No Kinder Eggs in USA?

13 years ago

I just read the story below, on how Kinder eggs are banned in the US. I had no idea. Is this new?

These showed up in my Easter basket and Christmas stocking every year when I was a kid, and I continued the tradition with DS. I couldn't imagine Easter without them.

CNN story on Kinder Egg ban

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lyndaluu2
13 years ago
Bummer!! I loved those Kinder eggs too!!

Linda :-(((
Islay_Corbel
13 years ago
How strange. The toys in these eggs can't be the only small danger present in the lives of US children! Are all small toys banned?
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foodonastump
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Nah, just non-nutritive toys embedded in candy.
jae_tn2
13 years ago
i used to buy them from a canadian dealer because they were actually banned years ago. he quit exporting them several years ago because they were cracking down then. my daughter lives in germany and because it seems the government is yet even more serious about the u s not having them, i have told her not to bring any on her trip next week. shame.....i have a bag full of toys, some over 10 yrs old......
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Silly, because the toy half and the candy half are separate. There is no way even the most dimwitted child would eat the plastic half that contains the toy. Unless he also eats the plastic plunger of the push pop, the wax paper of the sour gummy roll, etc. I ate tons of Kinder Surprises several years ago, looking for the Vespa. I got it, and stopped. This was in Europe; I've never actually seen them in the US.
sally2_gw
13 years ago
Huh. I have never heard of these before. They must have been either before or after my time, or my kids' time for Easter egg hunts.

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January 2011- U.S. Customs Catches Canadian Woman Trying to Smuggle Chocolate Kinder Egg?

"When Lind Bird was recently stopped at the U.S. border and selected for a random search of her vehicle, she was surprised to learn that a $2 piece of candy could net her a whopping $300 fine. At issue was a Kinder Surprise egg a chocolate egg that contains a small plastic toy inside."

Our daughter and granddaughter are going to Germany this summer and meeting up with our son-in-law who is an officer serving in the U.S. Army and stationed in the Middle East. They lived in Germany for 4-1/2 years and would send us Kinder Eggs safely packed in egg cartons. We absolutely LOVED them!!! I sent her the link to the news story above and warned her not to bring back Kinder eggs.

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