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      We do but the “prize” isn’t allowed to be contained in the candy. But the Hippos are better anyway

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      These are so disappointing nowadays that I don’t bother trying anymore.

      Two or three decades ago, the inside was gooey and runny. Eating one of these was a messy but delicious affair. Now every time I buy one, it feels like a dried paste that has nothing in common with what I was eating as a child. For a while I thought they were just old or bad but apparently it’s just how they are now.

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      and to any americans wondering why someone would even eat a cadburry creme egg outside of easter: in britain they’re made of this magical substance called “food” and it really elevates the experience

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    Isn’t that the Canadian version, avec l’emballage bilingue?!

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      We have multi-lingual packaging here too. Where I’m from it’s usually quadrilingual, but it could have more or fewer.

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          That word looks like “over-ashing”, like a teenager overreacting to something their parents said by burning down the house.

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            It’s actually “Überraschung”, two r’s. Overreacting by developing several rashes?

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              über - over, above

              rasch - rash (adverb), quick, hasty

              So a literal translation of Überraschung would be something like overrashness. Something that happens very quickly and unexpectedly.

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      That just means Canadians are better than Americans too then.

      😮

      A joke, building on OP. No human is inherently better or worse than another.

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          And they can fuck off. America is completely incompatible with Canadian values. The Democratic party is so far right leaning that they’re almost a 1:1 to the Canadian Conservative party. Combine that with the demographics and Canada would immediately be thrown into a rightwing spiral.

          No thanks. If they want to join Canada they can emmigrate like anyone else.

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      Came here to say the same thing. My kids love them into their teens. Proud Canadian who can have toys in our food, without fear of accidentally eating the toys.

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      The European version has the toy directly inside the chocolate egg, like you see in the photo.

      The US version has the egg split in two inside. Both sides are plastic shells. One side has the toy, and the other side has a weird creme that you scoop out with an included plastic spoon.

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        The US version has the egg split in two inside.

        We have that version too

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        Europe (at least Germany, primarily in Summer) has that very same kinder joy though?

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          In the US though you’re not allowed to include toys inside the chocolate because “choking risk.” We all think it’s dumb too but honestly it just seems like we constantly have more important shit to care about, we’re not taking to the streets for some chocolate eggs.

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            Turns out you’re wrong, as is so frequently the case with “common knowledge.”

            The regulation that prevents it is one that precludes inedible material being added to food, aimed at the addition of sawdust or as a tool to smack down companies literally adding gravel dust into food in the Depression.

            Of course, now they just call the sawdust cellulose-based fiber addictive.

            One might wonder why, exactly, it is so suspiciously many Americans have such misconceptions about food and product safety regulations.

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      For a long time there was no US version because one dumbass kid choked somewhere sometime or the other. Rather than accept the kid was foolish they banned them outright.

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    True! I used to buy these every time! The gifts inside where insane for the time.