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This shocked me - According to Wikipedia, 10 children 'worldwide' have died from choking on parts of the Kinder toy since it's launch in 1968. This equates to roughly 1 in every 5.4 years. By comparison, every day, 22 children and teens (1-17) are shot in the United States alone. This means that since Kinder was introduced 54 years ago, 10 children around the world choked on Kinder toys while 433,620 US kids were shot. Clearly banning Kinder eggs is justified - in the US..
We should ban tubs, pools, and boats. "Drowning remains in the top 5 causes of unintentional injury-related death from birth to 5 years old."...CDC
Yeah.. priorities ya know.
@@ShenandoahShelty something I’ve noticed is that most American swimming pools don’t have a fence around them…. In Australia we have strict regulations regarding pools being fenced.
@@sharaharper2253 Here that varies by state or local government. The majority require it, but not all. I think fewer people per capita drown in pools in the states than Australia. I'm guessing you all just have more pools per capita than we do. I live in the mountains about 120 miles west of Washington DC (Washington is on the east coast of the US, midway up) very few people have pools, but my family lives in south Texas, hot and dry, everyone has one.
USA isnt a developed country! Its not even a democratic country votes for president can be worth 3 times that of another, also the elections are run by politicians! This is not allowed in developed democratic countries! Trumps mates where able to remove lots of voting booths in Democrat areas! To deny them their right to vote!
"Mama, i wanna have a Kinderegg"
"No, its too dangerous, go to play with the gun"
Sad reality.
I needed a good laugh thank you.
Every (almost every) kid in Germany eats kinder eggs like this: break it in a half, take the yellow egg out, open it, being disappointed it's not the fancy item they wanted, then drown their sorrow in the chocolate. Joke aside: every kid knows that there is a toy inside and they are quite careful. But the age regulation is important: not for children under three due to small parts/choking hazard. (This warning is on every egg)
choking on huge big yellow capsules is almost impossible, and choking on small parts of toys does not apply exclusively to these eggs, but to ALL toys with small parts !!!
@@Anson_AKB When I was young in hospital, a kid was brought suffocating, purple, because he put a bean in his nose and inhaled it, thus blocking his trachea.
I'd say ALL beans, coins, pebbles, bug and small objects should be banned, and ALL kids live in a white wall nut house room to be kept safe.
Or the parents just have to supervise them instead of doing stupid things.
In Europe 1 warning is enough to get the point 😂
How to warn people which cannot use their brain properly🤭 when I watch videos on Tiktok with americans....OMG...stupidity is full on all level🤦♂️
also the US compliant ones still have a toy choking hazard in them!
In Germany, not every street has crosswalks. And when you learn to drive, you're taught to pay attention to people crossing the streets
yep, and children are taught to watch out for cars, and to use crosswalks / traffic lights if any are in sight. Basically: everybody should be acting carefully, but the more damage you can do if you get it wrong, the more you'd better watch out.
USA don't believe in common sense.
To me it's mind blowing how kinder eggs are threat to children but then nothing is done against guns which is the number one killer of children in the USA
Was coming here to say the same but i guess the bullets are not covered in chocolate so it's ok
Kinder eggs are very dangerous for kids but guns and fireworks are fine. 🤯
its America what you except :D :D you can buy a fucking gun in the Supermarket(for your kids) but they could choke on fucking kinder eggs :D
I watch a lot of war documentaries and I cannot count the number of atrocities committed by rogue nations/units/individuals armed with illegal Kinder Eggs.
You don't get it? It's not okay for them to die on their own accord. It IS however okay if you kill them cause then there is a person left to blame.
The USA in a nutshell: not allowed to eat chocolate with a toy inside, because that’s too dangerous for kids, but they can walk around with guns 🤦🏻♀️
Never heard of anybody chocking on an Kinder egg. We all know that there is a toy inside. That’s why we bought them.
Greeting from Germany ✌🏻
I saw an "americans try" video with kinder egg f. It was the first time I heard it was illegal there, I was so shocked. Hald a minute later, I witness one of the panellists shoving the egg as a whole in his mouth. F*in adult, I wasn't even certain of whether he was joking or simply acted on his first instict. It was then and there that I was convinced it is the right choice for america to keep them eggs banned.
You never heard but in the video he literally searches for it and it says that ten kids worldwide in total. Still a ridiculous number compared to kids that died because of guns in the us
Neither here in México kids are chocked with that candy. I remember when traveled to US someone told me if I brought that needed to ride off thought was joking!!!
Not an American,but I've never heard of a nation executing millions for being different. And no,they weren't the mythical "Nazis",a seperate people, they were everyday Germans. Everyday Germans were the Nazis.
Actually,yes I have.
Most people that eat kinder eggs in Germany choke on gas.
They can't have kinder eggs, but at least they can grab daddies guns from the sock drawer. Nuts.
They are allowed nuts. Even though they kill more people than kinder surprise and cheese 😉
Clearly guns are safer than chocolate with a toy inside
@@JoeMartinez18
Ikr. Just imagine how much more children are killed by toys than guns. They should ban all small toys.
@@potatomagnet7070 ban the kinder eggs worldwide they kill 😭
@@JoeMartinez18 yeah because we all know accident with guns dont happen in the home or mass shooting are not a regular thing in the US. oh wait a minute.... 🤔 yes they are. But let's ban the chocolate eggs. Yeah that logic seems ligit.
On a visit to the US in the 1990s I discovered jaywalking and found the concept crazy.
Being British I have always had the freedom to cross a road (except for motorways) whenever I like and I’ve never had a problem.
The only person I have known to be hit by a vehicle, was a guy from San Francisco who told me that when he was in London he looked the wrong way before crossing and got hit by a double decker bus! He was more shocked that he received extensive medical treatment and didn’t have to pay a penny.
In Berlin I am often admonished by mainly elderly people for crossing the street on red on a pedestrian crossing despite the fact that there were near or far no vehicles in sight. It is actually illegal but I've done it in full sight of police officers, with no comeback. I was taught as a kid to only cross the road when it was safe. But I was brought up in the UK.
Yeah, I always worry that when visiting the UK I’ll get myself killed that way. A distraction or a drink or two and BAM! My own fault.
And we’ve just improved the Highway Code to force drivers to give way to pedestrians when turning at junctions.
I was pulled up and had my details taken by an RUC officer in Derry in the mid nineties for Jaywalking. Did that law just apply to northern Ireland and not the rest of the UK? The road was absolutely empty (due to an abandoned car/possible carbomb down the road at the RUC station (it wasn't a bomb)).
@@ThomasDooley-lb1pz This is Germany, of course you'll be admonished for not following *the rules.*
"The moment we find out that something puts children in danger, legislators pull out all the stops to insure that we try to keep our kids safe" UNLESS they get shut at school. Then we do nothing. Oh wait, thoughts and prayers.
The US logic against Rampages with weapons is ...... legalize more guns. 🤯😵💫🤯
Wasn't it Trump who wanted teachers to carry guns in schools for "safety reasons"?
Yeah, thoughts and prayers really help...not 🤦🏼♀️
…unless it’s “gender-affirming” hormones (puberty blockers) and mutilation surgery. THEN it’s “safe and effective,” and oh-so-wonderful for their feelings and self-esteem. What utter 🐂💩
why didn't they simply rebrand the lawn darts as either "sports tools" (like normal darts) or as weapons ?
then they still could be sold at all those major outlets that also sell weapons, and children would be able to play with them ...
😂 "thoughts and prayers" it's so true. Bloody rediculous
In Norway we were taught in primary school how to look each way when crossing a street (even if there is a zebra crossing), and how it is your fault if you are hit by a car not having followed the traffic rules. It was also made clear how it is hard to look around corners and we were shown how fast cars would approach from different distances. I think this is a better approach because people are going to jaywalk anyway, and teaching people how to do it safely honestly seems like the safer choice.
To look left, right, left once more.
It was never rocket science to kids, adults can't control their drama and need to create snowflakes worse than they are. Where is Darwin when you need him?!
Similar here in Germany. And traffic lights are a bit of an easy going approach. If there is no car, we just walk. Unless there are children. We try to be good role models, so we wait for green.
I still remember as kid when we lived on a busy 4 lane street, we would go halfway (between opposing traffic), wait there, and then go the rest. Basically treating it like a pair of one-way streets. And obviously looking out for traffic. Basically, if you are the soft part of a collision, you take extra care. Same with biking on the wrong side or the sidewalk. Always be cautious and assume the other person isn't.
In Italy we teach children to cross by calculating the pace of the car and the amount of attention the driver is apparently paying to you. Works most of the time
Tok du ikke gåsertifikatet i barnehagen?
Indeed. My father taught me even to deal with fire ar the age of five! In the fifties we used to play outside in the meadows, at the riverside, in the forest. I also knew how to use a knife etc. We built huts etc. My parents thought , better to teach me.
Kinder egg: Has caused 10 choke deaths in 50 years
Regular hot dog: Causes 3-10 choke deaths every single year
US: BAN THE EGG!
Yeah. Probably more children have died due to the sugar in the egg than due to the toys. Ridiculous.
anyway some children choked not because they ate the plastic egg inside the chocolate egg, but because the ate the toy inside the plastic egg after opened it (and that's can happen with all the toys, a few children died choked by a Lego or by a balloon for example). And I assure you that a 3 years old child is not able to open that plastic egg without the help of an adult.
I am surprised by the hot dog choking... are they "bad" hot dogs, with problems in it? it is a genuine question, I am french, having eaten only one hot-dog in my life!
@@kaki3151 Just regular hot dogs, people just choke on food sometimes, especially when there are held contests to eat as much as they can in a limited amount of time
@@kaki3151 C'est le diamètre de la saucisse de Francfort qui fait qu'un enfant peut s'étouffer en mangeant un morceau ,il faudrait la couper en deux sur toute la longueur .
Homeland Security against cheese smugglers really had me rolling on the floor from laughter. I didn't realize they were THAT bored.
Did they try to build the Wall on the wrong border then? Between the USofA and Quebec might have been more appropriate.
Only in the USA are they so terrified of being sued because the parent cannot teach their children to eat only the sweet and not the toy.
I mean... Seriously, at least the parents should know...so what's the problem?
USA is the country where you must warn people from putting cats in the washmachine or in the microwave oven...
@@ferruccioveglio8090 🤯
@@ferruccioveglio8090 Or not to put your d**** on the blade of a running chainsaw.
@@ferruccioveglio8090 Very logical, if you take their general knowledge into account.
I think it is hilarious that you are afraid of a chocolate egg with a toy in it yet you are ok with leaving loaded guns around your home's
Yes and nobody noticed that like it's fine 😂😂😂
"You"?
@@Damianskull not everyone is american.
@@HeroinYoda I know, Im not American myself 💀
@@Damianskull ? What was the point of your comment then?
If you can't eat Danish Blue, Gorgonzola, Stilton, Brie, Camembert, Roquefort, Cambozola etc, then you don't know what you are missing.
And the many thousands of regional cheeses all over europe.
@Fee watt living in europe, i hate most of those "stinky cheeses". (loving fresh brie/camembert/etc, don't want the aged ones even at arms length)
but on the other hand i don't care about them at all since nobody forces me to buy and/or eat them !
i also wouldn't eat the maggot cheese, but allow them to be available anywhere else as long as the maggots are well contained and can't "crosscontaminate" other food.
It's not "can't" but that I "don't" like them.
In contrast almost all of the "cheese" I have had in the US should be banned and anyone selling it should be locked up. It should not even be referred to as a food product.
Comte!!! So good 😊
I heard about "loitering" in US. My friend wait for ride on parking of shopping mall for 10 min, and police showed up, so he must to explain what exactly he was doing there. They checked his ID and and tell him to go somewhere else, because he was loitering. And it's actual crime. For real. wtf
Freedom baby..
Land of the free.😂
Corrupt third world dictatorship shit hole country!!!
After googling “kinder eggs” “cheese mites” and “clove cigarettes” you’re definitely on an FBI watch list 😂
I really like the reason they banned cheese because of cheese mites.
It’s like you can’t get allergies or other reactions while eating strawberries, or drinking milk in general and what not.
Same goes for jaywalking. The US was incompetent to help pedestrians so they made it a misdemeanor or a felony to cross the street where you want 😂
Kinder eggs aka Überraschungseier (surprise eggs called in Germany): 10 deaths, cause of choking of toy parts.
Meanwhile guns: almost half a million deaths caused by guns to children (not adults) alone since about 50 years (when Kinder eggs launched).
It really seems like American (US) citizens really need that extra extra care aka rules and laws, cause they can’t handle it.
Try googling,"How to hide a body."
@@brandonbp122 well, it’s kinda easy. Get yourself a swamp. Done 😂 (don’t take this serious)
He's an American in Bidens America. You are all already on a FBI watch list 😂
"after googling kinder eggs"
It is interesting how many of these can be reduced to parents not adequately supervising their children.
You know, a smartphone display is more important these days...
To me all the situation would be solved only if parents Say to their Kids that when you're opening this egg you've Just got tò remove the Surprise and then eat the remaining part of the egg
We care about our kids, but that doesn't mean we're going to pay attention to to the little shits. Lol
As a Belgian, I always laugh when Americans call themselves 'The land of Freedom' because compared to many countries here in Europe the US looks like a concentration camp. 😂
It IS a concentration camp.
A bloody whole continent of the concentration camp you ask me.
Concentration camp with dumb down, obese, sick, kept ignorant slaves
And every time an American is against something beneficial for the country (like universal healthcare), they hate it because it would "take away their freedom" ...
The projection that every other country has less freedom than the US is just mind-boggling ... it's insane how stupid that is ...
Actually is the inverse. Nonetheless America still hates freedom, since forbidding fireworks to FDA's world's stricter regulation code to mandatory vaccination. Ad nauseum America hates freedom.
As a kid i got this metal samurai figurine in one of my many Kinder Eggs, and i always loved it.
A few years ago i found out from a Kinder Egg toy collector site that it was part of a series of four figurines.
I found the other three on eBay and reworked them into zipper pulls for my gym bags (martial arts), so now twice a week i get to carry my old friend with me to the dojo.
In the Netherlands you'll often find these plastic Kinder Egg toys on peoples' desks, no matter their age.
They have become a cultural thing both children and adults still enjoy.
Love that he's disgusted by cheese made with cheese mites but eats plastic disguised as a slice of far too orange cheddar
I'd take the plastic over the mites, idc 😭
@@arianasmoonlightbae4123 mites live on your skin
@@arianasmoonlightbae4123 I'll take mites every day. At least that cheese is actual food.
@@collinguhs9859 And on your eyelashes, pretty much all over really.
@@DanDownunda8888 Don't they only come out to breed though? The rest of the time they live inside your skin pores (antisocial little buggers!)
Your reaction to unknown foreign foods is hilarious - it's the "eeew" factor. Before you decry other countries, check out the US regulations on how much rat poop or dead insects are permitted in your own food. You will gag...and probably never eat again! 😂
I heard macdonalds used bleach on old meat!
And that's before you even get to the reason behind chlorine washing, and the illegal (in Europe) hormones...
Also the amount of chemicals, salt, sugar etc that is allowed in American food is insane compared to Europe and that alone is enough to gross me out. I spent just over two weeks in America just before COVID hit and not once did I have bread that didn’t taste like a bland piece of cake. So much of the food I had just tasted disgustingly sweet and unnatural. To me that is more disgusting than cheeses and I’m not even a big cheese fan, but I might just be biased since I am European.
but even people who eat those cheeses don't deny that it's nasty, they just like it like that, I just can't eat something what smells like 1 month old fish, I am vommiting when I smell fermented food, which is really bad for me as a Czech because fermented things are all around me 😀
@@silh3345 Yeah, true. They don't even know how bad their own food is. When I was there, even the water they bring you in restaurants taste really bad and undrinkable. Don't know if that was just in those specific states or in general, but it tasted disgusting to me, so I couldn't drink it.
As an Aussie parent the experience of a Kinder egg was for me to buy one on occasion for my kids to which you would give as a treat, then sit down and assemble the toy with your child. It was a fun family time experience. Not give as a regular chocolate bar. Maybe it's just me but I doubt it.
Cheers mate 👍
I had the same thought. I remember eating Kinder eggs as a shared experience, and really as a parent, wouldn't you want to see the excitement and joy as your child finds out what's in their Kinder egg? It puzzles me how some people seem to buy stuff for their kids and leave them to it without checking that it's safe.
Yes, that is what we do as a special treat here in Germany! ❤️
Yes! In Ireland you get your kid the kinder egg, they have a little treat, but they also have the toy to then play with. You get your kids the treat and then they mess with the toys inside, the toy being different then what their sister got or whatever and they're playing with them and swapping them. They're like Christmas Cracker toys which are also a surprise. And also not in the US. Sadly.
It was really expensive in the past (I am not sure how it is today, I don't see it in shops that often now), so it was definitely not a regular chocolate bar.
Yeah, thats how I grew up with Kinder eggs. I mean, what kind of parent would just toss that to a small child, when every1 knows, kids just love to taste/eat, stuff up their noses etc all kinds of stuff? Plus, it really was something special, both in getting it and in having the sharing with ur parent(s).
Apparently, US "freedom" includes leaving small kids to fend for themselves, then banning everything a 2y old cant figure out.
I’ve spent 13 vacations in the USA and one of the best questions I’ve been asked was “do you have Stilton cheese in England” 😂😂
😂😂😂
Most Americans think Cheddar cheese is American!
What do you mean the Silton in Leicestershire !
The US bans a darts garden toy, but allows everyone to own a gun. Totally logical :D
Don’t forget the Kinder eggs 😂 the country is finished.
We banned lawn darts in Canada too (for good reason), but have strong gun control laws and allow Kinder Eggs. Lol.
@@blaraldzuvielgesagt7523 all that and most don’t know what continent they are in. Or what gender they are 😞😂
1 child dies,,, no more darts. Children die daily,,, we need more ARs
USA - not noted for intelligence,only money making and war!
Well… the US are responsible for the fact user’s manuals contain warnings like “do not put pets in this microwave”, “may contain peanuts” on the bag of peanuts, “This product may contain eggs” on the box of eggs, “Do not hold the wrong end of a chainsaw”, “Do not iron clothes on body” or “Contents may catch fire” on a blow torch gas bottle. But there is no problem when 8yo girl gets a pink AR15 with a Hello Kitty sticker as a birthday present. :)
Really? They have those warnings?Or are you kidding?
Guns are designed to be dangerous, not the items you mentionned. (On the user's manual of a gun, you can read mentions like "May need several uses to be lethal", "Proper aiming is required", “Do not shoot last"...
@@valsyaranamual6853 unfortunately, that is for real.
@@emileduvernois6680 I thought the whole point of shooting is that after that, nobody is alive & present any more to shoot at you, AKA you're the last one shooting?
Also: a bag of peanuts is designed to contain peanuts, and a blow torch gas bottle is very much designed to hold a gas that not only might, but _will_ catch fire.
I think one of my elementary school classmates could also be responsible for the “do not put pets in this microwave” warnings (not from the US).
When my kid were too small to open the Kinder egg, I would do it for them, gave them chocolate, assemble the toy if needed and they never put any of above in their mouth. If you teach kids what is edible and what is not, trust me, they get it. They are humans, only smaller 😂
Question remains, are americans human?
give them time, they will ban the Kinder Joy as well because someone will let their kid attempt to eat the toy because it came in the same foil packet as the chocolate..
Why even attempt parenting when TikTok exists? :P
How does one even choke on a kinder egg. You would have to eat the whole egg in one bite and thats just a weird way to eat chocolate.
@@Jebu911 The toy parts are supposed to be the Darw... choking hazard.
"Don't eat Kinder Eggs, get shot in your school instead!" 🤣
Always cracks me up when americans mention freedom😅👏🏻
I love your reaction to anything insect related, while USA is known for using the most food coloring to artificially make all the food out there more appetizing. Check out where "natural red 4" food dye comes from :D
I hear a squishing/crushing sound. MiB theme chimes in.
Shellac is used as a glazing agent and that is a resin produced by the female lac bug.
@@seraphina985 There is a reason why it's a short for a "Shell Lacquer" :D
Indeed! Enjoy those lovely "strawberry"/"raspberry" iced doughnuts! lol
Yeah, hypocrisy at its finest, or just dumbness 🤷♂️
The difference between soda and cigarettes is that if you drink a soda in a room with someone else, you're not killing them. Too many children and young people are inhaling this stuff and it's killing them. That's why the UK banned smoking in public places, placed so many restrictions and warnings on the packets and banned advertising them. You can take risks with yourself but you don't have the right to infect the person sitting near you with cancer.
Of course parents buy Soda for their children
@@ravanpee1325 So?
Agreed.
New Zealand is a smoke free nation & as a smoker I applaud it , to smoke over here is highly embarassing unlike Europe & Asia where it is still popular. Our cigarettes are taxed more & more each year to stamp it out. Currently $NZ 35/ 20
so kids cant afford it ! But sadly our teens vape !
Well that is the USAs bastardisation of Libertarianism fundamentally.
In which they are taught to only be concerned with their own Freedom, Liberties & Rights.
Their version barely has any consideration or mention of how they can impede the Rights, Liberties and Freedoms in the pursuit of exercising their own. Which is only the most overt, direct and obvious of ways.
Consideration for how exercising their own may impede or even harm others capability to exercise ttheirs in any less of a direct manner however?
Such circumstances are twisted & perverted to instead place all of the onus on the other person.
As we saw in the video with pedestrians being blamed for getting hit by a car.
Whereas here in Australia, cars must give way to pedestrians and the driver is at fault. Provided the pedestrian isn't crossing an arterial road, highway or motorway that is.
On such roadways the pedestrian must cross at designated crossings, the driver will be at fault if they hit a pedestrian on a designated crossing. If a pedestrian is hit when not using a designated crossing on such roads then they will be at fault.
Additionally in the instance of motorways; lt's illegal for a pedestrian to even be on it.
This is due to the higher volume of traffic including significantly more heavy vehicles, all of which are traveling at much higher speeds than on other roads.
It's basically a law because it is too dangerous for a pedestrian to be on a motorway, not just for themselves but also for the motorists.
It's depressing that the US version of Libertarianism has been pervasively seeping into Australian society. Sigh...
As a french person with a family member in the cheese industry, I laughed so much XD.
Also, the cheese with like green/bleu things in it, it's call "Roquefort" because it's a name reserve if the cheese is made in the city with that name or its call "Bleu" , Blu. Yea like the color. And that's things in the cheese are bacteria introduce in the process of the cheese. It's really flavoring apparently -
It does make you wonder what American cheese is. Is it just plastic? I think it might be. 😂
If you are referring with bacteria to the blue bits, those are not bacteria. That's mold, specifically the fungus Penicillium Roqueforti. (Same family of fungi as in Penicillin)
And it’s not only Roquefort that has a blue cheese. Stilton etc
In France WE have more than 720 sort of différent cheese it's a part of our culture
The Jaywalking issue is in fact very relevant.
Because by criminalizing the freedom to walk, city structures tailor-made for the automobile industry are created and not for increasing people's quality of life. Instead of pedestrian-friendly cities and therefore more suitable for people to interact with each other throughout the city, the only places suitable for relationships among others are those suitable for increasing consumption. And the rest, delimited by vehicular needs.
Absolutely, the whole zoning infrastructure is designed for cars. It's appealingly bad for people.
This comment made me even more sad for you...
That's something that felt really weird to me when I first was in US towns, outside of the, let's say, leisure parts where a lot of pedestrians are expected: the moment I'm out of those areas, I barely see anybody. If at all. And the pedestrian walks are tiny, it'd be awkward to pass by some oncoming pedestrian.
It felt like ghost towns to me, because i'm used to people walking: the tram station, or bus station, or shop.
AFAIK, that anti-pedestrian propaganda was the rule, not the exception. Public transport within cities is a gods-given: you save the costs for a gasoline or even owning a car, malls and other public places don't have to be surounded by acres of parking lots, no time wasted on searching or a parking space ... but there's definitly astroturfing going on to remind US-Americans that there's no life without a car.
Yes the car was getting a bad rep for the rising death rate of pedestrians, the auto industry lobbied for jaywalking to be a law, thus shifting blame to the pedestrians
It is somehow strange because ppl in the USA (with exception of a few big cities) hardly ever walk..
as someone said "america is the richest 3rd world country"
the yellow thing is bigger then the mouth of a child that could accidentally eat it. even i couldnt swallow that thing. and if it is about the even smaller toys inside the yellow thing then pls ban all toys because kids could choke on it
Or the US is a third world country with a Gucci belt.
We do like to make fun of the Yanks, but to be fair, they're right up there at number 23 in the world in terms of standard of living (IHDI)..... which puts them above Israel and Slovenia!
@@anserbauer309 to be honest thats not hard
I've only watched the segment on Kinder eggs so far. I'm no expert on the subject, but all my red flags tell me that the reason they're illegal in the US isn't because of a real fear of children choking, but because of lobbying from the insurance industry over THEIR fear of possibly having to make some kind of large payout as a result of one or more children choking. But, I guess "Won't somebody think of the children?" is an easier sell than "Won't somebody think of the insurance companies?"
And not to get too political, BUT: seven children dying as a result of choking on Kinder Egg toys between 1989 and 2016. That's enough to make sure it's banned in the US. How many children were killed in school shootings during that same 27 year period? I don't know the answer, but I know it was a lot more than 10.
I say its the chocolate industry
I'm guessing it's because the producers of the product ae not American.
@@stephenlee5929 Possible I guess, though that wouldn't explain for the vast numbers of other imported food products that are available.
I really don’t think small children put the toy inside the capsule into their mouth because it originally came from within the chocolate egg. They put it into their mouth because they are too young to know that not everything that fits into a mouth is safe to do so.
Apart from the aspect of being able to open the capsule in the first place, giving a child young enough to run that risk a Kinder egg is as risky as giving them small toys in the first place. All kinds of stuff contains warning labels to not leave small children alone with it; the same could be applied to the Kinder egg.
THAT sounds logical.
Actually, the Kinder Joy wasn't made for the USA but for the summer break. For decades, supermarkets and kiosks hadn't fancy air conditioning, refrigerated transport was incredibly expensive, and cars hadn't air conditioning either. So, many manufacturers decided to shut down their chocolate selling in the summer or tried to find ways around. I remember when Ferrero announced the Kinder Joy at the ad break of kids TV directly after they declared the summer break for the Kinder egg. Ferrero solved the issue of molten eggs by just replacing it with a creme perfectly fluid at summer conditions. In the autumn, they announced in their ads that the Kinder egg is back and the Kinder Joy goes into the break. Since the introduction, they swap the product selling every summer as far as I can remember it, and we loved it when we were children because both products were great but kinda boring other time. The swapping adds variety. That they can sell the new product into the USA what is kinda ridiculous because just 10 kids died from choking the toy in 50 years of selling it and everyone of them died from choking the toy after they opened the egg because the yellow cover is in fact too big to be swallowed by a normal human. Not even most adults can swallow it. So, what's the point of allowing the sell with the toy separated but forbid the sell of the egg with an anti-ckphoking protection around the toy? That's stupid ah.
I love how the FDA in America ban world cheese and sell processed chemical cheese to its own population ...
FDA stands for F*ck Dumb America!!!
And other foods with chemicals in it that can cause cancer and is forbidden in the rest of the world.
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Well, as you might have guessed, it’s not actually cheese-at least, not legally. The FDA calls it “pasteurized processed American cheese food.” In order for a food product to be a true “cheese,” it has to be more than half cheese, which is technically pressed curds of milk. So each Kraft American single contains less than 51% curds, which means it doesn’t meet the FDA’s standard.
@@danceswithcritters but that's how useless the FDA are as they allow this processed crap to be used widely across the States like a lot of their food being full of chemicals etc
In the UK an 18 year-old can buy a beer, drink it in the street and walk across the road at will, all legally...
Yet if you have your dog make a nazi salute you go to jail.... I've changed my mind over the years ... If we've moved everything to 21 in the states, we might as well move voting to 21 also..
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In the UK a 16 year old can have a beer in a restaurant if they have parents with them and are having a meal. There is no practical age limit for drinking at home (but getting a toddler drunk would have you prosecuted as child abuse)
@@charlesunderwood6334 About 50 years ago we decided to go bat crap crazy about anybody under 21 drinking. If I had to pick one organization, it would be mothers against drunk driving.There are a huge lobbying group and They have convinced us that if a 17-year-old has a single beer, He's going to drive the family car through a crowd of 5 years olds.
In many states if someone under 21 is found to have any alcohol in their system. They'll restrict their driving privileges.
@@ShenandoahShelty What you need is a public transport system and better town planning- walk or take the bus to the pub (as I do), problem solved
Note how when he googled it it said ten have choked on the toy parts after eating the chocolate, they didn't choke on the thing inside, they removed and unpacked it first, then choked on the toy which itself wouldn't be illegal and can still be brought to the us
And they’ve just make it legal to have the toys anyway, if they’re not IN the chocolate part. So the proven choking hazard part... isn’t the problem?!
@@brandonbp122 Your Darwin joke does not extend to kids.
What got me there: he googled it and was fine with the first source, just one 😳
@@LlawenSeriAmericans... not even checking the source.
Just imagine you walk to a dealer and he asks: What do you want? Heroine? Kokaine? And you: Nah, I want some serious stuff. Do you have some Kinder eggs?
French here! The French cheese ban was actually due to US cheese lobbyists fighting against French cheese being imported and competing with their own business… 😅 I wouldn’t eat all cheese out there, but would definitely try the maggot one over US cheese. It tastes less of cheese and more of plastic… While some disgusting looking (or very smelly) cheese can definitely surprise you taste wise!
Also: any (actual) cheese is made from interaction between some type of micro organisms (bacteria / mushrooms / mites/etc.) and milk. As yogurt is. (And bread that rises). It’s basically wasted milk, cultivated to taste a certain way. I totally get how disgusting that looks like… Funny how cheese, bread and wine are all made this way, and are what France is famous for. I guess we like leaving stuff out until it turns delicious 😂
@@Laedde Also beer! Vanilla get's its typcial taste from fermentation, too, and so does cocoa.
I'd probably eat the maggot cheese on a dare, to see if the taste is worth it.
Just a mild informations : Casu Marsu (the maggot cheese) is from Sardaigne (italy) not France.
@@DJgeekman I think he's talking about european cheese when he say "out there". We have most european cheese available in every supermarket in France. But Casu Marsu is indeed a sardaigne cheese we cannot get in France so the curiosity about this one is very high.
@@Laedde cheese is made from rennet that contains the enzyme chymosin that makes the milk curdle.
I live in the countryside in the UK. If I had to use a regulated crossing, I would have to walk to my nearest town, 12 miles away. But to get to my local town, I would have to cross many roads, jaywalk, on the way. All you need to do is use common sense when crossing a road.
Hear hear !
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The problem is your average American thinks rural USA equals rural UK...
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Since when did most Americans have 'common sense'? (I am an American)
And a great deal of trust in the drivers of motor vehicles (and vice versa).
Just to clarify, Cheddar Cheese is not American, its English. First made in the town of Cheddar, Somerset, England in 1170. I say this because the chart they showed said American Cheddar but Italian, French, Greek and Swiss cheese were left as the countries they originate, these cheeses are also made in America. So it should state English Cheddar, not American if cheeses from other parts of the world are being stated as their country of origin.
I like Cheddar.
Cheddar cheese is one of the most English food items imaginable, and also the most delicious cheese ever made. Real English cheddar is expensive in Norway, though. It's a rare treat for me, but it is party in my mouth every time! 🥳😋
English cheddar is real cheese and delicious, American cheddar is just orange plastic… from a Dutch cheese lover
@@anouk6644 As a Swiss cheese lover, I agree.
@@nala6620 Now I’m hungry for some Gruyère or Appenzeller 😃
"We have to secure our kids from dangers by making Kinder Eggs illegal!! Say the country with the highest infant mortality rate in the western hemisphere!
In the UK, "jay-walking" was never repealed because it was never a law. We cross where we like as adults. If we have kids with us, we use cross-walks which are (during school start/end hours) manned by a crossing patrol (the so-called "Lollipop Ladies and Men") who guide accompanied/unaccompanied children across the road and ensure all traffic is safely stopped. Drivers have to stop by law.
You'll attract a fine for it in Australia.
There was never a law against walking so how can a law that didn't exist be repealed?
I always try to cross at the zebra since I value my life more than saving few seconds with Jay walking. but maybe that's just me
@@alihorda Yes, but you don't have to wait for a light to tell you when to cross on a zebra crossing. You use your common sense.
@@jillhobson6128 I wait when I'm not in a hurry.. not once I was almost killed because out of nowhere some asshole turned in with 80kmh. I use my common sense and I value my life more
After they outlawed lawn darts, now the kids can only legally get assault rifles to hurt themselves. What a shame
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You know kids can't legally get any guns, right?
@@jpsphoto-vision8803 yes
@@jpsphoto-vision8803 Even so the number of shootings where a child has got hold of a gun and shot someone is dreadful. Lawn darts were probably safer.
@@tompiper9276 lol, but the comment was in reference to the op saying kids could get them legally, your reply has nothing to do with what I said, I was simply clearing up a false statement in the op.
Both can be dangerous in the hands of someone that misuses them and children unless trained otherwise are not going to be safe with either.
My daughter can safely wield a bow, a sword, a rifle, throwing darts and a knife. The difference is in the parents of the child.
The "Jaywalking" one genuinely surprised me. I'm British and had no idea you're not allowed to cross roads anywhere. I'm not even sure how that would work over here in England. Where I live it would mean me having to walk over half a mile up the street to the traffic lights, then walking all the way back on the other side just to get to the shop across the road from my home. We're taught from a very young age to look both ways before crossing roads. Whereas I always understood "jaywalking" to mean crossing the road without regard for approaching traffic, so without looking both ways (in other words to lack basic common sense).
In Romania it is illegal to jaywalk. You must wait for the green light or to cross on the zebra crossing only. Many people do not respect this but it is not legal. Actually jaywalking is dangerous on large boulevards.
We are taught the green cross code during school multiple times so we understand how to cross a road safely.
That's the problem in the USA, we don't have common sense. No one is taught common courtesy or respect for others. This all started in the 1970's with the "Me Generation" and has stopped since.
@@alexandra.v What they should do is make the boulevards safer by making them smaller with speed bumb so the cars need to slow down and easier to cross possibly with a median pedestrian strip in the middle.
It is stupid to build large speedy roads in place where pedestrians want to be.
@@AlbertZonneveld oh those are good ideas! But just think that in the capital we have a very important square with a pool of cars in the middle that simply cannot be crossed. And there are always traffic jams 🥲
America: bans kinder eggs for making kids happy
Europe: bans guns for a good reason too keep people happy
Still for real now, I don’t get why they banned kinder eggs, I get you can easily choke on them especially young kids, but maybe put more money into schools and they would learn stuff and learn that you can choke on the things.
I was once stopped by police here in Norway for NOT jaywalking. I walked over the white lines and they pulled up next to me and questioned me why i would go through the trouble of taking a detour just to cross there. Needless to say, nobody ever gets fined for jaywalking, unless you run mindlessly back and forth over a major highway.
and most people that do that are usual drunk and just get detained and let go when they've sobered up the day after.
@@princessmona1432 Noone ever gets detained for jaywalking in Norway.
Down here in France, you can get fined up to 7€ for jaywalking, but in specific situations (when a pedestrian crossing exists under ~50 meters around you).
Even then, I can say that I've done it in front of cops plenty of times, never got fined for it. It's so incredibly rare to see this rule being enforced that you'd either have to actively make the most ridiculous jaywalking possible, or find cops on a very slow day in order to get fined.
@@EricTheBroBean detained? locked up?
um... even walking to red light and stuff don't get you detained in most of europe, just halted, perhaps a fine..
i suspect nowhere in Europa a police officer could detain you just 'jaywalking' , that is such a purely american word ..
for crossing the road were you are not mend too :).
In Belgium it used to be illegal in domestic roads to cross the just cross the road is the cross way was no more then 50 meter away,
else it was allowed, and they cancelled that to, at least within a few meters of the cross way /zebrapad it is now allowed to just acts as if it's 5 meter wider then painted.
The kinder eggs thing always amazed me, they say that is dangerous for kids because they can choke with the capsule (it is huge, and you have to crack the egg to eat the chocolate) but they don't mind to give very small toys to the same kids. The article you found about that ten kids worldwide that choke was with the toy, not the capsule. Nowadays, the toy is one piece, when I was a kid, you have to put together the toy, that was small pieces.
I got little plastic giraffe that says you're wrong since it has 3 pieces and I bought on February 2023
@@jakubhrstka3236Hmm, that is strange. I also know about only one pieced toys. How DANGEROUS!!!!! 😳😳😳😂
Is LEGO legal in the US ?
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131good one!!!
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When I was a kid, some fifty odd years ago, basic LEGO had plenty of rice grain size bits and pieces....
Must be a miracle we survived ! 😳
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Funny in the context that the yellow capsule is so hard to open an adult like myself struggles doing that. Also its diameter makes it virtually impossible to swallow by an adult, let alone a child. Toys and toy parts can be a choking hazard, clearly.
But other toys with small parts (e.g. Lego) are perfectly safe to swallow in the US? BTW It's not a problem to send my US relatives hundreds of toys that we found in Kindereggs! And can we talk about Happy Meals?
Its super easy to open, you are supposed to squeeze it along the line it opens
What about fries ... how many have choked on fries ? What about fish, how many have choked on a fishbone ?
They weren't banned because of a choking hazard. It is illegal in the USA for something other than the wrapping to contact a food product. It was the toy container coming into contact with the chocolate that made them illegal. The packaging has been redesigned for the USA market and those ones are legal there.
@@grahamsmith9541 and what would that mean? The toy also has a very sterile wrapping?!
Around here, we call the individually-wrapped slices of cheese, such as you find in MacDonald's burgers, "plastic cheese" - due to its consistency, appearance and taste, not because it's wrapped in plastic.
They discovered in the netherlands that giving the more vulnerable ppl in traffic more rights can actually make the roads safer, bc you give the ‘stronger’ trafficers more responsibility. You will drive a lot safer and slower and be more alert when you know that ppl can be walking or cycling in front of you at anytime, and that you are at fault if it goes wrong. Ofc this does not apply on highways (bc of high speed.)
Yeah but i still think that if their is proove that the more vulnerable person was at fault. They should not be able to punish the driver. Like thinking about passing trough a red light. Cause that happens a lot as wel
@@miepmiep2274 if it is proven that it was the pedestrians fault (only true if they walk into a road that they currently see a car driving towards them on, then and only then does the pedestrian get punished.
@@algotkristoffersson15 yeah often enough there is no proof. One word against another.
@@miepmiep2274 yeah well in reasonable countries the burden of proof falls on the driver because they are the one who is dangerous.
@@algotkristoffersson15 makes sense. There's a very limited amount of damage that a pedestrian can do, compared to a ton of metal moving at 30 mph.
As a French fan of cheese I can confirm that we are completely okay with the non pasteurize ones and that you are really missing out (especially the Reblochon mentioned this one is very good!) but that give you more to enjoy if you travel I guess!
Racist Comment That Only European & Canadian kids Are Smarter Than Kids In The USA
Are You Implying That Kids In Africa, The Middle East, South America & Asia Are Not or Less Smart?
Pas sûr qu'un palais americain, nourrit au "cheddar" industriel en boite de conserve toute sa vie puisse apprécier un fromage de caractère.
Je pense qu'il aurait la même réaction qu'après avoir bu sa première bière 😆
J'opterais plutot pour une approche progressive : fromage "doux" genre brie/vrai cheddar, puis fromage de brebis/camembert/chèvre, et enfin reblochon.
Mais pour ce qui est du level du morbier, maroilles et roquefort, je pense que tu peux oublier (sachant qu'ils sont déjà clivants chez les français) 😂
@@blazikarbon One thing he is right about, you don't keep Casu Martzu near other food.
Those maggots jumps quite high, they often keep it in a bag but you'll see the little bastards jumping out anyway.
But they also make the cured version, which is not creamy, it's quite dry, and it doesn't have living maggots.
@@blazikarbon quand tu sais que la heineken est considérée comme le must aux usa....vendu en bar plus de 15 dollars, tu pleures de rires
They might not be as ok if their unpasteurized cheese were from the US though, since they have way more salmonella et.c. than we have in Europe. I mean, they can’t let their kids taste the cake batter in fear of getting sick from raw egg, while we wouldn’t think twice about cracking an egg to make homemade mayo (or as some people do, add hole raw eggs to smoothies) …
In Australia, we drink tap water and if you have a connected rain water tap, we drink that to! We're a tough bunch. We also boil water using an electric kettle. Yep. Take that world!!
So basically what I do here in Warsaw: boil the water in a kettle and filter it because it always comes with nasty particles.
Where don’t you drink tap water?
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Here in the UK we have so many amazing varieties of flavours of cheese. Thankfully we don't have anything like the Sardinian maggot cheese (that I'm aware of).
I had sooo many Kinder Eggs during my childhood (and beyond 😀) and i never ever choked on the yellow capsule. It's so big that you literally have to put work into swallowing that thing.
its not the capsule they choked on, its mostly the smal toy parts in it. That big capsule would be even hard to swallow for an adult.
@@redzora80 but it’s so hard to be open even for an adult like me. I’ve eaten so many through my life, never ever try to eat the toy
But someone is dumb enough to let his baby play unsupervised with coin size Parts
@@sebastiangeorge7714 but that not the company problem, this is the dumb persons fault.
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“Is it smart to put small toys in candy?”. I’d say it’s just as smart as putting toys in cereal. Wait a minute…
Or Mardi Gras king cakes, or cracker jacks 😂
Sorry the girl died however since it was sold too adults and told not to let kids play with them without supervision, then it was the fathers fault for not keeping an eye on his kids playing with them!
why didn't they simply rebrand the lawn darts as weapons ?
then they still could be sold at all those major outlets that also sell weapons, and children would be able to play with them like with guns ... 😱
@@Anson_AKB They look just like the anti-personnel flechettes dropped from aircraft in WWI. The USA used something similar called the "Lazy Dog" in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
This is likely still on the books and still enforced in the US to protect US sweet suppliers from competition rather than to protect children from choking.
I think a huge factor in the deaths because of jaywalking is the easiness to drive a car in the US. I understand, why this is so. Much of the city isn't for pedestrians, so it's important, that people get a car.
In Germany it is much more expensive and needs a lot of more work for you, to drive. (plus TÜV) So, when you got your drivers licence in Germany, you know, that you are a safe driver.
Agreed - it's a lot harder to get a drivers licence in the UK as well, and our tests have developed along with new technology to include following sat nav ect. because that's part of every day driving these days
The city of Cincinnati does not have a jaywalking statute. For many years the police fined people for jaywalking until someone did some digging into the statutes and fought a ticket in court. The citizen was correct, there wasn't a statute and so everyone that had been fined had to have the fine refunded from city coffers.
You should see how Americans Cities looked like before cars were a thing. They were beautiful and pedestrian friendly. After cars however, the US completely forgot to think about pedestrians.
His cat was pressing the comma key while he was writing
You are even a better driver when you pass your driving test in the Netherlands.
A good metric for whether a country's laws encourage freedom or are repressive is the proportion of a population incarcerated in prison and denied their rights.
The US has by far the highest per capita prison population in the world.
Biden has now said those jailed for having drugs(for personal use) are to be freed.Other countries probably don't jail these people anyway.
That really isn't a good metric to use as it could also be that there are better investigations. Also some places (China I'm looking at you) aren't truthful in their reporting, or hide numbers by only including those in prisons but not those incarcerated in other types of facility.
So many lies in the media 🙄
@@matthewsmith2979 Your are not wrong but if you need to compare your incarcenation rate with China you need to rethink you r approach to justice.
It’s because most prisons in America are run by private corporations . They lobby corrupt politicians who creat nonsense laws to get more customers . Three strikes and your in for life . Permanent customers .
US: No! Non-plastic cheese bad!
Also the US: Deep fries butter and packs chocolate-worth of sugar into a bread slice.
My family had these and we loved lawn darts!
In The Netherlands, there's a crosswalk that's marked as being under the jurisdiction of The Ministry Of Silly Walks, and the signs feature John Cleese with one foot up over his head! The Dutch seem happy to show off their best silly walks. In the US, a family designated the sidewalk in front of their house the same way and set up a security camera so they could see the fun, if any. Soon, people were driving to the house for a short silly walk, then hopping back in the car and leaving.
ha ha love this
Found it!
Now I'm wondering how often that sign get's stolen, because I sure know that _I_ would be tempted ...
Hi from France! The cheeses on the photo are some of the best believe me. The green is from penicillium -close to peliciline-… plus there was never ever a pb with unpasteurized cheese whereas the same is not true with pasteurized tho pretty rare…
US cheese to us is not cheese… it’s plastic 😂
You guys have multi colored cakes that I would never eat… 🤪
Thanks to US, we now now for instance, not to put cats in microwaves… things we wouldn’t have done but seem important to write on notices… do you guys have any common sense left? 🤪😂😂😂
Jaywalking to me is bizarre. When you cross the road, you cross where ever you want. But, you stop, look left to right, you know all that stuff your taught as a small child. Like I don’t understand the problem 😂
Millions of Australians die on American roads every year as the road safety song we learned in kindergarten would have us walking confidently into traffic in the USA .
The ruling elite need victimless crimes everyone commits like jaywalking and drinking under 21 so they can arbituary harass the poor.
In Britain, a pedestrian crossing a side street has precedence over a car turning into it. This was reinforced six months ago.
I've always found those "jaywalking" laws insane personally
Kinder eggs for me were a total treat. I always got one as either a present (birthday, nameday) or a reward (not crying while I got a shot at the doc's, good grades on report, etc). My parents or my brothers helped me assemble the toy, and then we played together. I still have many of the toys hidden in a box somewhere 😅
Wait, what? Kinder eggs are illegal in the US? WTF those poor children! Getting an egg every Thursday with my dad while my mom was working late is one of my fondest childhood memories. Also, they're delicious. I love having one every once in a while to this day.
Sounds like a great memory. I'm an adult. Still like eating them occasionally. The chocolate is so good when it's so thin
Why only kids in US chocked??? Still I eat that delicious candy and even my nephew knows he's not supposed eat the yellow capsule. Greetings from northern México
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"kids are dumb." - WRONG.
kids understand things perfectly, if somebody actually explains them to them. they absorb information much more quickly than adults and learn complex things easily.
but if parents are dumb.... yeah, then their kids are probably too.
I being German subscribed 2 of your channels already and I enjoy your way of reacting on and presenting these different kind of videos.
Thank you 🖐👴
Nice info here. I didn't know that 10 cildren were harmed by Kinder Eggs worldwide. Then of course it may be ok, that the administration of the USA takes care of little kids.
But, how many kids are hurt or killed by weapons in the USA within a year? 🙄 Taking this into account, I guess the ban of Kinder Eggs is a bit overdone.
jaeh 10 kids of billions of eggs over decades, and hudnrets of children every year by guns xD but imagine banning something like guns xD
Sure it's like a meme now. It's not more stupid that the cucumber curvature law of EU, at least this one is targeted at food safety. The idea is that it's not a good idea to hide something in food that someone can choke on, which actually sounds logical, it's just the implementation that ended up funny.
Weapons aren't regulated by the same - food regulatory body - so they don't have to comply with food safety rules, and are not meant to be used by kids. Kids getting hurt usually means some adult was grossly negligent, so it's a bit of a different story.
Considering that at least 37 people have been killed by VENDING MACHINES, I think 10 death world wide because of kinder eggs is not really a problem there...
My curiosity: "How many kids died from peanuts?" --> about 100 American children per year.
But... come on... everyone knows that guns provide security!
I'm sitting at home being sick and just have been bingewatching on your channel for a while. I like your approach, because your reactions are humble, you don't pretent to know things when you don't. And you want to learn and have a genuine curiosity. Keep doing what you do. 😊 I'm German by the way.
Ryan: disgusted by the look of cheese mites.
Also Ryan: likely inhaling thousands of dust mites and their poo every day.
Welcome to the world 😂
That's what happen when you know so little about the world you live in, you can't have logical reasoning.
Marbles and lego are the worse choke hazards and they still get through import.
Everytime I watch a US movie or TV show and they talk about it being 'the land of freedom', I wonder how much more 'free' they can be. Turns out, less than us lol
It's a bit suspicious when a country needs to remind itself on a regular basis of how super free they are. I know that I live in a nation with universal health care and I rarely feel the need to randomly point that out to other citizens.
for excample freedom to roam.
in nordics countries, it's okay if roam in nature just be sure you don't roam in someones yard. cause that isn't good manners.
in U.S meanwhile theres high change you have sudden lead poisoning
Most of Europe has more- and better freedom than the US, PLUS social security and healthcare for everyone ...
Musk (the multi billionaire one) seems to have every freedom going.
@@etherealbolweevil6268 He's also not American lol, seems like rich people from all of the world can be as free as they want in America
1:55 No child would be able even to try to swallow that huge capsule. The small thingies within the capsule however are another thing - but you'll find the likes of them at many other places and products also. And the trick to avoid the FDA ban found by Ferrero was simply to sell (kind of) half eggs only, so the toy is not enclosed by the chocolate, but also not in a protective capsule to big to be swallowed. Imho that is even more dangerous to little children.
9:00 Casu Marzu is also officially banned within the EU since 2005, but still produced for the black market. Some producers are trying together with scientists of the University of Sassari to breed hygienically impeccable cheese flies which were never in the wild before lying their eggs into the cheese. Any maggots eaten with the cheese should still be crunched before swallowing them to avoid enteric myiasis, because they are able to survive for some time in the stomach.
23:45 Crossing a street where there is no crosswalk in sight is not considered to be jaywalking in Germany (at least as long as there is no barrier impeding any crossing). If there is a crosswalk with traffic lights and you cross while your traffic lights are red, you can be fined, and you can (in theory) also be fined if a crosswalk at a main or a heavily trafficked street is less than about 50 meters away and you don't use it to cross. However if you come to a crosswalk without traffic lights, the cars have to stop to let you cross: the pedestrians have the right of way there. (You should nevertheless look right and left before you cross.)
Marbles and Jacks: are these still sold in the US? I'm guessing so. I would have thought that they would be equally as dangerous.
_" if you come to a crosswalk without traffic lights, the cars have to stop to let you cross"_
yes, but not at any crosswalk (like a crossing with broken or shutoff traffic lights), and only at those that are built and marked in specific ways as a protected crosswalk, including signs and "zebra stripes".
A pedestrian in Germany crossing at a red light has to pay a whopping 5 Euro.
10 if involved in an accident.
@@NicolaiCzempin yes, THAT part is cheap, but as a repeat offense you can get points too, even if you don't have a driving license or are only 12+ years old. and with too many points you can lose your license, or have difficulty getting one in the first place.
and of course, you are guilty if you cause an accident, and need to pay damages, compensation, etc.
@@NicolaiCzempin it is the spirit that counts, not the money. 😁
We in the UK are bewildered by these 'jaywalking" laws. We don't even use the word. Although we do have formal ways to cross the road - we call crosswalks " zebra crossings", and pedestrian crossings with lights are usually called "Pelican " crossings (although strictly these are often "Puffin" or "Toucan" crossings) - we have always been free to walk where we want on the road. Only if we were so stupid that we caused a major road accident would we be prosecuted. At school children are taught how to cross roads safely.
The major omission here is the ban on haggis. Is this still going on? There us nothing dangerous in haggis, and the ban is insulting to the Scots. Their national poet (Robbie Burns) wrote a poem praising haggis.
"Jaywalking" was a word I heard my parents use in the UK in the 1970s but it was very specific. It meant crossing the road close to but not on a zebra or pelican crossing, like inside the white zigzags level of "close". This would occasionally irritate my parents when they were driving, on the basis that the pedestrian could have used the crossing without going out of their way, so why didn't they. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I've heard anyone else use it much. My father had spent time in the US so maybe that's how my parents knew the term.
I got a ticket for jaywalking in Seattle, back in the 70's. It was late at night, and the area was deserted. Not a car in sight.
French person here : mimolette and roquefort are awesome, and you should try them. :')
Mimolette is similar to gouda if you've ever tried it! Both are very orange cheeses, and gouda was often available in schools cafeterias when I was little, alongside emmental (tho they weren't really of great quality haha)
Also roquefort is top-tier, was actually my favourite cheese when I was a child
It may seem disgusting (like, technically, the green spots are mold, and you may be like "what ?? eww", and I was shocked too when I learned it back then) but I mean.. Idk, it's so good??
It's a strong cheese, and like, make a salad with nuts, endives, almonds, emmental cubes, and bits of roquefort, and mmmh it's so good !!
Another cheese I'd recommend from the top of my head is Saint-Marcellin, un classique, creamy and so soft and tasteful 👌
Those three are all very different by the way, they make a good little starter pack !
So here you go, don't judge a cheese by its cover !
If you got a chance one day to try mimolette/gouda, roquefort/bleu (similar and look about the same), and Saint-Marcellin, try them !!
Big bonus points if directly from a french fromagerie ! :D
It's part of french culture, and I'm really happy to share it with you ! ^-^
As a dutchy, i love the Rocquefort too. I just left Aveyron area and brought a big piece of it home.
Mimolette is a dutch cheese not french.
I love roquefort reblochon munster camembert.
I think i really appreciate all kind of cheese.
I have a running pseudo--joke theory that kinder surprise eggs were banned in the US bc if Americans tasted what real chocolate tastes like and not cocoa-plastic, they would never eat American plastic chocolate again
EDIT: gonna apply my plastic-food theory to American plastic cheese now too
It's funny because the way they use bacteria or animals for cheese is one of he most natural processes you could have, but for America that's of course too natural. It's right on brand with the eggs (they're non-refrigerated here, you just buy them off the shelf and they last much longer due to the natural protection layer that's washed off in the US).
RIGHT ??? All eggs in american shows are so white, it always intrigued me, and when i said my eggs here in France are brownish/beige, my american friends were like "wtf is it safe?? Why is it brown??" I also told them my favorite part of baking a cake, since childhood, is to lick the mixing bowl after putting the cake in the oven and they were like "BUT THERE IS EGGS IN THE PREPARATION AREN'T YOU SCARED OF SALMONELLA" and uhm... fair point. I never got it tho.
@@asilnorahc8910 brown or white eggs are the same though. It doesn’t matter what color the shell is. The brown shell is just marketing to make it seem natural, but the cheaper white eggs are identical. But yeah the risk is much lower for us.
@@lolololol7573 I don't see what "cheaper white eggs" you are talking about though? It really seems to me, from experiences, that all eggs where I live are various shades of brown. Maybe I'm just super lucky to live in a place where all eggs are 'natural' ? That's why the white eggs on TV always struck me as weird, it's because I've literally never seen any IRL. Not on supermarket shelves, nor in gardens where people keep hens for their eggs. Some are fairer than the others, but not WHITE. I don't think they're chosen for their brownness for marketing, in a same box of eggs I find various shades. I know they're sorted by size, I never heard of sorting eggs by color.
Maybe you're right and I've just lived under a rock all these years, but really. I have never seen white, WHITE eggs IRL.
@@asilnorahc8910 That might be because in your area they have specific type of chickens. It's quite simple: a red earlobe on the chicken is laying brown eggs. A chicken with a white earlobe will give white eggs. Your region probably has mostly chickens with red earlobes.
The thing is, both are natural and normal. However because many people think brown eggs are better, the white eggs are more often for sale much cheaper. It's definitely 100% marketing. It's even funnier because white lobe chickens require less food but lay more eggs, however due to this "natural" bias these eggs are mostly use in products and not for whole sale.
Both eggs are the same, assuming the chickens are fed the same food and get proper nutrients. Fun fact, the interesting part is in America they get fed different food, usually a lot of corn. This causes their yolk inside to be more yellow, unlike in other countries where it's more of an orange color (if you google "yolk us vs eu" you'll get plenty of results).
@@lolololol7573 Well, you learn something new everyday. Thanks!
You probably spared me future egg-comparison-based embarrassement.
I have 2 granchildren and they have never chocked on Kinder Eggs, whether it was because I always tried to build the ingredients into a toy - most of time without success. However McDo's Happy Meal for kids also has little toys included, and youngsters are very happy to put them in their mouths !!!
If I buy the kinder egg in another country, then it is my property, as long as it's consumed before US entry and now only the toy, do you think it might get through? It's still the same choke hazard. But then consumables must be declared when coming to Australia. Better to eat it before it becomes an issue?
I feel like a lot of these stupid laws came from the idea that the government should protect us from ourselves instead of taking personal responsibility
Yes, it's all about control, not freedom!
Yeah, our country was free, but people keep voting for regulation after regulation.
Mostly the examples seemed to be blocking imports, or in other ways promoting US commercial interests above individual rights.
Pity they don't protect you from the food industry.
It's always funny to me how a lot of Americans react to seeing Cheeses like Roquefort or Gorgonzola, but at the same time Blue Cheese Dip is one of the favorite flavors with Wings.
If it's sold by a fast food chain I guess there isn't much or any real cheese in that Dip stuff.
roquefort is so awesome, it can stink especially when you heat it in microwave to dip the bread in, but it;s so nice and addicting!
@@ejokurirulezz
W H A T ???
Heating proper Roquefort in the micro oven is vanalism !!!
(Don't go to France...
They'll dip you in tar, and roll you in feathers) !
Funnily, the kinder joy was introduced to sell something similar to the kinder egg when the kinder egg was not available for sale... not to sell something similar in the USA.
They are seasonal articles, kinder joy are only really produced and sold in and around summer, while kinder eggs in and around winter (in Germany). There are other chocolate sweets that aren't produced and sold in the summer, because the additional costs for transportation (cooling) so they retain their shape and quality aren't worth it.
True that, as a german myself i can vouch for that statement.
Kinder joy is the summer version of kinder surprise
Exactly! And the same happens now with other stuff like pocket coffee: ferrero always makes sure that their products don’t melt because of the heat..
Same here in Spain: Kindereggs on winter, KinderJoy on summer :)
There is a large community of enthusiastic collectors of the small toys and especially the collectible figures in these "Kinder Surprise Eggs". Especially older, rare and well-preserved complete collection series are often traded for a lot of money if they ever actually sell at all.
9:09 To ingest enough cheese mites to cause an allergic reaction, you have to make an entire meal out of just the outside of many of these cheeses (without cooking), denying that this outer crust has always been considered a protective *packaging* for the inside of the cheese, and therefore *not food*.
This is like banning American food because of the risks of ingesting the plastic wrappers around the food. Normal people just don't do that. 😅
Don't expect too much from a country where all the food is sterilized and have OGM in it.
They don't know what real food is, what people ate before fridge exist.
@@blazikarbon Memories are short. There were no fridge in the wagons heading for the Wild West.
I was a smoker for almost 13 years (super proud non-smoker now). In retrospect, it was the right decision to ban flavored cigarettes, as they were deliberately used by the tobacco industry to entice young people, including teenagers, to start smoking. There wasn't a vast assortment of flavored tobacco products in Austria, but those that tasted like lemon, blueberries, and sugared chocolate were good, too good. For example, smoking an entire pack of the sweet blueberry cigarettes in one sitting was no problem.
Congrats on quitting!
And yes, adding flavors like chocolage to a cigarette just _screams_ "marketing to young teens / children". It's slap in the face.
But I'd have thought that smoking an entire pack of cigarettes in one sitting makes you incredibly dizzy?
@@Julia-lk8jnit depends on your tolerance, if you've smoked a lot for a long time one pack in one sitting will probably not make you dizzy
Wow that kinder egg stuff is wild to me. When I was at an age when I could have tried to eat the toy and choke on it, I wasn't given any. When I got a bit older, I wasn't able to open the yellow contenant, I needed help from my parents to open it. At that time, it was still things to build inside, with tiny parts to assemble and stickers to glue on it, ... But then at some point, they started to make already made toys and that removed all of the joy I had before.
I'm Belgian, I live in Germany, I went to France and Sweden, I never saw lawn darts in my life. Maybe it's not forbidden because it's not a thing?
But seriously, America, banning kinder eggs and lawn darts to protect children is super important, but how many children die every year because of fire arms? Just asking.
Never heard of lawn darts here in Norway.
But it might have been popular in the UK. Decades ago...
Regarding dangerous toys ;
When I was about 8, my dad bought me a small hunting knife.
Bowie style.
So I'd learn not to cut myself !
(While carving wood flutes, bows and arrows, and gutting fish...)
None kid has ever been chocked here in México with that candy, I still eat it sometimes. But really is ok having guns there in US that are really dangerous!!! Don't understand
What, glue?
Must have been before my time.
But putting together the toy from parts was the best part. I had some incredibly cool stuff, like a flying carpet with a passgener on it, circling around the tip of .... well, a plastic stick fixed into the yellow capsule, but it looked just like a roof.
I remember when the change happened. I liked the building stuff, and then suddenly there were only figurines. I liked the smurf ones and I started collecting the crocodiles, but I didn't play with them like I did the built stuff.
Oh my god, I'm from Austria, every child gets kinder eggs. Even I for myself got lots of kinder eggs, when I was a child. I've never heard of any child swallowing the toys.
I feel like jaywalking being legal here in the Netherlands has definitely made me a better driver.
When I'm on a highway or car only road outside cities I only focus on the road ahead of me and the cars around me. It feels like the road belongs to the cars (it kinda does).
But when I'm driving through Amsterdam or a different city or town I'm aware that the road doesn't belong to me. I'm constantly on the lookout for bikes and pedestrians and I'm very aware of my speed. Especially in quieter streets where I know kids might be playing and just jump in front of the road or come out of nowhere on a bike.
I'm a better driver because I'm aware that the road isn't just for cars, it's for everyone and if someone wants to cross the road they have every right to.
As a driver I'm glad that jaywalking is legal because it prevents me from getting complacent with my speed and observations. Because the thing is, people are gonna jaywalk, legal or not, I'd rather be aware and prepared for it then every accidentally hitting someone who's just trying to get home or to work or whatever.
We (.pl) were told in the driver's training that "pedestrians don't need a pedestrian license", and "always treat pedestrians as idiots".
True words.
It all comes down to the Hierarchy on the Road, in the Netherlands, the Car is not on top of the list, it's the Bicycle, then the Pedestrian and then the Car... if there is Public Transportation, then that takes the top spot, meaning there are areas in Netherlands, where the Car is only 4th having to give way to all that... imagine that. 😅
That is interesting. Many people in Oslo seems to think the same, creating many accidents. In Norway the pedestrians are on the top, where the bikers are is unclear to me. The bikers usually borrow space from cars or pedestrians and they are usually not aware on this fact.
@@TullaRask Same here in the UK, pedestrians are top priority. Especially recently with a new law requiring vehicles and bikes to give way to pedestrians at junctions, including when turning into a road you must stop on your current road and let them cross. Bikes would be next in the hierarchy as other vehicles must make room for them, although they are meant to be treated by the cyclist as any other vehicle. That includes them not being rode on pedestrianised roads, although they do and it's not really enforced. Cars/trucks are last behind public transport (bus/train/ect).
@@TopherPotter Yes, I meant cyclists when I wrote bikers :)
@@TopherPotter In Norway we have this limbo atm, where the parliament and government can't really deside and the police has just recently started issuing fines with rogue 2-wheelers in Oslo creating confusion, but also more clarification for people without divers license.
@@TullaRask Yeah I feel we're close to harsher or just more followed rules for bikes with electric scooters added to the rules as they become more prevalent.
Makes me glad to live here in Yorkshire, where I can enjoy a good strong cheese sandwich, whilst crossing the road freely! My favourite cheese is Cheddar extra mature (18 months min). I also enjoy a nice ripe Stilton sometimes, and other blue cheeses. Think I'll hold on that move over to the USA!
Kinder surprise: I was a child, when they came on the market, less than 10 years old. Back then parents where still aware that children up to a certain age will put things in body orifices: nose, ears. Did it myself with a small seashell when around 3 years old.
It was common to keep things out of reach. Parents were much less stressed.
Also, "protecting children from toys that they could choke on" but not banning assault rifles, regulating traffic, etc.
Yes is really contradictory, neither here in México none kid has ever chocked with that candy and I still eat it. 😊
Where are you from? Kinder eggs have been around since the early 1970s where I'm from.
Ryan, if you’ve ever eaten a chocolate bar, you have ingested parts of many insects, including flies, and also mouse and rat turds. It just goes with mass manufacturing territory.
If you’ve ever eaten store-bought bread (and pastries etc), there’s a good chance that you’ve swallowed a decent amount of both bird and rat faeces, not to mention the plethora of bugs that inhabit flours and grains.
Cheers!
Jess.🌹
Apparently, only cheese with a rind has cheese mites (they live on the 'mould'). Surprised me because I thought all cheese had mites. Perhaps we shouldn't tell Ryan about what's living (and breeding) on his eyelashes and infesting the pillows on his bed. 😆 Don't want to give the poor lad a phobia!
no it doesnt. because you dont get that in europe. we have much higher food standards.
@@kanedNunable Higher standards just means lower allowed percentage of insect parts and so on.
@@kanedNunable It's quite literally impossible to remove all contaminants in mass-produced products. If you want to avoid things like that as much as is possible, you'd have to buy hand-made products and that's not possible for everything you need. Things like bread are easy in Europe with the amount of bakeries we have around the continent but there are products that simply have to be mass-produced because otherwise it's not economically feasible.
@@kanedNunable Wrong. There is NO such thing as perfectly clean food. All government and health associations have "allowances" on what is considered a safe, acceptable level of contamination. Even though it varies by country and area the levels of acceptability are all fairly close.
You have in fact my friend, eaten a microscopic level of rat poop (and other grossness) for your entire life, and your perfectly fine lol.
In the Netherlands they now even have banned all flavours (except tobacco flavour) mixed in the fluid of electric cigarettes. This is because too many youngsters liked those 'exotic' flavours to much, and began to smoke for that reason.
Honestly, the problem isn't the flavour, but the addictive properties of nicotine together with the high probability of developing breathing problems & cancer. Especially for the people that aren't smoking the product, but inhale other peoples smoke.
That's the narrative pushed by Big Tobacco to the EU, but there is no proof.
Watching this from anywhere outside of America is mind blowing. So guns are fine but not kinder eggs, play with guns but not cross a road, guns are fine but not cheese. 🤯
in the UK pedestrians have the right of way on Public roads not cars. cross where you want