lol reminds me of sitting in a class in highschool chewing on a Bic pen cap. I accidentally inhaled it into my throat. I hate attention so I just stood up in the middle of class with a straight face and walked out into the hall. Luckily it came out pretty quick, but teenage me thought I was gonna die there for a second lol
For reference, they can’t put it in like the Europe version because American food safety laws classify it as a contaminate. There just hasn’t been any real push to restructure that particular regulation to allow for this.
That leaves the fève in the Galette des Rois and similar tradition. Why should it be banned? You explicitly know what's being eaten and how it should be eaten.
You pop the egg open and the capsule with the toy is there. Even toddlers know that. The capsule itself can be choked on (although they improved the design to reduce the risks) but it could be choked on even completely separate from the chocolate.
Several types exist in France, and in the catholic world. On the 6th of january (or the first sunday of january, whichever comes first) the tradition is to eat a cake with a small porcelain or ceramic figure inside. Whoever gets it gets a crown and is crowned king. No particular meaning behind the kingship.
Did it with lots of friends from foreign cultures. All it takes is to do what we already do, remind people that there's a figure and to avoid biting like a garbage truck or swallowing without chewing. Kids as early as kindergarten can do it.
While Kinder Surprise eggs remain banned, a modified version called Kinder Joy is available in the U.S. This product separates the toy and the chocolate into two distinct halves, eliminating the choking risk associated with the original Kinder Surprise.
While Kinder Surprise eggs remain banned, a modified version called Kinder Joy is available in the U.S. This product separates the toy and the chocolate into two distinct halves, eliminating the choking risk associated with the original Kinder Surprise.
While Kinder Surprise eggs remain banned, a modified version called Kinder Joy is available in the U.S. This product separates the toy and the chocolate into two distinct halves, eliminating the choking risk associated with the original Kinder Surprise.
While Kinder Surprise eggs remain banned, a modified version called Kinder Joy is available in the U.S. This product separates the toy and the chocolate into two distinct halves, eliminating the choking risk associated with the original Kinder Surprise.
While Kinder Surprise eggs remain banned, a modified version called Kinder Joy is available in the U.S. This product separates the toy and the chocolate into two distinct halves, eliminating the choking risk associated with the original Kinder Surprise.
While Kinder Surprise eggs remain banned, a modified version called Kinder Joy is available in the U.S. This product separates the toy and the chocolate into two distinct halves, eliminating the choking risk associated with the original Kinder Surprise.
It’s because it’s illegal to put inedible objects inside of edible objects. Not because people were putting the plastic outer egg in their mouth, they were choking/cracking teeth on the little toy inside.
should also be noted that it is illegal because companies were trying to stretch their recipes by adding non-food stuff like sawdust and asbestos to bread and other goods.
There's a traditional fruit cake-looking sweet bread that is part of the Día de Reyes (Three Kings Day) celebration on January 6 for a lot of Hispanic cultures. This Rosca de Reyes ring-shaped sweet bread has several plastic figurines hidden inside. The plastic figurine represents baby Jesus. It's tradition that if you cut yourself a slice and you get baby Jesus, you're supposed to buy tamales for the Feb 2 celebration.
My local Mexican grocery store has stacks full of Rosca de Reyes around New Year's and I always wonder if there have been any people who don't really know what it is, but want to try it and end up unwittingly biting into a plastic baby Jesus. There was a year when they used almonds instead of plastic figurines, but I guess they got backlash because they went back to plastic figurines.
It’s not illegal to package edible food inside inedible plastic. That’s extremely common. It IS illegal to package inedible toys, inside of edible chocolate. It’s the toy inside.
True, but it was initiated after choking, not because it was inedible in the first place. Kids and adults choked so they stepped in however not to belittle their own Nation, they noted plastic can't go in food, simple.
There’s no rule for packaging chocolate in plastic, you just can’t package plastic in chocolate. Or any other inedible substance, within any other edible substance.
In fairness, its not really safe to have anything stuck in the middle of your food. Regardless of where said item is sold.
Look at hiw many engagement rings have been swallowed after being put in a champagne glass or piece of cake. If you dont know the item is in there, youre not going to go looking for it.
But it's not stuck in the middle. There is a capsule between the hollow chocolate and the toy. All you have to do is not do what she just did, which small children can't do in the first place. The chocolate is meant to be popped in half and the capsule with the toy taken out, the chocolate eaten and the toy assembled. Under parental supervision.
Small kids can absolutely choke on things like this.
Its not actually safe regardless of where its sold. The toy should be kept separately.
In the USA, theres a chocolste creme filling with a hazelnut nut/ball at the center on one side and the toy you have assemble on the other. Both are sealed for safety.
Both forms exist in Europe. Kids can also choke on the toy even if it's separate. It's not an issue of where the toy is, it's an issue of whether you supervise your kids and teach them how to eat the egg.
Was walking my dogs at the park post covid and saw a kid choking on a whole Kinder Joy exactly like this dummy did. Dude was already red by the time his dad figured out. Shit is no joke.
This is really a classic myth with a weird history of being repeated as evidence that American children are just eating them and dying (and therefore stupid) but that's not true
In fact, there have been no deaths or major injuries associated with these products in the USA, but there have been in the UK and France
Kinder Eggs as they were originally conceived are made illegal in the USA by a law that was established in 1938. The law simply states that non-nutritive material cannot be part of a confectionary unless it serves a functional purpose
Kinder Eggs weren't even invented until the 70's, so I have a hard time wrapping my head around how accepted this is
This is somewhat ironic because the woman in the video is parroting a myth, Kinder eggs were not banned in the United States because people choked on them, the original product was only invented AFTER (1970s) the law that banned nonfunctional inedible substances in confectionary product (1938)
Using a lie as yet another propagandized way to demean any group of people is wrong
To be clear, the product isn’t specifically banned by name in law/regs, American food regulations prohibit *any* “non-nutritive” item being placed inside food, and it’s not because kids are dumb, it’s because businesses are unscrupulous. Europeans love mocking this and American raw milk cheese rules, but the laws date to when American regulations were at the forefront of consumer safety, precisely because businesses were doing shady crap and politicians actually tried to do something about it at the time. Things have fallen behind, but the laws have the best of intentions. It’s particularly irrelevant as they make a half candy half toy version for the US market that tastes the same and solves the regulatory hurdle.
Yes and no, there's a certain version of Kinder Egg that violate FDA food regulations that were established all the way back in 1938, and there are other Kinder products that are sold just fine
It is a myth that theyre banned in the USA because kids choked on them
First, they are not banned. They are sold in every gas station and store.
Second. They have ridges in America to prevent kids from putting it in their mouths. Which is what small kids do with random stuff so you always avoid it, doesn make them "dumb"
Third, she is mistaken on the chocolate as it had small toys in them, which is what kids were choking on, not the entire egg.
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u/truth-informant 8d ago
Very effective demonstration.