{"id":134895,"date":"2017-10-02T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134895"},"modified":"2017-10-03T07:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T13:39:02","slug":"cant-get-kinder-eggs-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/cant-get-kinder-eggs-united-states.html","title":{"rendered":"Why you can&#8217;t get Kinder Eggs in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And why you&#8217;ll be able to sorta-kinda next year.<\/p>\n<p>I already knew much of this from a recent encounter with the confection. In Spring 2016 <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>&#8216;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.<\/p>\n<p>There were no problems with any of the kids bringing them through customs, as the eggs were consumed within about thirty seconds. Because teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a lengthy video, but some interesting history.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffzbfO0c5Qs\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/GgguCBUrw19\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And why you&#8217;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&#8216;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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/cant-get-kinder-eggs-united-states.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why you can&#8217;t get Kinder Eggs in the United States&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,38,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-food-drink","category-safety","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/kinder-eggs.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5263,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/margie_wins_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":134895,"position":0},"title":"Margie wins the prize &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Apr-04 5:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... for spotting two Easter eggs (chocolate) that had gone unfound last weekend (even after two kids and a number of adults swept the room)....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17034,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/easter-morning-and-evening.html","url_meta":{"origin":134895,"position":1},"title":"Easter, morning and evening","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Apr-10 8:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Easter Morning ... 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