Why are Kinder Eggs Illegal in the USA?
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For the uninitiated, Kinder Eggs are a chocolate treat widely available throughout Europe, Mexico and Canada, with the company that makes them, Ferrero (perhaps better known in the U.S. for being the makers of Nutella), selling a whopping 1.5 billion of the eggs per year. Where they don’t sell any is the United States, where the eggs are indeed illegal (though something of a blackmarket does exist for them). So why is a beloved candy the world over explicitly banned in the land of the free?
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Just a clarification for those who didn't watch until the end, Kinder Joys (which are packaged very similar to Kinder Surprises, but are a different product) are perfectly legal in the U.S. as noted in the video; it's Kinder Surprises that are not. We've gotten a lot of emails from people noting they have Kinder Surprises at their stores in the U.S. including sending pictures, but the pictures are all of Kinder Joys. :-) If you watch to the end, Simon shows the difference between the two. :-) Again, if you're seeing Kinder Surprises on the shelves of some store in the U.S. for sale, they were smuggled into the country. That's not to say anyone seems to care once you get them past customs, but they're still illegal. :-)
Today I Found Out woah is that the whole script
wait, you mean I don't have to watch to the end for the full story? later nerds!
i am so confused... kinder joys were introduced in 2001... what's this talk about 2018?
+Dingier WeEvil44: The company is going to start selling the Kinder Joys all over the U.S. starting in 2018 in a major push. Currently there are places in the U.S. where you can get the Kinder Joys already though. Just not yet "everywhere" like M&Ms or the like.
Ive found proper kinder surprises in stores near Chicago, it seems the Ukrainian markets dont care lol
Prisoner: _What are you in here for?_
Me: _I had a Kinder Egg Surprise._
Prisoner: *_*Moves to the other side of the bench._*
It's a finable offense, but I guess you do go to jail if you can't pay it. xD
But kinder egg surprise isn’t banned... it’s just normal kinder eggs.
Bahahaha
Ahhahah it's sound like a quote from Frenk Drebin' Naked Gun XD
"there are some really bad people here" -Stewie
"So, how did you go to jail?"
InfernoLegend980 "Had a kinder egg, you?" *looks at prisoner* "Look man, i got in for murder, please dont hurt me!"
TehAmazoon "We've just gotten word from Intelligence. The hostage situation is worse than we thought! He's got a... A...." "SPIT IT OUT PRIVATE!" "HE HAS A KINDER EEEEEEGG" "....... God have mercy on us all...."
For smuggling 25 kinder eggs for my grandchildren.
*gets pulled over and has cocaine and kinder eggs next to each other policeman stares.
"IS THAT A FUCKING KINDER EGG I SEE"
*throws rocks nothing happens
*throws kinderegg
*eweryone flees in panic
I remember when my dad went to Germany for bussiness and smuggled a dozen back for my brother and I
Mr. wizard seeing how ur still alive to write that, his real plan didn’t work
@@isabella-lp3nw Exept for three year olds, who is so dumb to really be putting in danger by Kinder eggs?
Choking hazard.... yeah right... hot dogs, jaw breakers, and even lollipops are a choking hazard.. and we can get them here in the states...
@@jamesphillipshort Kinder eggs are the less chocking hazard. I mean, normally, poeple know better than put a full egg in mouth xd
@@isabella-lp3nw kinder eggs are harmless, in order to eat the toy it has inside you either should somehow put the whole egg in your mouse and eat it without noticing the plastic or be a baby, eat the chocolate and then eat the toy pieces, in which case its your parent's fault for giving you it.
Is nobody talking about how he just bit into the whole Kinder egg without splitting it first?
Sin! Blasphemy! Burn the witch!
No joke, the understanding we have here in Europe over the ban is that american kids are "greedy and stupid", and they would bite the egg whole without realizing there's something inside and choke on the plastic capsule, not even the smaller parts of the toy. Not a good look for America is what I'm saying.
This was the first video I saw explaining the actual reasoning and dispelling the myth, so I can only assume it is still alive and well among my peers.
Simon eats the Kinder egg the same way I do, and my brother, and my nephew, and... So, it is not blasphemy! Although, I am regularly called a witch, soo.... nevermind. Nothing to see here.
(BTW, Kinder Joys are very yummy.)
Professor Chaos....somebody’s a tad bit angry
Exactly. The egg needs to be split first
Faolair I prefer to split in half then break it into tiny pieces.
When I was in Austria, I bought 10 kinder eggs that I planned on bringing back with me
Then I started reading about how they were illegal
Got scared
So I ate all of the eggs that night
UnlicensedOkie they aren’t illegal to have for yourself in the USA, but it’s illegal to sell them
@@Kyuketsuxi No, it's illegal to bring them in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise#United_States
It's silly really, they act like you're importing poison to kill kids with.
Lols
I'm just wondering how you managed to comment after choking to death 10 times on kinder toys!?
Must have been a great night.
The two stories that he said were killed by the toy, they were 3 yrs old. Dunno about you but it does say to not give to 3 yr olds
Indeed! Thats just bad parenting...but i guess its so easy: give your kid an egg and you have some minutes for yourself.
What you have to realize is that it's never a shitty parent's fault. They sue, they win. Think of the children, after all. Why do you think cups of hot coffee say "WARNING HOT CONTENTS" these days. Dumb people always win.
I don't think you can "Win" when your child has lost its life, however there is a warning saying that the egg is not suitable for children 0-3 at least now not sure if it has always been the case though. Tragic that if these warnings were ignored though,
Well, the hot coffee case was due to negligence on McDonald's part. (The coffee was hot enough to fuse the elderly woman's genitals shut, which is too hot to serve/drink safely and that was the real problem.) They added the "Hot contents" so it looked like the person suing was being ridiculous.
Yeah, and she wasn't even the only victim. She didn't even want a lot of money, just enough to cover her medical bill.
What happened when my mom tried to smuggle kinder eggs in: (story told to me by my mom)
As we were going through the security line at the airport, they searched our bag and found the kinder eggs. They didn’t fine us, no no, but instead crushed each individual egg and threw it in the trash right in front of my 4yo eyes... I cried...
That's horrible!
@@starlalilymoon It was very tragic indeed lol
If that happened to 4 year old me, I would just reach in the trash bucket and eat the remains.
@@suquinlan3755 IKR
Could’ve atleast preserved the chocolate and just throw iut they toys but noo
Kid: look at this wonderful kinder egg!
*USA: Wait, thats illegal!*
Also US : hey kids ...want some AR?
Better going to get some guns in the supermarket today, they are totally legal!! 😂
Proof that “think of the children” is really just a political phrase used to get votes, and nobody really gives a damn about kids or safety.
Out lawed the elixir that killed a handful of children in 1937, yet the government had no problem allowing the manufacturing and sale of highly flammable sleepwear for the next 40 years for infants and children to wear. Go figure.
@@katemaloney4296 the depths of human depravity.
Sam Miller kinda like the whole game cause violence BS, which is kinda the same as violent stuff in comic books.
man: got the sht?
dealer: yes (gives kinder egg)
man: das good sht !
nice one😂😂😂
Dealer smuggles them in from Canada in regular egg boxes hidden in with other food shopping 😂
'Damn its just an egg wrapped in kinder egg wrapper !'
@Moogle Midgar woooosh
Das Gut Scheiße
Fun fact: here in Germany the Kinder surprise eggs go on „summer vacation“ there’s a whole advertisement thing about it... that is because the egg shell is too thin so it would melt while transported or while sitting in the supermarket so they don’t sell them here during the summer
Holy shit! Last summer I actually thought they had been discontinued because I couldn't find them anywhere
*laughs in Canadian*
In Italy we have a commercial saying exactly the same thing about Ferrero Rochers (don't know if you have them in Germany). It's funny to see that it is a common practice for Ferrero to do these commercials, very kind of them.
In Poland they are replaced by something called kinder joy during summer. It’s a cream similar to nutella with two rocher-like balls sticked in it. It is packaged into a plastic egg split into two halves - one has the cream, other the toy, and there’s a plastic spoon in the middle for eating the cream.
@@mioszradomski1825someone didn't watch until the end of the video lol
"No man, I'm not touching that chocolate... they're illegal as hell. Wanna buy an AR-15?"
Ingeborg Svensson AR-15s are legal tho
@@bryce34725 and this is not 9gag
I’d like three please
@@bryce34725 exactly
@@bryce34725 that's the literal joke
the 'safe' version with the small spoon.... surely that spoon is a worse choking hazard xD
But allowable cause it facilities /serves a purpose to the candy 🤣😂
Urghhh some US laws are so goddamn stupid.
If your about 6 and have common sense, they’re really nice, too bad in the UK they are mostly in express shops.
That’s called kinder merendero. It’s so good
Actually I believe India was one of the country where this alternate kinder surprise was sold and having eaten a lot of them, I want to say No the spoon is pretty big though. Atleast here in India 😂
"They wanted to see me suffer, so I had to eat 20 chocolate eggs." I died laughing
How about a kinder egg with edible toys
They’re small enough I could do that, without suffering much. ;)
Thats the normal amount I eat
He says that like one kinder egg is supposed to be a serving, smh. Aren't you supposed to eat 20 at a time?
You laugh, but a couple of weeks later he had tons of achne.
Cellmate 1: So what got you here?
Cellmate 2: I ate a kinder egg
Cellmate 1 to the guards: Get this psychopath away from me!
Funny. And original
Prisoner: what are you in here for?I murdered and mutilated 5 children.
Prisoner: I had possession of a kinder egg.
Prisoner #2: PLEASE DON’T HURT ME!
5 people *the man behind the slaughter*
prisoner 1: so what you in for? I'm a serial killer serving life for 14 counts of rape, murder and necrophilia
prisoner 2: possession with intent of kinder eggs
prisoner 1: woah woah, we have no problem right? We good?
@@peytonthepug1065 ITS BEEN SO LONG
"Widely available in Europe, Mexico and Canada"
People of the USA, you're surrounded! Surrender and your lives will be spared!
and yet they don't make gun laws and they bitch about an Easter chocolate egg
I went to a Walmart and Albertsons in the USA they're there, but probably just the chocolate. They have the same shape, and color.
Eric Jackson official channel shat tha fuck up bitch
@@Brianbravo2000 💯 lmao. I honestly hate everything about my country. America is a bucket of p!ss to drown rats in. I hate it here. I was born here. Have to make the best of it. Maybe one day I'll be able to move to Australia for God's sake. Australia is a much freer country than the United States. MUCH freer. Yet they don't waltz around screaming "WE'RE THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!" all the time. The only hang up is they don't get to stroll up and down the street carrying around military grade weapons. I think I'll manage to live without my 50 round drum magazine for cartridges chambered in .556 NATO. Epic eye roll. Fuq America. America is like the lazy kid at the ball game that brags about getting a participation trophy. I have no doubt that this sh!t hole of a country will dissolve very very soon.
@@Brianbravo2000 In America, we produce some of the stupidest people of any developed nation in the entire world - in fact even countries like Kazakhstan have a higher percentage completion rate for high school academics. The can't keep the lights on, but they can keep their children from dropping out. Not only do we produce the stupidest people, we also produce the proudest. This whole disgusting country is just one giant circle jerk full of mouth breathers that stand around patting themselves on the back for accomplishing next to nothing. Highly stupid citizens that can not ever be convinced that they are wrong because they're too stupid to know how stupid they are, and too arrogant to allow the notion of their own stupidity to enter their feeble little minds. Help! The dumbest people on the planet simultaneously have the most dangerous weapons, and in the greatest number.
What I don't understand is I can buy a Yowie Chocolate which is a little plastic animal INSIDE a chocolate shell from my local Walmart, but I can't buy Kinder Eggs? In my Professional Opinion as a Human, they are the same things!
Mae Schindler, that's exactly what I realized
it's called a loop hole.
since the chocolate halves aren't sealed they are considered on the capsule.if they were completely sealed they'd be illegal.
Same with a wonder ball :/
I was just thinking this!
What makes you a professional Human? Where did you study to gain such a title?
" They are found in Europe, Canada and UK" Australians: " Wait, What "
Australia doesn't exist
Do they really not sell in the US? I mean I live in the US and every time I go to the store, they’re always on stock
@@kj6597 I think it depends on the state your in
*Mexico
• кдж • yes they are illegal, i think you are seeing kinder joys
Those eggs are so engraved in my childhood I can't imagine growing up without them. Like I even remember the inflation rates based on how much they used to cost.
How the US works..
Kinder eggs: illegal in USA
Amazon USA website: “we have those in stock 2-day prime available”
Chuck Philpot it's a joke -
@@chuckphilpot7756 Where's ya chill
Chuck Philpot You’re the ignorant mouth breather that can’t take a joke.
@@pizzazpaz822 if its a joke its a bad joke.
@@disastermidi1990 It's a joke even if it's bad, doesn't change if it is a joke or not 🤷♀️
Things you smuggle:
Cuban cigars
drugs
moonshine
people
nuclear bomb parts
....but what really gets you in trouble... candy.
Since Cuba and USA allowed travel again a couple years ago, are Cuban cigars still banned?
@@Syclone0044 Actually I do not know. I do know the rules for Cuba were relaxed but I imagine they are still hard to get.
TheLoneRideR it’s dumb I know even dumber kinder joys are ok when there so similar dumb law
@Syclone0044 I think in 2013 Obama signed a law to allow Cuban cigars he said it on mean tweets and the one with Donald Trumps tweet on that one
You forgot white womens in your list sir.
When I was a kid, I choked on the baseball cards that came with my stick of topps chewing gum.
I remember those. You were better off eating the cards.
I rembet we would just drop the flat sheet of gum to see it shatter like glass. Nobody ever chewed it. Wish I still had those cards though...
FBI: *Breaks in the house*
Hacker: Dude i was just buying Kinder Eggs on Deep Web!!!
I have kinder eggs and im not afraid to use it, i have 20 rounds... You have been warned.
dark
oh wait no, milk and white
Gecko Gremlin *cowers in terror* don’t shoot! I’m at your mercy
Sending the FBI now
Gecko Gremlin lol
I sometimes find Kinder Eggs on cruise ships since they typically do not fly under a US flag and the eggs are legal onboard.
... I just buy them at a usual Wal-Mart. Or some other country market
Fast food companies have been sued frequently because of the toy in the kid's meals. Sadly, the companies always settle out of court! If they would fight it just once, that would be the end!
yet I, in the US, when I was in primary school (about 15 years ago) remember the wonderball which had the same concept but was a huge orb of chocolate
i looked it up they got around it because the "treat inside" was candy and also edible
@@WorldWearyAngel Yeah, that was basically Nestle's rework of the Magic Ball to make it legal
I remember the wonder balls.
I honestly preferred the candy, the little kinder toys are junk
@@dblackviper2k3 same, the chocolate was ok but the sweet tart-ish candies inside were the best part
Suffer? 😂😂 I would eat those 20 eggs in a heartbeat
mike ikr?! I would be so excited that they were going to let me eat the chocolate instead of throw it away, lol! Especially if I knew they were just trying to make me suffer.. I would sit there and enjoy each chocolate egg slowly, lol. 😂
@CW Leoツ i don't have diabetes, I'm slim too. I just have a massive sweet tooth
@@mike-su1is **watching you eat 20 kinder eggs**
I don't know what you're doing, but it looks like diabeetus.
@@CrazyBeardedGamer the chocolate on the eggs is thin... 20 of them maybe are 1-2 normal chocolates is not a big deal
@@anna.owo. I was using humor, dipshit.
I was coming in from Canada one time and the customs official specifically asked me if I had any Kinder Eggs.
"So uh.. got any drugs?" Nope. "Well uh.. got any kinder eggs then?" *Blank look*
I bet they get that a lot.
I kind of want to visit canada.
Grim Reaper Canadians can also get Cyclamates and Cuban Cigars too!
U.S can get Cuban Cigars too, been that way for a few years now.
Ah yes, Ahmurica, where in some states you can buy a gun in your local supermarket and walk around town with it,
But you can’t have chocolate surprise eggs.
In their defence, it’s Walmart is the lowest of the low.
Judge: Is there anything else you would like to say?
6ix9ine: There is a store that is selling those 'kinder suprise' eggs in the US! ⁶⁹
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Parental responsibility?
WHAT? What an outrageous notion!
Couldn't we just blame it on other people?
..."They wanted me to suffer so i had to eat 20 chocolate eggs"...
I mean... I'd be perfectly happy eating 20 kinder eggs, since the layer of chocolate is so thin.
But I'm also a skilled chocolate eater.
How is that suffering? :D
“Oh, don’t throw me in that briar patch!”
A non veteran choco eater would have doubts at the 6th egg :)
I gotta love how wholesome Simon gets putting the Kinder egg toy together. "Aw, that so sweet".
funny thing, i used to work with this lovely little old lady that used to smuggle crates of these across the border... the made a killing doing it too.
Kinder eggs are banned in the USA, but chewing gum is banned in Singapore
You can bring and chew gum in Singapore, but you can't sell or buy gum.
And if you trow or just chug the gum and the ground you get BËATEN
Nicotine gum is not banned.
Gum is not banned, you can chew it, you can sell it, you can buy it, BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT SPITTING IT OUT ON THE GROUND... *BLAM* you get pretty much destroyed by the police
Pedro Rocha No, if you litter you get fined.
"They wanted me to suffer"
*"HMMMM YUMMY ooh sweet sweet delicious chocolate"*
When I was a kid, the Kinder Surprise toys were far more intricate than the ones you find today, you could find stuff as complex as miniature plane or car models, with lots of tiny parts and decals. Assembling them was a real joy and mentally stimulating af for a 5-6 years old kid!
It's unfortunate that they had to dumb them down so massively just for the sake of "safety".
How can the US function as a society without kinder suprises
One day at a time I suppose, one day at time.
we don’t
We don't
two words: off brand.
The society didnt work with Kinder Surprises either, thats why they got banned. Way too hard to not gift 2 year old swallowable toys or have an eye on your kids ;)
"They wanted to see me suffer, so I had to eat 20 chocolate eggs."
I'll eat those eggs for you...
on what world is eating good european chocolate a bad thing...i ll move there as a punishment...lol
@@juantlopez3 : The same world where Kinder Surprise is made of good chocolate? Things may have changed in the decades since I ate my last one, but the chocolate then was nothing to write home about. May as well have been eating a plain Milky Way.
I had these all the time as a kid. My aunt brought them to us from Amsterdam. I knew they were special because we couldn’t get them here in the US, but I didn’t know they were illegal lol! What a world!
"Emphasis on Parental Vigilance"
Is that vsauce's older lost brother?
No you big gyne
WOAH
Literally thought that he was🤣🤣
It's his younger trans sister
Polinksi Vseasoning
For the US market they should just turn the eggs into weapons so they fall under the 2nd amendment.
multi io but then they would have to comply with 922 compliance..
Sounds like you are against the rights of Americans you're welcome to leave America anytime good luck
Justin Parisi how tho
usernamunavailiable that has nothing to do with this tho
usernamunavailiable are you talking about the 922r compliance??
When I was around 3, my family went to Germany. That was the only time I've ever gotten a kinder surprise. Although having them growing up would have been cool, in a way it remains one of my really cool memories of Germany.
Back in a day I'm still in Germany, I'm really enjoy these chocolate egg. The toy in the egg that being ban in U.S is better than the one allow in U.S. I used to collect the plane figure so I know that.
Living in Europe is so nice sometimes... I can have one of these everyday if I so choose... though rarely I do.
yes, but in Europe vitamin B6 is illegal to use as an ingredient. So your energy drinks suck
Yes that's true but who needs energy drinks when you can make strong coffee ?
Ingo Schwartz it's a matter of taste. I love tea, like energy drinks, and don't care for coffee.
czdaniel1 Try Irn-Bru banned everywhere else in the world.
czdaniel1 it would appear canada is the best of both worlds then. We have kinder eggs and vitamin b6. Never going to do this, but I suppose I could eat a kinder egg whilst chugging an energy drink containing vitamin b6. So lucky.
Nestle Magic were rebranded as WonderBalls, a personal childhood favorite treat of mine which was filled with tart candies and a sticker rather than a toy, and this have recently come back after a 12 year disappearance.
Holy crap I used to LOVE those! I remember getting Simba in one of them.
Oh man yes wonderballs were awesome,oh I wonder wonder wonder,what's in a wonderball
Thank you! I was driving myself batty trying to figure out was similar thing I had as a kid
I live in the U.S. and I could swear I've seen these everywhere.
You have seen the PACKAGING everywhere. The 2 products are very different.
@@petenielsen6683 what 2 products kinder eggs and what else do u mean?
@@DarrylErickson did you not watch the end of the video? Kinder surprise vs kinder joy?
the closest walmart to me (which is pretty out there because I'm in the sticks) sells chocolate eggs filled with little toys that are EXACTLY like kinder eggs and no one has seemed to notice this yet. found it quote amusing
PYRO GOTHICA Our Walmart does too. We have ones that are embedded in the eggs & ones that are chocolate eggs & tiny toys in capsules packaged next to the chocolate. We got a Peppa Pig toy in the side by side package.
it was a marketing scam law
kinder is from north europe it aint american
... so thats the ideea
USA gov wants to sell what is american in american
Oml same!
eating 20 chocolate eggs is the opposite of suffering
Unless your diabetic.
You'll enjoy it at first.
Well I guess you could enjoy the coma afterwards too....
all this diabetic coma nonsense....
I think my eyes would be swimming after about 6 of em. Just too much at one time.
I feel sick just thinking about 1 egg..that poor guy.
I'm gonna eat a kinder egg for each one of these anti-chocolate-egg replies I get and I'm going to have a great time
I'm glad I watched this all the way to the end, because I was going to protest that yes we do have them, because they come in two halves and we sell them at my store.
At least 20 people did. We are addicted to sound bites instead of watching whole videos it would seem.
In Italy they sell giant kinder surprise-like eggs for easter
Make sure you don't choke on the Kinder Egg toy after you are done with it Simon.
He is probably already dead by now.
It's due to the kinder bird going extinct in North America
It was the FDA with their punt guns.
We still have plenty of Cadbury Cream Birds, though.
They have a version of these in the US now
Yeah... as he talks about in the video you are commenting under
USA: Kinder surprise are Illegal!
Also USA: Would you like to jumbosupersize those fries and massive coke?
Having grown up in Germany and now living in the US I hate this law.
Well, the law has it's purpose, and for the most part, it's a pretty good law. The section in question is to keep foreign objects out of food that could pose a choking or digestive hazard that probably wouldn't fall into other categories (like poisonous) that would have prohibited it. But, the law was crafted in 1938, and the world changed a lot since then. I am not sure if/when the last time that law was updated, but now is probably a good time to give it a thorough shakedown.
The Law didn't create the law! The Law created the FDA & then gave it authority to create the law. Delegated legislative authority
I lived there as an army brat from 87-89. The toys were better in them. I miss the bakery's and candy shops down the road too. Fresh ginger bread yum.
You can find them in most candy shops.
It's banned because people are stupid.
Hawklin Davis Yep. They made Bucky Balls illegal for the same reason. Who gives an adult toy to a young child?
Hawklin Davis haha true
*kids
Stupidity never stopped humanity
No. It’s banned because it falls into a general law prohibiting companies from selling you poison or other hazardous stuff.
I used to live relatively close to the border with Canada (less then an hour) so we would go to Winnipeg quite often. I remember my grandfather and I buying these and bringing them back for my siblings. He would always remind me not to say anything as we got to the border crossing. I would usually be playing with my toy and the guards would remark that it was nice of my grandfather to get me such a treat. They would ask if he had any unopened ones, he would reply 'as you said it was a treat and since only she came only she got one. ' Never had a problem, also never tried it when my blabber mouth was along.
Meant to say blabber mouth brother
Kid, : Wanna have a gun
Dad : Ok son here you have an AR15..
Kid : Can I have a Kinder suprise egg too !?
Dad: How dare you to ask that! , thats forbidden !
Man: yo you got the goods?😏
Another man: yeah 😏
*gives kinder eggs*
FBI OPEN UP
hey guys vsuace here
sean12face *vsauce*
sean12face *hey guys scarce here*
suace
Michael
Bootleg micheal
At Disneyland in Hong Kong, a piece of a stroller fell off and went unnoticed by the father and young son. I retrieved it and gave chase to return it. They came back to where i was and the boy,seemingly of his own accord, gave me a kinder cookie.. it was individually pair wrapped and i believe it was a hippo and the bottom was coated in chocolate.. it was the best, i looked for them for the rest of my stay in hk, but to no avail. Thank you young man, that may have been the best cookie of my life.
I had a memory pop up of a candy I used to get as a kid in the US (MN, early 2000s). I remember it was a large chocolate sphere with little toys and other candies inside. My memory may be wrong, I thought there were toys in them. I specifically remember it being Disney. My mom would let us get one at the gas station or grocery store...
EDIT: Mentioned at 10:30 wow didn't know they had a plastic casing inside, just thought they were in the chocolate. Must've been banned right after we got them lol
I remember the Nestle Wonder Balls as hollow too. Grew up in the 90s though. The candy was around the figurines but I don't remember the casings either. My sister and I would collect the toys and play with them
Lucky you, assuming you got it in the short period of time where it was available.
I am an American living in China atm, and thanks to this video, i just went downstairs and bought two.... OH MY GOD THESE THINGS TASTE AMAZING!!!!! hahaha and now I know where the security guard keeps getting all of his weird toys in the gate house hahaha
vpn I suppose?
Jason Thompson, there are a number of ways to get around a ban on a website, the fairly popular one is using a vpn, you can use also thor and other methods.
Araa G. Yeah and I can get a kinder egg into the USA but that doesn't mean you should assume I did. I think maybe the OP should be the one to verify.
These comments, it's as if no one has ever heard of the three big capitalist cities of China.
The Trade Cities of Hong Kong and Macao..
And the most technologically advanced city in China, Shenzhen.
Shenzhen ranks 22nd in the 2017 edition of the Global Financial Centres Index.
It's literally fucking expensive to live there, not strange seeing as in 37 years it has gone from having 30000 inhabitants to 12 Million.
It's literally a Special Economic Zone, aka the place in China that is responsible for China's money, because it's CAPITALISM HO! there.
Oh and seeing as 100% of the population is basically people who work in Shenzhen and it is a city built on Tech.
You probably have a lot of things at home, which is manufactured in Shenzhen. Phone batteries, phone chargers, micro chips, electronics and more.
And if you live in a city such as Shenzhen with millions of tech people, how the hell would it be impossible to have access to internet and VPNs and whatever necessary to surf the web protected from Chinese government.
...just a few months ago they became legal
I enjoyed the change in scenery. What I believe the real problem in this video is the fact that there is no comedy drum kit sound effects for those rare and amazing puns
I've seen kinder products in my gas stations?
I continue to watch this video periodically because it's just such a bizarre fun fact to revisit 👍 thank you for all that you share 😊
13:34
Agent: "Sorry sir, you can't keep the toys."
Him: "Ugh, stupid law! Is there any way I can keep them?"
Agent: *Takes a chunk of chocolate and shoves it into his mouth*
Him: *Ughghghgablbblblh*
6:10
There you go.
*+Altrunchen* Thank you kind person in the comment section.
Thank you so much for saving 6 minutes of my life
Thank you!
THANK YOU!!!
I can't believe this video was 18 minutes long for this explanation.
DA MVP
16:52
Imagine it:
This video is sponsored by Kinder. Get 20% of your totally not illegal surprise egg with the link in the description.
When I would come back from Germany on numerous TDYs, I would bring these back with no problem...I didn't know that they were illegal...this is silly...this is also why that when back in the 70s and 80s, toys were often hidden inside of boxed cereals...but today, they are placed inside the box, but outside of the cereal bags...we are living in a nanny state...
One odd thing about the American court system is that a person or company can't challenge a law in court unless they have been legitimately affected by that law. This is probably why Nestle chose to release their product in the US despite the FDA's explicit warning: so they would have standing to challenge the law in court.
Dion Starfire god that is a stupid law, and i cant even contest it in court because of it’s own existence... fuck they’re geniuses
Whew go Nestle!
Dion Starfire Did you know that Nestle is on the Monsanto foods list? AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
Kinder egg toys just aren't the same anymore .You used to get little racing cars etc with maybe 8 pieces to put together and that's 5 minutes of the best fun ever for a 6 year old boy. Now almost all of them are a single 1 piece figurine that's no fun at all. The toy you got in the Kinder Joy that you just looked at and said "it's a piece of metal from a tv show i don't know" and then immediately put down, that's what most of the toys are like in the Kinder Suprise eggs too.
As for the choking hazard, I used to put the 2 halves of the plastic container in my mouth and suck on them for hours :D
KX36
Agree! They used to often feature some ingenious little contraptions which were fun to build and play with... Not any more:(
You're half right, i remember a lot of good toys as a lad in the 80's, but i also remember getting puzzles.
Even though I grew up in the us, I was lucky enough to try kinder eggs when my parents visited Mexico. It’s just so dumb that they’re banned in the us. Some places are now staring to sell them now secretly. The other day I saw a 12 whole pack of kinder eggs at a little Mexican pastry place. It’s just dumb, there’s nothing wrong with the eggs. I’m guessing it’s about the toy in the middle
I’ve never had one, because I’m an American, but if the toy he showed in this is any indication, I doubt I missing out on much. Normally when I buy chocolate candy I don’t also find a piece of cheap plastic trash I need to throw out inside of it. LOL
KX36 i got a puzzle once😋
Considering the reason why it's illegal, you should be able to open them and remove the toy from the chocolate shell as then you're just bringing in chocolate and a capsule containing a toy. Probably wont work if you wish to sell them (unless you're selling the toys to collectors maybe) but should work well enough to surprise some friends and family. If you carefully seperate the two halves you might even be able to reasemble them with a little melted chcocolate or melting the edge on a warm surface or something.
Funny thing is that they ARENT illegal in the US. They’ve just changed them. Literally buy them for my kids all the time
The re-design of the capsule for the toy is due to safety issue. When I was a kid, you could fill it up with water and some baking soda. Shake it, then duck and cover. The design back then did not let any gas out and thus, after a while the capsule would "explode". A loud BANG and the top would fly away. Now, there is some small hole and a hinge that prevent it. Sad. It was innocent fun. :)
Leopold Birkholm could you break the hinge and tape the hole shut?
that sounds fun but did it make a mess?
Leopold Birkholm SAME I MISS THEM MINI GRENADES :(
Leopold Birkholm .we used to fill them with water...yes, but then just throw them at each other which actually hurts.!
Just go to Mexico they sell them there MAKE ALL OF THE BOMBS (making soda bombs) YOU WANT
There's an old law which says you can't put non-food objects in food, and since that's mostly reasonable noone's changed it.
How did you stretch this to eighteen minutes
UA-cam 2018
even though he uploaded this in 2017
sh...shut up
unfunny meme joke
He told the story giving the history behind WHY the law exists, in detail (that's what this channel does), explains what exactly a Kinder Surprise AND a Kinder JOY are, does the ad placement, and a little bit of building a toy at the end
Realistically I'd say max 3/4 minutes of this are fluff, but it is a different style than normal so that's to be expected
So, strippers in birthday cakes are illegal then too?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ both are american things so i dunno
I love how this is a 20 min video on kinder surprise eggs....
My ex-gf in high school used to have her dad send cartons of them over from Germany. I had a hell of a collection of silly little toys.
Short answer: because the government thought you could choke on the capsules inside (which you can't) but people have protested the law.
JeezThat'sMessedUpNick You most certainly could come on it. That is the perfect size to be choked on. And if you actually watched the video, there was a girl in France that died from choking on the capstone, plus many other kids choking without dying.
Guess American parents are too stupid to take out the capsule egg.
Andrew Delashaw except he showed you in the video thst the capsule is too big to be a choking hazard. By the time you are big enough to swallow it you would definitely know better
Andrew They didn't choke on the capsule. They choked on the toy after it was extracted from the capsule by someone else.
The capsule is made tight enough that an underage kid can't open it by himself. You need an adult or at least an older brother/sister to open it and get the toy.
As stated in the video this is less harmful than a hot dog or Xmas decorations on a cake. So the only true reason for banning it in the US is protectionism and lobbying by Mars Company.
We have the same anti-choking regulations as the US all over Europe and Kinders sell by millions here.
JustWowNick you can choke on the capsule if you’re an idiot
Who suffers eating 20 kinder chocolate eggs? I'll call that heaven...
Jesús Anguiano A vegan, for example.
A diabetic?
If you simply broke the eggs open and took out the plastic container, the FDA reg about confection containing non-edible stuff would no longer apply.
It's damn good chocolate. Even if you can't get the eggs, the Kinder chocolate bars are very good.
Personally, I love the chocolate outer surface but not the white chocolate or whatever it is inner surface. I was always getting really sick of the stuff after eating about 5. Here they're sold in packs of 6, BTW.
Anyone here remembers how they used to have model trains inside these eggs?
I'm in the U.S. and looked at the Kinder eggs in Walmart. Had the caution on the package, but it was there.
Kinder Surprise is banned not kinder joy
If your kid is dumb enough to continue eating the toy inside the chocolate that's natural selection.
lmao
LOL
Yup
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Unfortunately, natural selection is heartless. People are not.
Y'all I grew up in South Africa and I remember the kinder joy- the one said to come out in 2018- and I loved it. I left South Africa in 2010...
Jesus you should have watched to the end. He says that it came out in 2018. In U.S.A. He said that it was made earlier in other countries
Yip... It comes with blue and pink in the labels now with toys targeted at boys and girls respectively.
I'm still here though 😑
It's fully possible and exceedingly easy to open a kinderegg chocolate shell by just pressing on the seam from opposite directions, but clearly Simon just wanted to eat it x)
Can you blame him? It’s been a little over 20 years since I’ve had one (I moved back to the USA when I was 10), but I remember that chocolate being reeeeeeally good! 🤤
Fun fact, Kinder Surprise Eggs have returned to stores just over 3 years ago. Where I worked when I lived in the US sells them.
Who remembers wonder balls!
I 'memba
They still exist.
I remember. I bought one when they first came out. It had a toy pumba inside.
I thought "Cool!" bad idea for kids"
Literally a month later they were all gone.
Now they are back, but now filled with candy instead.
I remember
Oh my god yes! They were my favorite thing when I was little!
Me: after watching the video
*buys lots of kinder eggs in sweden and goes to usa*
They’re gonna toss those down the drain lol
how'ed it work for you so far and how'ed they taste?
Samir Safarov sex
*Gets deported*
FBI OPEN UP!
I’m actually wondering why kinder joys are literally the best and nowhere in my country (UK)
I'm from Europe and I didn't even knew that they are illegal in America
Nestle responding with "we think it's legal" is hilarious :'D I hope the police take this response next time I get pulled over.
I used to buy these all the time in Somerton, Pennsylvania. They sell them at several Russian markets over there.
B Martin Shhh. ;)
Are you sure you weren't seeing Kinder Joys? From the outside they look very similar. There is, however, as stated a bit of a blackmarket for Kinder Surprise in some places. You just don't typically see them in any non-hole in the wall type store as Kinder Surprise are difficult to get past customs in any large amount.
Same
I visited Mexico and got these. Had no idea these were illegal here in the states. But definetly miss those kinder eggs
Funny how in Indonesia, there never were a kinder surprise, only kinder joy. This has been the fact for years, since I'm 5 (now im almost 17).
My god my nephew is involved in the black market 😮
Well, I'm sure he appreciates you ratting him out.
they're fully legal to import as of a few years ago, their info is out of date in the video.
...just a few months ago they became legal
+TheMichigami: No, our info is up to date. What people see on the shelves in the U.S. is Kinder Joy, which is a different product, but looks very similar packaging wise. Simon shows the difference near the end of the video.
no, they are not, the ones i have seen over the past few years are kinder surprise, not joy. Even according to your own video the Joy eggs have not been available to us long enough for them to have been the ones being imported these past few years. i have bought the eggs in the past and they say kinder surprise on them and are indeed kinder surprise eggs. shops have been importing them quite legitimately for the past few years, they are most assuredly the real thing, and are usually found for 4-8 dollars here each depending on the shop because of the import fees. they have not been illegal to import for several years since the updates to the food safety regulations under the obama administration a few years ago, neither is it illegal to make and sell Wonderballs anymore, and they are back on shelves as well here. There are also several knockoffs of the old Magic Balls containing stickers inside a chocolate shell for sale again, and imitation kinder eggs made in china that also are a chocolate shell with a plastic egg containing a toy in them being sold. The rules were changed and clarified and they have NOT been illegal for several years, you need to research the american food safety codes better.