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Eggsterminatiojn (page 2)

Fitz

on Oct. 28, 2010

Interesting fact: If you live in the US, chances are you've never had - or even heard of - Kinder Surprise. Thank your FDA, which posed import restriction on food containing inedible components. In an eggshell, Kinder Surprise is a chocolate egg-shell of a kind, made of milk chocolate on the outside and white chocolate on the inside. Inside it, in a small, yellow plastic container (see the previous page), there's always some kind of toy. Car miniatures, jigsaw puzzles, etc. But the most popular kind of "surprise" are the figurines. The one series that stuck in my mind was Crazy Crocs:

http://www.gascp.com/kinders/i_main/crazycro.gif

…but there have been hippos, tigers, penguins and what have you. My sis was CRAZY about them back in the day. She'd even ask store clerks to let her do a "sound test" to see if there was a figurine inside. What you do is basically hold and shake it - if it's light and rattles, there's an assembly toy inside, if it's heavier and you only hear dull knocks - BINGO! A figurine. Some less intelligent people would simply unwrap the tin foil, open the egg (it was made of two halves), see inside and then wrap it back up. You could tell when they did, because they'd wrap it up unevenly and the logo was distorted - which never happened to "unspoiled" eggs.

Ah, the barbaric days before eBay ;)