# Help me find Kindereggs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824 "2008-11-21T14:50:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/1 "2008-11-21T14:50:32Z")
I considered posting this to MPSIMS but this is kind of about food and I wouldn’t be surprised if it sparks some kind of discussion. About a month ago when discussing little Christmas gifts to get I mentioned Kindereggs to my mother. “That’s a great idea for stocking stuffers!” she said and I agreed to order a case but I wasn’t going to order them in mid-October for people to eat at Christmas. So this evening I was suddenly struck by the fact that I really needed to order those eggs now. I had found them online when I looked before but now I can’t find them anywhere. The few places that I could locate that listed them were out of stock, only had retail priced Christmas ones (as opposed to a reasonable bulk rate like I was anticipating), or some special giant ones. And so I turn to you, the Dopers, for help. If you’ve got a line on Kindereggs then let me know. I’ll even settle for a Germany shop that will take my credit card and ship to the US. Worst case scenario I’ll order a much smaller quantity of the Christmas themed ones but that’s kind of a let down compared to have a few dozen of them. For those who need to know what Kindereggs are the best way I can describe them is German Crackerjacks. They’re hollow chocolate eggs with a small capsule inside and the capsule contains some type of toy surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Racer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@Racer1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Racer1)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/2 "2008-11-21T14:55:03Z")
They are in every shop in the UK, if you can’t find them in the US. [http://www.britishcandy.com](http://www.britishcandy.com) used to ship to North America when I lived in Canada. If you really can’t find them I’ll ship you some myself. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/3 "2008-11-21T14:58:05Z")
[Kinder eggs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise) are AWESOME! Chocolate eggs with a plastic egg inside that contains a toy that you have to assemble\*. AND IT IS ALL CHOKEABLE. WHAT’S NOW TO LOVE!!! There is a Polish store in Sterling Hts, MI that sells them. That is the closest I know to me that I know of. [Try this.](http://www.shopenzed.com/kinder-surprise-chocolate-egg-and-toy-xidp140220.html) \*I’ve only seen the puzzle toy ones. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/4 "2008-11-21T15:02:41Z")
Nuts, that is for a NZ link. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/5 "2008-11-21T15:05:38Z")
Well, they’re set up to handle US sales at least. If it comes down to it I might have to go with them but I want to get a case or two and ordering it as individual eggs is not the way to go for that. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/6 "2008-11-21T15:13:33Z")
I just called the Polish store ( actually, called Bozek’s.) and they can’t get Kinder Eggs anymore. “Just can’t get them.” Said the lady on the phone. My world has just gotten sadder. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/7 "2008-11-21T15:16:26Z")
You can buy them on ebay. Also, I saw them last week at Pike Place Market in Seattle, if that helps. ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/8 "2008-11-21T15:26:46Z")
In Calgary, we can get them at our local drugstores, and pretty much every grocery store in the area. At least we could, but I haven’t checked in a while. If you can wait until this evening, I can check the stores nearest me, and let you know. I just checked the online version of my nearest drugstore [(London Drugs)](http://www.londondrugs.com/Cultures/en-US/Product+Detail/Foodcandy.htm?BreadCrumbs=FoodCandy;Foodcandy;Chocolate;Regular%20Chocolate%20Bars;Kinder%20Surprise%20-%203%27s&Catalog=FoodCandy&Category=Regular%20Chocolate%20Bars&ProductID=6287171&ProductTab=3) and they have them at $2.69 for 3. Note that they are called “Kinder Surprise”, and not “Kindereggs” here. If they have them in stock tonight, I don’t mind sending them to you. For the record, though, the little toys are kind of fun, unless you get a puzzle, but the chocolate itself is not great. However, if you’re getting them for the fun factor, and not the flavour, the quality of the chocolate probably doesn’t matter much. ---
**Author:** ![Racer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@Racer1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Racer1)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/9 "2008-11-21T15:34:50Z")
This place in Canada claim to sell them by the case to people in the US… [http://www.dutchmarket.com/](http://www.dutchmarket.com/). Never heard of them so I can vouch for them, but Canada is closer than Europe. I’m pretty sure they sell them by the case in my local Costco, which is ironic when you consider that’s a US company. Are they banned in the US or something? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/10 "2008-11-21T15:53:22Z")
If you give us a hint as to where you are located (need more specific than country) I might be able to recommend a place to check. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/11 "2008-11-21T16:04:19Z")
My in-laws bring Kindereggs from Ireland for the kids. The chocolate is terrible and the toys are almost always useless (the sole exception is the one which stamps out footprints when you roll it on paper), but the kids love them anyway. We have a dozen or so eggs in the house right now for Christmas. We also have [Christmas crackers](http://www.sz-wholesale.com/p/Christmas-Crackers/christmas-crackers-51242.html). Grab an end, someone else grabs the other, and pull - there’s a loud pop and a toy, a fortune, and a paper crown fall out. We eat Christmas dinner with crowns on all of our heads. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/12 "2008-11-21T16:41:09Z")
[This commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOFRIWx5F9c) will tell you all you need to know about Kinder Eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/13 "2008-11-21T16:58:03Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > [This commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOFRIWx5F9c) will tell you all you need to know about Kinder Eggs. That was \*very \*odd… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/14 "2008-11-21T17:09:07Z")
Amazon lists them, but every listing has link to “sign up to be notified when this becomes available.” I searched for Kinder Surprise, instead of Kinderegg. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/15 "2008-11-21T17:15:31Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > I just called the Polish store ( actually, called Bozek’s.) and they can’t get Kinder Eggs anymore. “Just can’t get them.” Said the lady on the phone. > > My world has just gotten sadder. Hey Shirley, Marcowicz’s on Michigan Ave in Detroit had them at one point. I don’t know if they still do. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/16 "2008-11-21T18:18:26Z")
There’s a market in Skokie that sells them, if you’re in the vicinity. ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/17 "2008-11-21T18:32:17Z")
> [@Gus\_Gusterson](#): > > My in-laws bring Kindereggs from Ireland for the kids. The chocolate is terrible Either you have a different taste for chocolate, or you’re getting old eggs. Over here when I buy them, the egg is made from good-quality milk chocolate. > [@](#): > > and the toys are almost always useless (the sole exception is the one which stamps out footprints when you roll it on paper), Useless? Well, maybe for adults, but kids play with toys. That’s their use. If you mean that buying 10 eggs results in 10 toys lying around and taking up space … well yeah, that’s the downside. You can always become one of the egg -collectors like here in Germany, though - there are special fairs for collectors, and the rare and old toys fetch from some hundred to some thousands of Euros (you can see this on German ebay - the name is Ü-Eier, short for Überraschungseier = Surprise eggs. The “kinder” = children refers to the brand of the company, there are several other Kinder products. The official ferrero site (the company that produces Kinder …, Nutella and a lot of other sweets) [gives this](http://www.kindersurprise.com/home.html) as the official Canadian site. (For some reason, the offical USA site only lists three of the dozen sweet products - Nutella, Raffaello and Rocher. Apparently the rest is not popular enough in the US??) So contacting them, they should be able to tell you the shop nearest to you where they shipped enough crates to… I hope you find the eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/18 "2008-11-21T18:33:40Z")
In case you weren’t aware [they are banned in the USA](http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/378773/why_kinder_eggs_are_banned_in_the_us.html?cat=22) Your best bet is to find some local ethnic grocer who carries them and hasn’t been raided yet. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/19 "2008-11-21T18:36:28Z")
Apparently they are not legal for for importation into the US anymore, although I know the German store down the street still has them. From Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > 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 plastic? 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] ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824/20 "2008-11-21T18:39:25Z")
[Here is the link for german ebay,](http://sammeln.shop.ebay.de/items/Uberraschungseier__u-eier_W0QQ_nkwZQc3QbcQ2deierQQ_catrefZ1QQ_flnZ1QQ_sacatZ8894QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em282) if you want to start collecting… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-kindereggs/473824.md?page=2)