And why you’ll be able to sorta-kinda next year.
I already knew much of this from a recent encounter with the confection. In Spring 2016 +Kay Hill‘s high school band and orchestra went on a very fun trip to Austria and Germany (with an array of family and friends along with). On our last day, in Germany, the tour guide presented the kids with Kinder Eggs, which led to the discussion of why they are illegal in the US.
There were no problems with any of the kids bringing them through customs, as the eggs were consumed within about thirty seconds. Because teenagers.
Anyway, a lengthy video, but some interesting history.
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There used to be a balkan food store across from lakeside amusement park, where you could get ripoff kinder eggs. Similar packaging (including name, until you compared a real one and a fake side-by-side), but very low-quality chocolate, although they did have toys in them. They were apparently imported grey-market imitations.
Have you a link to a written reason? I had to stop that guy after 10 seconds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise#United_States short answer choking hazard.
+Chris Blackmore The 1937 food safety law prevents anything non-food inside of candy. That includes large plastic capsules with toys in them. Lengthy history given of how that law came to be. Discussion of how unsafe Kinder Eggs actually are (not all that unsafe). Description of legal issues when Nestle tried to sell their own version in the US and had to recall them. Demonstration of the new half-and-half eggs coming to US markets next year.
Because American kids are fuckin' stupid and somehow manage to choke on things the size of a ping pong ball.
+John Bump Thanks, I wondered if that was it. Our youngling had them for years, and never once put the non-chocolate parts in his mouth.
Indications are that roughly three kids a year were dying from kindereggs, which as the company points out, is much smaller than the number of kids dying from choking on other toys.