• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It’s dangerous to hide small plastic capsules in candy … but it’s perfectly Ok for anyone to buy an assault rifle.

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      1 year ago

      The food code should probably just be amended. It pretty generically says that you can’t have “nonnutritive” stuff inside of it, unless that stuff is safe to consume. That’s a pretty reasonable thing, but it should probably be tweaked for nonnutritive stuff that is easy to spot and less likely to be mistaken for food.

    • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml
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      Americans are so stupid these would kill more kids than school shooters if they were legal.

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      We all assume people are at least as smart as we think we are but honestly they aren’t. It’s scary how many stupid people there are even if you are at the lower part of the average. Millions… It’s always the lowest common denominator that the world ends up being built for it seems and that means it’s not required for millions above that…

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    1 year ago

    Triggered…

    That chocolate is awesome, it’s stupid AF for it to be illegal in the US.

    I may or may not have been busted by customs carrying several dozen of these, and may or may not have not been caught a few other times…

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        No… what we got has toys, it’s just in a split clamshell kinda deal, with a toy in one half, and a Nutella like paste in the other half with a little malt ball in it. It’s crap and I hate it :)

        The split pack “freedom” version is called kinder joy, as opposed to kinder surprise.

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          Interestingly, they were designed for warmer environments where Kinder eggs would melt. The fact that they circumvented the weird US restrictions was a side effect.

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          Fuck man, I didn’t realize it was that bad of a remake.

          My ex Gf back into the day got pulled aside at Dulles Airport for having two boxes of Kinder Eggs. Better makes sure Noone enjoys life

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          Which is funny because that version adds more choking hazards. As there is the small plastic spoon and the toy is more easy accesible to a kid.

          That said the side of the toy+ spoon can be separated by a parent and kept away and give them just the Nutella side and give them a proper spoon that they probably won’t choke on.

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      Hold on, if there is one thing that isn’t awesome is the chocolate. The toy is amazing, the chocolate trigger childhood memories. But it’s really bad chocolate.

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    How can you possibly choke with something that big? Yeah you can but it would need to enter in a very specific angle right?

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      There’s smaller parts inside the capsule. Ravenous American children aren’t allowed to have them.

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        Well, to choke on the toys inside you have to open it, clearly differencing it from the food. If that’s dangerous then kids shouldn’t have toys at all.

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          Tbf you shouldn’t give toys with small parts to small children in general, they just like to put anything and everything in their little demonic mouth

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    People act like America had some sort of campaign against Kinder Eggs when it just violated a blanket “you can’t put non-food things inside food” rule.

    And Europe HAS lost children to them so I don’t know why that became an American thing.

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    In America they separated the toy from the chocolate because kids were choking on it

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    “Hey we don’t think there should be inedible plastic inside edible chocol-”

    “GUNS, BUT GUNS, BUT YOU GUYS DON’T BAN GUNS, GUNNNNSSSSS”