Breakthrough on Kinder Eggs

Who could guess they confiscate 30,000 eggs a year?


After Being Banned, Kinder Eggs Are Coming To America
http://one.npr.org/i/530257536:530257540

NO WAY! I use this image all the time when I talk to my European friends about kinder surprise! This has always been the dumbest ban.

That's a great poster! 

In a way, I can sort of understand the thinking behind it, you can't have toys mixed up in the food.  Yes it's obvious for Kinder eggs, but then something else will come along that's less obvious....

On a side note, I read that 5 people a year swallow their toothbrush.  Almost all of those happen in North Carolina. 

Son of Sailor tells me that the little yellow containers are popular in prisons.  PM him to find out why!

If I recall correctly, the regulation that made Kinder Eggs a no-no was made back in the 1920s.  Someone was making a chocolate bar that had wee, metal toys (tin soldiers, etc) embedded, and there were kids who had choked or otherwise injured themselves.

So, it was probably one if the earliest child safety regulations.

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That's a great poster! 

In a way, I can sort of understand the thinking behind it, you can't have toys mixed up in the food.  Yes it's obvious for Kinder eggs, but then something else will come along that's less obvious....

On a side note, I read that 5 people a year swallow their toothbrush.  Almost all of those happen in North Carolina. 

Son of Sailor tells me that the little yellow containers are popular in prisons.  PM him to find out why!

Their toothbrushes? What were they doing, brushing their vocal cords........how does this happen???

Side note, I had kinder eggs confiscated in Italy coming back into the us. They wouldn't even let me on the flight with them. Didn't know what they were, they were on sale at the airport

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Their toothbrushes? What were they doing, brushing their vocal cords........how does this happen???



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I was wondering the same thing lol

Apparently, a lot of it is bulimia, people using the toothbrush to make themselves sick.

This article just says that people really seem to get a kick out of putting all sorts of things in all sorts of places

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fighting-fear/201305/swallowing-toothbrushes

Son of Sailor tells me that the little yellow containers are popular in prisons.  PM him to find out why!

Like a Fernando Valenzuela slider....this jab eased right past me.