# So I finally had a Kinder egg. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498 "2008-03-24T04:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/1 "2008-03-24T04:11:03Z")
And I’m sorry to say that it didn’t live up to the hype. The chocolate was mediocre. The toy was poor quality. (A PVC Asterix figure. Not bagging on Asterix, mind you, just the quality of the figure: the paint looked slopped on.) And I paid $2 for it. Well, now I know. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/2 "2008-03-24T04:17:31Z")
Never heard of a Kinder egg but I’d pay $2 for an Asterix figure. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/3 "2008-03-24T04:29:23Z")
The figurines are the duds. When you get the flywheel powered thingymajigs, then you will know the attraction of the kinder egg. Plus, if you squeeze one of the empty plastic toy containers just so, it launches half of it as a projectile. Loads of fun for the whole family! ---
**Author:** ![youredd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/85f322/32.png) [@youredd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/youredd)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/4 "2008-03-24T04:42:56Z")
what’s a Kinder egg? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/5 "2008-03-24T04:47:32Z")
[QUOTE=youredd] what’s a Kinder egg? [/QUOTE] > **[Kinder Surprise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise)** > > Kinder Surprise (Italian: Kinder Sorpresa or Ovetto Kinder),\[a\] also known as Kinder Egg or Kinder Surprise Egg, is a milk chocolate consisting of a chocolate egg surrounding a yellow plastic capsule with a small toy inside. Manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero since 1974, it was co-created by Michele Ferrero and William Salice, and is one of several candies sold under the Kinder brand. > Kinder Surprise was originally created with children in mind, replicating an Italian Easter family tra... ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/6 "2008-03-24T05:58:19Z")
[QUOTE=Gorsnak] The figurines are the duds. When you get the flywheel powered thingymajigs, then you will know the attraction of the kinder egg. Plus, if you squeeze one of the empty plastic toy containers just so, it launches half of it as a projectile. Loads of fun for the whole family! [/QUOTE] If you say so. But the real disappointment for me was the chocolate. The way people went on about these things, I expected Ghirardelli quality. It wasn’t even Hershey. I’d rather have Cracker Jack. Their prizes suck nowadays, but the CJ itself is…well, caramel-covered crack. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/7 "2008-03-24T06:13:53Z")
[QUOTE=Gorsnak] Plus, if you squeeze one of the empty plastic toy containers just so, it launches half of it as a projectile. Loads of fun for the whole family! [/QUOTE] Yeah. Sideways. In a random direction. I’m telling you, there’s just no way to reliably fire those things into your kid brothers’ eyes. Rubbish. But, wow, I did use to love these things when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/8 "2008-03-24T06:37:49Z")
Kinder chocolate is strange and tepid, I find. But the toy can make up for it. I have a couple of kinder surprise toys as my monitor mascots, which I’ve had for nigh on 15 years now. They’re just that cool. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/9 "2008-03-24T07:33:10Z")
The chocolate-like substance in Kinder Eggs is, as the name suggests, targetted at children. Mild and sweeeeeeeet. Some of the toys, on the other hand… one of my monitor pets is an old Kinder Egg toy one of my kids didn’t want. Placed one way it looks like a sheep; placed another it looks like one of the board game pieces they find in old Viking graves. 🆒 Of course, they can also contain useless plastic toys that break in a day and never were that fun to begin with; the element of chance is part of the fun. As are the various scientific experiments that can be done with the “yolk” toy containers. Hey kids! What happens if we put baking soda in one half, water in the other, and then stick 'em together _real fast?_ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/10 "2008-03-24T08:03:28Z")
[QUOTE=flodnak] Placed one way it looks like a sheep; placed another it looks like one of the board game pieces they find in old Viking graves. 🆒 [/QUOTE] Hey wow! I have the one that comes before it in the set, mine’s a water buffalo! My other is a Grumman Goose plane, like in _Tales of the Gold Monkey_. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-finally-had-a-kinder-egg/442498/11 "2008-03-24T10:40:09Z")
One of the most badass things I’ve ever gotten in a Kinder suprise was a little car with a magnet on the back, which can with a little stick that also had a magnet. When you pushed the stick against the car. the opposing poles of the magnets would cause it to “drive”. Thats just genius, man. Also, sorry to drag the whle thread into the mud, but a friend of mine in college loved Kinder suprises for the little plastic toy container; he was quite the dealer, and would make occasional overseas trips to Belgium, where his contact lived, and fill those little plastic containers with as much drugs as he could, then POP them up his arse for the flight home. He claimed they were “easy to pass” and “Never opened”. Suprised?