This might seem sort of random but I want to send my American counterpart (I’m from the UK) some snacks, one of which being the famously banned Kinder Surprise egg. I’m looking for some first hand experiences, rather than people speculating on fines and seizing of packages. I get it, they might be not allowed, but have you ever successfully received the forbidden egg?
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The reason they are forbidden is because they pose a choking hazard, I have tried the Kinder Joy Egg and it’s tasty.
Yes, and please send them to whomever you’re questioning sending them to. Made me feel like a little kid again when I got one haha
[This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/snackexchange/comments/10y3tk/for_those_if_you_who_are_concerned_about_sending/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) might be helpful to you. It sounds like you just need to make sure to write chocolate or candy on the form instead of kinder eggs. Also, don’t send a large quantity.
The way we always got them was from my bio father bringing them home in his carryon during his oversea trips.
I’ve successfully sent them from Germany to the US (Utah) with no problems.
you can get Kinder eggs in the US. They just don’t have the toy inside of them.
All due respect, this isn’t worth the effort. You try one piece of kinder chocolate, you’ve tried them all. It’s all some variation of the same chocolate plus or minus hazelnut, wafer, or cream.
We have a variation of the egg in the U.S. now. It’s called Kinder Joy. There is nothing special about the Kinder Surprise Egg and I don’t get the hype for them. It’s a cheap toy inside a hollow chocolate egg
If someone is going to send me candy from around the world, I would hope it’s something better than a Kinder Surprise egg.
Like many foods that are banned in the United States (haggis is the other one I see questioned regularly) Kinder Eggs are not specifically banned. Laws sometimes ban an ingredient or class of foods. Laws that forbid inedible objects inside foods exist, and Kinder Eggs fall under that law.
There’s no “kinder egg ban.” As someone else pointed out, it also prevents ceramic babies in Kings’ Cakes, which is why grocery stores sell them with plastic babies to insert in the cake yourself (I’ve encountered them at small bakeries that have the ceramic baby baked in, but I think they’re just ignoring the law.)
Currently on my way back to the US from Germany. I have 7 in my suitcase for my kid. I’ve done it many times before with not a single issue. I don’t get this idea that they’re somehow going to land you in prison just for having them in a suitcase.
I’ve bought some, and successfully mailed from Germany family in the states several times. They’re one of the most underwhelming candies available, made of cheap chocolate and the only reason reddit cares at all about them is some weird flex on the US.
I know people who have received them in the mail. It’s really not that serious or a big deal.
nope
No. I *did* once do a long-distance swap with an online friend in Northern Ireland, but it was a locally made chocolate rabbit from me in exchange for a whole load of Fox’s Glacier Mints.
I simply don’t care about Kinder Surprise. At all. I find the fuss over what’s actually just mediocre chocolate with a toy in it downright confusing.
They aren’t “forbidden” and there isn’t a “Kinder Egg ban”, nobody is going to search you for eggs. There is a law that prohibits manufacturers from making food with choking hazards inside. There isn’t a law about possessing them, you just can’t sell them here.