I am italian and as far as I know the equivalent of the kinder joy, kinder sorpresa (literally surprise in Italian) were banned from the US because there were instances of children who chocked on the plastic egg found inside the chocolate candy. As for the version you currently have, it is the summer version of the kinder sorpresa in Italy. The plastic toys are trinkets but here you can find people/children who collect them, I have seen my fair share of big collections of those plastic toys, mostly from the 90s, I used to like them a lot when I was little. Hope I helped XD
I came here to say, that this is the summer version :) hahaha, it's because the kinder surprise will melt, the chocolate is too thin. And the toys in 90s where awesome, the hippos, turtles and all the others where actually really good and you could play with them. But nowdays they aren't. I guess i still buy them from time to time in the hope of having a nice toy inside :D
That is true! The old surprises were awesome, I especially liked the penguins. I do not buy them for me because I don't like them anymore, too sugary for me XD. My nephews love them though, but they usually are too taken by the toy to eat the chocolate XD.
Without kids suprise my childhood would be terrible. Love the chocolate still. The toy inside got worse over the years. I had a complete collection and especially the special ones that didn’t need assembly (smurfs, lions, alligator). They come in a box were at least 1 of the 3 is a special one. Still have troubles walking in a store and not buy them. Crazy European
Fun fact, the Kinder Joy here in France is the summer version of our hard egg Kinder Surprise! It's a molten version of the same chocolate candy, as if you were selling the hard version it would be molten between the shop and your car, with 40°C (104F) in the summer !
All Ferrero brands of chocolate are not sold in summer so they found this way to continue the sales throughout the year
BTW I think this is my most favorite chocolate ever and I had "won" a big Yoshi in the super size Kinder Surprise I bought myself last Easter
LOL The kinder joy as far as I know was never banned here. The Kinder surprise is and you can be fined $5k per egg... but people bring them in all the time... I do... The thought was that kids would eat the chocolate and choke on the plastic capsule inside... heck I think a horse would have a hard time doing that!
yep and what was funny is in the 90's Nestle did Nestle magic with a plastic ball inside a chocolate ball which had a Disney toy inside... they were great but the plastic interacted with the chocolate and caused a lot of people to have an allergic reaction... I know this because I was one of them and they told me they had a lot of complaints about it... they stopped making them and later re-released Nestle Magic and just candy inside a chocolate ball.
You have started me searching to find out if cherries with pits are really banned in all other states. I'm from RI and I'm starting to wonder if your newsletter is intelligent enough to <insert state of reader> to throw us for a loop!
The Santa’s from kinder taste like the original kinderei that many of us grew up with. They changed the recipe when they couldn’t sell them here any more cause some kid choked on the plastic toy thing in the middle. We just can’t have nice stuff.
"Move to Europe if you want the good stuff." - yup, that's why we invite. Funny, but for at least recent fifteen years the whole concept of kinder joy is literally the same here. Yet not only we hide the accidents with swallowing toys, but also those regarding biting off glass (as I did, aged four. 'Twas a very fragile glass among my grandparent's tableware). Apparently the scandal with spraying hot water on somebody was too big to sweep the matter under the rug or someone wan the court case, because in recent years the warnings "CAUTION HOT" had started to appear on the covers of hot drinks' cups.
The coffee case was Liebeck vs McDonalds restaurant. The woman had third degree burns and huge medical bills. Watch the documentary Hot Coffee for the true story. The free website follows.
Here (Canada) we have the KinderJoy and KinderSurprise. They're different products. The KinderSurprise version has a milk and white chocolate shell and inside is only a plastic container with the toy hermetically sealed within (those little containers are Not a KinderJoy at all to try to open, I assure you) ... and they sell them in "boy" (ie: "StarWars"), "girl" (ie: "Frozen"), and "neutral" themes.
When my kids were younger we would go geocaching, and some of these little toys became trinkets to leave behind when we signed the log books. I am pretty sure that is the only use for them. Although if one had enough toys from the same collection/theme, I suppose they could also become part of a cake-topping decoration, or they could be used as game pieces when you misplace parts of your board games. (Imagine being the Smurf or the Water-Squirting-Hippo next time you play Monopoly) And the little hermetic containers can come in handy as pill-boxes, or to transport just-enough salts to rim a glass before pouring your favorite drink. Afterall, as you mentioned, assembling the little toys is a bit of a drinking game...
Twitter, which really is a special place. I think this needs to be Twitters new slogan LOL Chocolate, put in a freezer, lasts at least 2 yrs. and still tastes good. Found that out when my freezer died and I was cleaning it out and found said bar. I know it had been at least 2 yrs. since my kid had to sell them, but he sold them for 5 yrs total, so you could be looking at up to 7 yrs frozen. Just a thought
I don’t know anything about Kinder Joy but this kinda reminds me of Cracker Jacks when I was a kid the toys were fairly good but at some point they were total trash. The plastic is what really makes my blood boil.
You bring up a good point. When does corporate culpability end and parental responsibility begin? Under normal circumstances it’s assumed that the parents have common sense. You would be wrong if you thought this.
Many are the court cases brought to trial on the most ludicrous bases. I remember reading some time ago about a parent who sued the manufacturer of a skateboard whose son used to fly down a steep hill, running into a parked vehicle. The boy was banged up pretty badly but lived to learn not to do that again.
The parent, though, was irate. The skateboard had no brakes!
I’m sure that when it was purchased that was the last thing on anyone’s mind. It’s plainly apparent that even on a cursory glance the board has none.
If you want to see a great video on the whys and wherefores of why these are illegal in the US, the Today I Found Out YouTube channel did a great video on it a few years ago. Titled Why are kinder eggs illegal in the US.
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In New Zealand our Kinder eggs contain machetes, dynamite and chainsaws. This is because our kids have to fight Orcs. I'm okay with it.
I need to move there.
Bring the whole family but get better eggs - the back-flipping seal isn't going to cut it.
I am italian and as far as I know the equivalent of the kinder joy, kinder sorpresa (literally surprise in Italian) were banned from the US because there were instances of children who chocked on the plastic egg found inside the chocolate candy. As for the version you currently have, it is the summer version of the kinder sorpresa in Italy. The plastic toys are trinkets but here you can find people/children who collect them, I have seen my fair share of big collections of those plastic toys, mostly from the 90s, I used to like them a lot when I was little. Hope I helped XD
I love that it's the summer version. Kids only have the patience to open all that extra packaging when it's warm outside.
I came here to say, that this is the summer version :) hahaha, it's because the kinder surprise will melt, the chocolate is too thin. And the toys in 90s where awesome, the hippos, turtles and all the others where actually really good and you could play with them. But nowdays they aren't. I guess i still buy them from time to time in the hope of having a nice toy inside :D
That is true! The old surprises were awesome, I especially liked the penguins. I do not buy them for me because I don't like them anymore, too sugary for me XD. My nephews love them though, but they usually are too taken by the toy to eat the chocolate XD.
Without kids suprise my childhood would be terrible. Love the chocolate still. The toy inside got worse over the years. I had a complete collection and especially the special ones that didn’t need assembly (smurfs, lions, alligator). They come in a box were at least 1 of the 3 is a special one. Still have troubles walking in a store and not buy them. Crazy European
They are unfortunately quite tasty. I have eaten far too many.
Fun fact, the Kinder Joy here in France is the summer version of our hard egg Kinder Surprise! It's a molten version of the same chocolate candy, as if you were selling the hard version it would be molten between the shop and your car, with 40°C (104F) in the summer !
All Ferrero brands of chocolate are not sold in summer so they found this way to continue the sales throughout the year
BTW I think this is my most favorite chocolate ever and I had "won" a big Yoshi in the super size Kinder Surprise I bought myself last Easter
Was the big Yoshi made of chocolate? We have chocolate Santas and bunnies, but no chocolate Yoshies. We're slacking.
I'm sorry for repeating what other already said haha, the comments wouldn't show before my answer 😅
LOL The kinder joy as far as I know was never banned here. The Kinder surprise is and you can be fined $5k per egg... but people bring them in all the time... I do... The thought was that kids would eat the chocolate and choke on the plastic capsule inside... heck I think a horse would have a hard time doing that!
Never underestimate kids or horses.
true true... my own son has left me wondering How a few times... somedays I am not sure how he has made it halfway through 14.
Ooooh yes the infamous orange egg inside that sometimes took me SO MUCH TIME to open when I was little...
My kids cannot open them on their own. I have to do it for them. It's basically all they need me for in their lives.
yep and what was funny is in the 90's Nestle did Nestle magic with a plastic ball inside a chocolate ball which had a Disney toy inside... they were great but the plastic interacted with the chocolate and caused a lot of people to have an allergic reaction... I know this because I was one of them and they told me they had a lot of complaints about it... they stopped making them and later re-released Nestle Magic and just candy inside a chocolate ball.
Well here it's kinda controlled you cannot be sick because of a food container it's punished with guillotine
LOL well the Nestle company apparently was afraid I was going to sue or something they sent me so much free stuff.
Haha that's good ! I hope they checked the free stuff so they were not poisonous as well 😁
Oh I had dozens of coupons for free bags of their candy and dozens of the chocolate bars. I had candy for almost a year.
You have started me searching to find out if cherries with pits are really banned in all other states. I'm from RI and I'm starting to wonder if your newsletter is intelligent enough to <insert state of reader> to throw us for a loop!
I did not think it was possible for your girls to have too much candy!
I stand corrected
The Santa’s from kinder taste like the original kinderei that many of us grew up with. They changed the recipe when they couldn’t sell them here any more cause some kid choked on the plastic toy thing in the middle. We just can’t have nice stuff.
"Move to Europe if you want the good stuff." - yup, that's why we invite. Funny, but for at least recent fifteen years the whole concept of kinder joy is literally the same here. Yet not only we hide the accidents with swallowing toys, but also those regarding biting off glass (as I did, aged four. 'Twas a very fragile glass among my grandparent's tableware). Apparently the scandal with spraying hot water on somebody was too big to sweep the matter under the rug or someone wan the court case, because in recent years the warnings "CAUTION HOT" had started to appear on the covers of hot drinks' cups.
I, for one, am relieved that you finally know hot drinks are hot. Before that, I generally assumed hot chocolate was ice cold.
The coffee case was Liebeck vs McDonalds restaurant. The woman had third degree burns and huge medical bills. Watch the documentary Hot Coffee for the true story. The free website follows.
https://tubitv.com/movies/310498/hot-coffeestart=true&utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed
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Here (Canada) we have the KinderJoy and KinderSurprise. They're different products. The KinderSurprise version has a milk and white chocolate shell and inside is only a plastic container with the toy hermetically sealed within (those little containers are Not a KinderJoy at all to try to open, I assure you) ... and they sell them in "boy" (ie: "StarWars"), "girl" (ie: "Frozen"), and "neutral" themes.
When my kids were younger we would go geocaching, and some of these little toys became trinkets to leave behind when we signed the log books. I am pretty sure that is the only use for them. Although if one had enough toys from the same collection/theme, I suppose they could also become part of a cake-topping decoration, or they could be used as game pieces when you misplace parts of your board games. (Imagine being the Smurf or the Water-Squirting-Hippo next time you play Monopoly) And the little hermetic containers can come in handy as pill-boxes, or to transport just-enough salts to rim a glass before pouring your favorite drink. Afterall, as you mentioned, assembling the little toys is a bit of a drinking game...
Twitter, which really is a special place. I think this needs to be Twitters new slogan LOL Chocolate, put in a freezer, lasts at least 2 yrs. and still tastes good. Found that out when my freezer died and I was cleaning it out and found said bar. I know it had been at least 2 yrs. since my kid had to sell them, but he sold them for 5 yrs total, so you could be looking at up to 7 yrs frozen. Just a thought
I don’t know anything about Kinder Joy but this kinda reminds me of Cracker Jacks when I was a kid the toys were fairly good but at some point they were total trash. The plastic is what really makes my blood boil.
I was thinking the same thing about Cracker Jack toys and their decline in quality!
I'll need to Google what a Kinder Joy is because I've never heard of it...
You bring up a good point. When does corporate culpability end and parental responsibility begin? Under normal circumstances it’s assumed that the parents have common sense. You would be wrong if you thought this.
Many are the court cases brought to trial on the most ludicrous bases. I remember reading some time ago about a parent who sued the manufacturer of a skateboard whose son used to fly down a steep hill, running into a parked vehicle. The boy was banged up pretty badly but lived to learn not to do that again.
The parent, though, was irate. The skateboard had no brakes!
I’m sure that when it was purchased that was the last thing on anyone’s mind. It’s plainly apparent that even on a cursory glance the board has none.
If you want to see a great video on the whys and wherefores of why these are illegal in the US, the Today I Found Out YouTube channel did a great video on it a few years ago. Titled Why are kinder eggs illegal in the US.