Today I Found Out:
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?
I knew that Kinder eggs were illegal in the US (and it’s a point we Canadians often use to show our “superiority” over America) but I didn’t know the legal reasoning behind it.
I’m going to guess, before clicking through:; They have small plastic toys in the substance that a child will be eating.
That doesn’t strike me as overreach.
You’re wrong and wrong. 🙂 This is a case where it’s not as obvious as you’d think.
The plastic toy is in a capsule that can’t be swallowed by a child (sheer size), and the ban is rooted in something more interesting, much older, and MUCH more lethal.
I wil sit corrected.
Canadian kids can pass a Kinder toy in under 24 hours.
With a little oil they’ll do it in six.
Really? I figured it would get stuck in all the maple syrup.
If that ever happens a doctor will grease them with poutine.
Boy howdy, that takes me back.
See, the first time I ever heard of this product, the name alone sounded to me as though it was made from recycled children.
I’ll see myself out.