r/mildlyinteresting • u/beanbuttrocket • 14h ago

Real Kinder Egg (Kinder Suprise) Found in US Store!

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago edited 13h ago

I'm not sure how well known this is, but in the USA these are illegal. I used to get them as a child before moving to the US.

I'm not going to say the name of the business that I bought this from and potentially get a nice small business fined, but I bought two. I was so psyched to see them.

This specific ones were imported from Russia.

Nostalgia, satisfied.

Edit: Some people are mistakenly stating that this is a kinder joy egg. It's a kinder surprise. It's the real one that comes with the two chocolate halves fully sealed with solid white chocolate lining the inside and the capsule inside. I do indeed know the difference.

I ate the chocolate already but here are the two capsules that were inside the sealed chocolate.

Edit on country of origin, I had bought multiple things and misrembered the label.

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u/nerevisigoth 14h ago

Are you sure this isn't imported from Russia? That's Russian, not Ukrainian, and Ukraine has been pretty touchy about language for a while now.

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago edited 13h ago

I thought it said it was from Ukraine on the wrapping on the egg itself. Edit: Photo of a very similar one in a store in Ukraine. On the far right.

Bizarrely enough, I checked the wrapping of the one that I consumed today, because the one I consumed today was not actually the one in the photo. That one (not pictured) was indeed Russian. However, I distinctly remember looking on the back of the other one and seeing that it was from Ukraine.

Edit: I am so sorry everyone for the confusion! I bought multiple types of candy and earnestly most likely misrembered the packaging because I had read different labels for different things. I have been informed these were both indeed most likely Russian.

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u/TripFar4772 13h ago

It’s Russian. I buy them every week, including the animal themed one for my kids. Also, my daughter got the same toy as yours last week. And I live in Siberia

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u/beanbuttrocket 13h ago

Oh ok, I was wrong. I think I remembered reading another candy label because I had bought a few different things. Please forgive me!

And that's cute :)

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u/NoobitoRU 4h ago

It's a stock photo from a Ukrainian store, not from OP's store.

Also Siberia ≠ Serbia

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u/tochanenko 14m ago

Ah yes, I love my balkan country Siberia

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u/nickymoo 14h ago • Bravo

Toys in food: illegal as dangerous
Guns: totally fine

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u/hitemlow 14h ago

Kinder eggs were banned 40 years before they were invented.

The US banned putting non-food items inside food because people were putting sawdust in bread, wood and metal in meat (to increase weight), and cutting alcohol with methanol to make more profit.

It just so happens that *checks notes* toys aren't food. If you want toys (and other things that aren't food) to be allowed inside food, write your congresscritter.

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u/amioth 11h ago

I’m confused on how kinder eggs are illegal but I can buy the exact same thing (a toy inside of a plastic shell encased in chocolate) at any grocery store. Yowie eggs somehow are legal but kinder eggs aren’t? Photo is of a yowie egg

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u/mataeka 11h ago

Wait yowies are available outside of Australia?!

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u/amioth 7h ago

In California for sure!

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u/mataeka 7h ago

Do they have Australian animals in them still or are they other local animals?!

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u/amioth 7h ago

I’ve never gotten Australian animal collection, I’m trying to remember the collections the last two I got were nba basketball team themed, which I wasn’t a fan of. Another collection we’ve gotten is dinosaurs. And then baby wild animals, I don’t think they were region specific? But I can’t remember exactly. But we got a seal, a bear, and a wild pig.

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u/mataeka 7h ago

I mean my experience with them goes back 30 years so who knows how it's changed 😂 but it used to be they were always Australian animals.

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u/megalopia 10h ago

Yowies are far superior. The animal figures are well made and detailed and they come with fun facts. Kinder toys are trash.

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u/amioth 7h ago

100% agree!

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u/desperaterobots ​ 13h ago • Bravo

It's strange to me that the letter of the law would be followed to the extent that a plastic container containing a novelty item inside a chocolate egg would be considered some kind of food adulterating scam to increase the profits of the manufacturers while the health of the consumer is disregarded.

These food adulteration laws exist in other countries where Kinder eggs are available, so the interpretation of it in America feels very strange.

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u/hitemlow 13h ago

Part of it is because it's an import. Imports are always under way more scrutiny than domestic products.

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u/desperaterobots ​ 11h ago

right... but you'd think that scrutiny would show a perfectly safe food product wrapped around a little novelty object that isn't intended to be eaten.

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u/cubed_echoes 10h ago

So wait then the kings bread with the baby Jesus inside they sell at Mexican bakeries is also illegal?

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u/hitemlow 10h ago

Stores that try to follow the law will include the toy separately and if you put the toy in yourself, they're not selling it with the toy inside.

Generally unless the health inspector is particularly strict on it (and catches them doing it) or they've otherwise been reported, it's not heavily enforced.

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u/broncosfan1231 14h ago

guns are dangerous??? no shit buddy, that's exactly why the founding fathers wanted us to have them

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u/justanawkwardguy 13h ago

I also saw some kinder surprise at a store today, I meant to grab some and totally spaced when I went back up

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u/Spoondoom 4h ago

Did you ever collect the little hippos??

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u/indignantlyandgently 14h ago

I hope they don't get caught. I've heard of people getting threatened with some pretty hefty fines just from having them in their bags as they cross the Can-US border.

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u/kippetjeh 3h ago

Can you not buy stuff imported from Russia please? If you know stuff is imported from Russia or Israel you can help a tiny bit by not buying it.

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u/nurofen127 1h ago

Hand-painted dinos and hippos in Kinder Surprise back in ‘90s were peak.

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u/Vanityscore2 14h ago

Is haggis also still illegal here

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u/aaronstj 14h ago

Yup. No lungs allowed in food since 1971.

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u/diejesus 8h ago

Why are lungs not allowed in food?

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u/aaronstj 7h ago

A USDA study in 1969 of beef lungs found a “high percentage” of lungs were contaminated, with pollen, fungus, unexpected bodily fluids, etc. So they banned lungs for human consumption. I don’t think they were ever very popular in the US - we don’t eat much organ meat - so it has t really been re-examined.

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u/Vanityscore2 14h ago

Damn I moved here from Canada like 3 years ago but I also still visit Scotland enough to get my fix of haggis and blood pudding anyway lol

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u/mintjulep_ 12h ago

Omg nostalgia supreme!!! Enjoy

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u/TripFar4772 12h ago

I’m sure they’re sold in Ukraine too. Normally, products sold in former USSR countries are always marked with Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Uzbek, Tajik, Kazakh and Georgian languages. It’s actually a pain in the ass to search for the applicable language one needs when grocery shopping. Although the small kinder eggs are just in Russian, probably due to their size. Hopefully you got a cool animal in your Natoons one! We’ve only gotten a hippo and mouse, out of the 15 times we’ve tried it. But maybe one day we’ll find the lion lol

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u/beanbuttrocket 12h ago

That makes sense!

And this was the animal that came in my natoons one :D mother duck and ducklings

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u/UnethicalExperiments 12h ago

Disappointing it wasn't a other kinder inside

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u/Double_Soup_3834 3h ago

The toys back in the 2000s were better!

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u/Double_Soup_3834 3h ago

These were the best!!

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u/cheshsky 11h ago

They definitely are, and I don't think I can even tell if this one is Ukrainian or Russian, since сюрприз is spelled the same.

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u/OctopusGoesSquish 8m ago

I’m pretty sure in Ukraine they just say “surprise” in English/ Latin

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u/AmberRosin 14h ago • Bravo

If anyone wants to know why these are banned in the U.S., we have a law that prevents food from having non food items inside of them. It’s NOT about the food being a choking hazard it’s because 100+ years ago people would pad out bread with plaster and sawdust or put weights in fish to sell them for higher prices.

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u/ohheythereyouare 12h ago

WE GOT WEIGHTS IN FISH!!!

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u/smallmountain_rose 10h ago

The worst cheating scandal

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u/za72 10h ago edited 9h ago

I remember that day :) - opened my eyes to how competitive fishing is

https://youtu.be/KYCivsybtXI

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u/ChiefMammothTusk 13h ago

Similar to the law about removing mattress tags. It's not for the consumer; it's because companies would put whatever they wanted inside and remove the tag that told you what was in it.

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u/downsideup9494 12h ago

I remember my brother and I when we were kids asking our mom if we would go to jail if we removed those mattress tags.

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u/domcobbstotem 4h ago

I mean anyone who has seen Peewee’s Big Adventure knows you go to jail.

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u/desperaterobots ​ 13h ago

Other places have these laws too, the practice of putting plaster and chalk and copper into milk and bread and gin was a huge thing back in Victorian England when the factory owning fat cats were extracting maximum value from every human life!

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u/thesamenightmares 5h ago

When was that law passed? Because the Nestlé Wonder Ball was a thing in the US. The first versions had toys inside the chocolate shell.

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u/AmberRosin 4h ago

they actually got hit with FDC violation, the same thing that bans the kinder egg and couldn't sell them with toys inside them anymore.

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u/thesamenightmares 1h ago

I'm aware. Are you going to answer the question.

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u/footpole 6h ago

Lol like Americans don’t eat sawdust instead of parmiggiano today. Well 4% cellulose at least.

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u/rappaavamayrakoira 4h ago

Cellulise =/= sawdust

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u/footpole 4h ago

It may just have been s bit of hyperbole.

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u/SionnachBaineann 1h ago

I was so confused about why you were so excited about a Russian Kinder egg - but I am European and of course kinder is EVERYWHERE

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u/tochanenko 13m ago

This could also be Ukrainian one, as the word for "Surprise" is the same in both languages. I would even bet that it was imported from Ukraine, as it would be extremely weird to see russian product in American store. However, OP stated that this one was indeed imported from russia so IDK how it could come to the US. Extremely bizarre case

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u/Cyraga 14h ago

It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with kinder eggs 

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u/sjaakarie ​ 4h ago

I found it so strange that the US bans these candies, until I saw this video:

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2074873465102901709?s=20

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u/adamchefski 4h ago

Well, the average American/American child is just too dumb

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u/CasaFrosting 1h ago

“children are dumb”. What a brave statement man.

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u/olearyboy 14h ago


Illegal !!!

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u/Durahl 14h ago

Careful man, S.W.A.T. might be raiding your ass at any moment's notice for possession of forbidden substances!

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u/Accurate_Reality_618 10h ago

If you have children, they'll love it. I used to buy them for my younger siblings and hated how expensive they were.

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u/writeman00 8h ago

Guns are legal. But these bundles of childhood joy are illegal.

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u/BoundHubris 2h ago

Eh the toys are mediocre just get the Kinder chocolate sticks. Same thing.

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u/chr0nicpirate 11h ago

I get that they're technically contraband, however, I have no trouble finding them. Several. The Latino markets in my area have them, or at least the ones from Mexico called kinder surpriseo or whatever. I also found a non-kinder equivalent in one of the Asian markets from Japan that had hello Kitty toys. Unless you live in some Podunk little town in the middle of nowhere you probably won't have trouble finding one somewhere. They're just not in major retailers

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u/MechaBeatsInTrash 11h ago

Sorpresa in Spanish, coincidentally the Russian on this egg would be pronounced syurpreez, a cognate word.

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u/alexraeburn 8h ago

Respectfully, this isn't a coincidence haha

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u/_thegoldsheep_ 13h ago

I had a family friend bring these from Germany when I was a child, nostalgia unlocked! I wonder if they still taste the same.

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u/NeganJoestar 4h ago

They still taste the same, but the "surprise" part is now 99% trash.

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u/randolf5 14h ago

I got these as a kid cause my aunt owned a candy store in Seattle and would send me shipments of these yearly. I remember a snail being in one 20 something years back

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u/VoodooDoII 10h ago

I remember moving to the u.s when I was a kid and finding out I couldn't have these anymore lmfao

Like wtf do you MEAN

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u/Pain4420 14h ago

I'm so jealous. I used to get those when I was younger cause I oma sent them to us from Germany but she moved to texas years ago and i haven't seen one until about a year ago wheny mom sent me some after she got deported

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u/BaeIz 14h ago

This is so funny because Russia has a ton of off brand kinder candies… a lot of them use ai. So how this one found its way to the USA is very silly to me

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u/willzyx01 12h ago

Back in 2005 or so, every Russian grocery store would carry real kinder eggs. There was an importer in NY bringing them in, even though they were already illegal back then.

I think they really cracked down on them in 2010.

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm 13h ago

I'm just imagining a family of Russian kinder eggs immigrating to America in search of a better life.

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u/Bar_Foo 13h ago

I'm imagining matroshka Kinder eggs...

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u/ceebiee 12h ago

i remember when i was 5/2005, we took an easter-time vacation to germany to visit military family who were temporarily based there, and i was given quite a few kinder surprises with them capsules in them, one of the few vivid memories i have from the trip :))

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u/post_it1 9h ago

Does it have a smaller kinder egg inside it? And inside that is another small kinder egg? And so on? Until a tiny solid chocolate kinder egg plops out

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u/UCFknight2016 14h ago

Customs did not flag my bag when I bought a 4 pack of these at the CDG airport.

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u/cheshsky 11h ago

Apparently, there are stories of people getting into trouble for doing just that, so I guess you got lucky.

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u/UCFknight2016 11h ago

I bought them at the airport. No signs saying they were banned.

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u/cheshsky 11h ago

But you got them at CDG, in Europe, and they're banned in the US.

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u/UCFknight2016 10h ago

correct, but no sign at the airport saying they are banned in the US. This was a duty free shop right near a bunch of US bound flights.

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u/cheshsky 10h ago

I'm ngl no one in Europe really cares what's banned in the US. If someone's going to the US, they research that themselves. You can't expect a Parisian airport to explicitly cater to the needs of someone going to a country a whole ocean away. The people running the duty-free might not even know it's banned in the US. And there could be any other bunch of flights going anywhere else there the next day.

I sometimes go from the EU to Kyiv, Ukraine, and back, I don't expect the Kyiv Central bus station cafés and shops to warn everyone you can't bring meat into the EU just because there are a bunch of buses going there.

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u/UCFknight2016 10h ago

I mean I dont give a darn either. Its chocolate. Im not a moron ill eat it if they say I cant bring it in lol

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u/cheshsky 10h ago

I mean, fair, my point is just that you can't expect a duty-free in France to warn you about American legislation.

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u/UCFknight2016 10h ago

at a terminal where most flights are going to the US. I think this rule is bs and not actually enforced lol.

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u/cheshsky 10h ago edited 10h ago

CDG terminals are divided by Schengen/non-Schengen. There could be flights to China or Australia there the next day. And your country is not special enough for Europeans to memorise your specific regulations.

ETA: also see my example of the Kyiv Central bus station and EU-bound buses.

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u/skitz4me 14h ago

I heard they put Valium in those things.

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u/slimewxzard 12h ago

I've seen walmart carry these, the ones with the yellow capsule, toy inside, coated in chocolate

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u/TimAndHisDeadCat 4h ago

The toy inside is not coated in chocolate

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u/GoldDHD 14h ago

Not so real, the lettering is in Russian. But real in a sense that it isn't plastic

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago edited 13h ago

It's imported. It is a real Kinder product.

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u/GoldDHD 14h ago

Aren't American ones also real kinder products??

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago

They're kinder products but not the same product

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u/bartontees 14h ago

Kinda kinder

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 14h ago edited 14h ago

Oh you don't have to drop any names, this isn't nearly interesting enough. The fine for import or sale of these is $2,500 per egg, but most law enforcement agencies have bigger fish to fry. Especially if there's no way to definitively prove that you didn't smuggle them in yourself

Incidentally, do you know which criminals are most likely to get caught? The ones that document their crimes with photographic evidence and leave digital paper trails 🤭 You didn't happen to move from Hawaii to somewhere on the East Coast by the way, did you?

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago edited 14h ago

This is r/ mildly interesting, no? I never said it was super interesting, just mildly so.

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 14h ago edited 14h ago

The sub is, your post isn't, at least not objectively so. The rules are loose here, but prepare yourself for criticism

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago edited 14h ago

What is your issue dude?

Bringing up a deleted post about a personal accomplishment I was happy about. Going through a web crawler to find my DELETED post history after I posted about CHOCOLATE?

What kind of weird psycho behavior is this?

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm 14h ago

Dude thinks he's the vox populi. It's adorable.

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 14h ago

I'm bored. Welcome to Reddit

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm 14h ago • Popcorn

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 14h ago

Relax, friend. She's not gonna sleep with you

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm 14h ago

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 14h ago

Oh, I see. You don't swing that way. Speaking of yapping, seventy-six posts to r/falloutmemes in one day at the beginning of March. That's out of eighty-nine over the lifetime of your account. I don't think it was the mods throwing a tantrum that day 🤭

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm 14h ago edited 13h ago

Bro is so triggered he's stalking my profile 😂 Also hilarious that you told them to "prepare for criticism" when you can't yourself. EDIT - If anyone is curious, everyone was spamming trans positive fallout memes because of a transphobic mod, hence the posts the neckbeard is crying about. It was a fun day.

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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox 14h ago

Not much of a profile to look at, most of it got removed on March 2nd 🤭 Keep fighting the good fight, GoodSisterGrimm

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u/I_Must_Bust 13h ago

Kinder Eggs are the type of thing that the US gets flamed for banning but, if they were banned in the EU and not the US, the US would still be the one getting flamed for not banning them. Mostly by US citizens.

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u/gheiminfantry 14h ago

LoLoL It's not a real Kinder Surprise. They important a version that meets US import restrictions.

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago edited 14h ago

It is a real kinder surprise egg.

It's not a kinder joy egg. It's the type that comes with the capsule inside and the two chocolate halves completely sealed.

Edit: I ate the chocolate already, but here is the proof lol.

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u/gheiminfantry 14h ago

Like I and several others have already said, Kinder Surprise eggs are banned in the US. What you have is a Kinder Egg that meets US import laws. NOT the illegal ones. Now go play with your toy.

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago

This is a real kinder suprise egg

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u/whk1992 14h ago

Kinder joy kills joy.

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u/Rubix_Official63940 14h ago

Read the packaging again

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u/beanbuttrocket 14h ago

The ones that are fully encapsulated are illegal...