Comments on: Up Yours, Cracker Jack

By: Ms. Huis Herself

Ms. Huis Herself — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:57:09 +0000

A friend of mine put a bunch of Kinder Eggs out on the tables for her wedding favors. That ROCKED!

By: elayne

elayne — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:11:01 +0000

LOVE KinderEggs. Love the chocolate most, toys second most. We lived in Germany when I was growing up, and I was devastated when I came back to the US and realized they didn’t have KinderEggs. (I’ve heard that it’s because there’s a law in the US against selling an edible product that contains a non-edible product, but I guess that’s not so since some of you report them in local stores.) I now live on the US/Mexico border and there have been times I made the trek across the bridge and braved the beggars, street vendors, and insistent taxi drivers just to get an egg or two.

When I was about 13, I got a “honeybee” figure in a KinderEgg. My brother and I named her Honey (of course) and built a little house for her, carried her around with us everywhere, and made up grand adventures – I think I finally lost her when I was about 16 or so.

Really truly love KinderEggs.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:40:12 +0000

“Thereâ€™s a store in Monrovia (southern CA) that sells the Kinder Eggsâ€¦my 5 year old son BEGS me non-stop for them whenever we go there.”

I’m familiar with the Monrovia store, but there’s one in Duarte also, and I beg my boyfriend for them every time we go.
My fondest early childhood memories are that of a chocolate-coated mouth and a cheery, fun new toy in hand. Sadly, we moved to California from Spain when I was 5.
Whenever my boyfriend and I take a drive down to Tijuana, I stock up because they sell them in bulk at Smart & Final down there.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:06:42 +0000

…and while you’re at it put the steel junglegyms with concrete moorings back in our schoolyards! Natural selection is waiting, you wussies!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:46:22 +0000

I love Kinder Eggs. My friend recently had one with an octopus that changed colors from blue to yellow. She sent me the little rhyme in it to translate for her, and because I learned German from a bunch of drunk college kids and blau means “hungover” in slang I almost told her the octopus changes from hungover to yellow.

By: Katherine Of It All

Katherine Of It All — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:39:25 +0000

Dude. We totally only do the Kinder Eggs with our monkeys now. They sometimes don’t even bother with the candy shell–they just go straight for the toy. But woe betide us now, because I was told by THREE local shop owners that the last shipment MELTED AT SEA! (Wha?! MELTED?! I KNOW!!!) We wait with bated breath for more. My 8 year old is gonna have a hernia if they don’t come soon to fill his tiny-toy-addiction.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:42:30 +0000

Um, isn’t Cracker Jack itself a choking hazard??

By: kat f.

kat f. — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:12:44 +0000

i have one of those mexican toys on my dresser RIGHT NOW.

i can totally send you some kinder eggs, if you want.

By: a.

a. — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:46:43 +0000

German kids are half as crazy for Ãœberraschungseier as the world assumes, and the toys inside aren’t nearly as tricky as they were twenty years ago. The current toys are already assumed child safe (there are warnings on the paper snippets inside) and are dumbefied versions.
It’s the adults who craze out over the toys inside, because they are traded at often astronomic prices.

By: SAILOR JACKÂ®

SAILOR JACKÂ® — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:14:22 +0000

Death to the Fascist Corporatocracy. Choke the pusillanimous poltroons with their pantywaste prizes.