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After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 65 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I am literally just making this up on the spot and have no evidence for it, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe the real reason for the kinder egg ban was anticompetitive lobbying by Hershey or something like that, and the toy thing was just the excuse.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The american law prohibiting objects in food predates the kinder eggs by decades. And it's because people use to put all kinds of shit in american food. The law that bans them into is the Food, Drug and Cosmetic act of 1938.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Then how did we have toys in cereal boxes and cracker jacks up until much more recently?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because it's not inside the food itself.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It wasnt the "toy thing" theres a law about putting inedible choking hazards in food. The food drug and cosmetic act of 1938. It bans putting any toy or inedible object in candy unless it is a functional part of the food. So the capsule in the kinder egg isnt ok but the wooden stick in a popsicle, the stick of a lollypop or the ring of a ring pop is.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    So, they could put a lollipop-shaped stick into a kinder-egg, to function as a handle? Then the toy could be inside the ball in the end of the handle, so that it wouldn't actually be inside the food, but a part of the handle, which would be a functional part of the food?

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