Kinder Is Making Us Think We’re Getting Away With Something
Those of us in the US keep talking about the ban on Kinder eggs. However, we’ve been seeing some of these crop up in the US. I tried one abroad only to find one on sale at home. We got confused, but it turns out that Kinder messed with us to make us think we were getting away with something.
The originals had toys inside a chocolate egg:
The FDA won’t allow that here, hence the ban. However, there is now a new Kinder where the toy and chocolate are on separate halves (kind of like the McDLT ):
We can have that here, and do. I’m sure others were like me in snapping them up thinking we were getting away with something in view of the ban. However, this new form doesn’t run afoul of the FDA because the toy and chocolate are separate. These aren’t banned and we aren’t getting away with anything. We still aren’t getting what was banned here.
But we want it more because we think we are. Very sneaky, Kinder. Very sneaky.
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I remember that I used to trade the Germans goods from the Army PX and Shoppette (American cigarettes and candy, like Reese's) in exchange for things like auto body work or clothes, when I was stationed there in the military. Their candy is so much better than ours, but I guess the duty/VAT was too high on American goods on the economy.
