Illegal Candy

A long time ago (well, at my last job), our office recruiter, who is a huge fan of “Lord of the Rings” (and who, I suspect, had a massive crush on Orlando Bloom), acquired some Kinder Eggs.

She also liked chocolate, too, which meant she could combine her love for LoTR and her love of chocolate with Kinder Eggs.

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For those who don’t know, Kinder Eggs are chocolate candy eggs that you crack open to reveal a small plastic container with a toy inside.

They are also illegal in the United States (as explained in the Wikipedia entry)…

Kinder Eggs containing toys are not suitable for children under the age of three due to the small parts which may be ingested or inhaled. They are sold all over the world excluding the United States, where the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, prohibits embedding “non-nutritive items” in confections. Additionally, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall on the eggs in 1997. Kinder Egg-like confections are available, but only in a form filled with small candies and/or stickers. There are some stores in the United States that sell genuine Kinder Eggs, often in conjunction with other imported British or other European sweets, although their importation is technically illegal due to the 1938 law and 1997 recall.[1]

Why does this come to mind? Well, given that my last posting was about the hilarious Pole Position commercial, that led me to this disturbing Kinder Egg advertisment, which seems to involve Humpty Dumpty talking about “choco-doobies” and saying stuff like “me scrooble now” before committing hari kari by throwing himself off of a wall after cracking an egg (murder-suicide?) to reveal the toy inside.

I’m pretty sure the advertising guru who thought this up was smoking the same stuff as the Krofft Brothers who did H. R. Pufnstuff (and you know that kid with the magic flute was a bit wack!)
Given the stuff I grew up on, it seems a bit hypocritical that some folks from my generation worry about the Teletubbies!)

22 January 2008 | Food, Movies, TV | Comments