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[โ€“] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Ugh, don't remind me, I get annoyed whenever I see them in the checkout lane.

Yes we actually still have them, but we have them in the most insulting way, basically one half of the shell is a candy part and the other is the toy and each half is separate by its own film covering.

I bet it was because one kid in the 80s or some shit was in some freak accident or something and the Pearl Clutchers of Americaโ„ข rode in on their high horse to protect everyone lol

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Two words: Rectal Smuggling

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    *Making sure their food is good enough food

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    Which, ironically, is the actual reason Kinder Surprise are illegal in the US: It's not a specific ban, it's that you're not allowed to put non food inside of food. Which is prima facie completely reasonable.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago

    "BuT tHeY aRe A cHoKiNg HaZaRd"

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Kinder Surprises are inferior to Yowies and you can fight me over this.

    Or at least, they were. Prior to 2005. Then they got discontinued and brought back over a decade later with inferior Kinder-style simple solid plastic toys.

    Apparently though, both the new Yowies and Kinder Surprises are available in America these days.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    Dunno who "you guys" is, considering the original Yowies sold in Australia are far more of a potential choking hazard than Kinder Surprise's lame lumps of plastic. The fact that it's smaller pieces you assemble yourself is a big part of the reason they're so much better!

    Anyway, someone clearly needs to verify this, because the two articles are stating contradictory things. Obviously, one of them is wrong.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yuris are superior if you ask me.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm not familiar. Where are those from?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Japan. Just google Japanese yuri.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were having a serious interesting conversation here.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Who said we werenโ€™t?

    On a serious note, though, American kinder eggs are sadly different. Theyโ€™re the โ€œtwo halves with tiny plastic spoonโ€ kind instead of the โ€œget banned for choking childrenโ€ kind. I kind of prefer the latter. Iโ€™m lucky enough to have a friend from Belgium who visits every year or so and brings a bunch of โ€˜em over.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    I've had those. In Europe, in fact. That's a Kinder Joy, not a Surprise.

    If you're American, I recommend you try and find a Yowie somewhere. Apparently they're sold there. I don't actually recommend the productโ€”unfortunately new Yowies are just as bad as if not worse than Kinder Surprise, unlike the vastly superior version they used to makeโ€”but just to see the way the skirt a loophole in America's law. Instead of being a completely enclosed (but hollow) case of chocolate, as both Surprises and old Yowies are, new Yowies' eggs have small "wings"which poke out the side of the chocolate.

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