.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Actually, what I said was that you couldn't get them before, but now can. In a strange kind of way, I wish you still couldn't. For me, it was always one of the highlight of going over seas.

And, yes, I know it's an Italian Company. Being a German speaker, I just happen to like visiting Germany, Austria and norther Switzerland more. Thus, I tend to write about those regions.

Thanks for the mention, thebitterguy!

BTW, oddly enough, my latest post mentions werewolves.


-Turkish Prawn
http://foxandmaus.wordpress.com/

[xxgeek.livejournal.com]

We have something similar you can get here. They have chocolate eggs that when you open them there are plastic or candy dinosaurs in them. You can get them around easter or at natural history museums.

We have the gross ones with pop rocks in them too.