Illegal In The US, Legal In The World | Americans React | Loners Podcast Episode #30
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Kinder eggs are banned but most households owns a gun 😂😂
Exactly 🙄
Didn't you know that Kinder eggs kills more people yearly the guns 😏🤭🤣
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This country is beyond repair.
As European I laughed so hard when he explained about kinder eggs
Haha we had no idea they were different in Europe than the ones sold here
@@loners4life Well, there are not. Kinder Eggs and Kinder Joy are different products. Both exist in other countries and Kinder Joy wasn't created for the USA. It existed already more than 15 years before they started to sell it in the USA as well.
Australia even has a similar product based on aboriginal myths called Yowies where the toy comes in a hard plastic capsule, not associated with Kinder at all
Don’t forget the US is where warning labels are required to remind you that COFFEE is HOT.
If your kids are dying from Kinder eggs, your parents need to be looked at.
Facts
Its called Natural Selection 😉
How many children in the USA, die annually by accidents with guns?
@@iriscollins7583Admit it: It‘s hard to choke on guns.
Just kidding.
I had exactly the same thought.
KinderEggs are just as sanitary as every food in the world thats wrapped in plastic
Probably. Just a thought though !
Exactly...
It's just hard plastic.
Just with small parts, think that they in US also has to write on a Hammer, that you must not hit your fingers
@@seahawk_dk 🤣🤣🤣 , Umm suddenly a question.. 🤔 guns have written on smthg like that??... Like keep away from children... Not available using for children under...X... Years old.... 🙄😶 Cheers from 🇪🇦😘💖
@@nefertiti7378 No, guns are not for harming people, but for defense against school shooters and besides, only responsible people buy guns. So any psychological checks, licensing of any kind or even a warning text on the gun or the wrapping is unnecessary.😮 considering the comments, I must add: I’m European so my comment was ironic. If I were an American, the comment could have been true though, so I understand the confusion.
You do know that the toy is in a big plastic egg inside the chocolate egg ? To get to the toy you have to open the plastic egg which is usually done by the parent
Nope! Did not know that. We’ve never seen one until watching this vid. The ones out here are packaged very differently
@@loners4life there is kinder egg (the one with the toy inside the plastic yellow egg), and the other one is kinder joy (with chocolate filling)
You can not choke on these kinder egg capsules unless you have a gigantic mouth. They´re huge! I am from germany and grew up with these things. For kids they are everywhere, included in most birthdays, christmas gifts, every occasion to give a little something basically. They toys are even traded as collectibles. I personally though have never ever met anybody who had ever choked on the toy box indide. You would literally have to put physical effort into swallowing the yellow part, even as an adult. It probably happens, as numbers show, but you have no idea, how many of these things are sold every year all over europe and tons of other places, i guess. 😂 The miniature inside the capsule is a whole other thing though. I can totally see a toddler/young kid choking on those. But that's just one of the risks that come with having a kid. You gotta make sure your kids are safe and old enough to not automatically put everything in their mouth in order to have them.
Kinder eggs aren’t super popular out here so we assume that maybe kids are just not familiar with the inside being a toy? Haha idk it seems obvious but I guess when it isn’t a popular candy, you never know how a kid will respond.
@@loners4life PARENTS have to take care and to explain and show the kids how to handle it, our (european) kids also don`t "know" this candy when they eat it the first time and remember, its "dangerous" for kids under three years, so It doesn't matter if it is "popular". Maybe its important for dumb adults, not knowing it could be dangerous for their kids, BUT there is a WARNING in each egg!!!
@@loners4life But heres the thing, the toy itself is inside a yellow container that is way too big to choke on, even for an adult. Its 100% perfectly safe to eat a kinder egg because as previously mentioned, the 'toy' is kept inside a plastic capsule thats too big to swallow/choke on.
Not to mention that to young children these capsules need an adult to open them as they're actually quite hard for a child to open, enforcing parental supervision!
I have to believe the kids that have died from them choked on the toy, not the capsule. so that would happen no matter what the configuration is. they would have also choked on the US ones.
Here in Australia kinder eggs are super common, we even have our own 'rippoff' product called the Yowie that was a big through the 90's and into the early 2000's, then disappeared, they contained animal figurines. they came back a few years ago, but slightly changed, now the chocolate is in 2 halves that are not attached and sit 'around' the capsule, I am pretty sure this is to allow it to be sold in places like the US.
@@loners4life I've heard that reasoning before, so that could be the case. But it makes me wonder, by the same logic, shouldn't some fruits like plums and peaches be banned then as well, as they contain those large seeds... 🤷
I have never seen these giant darts in Europe. But we don't leave weapons near children either 😁
Lol you’re not the first person to comment this. We wonder why those darts were included in his vid if so many Europeans aren’t familiar with them 🤔
@@loners4life Very common here in England amongst my generation (born in the 60's). We used to make our own, usually using an arrow as the base object and using a string wrapped around the shaft to impart spin and a throwing stick as a launcher :) Probably the riskiest 'game' was to stand down range of throwers and try not to flinch or dodge as the missiles came your way :lol:
EDIT: Linguistic note, we used to call them Jack Arrows.
While I never had something like Lawndarts, as kids me and my brothers had bow and arrows and our parent let us trow axes at targets. They just hammered into our brains that we should only shoot/trow when everyone else is behind us and to me this is the exact same, like sure they are weapons, but with the right safety precautions, why not?
My niece and nephew ate kinder eggs in the UK from a few years old. The capsule inside the egg that contains the toy is the size of a large chicken egg so difficult to choke on.
Maybe they mean the toy inside the egg? Haha we have no idea
@@loners4life Hi! Portugal here! I rly doubt it. Its not that easy to open. My kid is 5 and he cant open it by himself...And the egg is quite big. No way a kid could swallow it
@@loners4life Well inside the egg is a capsule (which is very big) and inside the capsule is a toy. But no one is gonna eat a plastic capsule. The odds of choking on it are close to zero since its massive for a child. They might aswell ban food in general, since the chance of choking on soup is probably greater xD.
I'm not sure, whether your large chicken eggs are really small or whatever, but the actual capsule is not really that big. I also remember that when I was little, it was too hard for me to open so I actually did bite the capsule for it to open, but the actual toy never got into my mouth.
Anyway, I'll go eat my kinder egg now.
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Ok, I've now finished my egg and remembered that the capsule used to have 2 parts and now it's just one part that's also easier to open.
People always assume you have to eat around the toy with Kinder eggs, when there is literally a designated line to break the egg in two. You break it, take out the capsule, then you eat.
...or you just take the toy and do not eat the chocolate (just like my 7-year old daughter🤣)
Lawn darts may be legal in the EU, but I've never heard of them before either. Maybe they were just never popular here and there was no reason to ban them.
It certainly didn't happen while eating the surprise eggs that children choked on surprise egg toys. It is more likely to happen while they are playing with the small parts or trying to put them together when they do not know how to handle them yet. The plastic capsules that the toys contain are much too big to be accidentally swallowed. These toys are of course clean as they come into contact with food.
And yes, feel free to make videos about Not Just Bikes.
Same in Spain, 👍😘
I know right. I'm from UK and have never heard of them before this video.
Lawn darts was popular in the 1980s in England at least if i trust Tod from Tod's workshop and there is a GOOD reason they are not really used today they are just a modern version of the aincent 2000year old greek weapon called Plombata.
Just sharpen in up and it is a deadly weapon.
Here in the UK regarding jaywalking, the onus is on the car driver to look out for pedestrians as much as it is expected for pedestrians to cross safely...it's a two way relationship and pretty much works ok..😊
In Norway, pedestrian can walk and cross all roads unless specifically signed as not allowed (like Motorway)
A vehicle must stop for a pedestrian waiting to cross a marked crossing, but a pedestrian can cross everywhere as long as they do not create dangerous situations...
You are even allowed to walk on red as long as you do not hinder traffic...
@@MichaelEricMenk yeah that’s pretty much the same in the U.K. The main thing is that in case of an accident the driver is almost always at fault. As a driver with a potential lethal vehicle we are more liable than a pedestrian. We generally just put railings around roads we don’t want people to walk near.
Indeed, with the exception of a Motorway, all roads are entitled to be used by all road users. Cars, trucks, lorries, motorcycles, bikes, horses, horse-drawn or other animal drawn vehicles and pedestrians. The Highway Code is the code of laws that govern how this traffic interacts. The essential rule is that all have aright to the public road and all are road users, conducting yourself in a way that endangers or is discourteous to other road users is a road traffic offence.
So yes, you can drive your car at 60mph on a 60mph speed limit road, but if you come round a blind corner and hit a horse and rider, or a pedestrian, it's your fault.
@@HarryFlashmanVC Imagine a straight road, 100km/h speed limit, no pedestrian crossings or traffic lights. If you drive on that road, and a person randomly crosses the street without checking for cars, and you cannot break and hit him, who's at fault?
@@RaduRadonys In Norway, all roads with 100km/h speedlimit will hava "No pedestrian or bike" sign.
So if there are people on the road, they are there due to a traffic incident, and have high visibility west on.
As a driver, you are obligated to drive in a manner so you are able to stop. The speed limit is a max speed, not a required minimum speed.
Anyway, sight lines on a 100km/h roads are sufficient to stop in time.
A lot of the restrictions are nothing to do with safety, it's just the "reason" attributed to restrict imports and cut competition. Even Cadbury was licensed by Hershey because they couldn't compete on quality, so they licensed it, and then they sued to STOP ALL Cadbury imports.
A lot of trade is about protecting home markets and limiting potential competition on any large scale...
Sad but true.
And American chocolate can not hold a candle to european chocolate. Let alone specifically belgian, switzerland or german chocolate products. I can not find ANY chocolate as horrible as Hershey's in a German grocery store, even the cheapest ones beat american chocolate by far, H.'s would not even qualify as chocolate here IMHO.
Fair point
The same is true of sugar, the USA has excessive import duties on it to force the use of HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) which us locally sourced of course, and in just about everything....
Sorry, I tried US chocolate and it was vile. It actually made my throat sore when I swallowed it. Do they use acid as an ingredient ?
@@furrypurry The milk the USA use in their chocolate is treated with Butyric acid, found commonly in vomit, amongst other just as unsavoury things...
When HMS Queen Elizabeth visited Florida 4 British sailors were arrested when 1 jaywalked not remembering it was illegal and 3 others were arrested when they went to their friends assistance.
I am 73 and never seen the lawn darts in the UK.
I guess it must have been here (UK) some time, I didn't have it but we did similar using Pen Knives, can't remember what we used as the hoop.
To be honest every day I am so grateful not to have been born in America. Like even in politics your right to vote is set up in a way where about 50% of the votes are not taken into the account and even then you have two flavours of the same ideology to choose from. Even just that sounds like absolute hell.
We are grateful to live in a first world country but America is definitely not our first choice 😅
We also have two parties with the same ideology in the UK. That’s because our governments have been corrupted!
@@dorisday4765 currently living in the UK and honestly UK is USA-lite in many ways.
In Germany, if something is less than 1-2km to go to, we walk. Probably not even take a bike. Although, there are bike lanes nearly everywhere, at least in towns and cities. My grandma walked around 10km every day until over the age of 80.
Now, talking about jaywalking, Americans are often surprised how serious Germans take the issue of jaywalking. The thing is, that we teach our children VERY early how to safely cross a street and ride a bike. We let children go to school on their own VERY early, because it makes them confident. I rode the bike to elementary school, 3km away, every day, including 2 quite dangerous crossings where accidents are not rare, when I was a kid. No parents involved. Totally common.
So, if Americans start jaywalking with a traffic light and regular crossing in sight, or if they cross at the traffic light being red, german people WILL say something, maybe even yell at you. Germans like to follow rules as soon as they see the reason behind them. "Nur bei grün, der Kinder wegen!" (At green light only, because of the kids!) was a slogan to make people aware to be a good role model, and it worked very well. No joke, even if there is no car in sight at all, I most probably will wait for the green light at every crossing, even if it takes a minute or two more, automatically. Maybe not at night (children should be in bed, right ;-).
PS: This said, I NEVER heard of anyone who had to pay a fine for jaywalking here. IF people behave quite rude or very obviously dangerous, you might get a warning talk from a policeman, MAYBE a ticket like 20 Euros for riding a bike in a dangerous way... . But never heard of fines like you described being an issue for anyone walking or bike-riding here in my lifetime.
A bit shocking how openly racist the police in Brians jaywalking story behaved. Wow.
Jay walking is a ridiculous law. People can use common sense to cross a road.
@@united1990 Seemingly that is exactly what they've don't have (or at least allegedly).
I find it hilarious that kinder eggs are considered dangerous becaus kids could die, but not guns. Absolutely moronic
Agreed
In my Country Portugal in (Europe) we have both eggs the original Kinder egg with the toy inside and my kids always had them and never choked on any and we also have the half half the kinder joy and that is only sold in the summer so the part they eat with the LITTLE PLASTIC SPOON is soft and easy to eat. The Legal kinder egg in the US is not an "american packaging" we have those too just the egg is sold during the winter to not melt and the other one is only sold in the summer and kids eat with the spoon .
Same in France! Kinder joy are a summer thing. And your comment about the little plastic spoon, sooo right! Isn't it more dangerous?
Getting a standard driver's licence for a standard personal vehicle (max 7700lbs and 8 seats) in Norway will cost you at least $2000 assuming you pass each of the theoretical and practical courses and final exam/test on the first try. It's a thorough and expensive process to get a licence so that people take it seriously and make the necessary effort to learn the responsibilities of operating a heavy and dangerous machine in traffic where there's other people. I believe the process is similar in many other European countries although prices may differ.
Yep, as you said it's similar in other European countries. In Switzerland for exemple it's also around $2000 and takes some time because you must do a eye exam, do a first aid class, pass the theoretical exam, take a class about safety and risks, drive with a driving instructor until he says you are ready (which can vary a lot from person to person, some takes 5 lessons, some 20, the average is at around 12-13 iirc) and then take your practical exam. If you do all of that, you have a set amount of time to go do a course where you takes your car and learn to drive in certain conditions like very slippery roads for exemple, this exists so that you can practice driving during snowstorm for exemple without really being in one, it also teaches you the limits of your car in real conditions and they show you that emergency breaking at 50km/h takes a certain amount of time and distance. After your practical exam you are considered a "student driver" for 3 years and you have some additional rules like a zero tolerance to alcohol instead of 0.5 per thousand where you are not a student driver. After those three years if you have done everything and you haven't had an accident or broken the rules you get your definitive licence.
Since lawn darts are prohibited parent have to buy their kids an AR-15 or shotgun to play with. This is safe against being outlawed.
PS: If you want to learn more about the Netherlands and the differences to North America, the channel "Not Just Bikes" that was mentioned in the video is perfect. You might want to start with the video "Why City Design is Important (and Why I Hate Houston)" or "Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia".
It makes no sense haha oh and thanks for the channel recommendation, many people have been telling us to check that out so we will surely do it
Lawn darts, guns, matches, knives and a lot of other things that can cause serious harm to children are the responsibility of the parents. If a parent can leave small children play all by themselves with sharp darts or can let toddlers have small objects as toys, probably parents should know how irresponsible they are (and stupid, I might add). I recall having a baby with my wife and I always was thinking ahead to try and understand what can happen to a toddler who might want to climb every fence, who might try to fetch everything to their mouth and I was thinking ahead of what do I need to do if MY child gets to choke on something and can't breathe, how can I help MY child?.
Being a parent means to know how to be responsible for your own child. Truth to be said, we, as parents, can do the best possible yet an unfortunate event can happen at any given time.
Here in the UK, it used to be tradition to put a five pence into a Christmas pudding. Our primary school used to do this (7-11) and there was no thought about whether we’d choke on it or break teeth! Used to love finding one! No one ever choked!
The one that you call "american version" actually is what I call the italian "summer version" of the kinder egg.
In summer chocholate tend to melt and therefore they made that one where the chocolate is already creamy, which was called "merendero" before and "joy" when they started exporting it.
It's not a specific version made for the US or anything.
Both eggs are wrapped in plastic/aluminium so they are both equally igenic. Food regulations (in production, ingredients and packaging) in Europe are stricter than the ones in the US so kinder eggs are totally safe and hygienic.
Have a nice day y'all! 😁
Spaniard here, the thing about putting a little baby jesus inside a pastry is more a Hispanic Catholic thing than catholic in general. It goes like this: On the 6 of january, families celebrate the coming of the 3 kings to baby jesus (It is actually a more important celebration than christmas, kids recieve toys this day , at least here in Spain) One of the traditional things to do is eating the "Roscón de reyes" as dessert, which is a pastry , traditionally filled with a sweet pumpkin cream, called "cabello de ángel"("Angel hair") and with caramelized fruit on top, like cherries and orange slices. Inside that pastry, the bakery will place 2 items, a baby jesus and a bean. The person who gets the baby jesus gets to wear a crown(a paper one which usually is included with the purchase of the pastry itself) and is said to have good luck. The person who gets the bean is supposed to pay for the "roscón the reyes".
In Belgium we have "cougnolles" or "coquille", A brioche bread served at Christmas. Before we also put a Christian symbol in plaster which is often replaced by a little Jesus in pink sugar.
Thanks you for you me explanation!
I can't find any mention of Lawn Darts ever existing here in Sweden in the "classic" version, but the modified variety without a knife tip do exist, but they seem to be a direct import from the US.
Kinder surprise taste totally different than Kinder Joy... I hate the taste of Kinder Joy chocolate and just love the surprise one... and I'm soooo happy that they finally stopped trying to mainly sell those in Germany (they did that for like 2-3 years and you sometimes had to be lucky to get the surprise one? But now I can get them everywhere again...without problem)
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And the yellow thing is so big I don't know how ANYONE could choke on that. And you have to open THAT( which... you really can't with just biting) to get to the toy... Granted ... the toy inside is small and sometimes you even have to assemble it yourself... but that's the same with... I don't know barbie shoes? Lego?
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In Czechia, we do have jaywalking laws. If there's a crossing, overpass or underpass withing 50 meters you have to use it to cross otherwise you may end up with up to $100 fine. It's not much, but it's enough to ruin your day. If you're beyond 50m from a crossing, you have to give way to the cars on the road before crossing the road.
How can the American version of Kinder Egg be more sanitary than the illegal one? Both versions are touching plastic? The American version has the chocolate housed in plastic, where as the illegal one, has the plastic egg housed within the chocolate.
Love your videos. 😊
exactly! And the kinder joys have way more sugar and (bad) fats than the egg shell classic version!!
Seriously, kids know there's a toy in the egg before they have their first one. Kids want the toy, they don't eat it.
You’d think so but apparently america thinks otherwise haha
Yep, because for small children it´s hard to open even for the adults, I always have to bite it open....
@@loners4life I looked into it once a few years ago when I found out you guy's did not have them, the law is not actually about kinder eggs, the ban has been in place since the late 30's where the kinder eggs were invented in the 70's, it was to ban other, probably more dangerous foods. I cannot remember what the actual thing was that caused the ban, but it was definitely more of an issue than a large capsule.
it may have even been to ban something similar to what you said with the Jesus, as there is another one with a coin in a pudding (think its a UK thing) but that sounds like it would be more of a choking hazard.
You didn't know my daughter when she was little. Always eating the chocolate first and only sometimes, asking me to open the plastic egg to be able to reach the toy. Chocolate was always first and important.. the toy, not so much.
@@ev.09 How weak are you? You just squeeze from the sides and it just pops open.
But yeah, by the time a kid knows/is able to open it, he's big enough to know not to swallow toys.
I have never seen in my life this dart thing, maybe he meant to say that they are legal in EU because they do not exist in EU so we do not have to make laws about them :P
Ban giant darts, but keep BB guns and rimfire .22 for kids. Yup, makes sense
I just watched a video where US police officers were searching someone on probation's home. The house owner had set up a hidden camera, presumably because they had suffered similar before. The police officers discovered $6,000 in the bottom of the wardrobe, then phoned a colleague to discuss how they were going to split it between them, having stolen it. All on video and sound. The owner of the cash then tried to press charges - but because of qualified immunity, the cops didn't face any consequences at all and he's still down six grand.
12:30 When you think the US version is more sanitary then the EU one. Remember the video u reacted to(Food banned in the EU, but not in the US) on how strict the EU is when it comes to food and ingredients? If it would be less sanitary, it wouldn't have been allowed in the 1st place.
we have two type of kinder egg. We have original ones like eggs whit toy inside and the ones that you explained like two part egg thing but those are named kinder joy. And need to mention that kinder eggs are so good, i still eat them even as an adult, don't care for toy but chocolate part is just something special :D
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"You can't import that cheese it's **puts on scary voice** UnPaStEuRiSeD."
"That makes sense, wouldn't want to make anyone sick - can I put this chemical that normally goes in yoga mats into the bread I'm selling, though?"
"Oh yeah, sure, go for it".
I'm not sure why the graph about cheese shows Cheddar as American and other cheeses as their country of origin, Cheddar Cheese is from England, first made in the town of Cheddar, Somerset, England in 1170. So Cheddar Cheese is actually 852 years old. Cheddar Cheese made in the town of Cheddar is aged in caves as its the perfect temperature and humidity to mature the cheese.
Another fact is England is the cheese capital of the world with over 700 registered cheeses, over 100 more than France. Although both countries have way more unregistered cheeses taking it into the thousands. England has equally as good cheese as France, don't forget France is only 23 miles from England so the weather is very similar and that produces lush grass to feed the livestock which helps make the best cheeses from the milk. Although France has some really good cheese and is well known for them England has equally, if not better cheeses in my opinion, Cheddar, Stilton, Double Gloucester, Red Leicester, Wendslydale, Stinking Bishop are among the best cheeses in the world.
American "cheddar" is not real Cheddar, you need to come to England to taste what real Cheddar tastes like.
Toy is in a PLASTIC YELLOW CONTAINER. We have eags some country's have GUNS IN SCHOOLS. Respect from Italy and Belgium
Thankfully GUNS are not as dangerous as Kinder Eggs .. right ? Also if somebody is treatening you with a Kinder Egg, you can shoot him with your gun, so that double-security 😄🤘🏼
True let's hope that there will be no schoolegging. 😂👍
Still making noise with the microphones 😣But you are so cute so I guess it's ok.
How many people die each year in USA from eating toys compared to gunshot wounds?
Sorry!!! 😅 and exactly, fair point
Only an American child would swallow the whole kinder egg, chocolate, capsule, toy and all🤣
In Serbia the law says that a car has to stop on every crosswalk and let pedestrians cross the street every time and anywhere (thats for crossing without
traffic lights), even tho thats not the case in real life.
Also there is a law that says that only time pedestrian can cross the road outside the crosswalk is if the distance between two crosswalks is more than 100 meters (around 100 yards). And only if there is no cars on the road at the time of crossing.
With that being said i dont remember i ever heard of someone geting a ticket for crossing the street outside of crosswalk (ticket is 5.000 rsd which is around 50$). But if you walk across crossing while there is a red light for pedestrians you are probably gonna get a ticket.
i am from the netherlands.
the gist of the rules is.
you are not allowed to walk on highways (unless the situation calls for it)
there is no jaywalking but on busy streets they do have crosswalks to ensure more safety for pedestrians.
these crosswalks often prioritize access for pedestrians and / or bicycles.
more busy roads often also have a patch of land between the sides that can be used as a safe spot for crossing.
inner city roundabouts prioritize bikes and often pedestrians too (not always but it is clearly visible when they are or are not)
roundabouts that prioritize cars have traffic lights for bikes and pedestrians.
and then there are special residential areas we call woonerf where any participant of traffic is equal.. therefor a car has to give right of way from a pedestrian coming from the right.
speeds are also very low there.
there is a lot more to it but these are sort of a compacted and not always precise explanation
Much as safety regulations are necessary in some cases, it doesn't teach people to look for unexpected danger! I was taught how to safely cross a road as a kid, and as a driver, to look for pedestrians, so accidents will happen, but awareness reduces the odds!
In the US, I found pedestrians so rare that drivers would slow down in shock anyway!! 😂
In UK it is a rule that you have to give way to pedestrians when turning into side road, but we can cross anywhere it is safe to do so (at your own risk).
What you know is kinder joy, shaped like an egg
The Kinder Egg in the USA is Not a Nock off Its a Kinder Egg made for the US marked.
In the USA they have Kinder Joy - the rest of the world has Kinder Surprise. Similar - but different..
Yea we realize that later in the vid. At first I was questioning if maybe my memory failed me and I just assumed the ones I’ve seen were kinder brand or if maybe a copy cat haha
@@loners4life i saw that in the Video just after i wrote it. But every vomment every like counts 😃
That's why i didn't delete it again.
But we also have Kinder Joy in Europe ( we have both ) at least in Denmark and Germany. ( Nice video BTW. )
@@torbenjohansen6955 I think most of Europe (or all of Europe) has both regular Kinder egg and Kinder Joy. But US has only Kinder Joy.
@@queenofneverland9007 The reason i only mentioned Germany and Denmark is that i have seen them in Grocery stores /Border stores there. I havent' seen them in other European contrys so!! Thats why i only Mentioned Germany and Denmark.
But as i haven't traveled outside of Denmark and Germany the last 4 years they most likely sell them there.
BUT i dont know for shure as i haven't seen it.
people are so concerned to not dying that forget to live and enjoy the pleasures of life
We eat raw eggs two here and unpasteurized milk. First of pasteurized milk is bad for you and all the good thing gets lost. Two we can eat that here without getting sick, cause instead of pasteurizing everything, we make sure that our food is through regular testing and we keep our animals healthy. This way we all don't get sick from their products, but we still get the nutritions.
Hi, I'm from Lithuania 👋
First off, we have kinder eggs. And it's no problem whatsoever. I did not hear of a single kid choking on it. I mean, it's up to parents to watch kids. Kids are kids, they always try to put small toys up their nose or in their mouth, like Legos.
We love cheese. But not to that extent, where there are fly larvae 🤮 Tho there are plenty other cheese. It depends on taste. Still remember from childhood, when my dad both blue cheese, I think? The smell was like dirty unwashed socks, I almost threw up. But my dad ate it with pleasure. I guess it's just like wine, you have to grow up to appreciate such things :)
Don't remember any long darts. Thats not a thing here. We have only small ones, that you throw to a target, that hangs on a wall. The more serious ones, you can only buy as an adult and in sport shops. Parents don't allow kids to use them, or if they do, only with supervision.
And street crossing... By the law, you can only do that on road crossings and only when there is green light. Those that do that can get a fine if not killed. If there is an accident, the one that crossed a street in non-designated areas are responsible for that accident happening.
The different flavored cigarettes are banned. Also, to electronic cigarettes as well. But people and businesses find a way around those laws.
Kinder Eggs in South Africa: we used to have the yellow
Capsule inside when I was a kid, but they changed it to the Kinder Joy with 2 halves about 6 or 7 years ago here.
When I was a kid my family in southern Italy used to eat rotten cheese infested with maggots only on special occasions. I was disgusted by that but they kept saying it was delicious and told me about that weird sensation of the maggots being eaten alive.
I've always thought that these sort of "aberrations" happen when you have access to high quality food and sometimes you want to try something different 🙂
I wonder if the Kinder Eggs would be banned if they had a gun in them?
No Aussie kids have died from choking on Kinder Surprise toys since the 1970s. They have a plastic container inside the egg, then inside of the plastic container, the toy is in a plastic bag.
I have been checking you guys out for a while and I like the way you reason. I don't always agree, but that's the point. The most important thing is not whether you agree with each other, but how well you reason, reflect. I like your way of 'analyzing'/thinking/reasoning.
In Belgium vulnerable forms of transportation have priority. For example if you ran over a pedestrian crossing the street you are liable. Even if they ran over the street without looking, it is the car’s drivers fault.
I've never heard about any child dying because of a Kinder egg. Children know the inside is a toy and non-edible.
Us either ! But then again we’ve only ever heard about the Kinder Joy eggs not the other ones
@@loners4life To me it looks like over-protection. Not that you lose something major having Joy instead of original. Having both here, I can say there is not much difference in quality (of both the chocolate and toys), just the two waffles or whatever are those in Joy.
The real loss is in the "cheese department" because the best cheese is not pasteurized. It can't be without drastically changing texture and flavour.
@@IceWolf75 I notice in the video that on the chart of cheese, one was labled American Cheddar.
Well that is just wrong! As for it to be Cheddar cheese (imo best cheese ever but then I am a fussy eater) it has to be made in Cheddar, England!
I live 12 miles away from the caves where real authentic Cheddar cheese is made.
@@CrazyInWeston Not necessarily. I mean yes, if we remain strict about the definition. But with wine and cheese, the things are different. If someone pays for the right to use the name and the know-how, the procedure to make a certain protected regional product, they can legally name it the same. And it must be the same as the original. Sure, some regional protected goods are stricter - like Cognac or Champagne - but other are not - like Merlot, Mozzarella, Parmigiana or Cheddar. I agree that they probably never beat the original in quality department but they're so close that the copyright owner agrees with lending them the name.
@@IceWolf75 Fair point, I looked into this and: The domestic market in Britain may be struggling, but it is doing so from a strong base. Fourteen different makers based in the West Country are licensed to use the EU Protected Designation of Origin "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar". It has to be made on a farm in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, or Somerset, the British Cheese Board says, and from locally produced milk and using traditional cheddar-making techniques.
Other, bigger dairies across Britain also produce cheddar, of course. Many supermarkets have realised there is added value in telling customers which creamery or farm any particular cheddar was made in. That's why packaging increasingly boasts of names such as Taw Valley, Aspatria and Davidstow. Popular brands, meanwhile, include Seriously Strong, Pilgrims Choice, and Cathedral City.
But isn't all cheddar from... Cheddar?
That view is widely held but wrong. Cheddar is, in fact, a generic name and so, unlike some cheeses produced in parts of Europe or Asia, it can be produced anywhere. It originated in Somerset around the late 12th century, from the Gorge or caves in the town of Cheddar that were used to store the cheese. The humidity and constant temperature of the caves made it ideal for maturation.
So from that stand point I am corrected. Thanks.
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very interesting channel 👍
Weird how Americans have been convinced that they're either Dems or Reps, policy seems irrelevant. I'm a member of 4 parties in Canada, so I can vote on party policy.
Lawn darts were not sharp. They came to a blunted point but that in no way stopped them from punching through a skull. They were a thing of the bygone era of “free range” children.
Let's be clear: the product started in 1974. to this day, worldwide, 10 kids have died from Kinder Surprise. It is very difficult to eat and die due to the surprise, mostly because the toy capsul is so fucking big you can't put it in your mouth befor you're 7 or 8, and at that age you already understand the principle of chocking hazard. Actualy, the kids who died ingested a small part of the toy that was withing the capsul.... That's how fucking dumb the death was, and the answer of ferrero was to almost stop "puzzle toys" ond multipart toys and mostly make small collectible plastic statues (which suck) 1 capsul, by egg.
The pasteurisation process is just about putting a product to a high enough temperature (110C for 5 minuts is generally enough, and why 110 because a liquid doesn't always heat uniformely and at exactly 100C part of the liquid might stay at 95C or bellow, not killing all bacterias). So no nothing is added, even less in europ where we try to take off all the cancerous conservating shit you put in food.
Cheese is litteraly rotten cooked milk, the yeasts that cause the process of fermentation need a temperature above 10C to work, between 20C and 30C is their optimal temp, and above 50C they mostly die. Sicne you boil the milk beforehand, all bacterias are dead, then you add the yeast and let the magic happen. You end up with a product free of harmful to human bacterium that stay in stasis as long as they are left in a clod environment, stopping any degradation of the product.
The Casu Marzu is a traditional cheese for connoisseurs and risk takers. 99% of the cheese lovers will never ever try it or even consider it. But in this day and age, you can make safe casu marzu, you just need a vacuumed fly breeding ground. Flies are dirty and full of bacteria because they feed and breed on trash and shit. put them in a surveyed environment with selected food (fruits/sugar water for food and cheese for breeding) and you get "clean flies" for restoration purpose. Same with leeches.
For the lawn darts: the death where even dumber than that. Ever watched bowling fails where the peoples hold the ball to long and throw it through a screen? well kids (and adults) have had accidents throwing the dart straight up above their heads releasing the dart to late. the dart go up, then back to sender.
There where also cases where idiots went to retrieve their darts while other players where still shooting. Think shooting range accident with an idiot running in the shooting galery to take his target back... Tehre where many accidents but only a few death.
No, Jaywalking is NOT permitted in most european countries. We do it none the less, that's why 2 or 3 countries took the laws off.
Pasteurisation changes the taste of foods for the worse. The milk in Europe almost always pasteurised except in UK as long as the farmers herd is inspected / tested unpasteurised is available. FYI pasteurisation was bought in to the UK because of TB which can be passed on from milk. Since then more people have been effected from pastured milk than unpasteurised, warm milk is a rich soup for germ unless it is high temperature enough to kill the germs. Oh and don’t forget your eggs are aggressively washed to such an extent it scrubs off the natural anti bacterial barrier of the outside of the eggs to such an extent that you have to keep them in the fridge to stop them sucking in germs. In the uk we don’t do this so our eggs are kept on the shelves in shop because there is no need to refrigerate them. This is another DDdddeeeeerrrrrr!!!! Moment don’t you think. .???
Smoking wasn’t it great when they kept the fact that the cowboy smoker man died of lung cancer?
Lawn darts are blunt though. They were here in the UK when I played them in the 1980s when I was young, heavy rounded tipped darts that you hold by the other end, threw underarm up and the dart would fall down with the help of the heavier blunted metal end into the target on the grass.
Reacting to 'Not just bikes' will blow your mind ;)
great video as always
I'm a Gen xer and we had chemistry set and we played lawn darts we never threw then at each other it was something to do in the summer 10 of us used to play all the time, none of us got hurt. Goes to show baby boomers and gen xers seems to be the smarter generations.
We also rode bikes without helmets we didn't have seatbelts in our cars we rode in the truck bed and we survived
The American ones are more sanitary since the halfs are plastic wrapped unlike the European ones where the egg inside is... plastic wrapped? What's the difference? 😉 Both use plastic as wrapping.
Yea I meant because the toy doesn’t touching the chocolate that would be eaten 😅 I see your point though !
@@loners4life The toy is just plastic, it's not like it's a used toy or something, it contains the exact same plastic as the wrapping. So if you trust the wrapping to be sanitary, why not trust the plastic toy? LOL :))
I'm in England, when I was young you could buy 3 cigarettes and 5 matches. I've never heard of lawn darts
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In Holland in the towns and citys the cars have to give way to people walking and on bikes and New in Holland is EV's have more rights than a petrol car, they still have a love for old V8's Cadillacs and Mustangs, there is a problem is the price of petrol at around 15 dollars per gallon.
What I really don't understand - why is fresh yeast forbidden in the USA? You miss a lot of delicious breads and cakes by that. And when I tried to explain to an American how to make good bread (not your wheat sponges, but real bread) - they just real difficulties to find yeast on a legal way. Unbelievable that a huge part of US-citizens has german ancestors. With us, bread is the base of our eating culture. Bread, not wheat sponges you might call by that name.
We all know that darts, unlike guns, are very dangerous. That's why Ninjas in movies still use them.
The US car industry did not only harm pedestrians, but also public transportation. They actually tore down existing streetcars to make space for streets. Often the automobile industry bought them themselves and dissolved them. That's why you have more parking space in the US than spaces where people live and no reliable public transportation in any (are there exceptions? maybe NY?) major city, not starting to talk about connections inbetween. In part it makes sense, the rest is the same as everything in the US: profit is more important than community.
There is more 'transit' I would say on the north eastern US corridor as these were the first cities. Meaning more closely built and had proper transport in place. The newer cities as you head west and south dont as they were built primarily with the car in mind. However saying that, even these older north east cities almost possibly barring New York now have a severely diminished public transport system. Even New Yorks Subway has been massively underfunded for decades and the system is literally just scraping by with more and more problems due to old infrastructure and barely maintaining them. (How can you properly maintain an open 24/7 system with dirt cheap flat fares that makes no profits and just sucks tax payers money dry?)
The chocolate of the kinder egg does not cling to the egg. It surrounds the egg and you can crack it open, have to halves to eat and the egg falls out. So you don't have to lick the chocolate off the egg, it's like a shell you peel off.
in the Nethelands we have the rule that when a weaker road user cyclist, pedestrian etc is hit by a car the car is at fault
unless you as a car user can proof that the person you hit was negligent
Kinder eggs are not banned because they are dangerous, it is impossible to swallow the yellow capsule by mistake.
But the law is the law, it is forbidden to have something not eatable inside something eatable.
It is to avoid accident if the not eatable thing is small, but the yellow capsule isn't small. They refuse to do an exception to the law to avoid more exception's demand.
Not sure if they do it elsewhere but there was a tradition here in the UK of putting coins in Christmas pudding which obviously is a choking hazard but also coins even after washing will hold bacteria.
That’s wild Haha definitely seems like a choking hazard if you’re unaware of the tradition. Was there a reason for the coin in the pudding ?
@@loners4life it's meant to be a sign that you would have wealth & good luck in the coming year and apparently began in Victorian times with silver sixpences. It's also done in Australia but not sure about anywhere else.
@@chipsthedog1 Here in South Africa my aunt when she makes a trifle she used to put washed coins inside the trifle. She doesn't do it anymore.
Well, we certainly don't have Christmas pudding where I'm from ^^ But I've known about the custom from reading Dickens.
@@chipsthedog1 In Sweden we usually eat rice porridge on Christmas Eve. We eat a version of the smorgasbord during the day and the porridge later in the evening. The porridge always contain one whole almond and whoever gets it get an extra boost of luck going into the new year. Its a tradition that’s been done for centuries. Never heard of anyone choking on it.
As a Norwegian kid who lived 3 years in the US in the 60`s, I got arrested for jaywalking and I did not even know what that was. A friend of mine from Haiti got a beating for drinking from a fountain in Florida. We were both naive to the American way but we both got out of the US quicly. Since then you only got worse, ending up with voting for a Trump !
I live in a country where we eat cheese made yesterday. Everybody who can afford it and and everybody who can buy it is eating super-fresh cheese. If it's before yesterday, it doesn't taste as good as the one made yesterday (or better, a cheese made today)
I might have Salmonella in me, or E. coli or listeria but I don't know about it. In 53 years old I had a lot of digestive troubles in my life. Never stopped eating fresh cheese and I'm not going to stop now.
Eating maggots looks disgusting but, when I was a kid, one of my neighbors had a huge cherry tree and was letting us kids climb and eat as many sweet cherries we were able to. Probably half of them had maggots but we really, honestly, didn't care and I mean all of us ate those cherries as if it was the last cherry tree left on Earth.
That cheese looks funny to me but I'm sure it doesn't look funny to the people who are used to it.
Probably the best voting system in the world is the Australian model.
1) Voting is held on a day determined by the current Government within a time frame of a few months. It must be held on a Saturday so that people can get to vote. Any intimidation at voting centres is a criminal offense.
On the day, charities sell home made goods for local charities at the designated polling booths, mostly school. The most popular is the Election Sausage: A slice of bread stacked with fried onions and the Aussie equivalent of a hot dog covered in sauce of choice. They are very popular.
2) Registration on the day is compulsory for all Australian citizens, with very few exemptions. 18 and over is the voting age. Though the claim is that voting is compulsory, it is actually registering that is compulsory ... no one can know if you voted or not.
3) Australia has a preferential voting system, where as the US an many other nations have a 'first past the post' system.: The voting card has all candidates listed for that electorate and the voter puts their preference for who they want first, through to who they want last. At the local tally room, as the votes are counted, the least likely gets eliminated and their preferences goes to the voter's next choice.
4) The entire electoral system is controlled by an independent Federal Electoral Council and are locked into being by laws that prevent political interference.
The area that we have to change, as does the world, is controlling the media or Fourth Estate. A set of universal laws, best presented by the UN, would ensure that truth not lies were the basis of news at election times.
One can always spot foreigners in the UK at the roadside. They are the one's that actually wait till the lights change until they cross the road.
Also take a look at Not Just Bikes. Greetings from Spakenburg, The Netherlands.
Will do!
Brian & Linda - Beautiful British names, as Al Murray would say. Please watch some Al Murray standup 🤣
Brian is Irish, the king of Ireland who defeated the Vikings in 1014. I get the reference - Al Murray would know, though.
10 kids have died to date from kinder eggs and it was banned but guns are okay, only a few hundred thousand children wounded( many dead ) since 1974 in US only. This cracks me up lol. I'm from Europe, lived on 5 different countries and never seen or heard about lawn darts, I guess because it's a stupid idea. Never heard about the jaywalking thing, generally speaking in Europe, the blame goes pretty much both ways depending on the circumstances, proof etc.
*Choco Treasure* from the US company "Candy Treasure LLC, New Jersey" is probably what you have seen.
So 3 people died? That is bad.
And guns are still more common than milk over there……Jippi…..im impressed.
yes lawn darts are still on sale here in the UK, but we don't sell guns so thousands of children's lives saved.
You don't get the idea of a kinder egg, the toy is inside a plastic capsule inside the egg. The capsule is sealed so it is hygenic
German here. In Germany jaywalking (crossing the street at red light, crossing the street anywhere else where is no traffic light is NOT illegal) is illegal, too. But: it costs only a fine of 5€ because normaly you bring yourself in danger and not other persons. It is illegal because it has to be - what do I mean with that: if it is not illegal, than obviously you didn't done something wrong - and if you didn't done something wrong in case of an accident, both partys (e.g. car driver and pedestrian) were guilty. And then the car driver also has a responsability for the accident. And this would be unfair. So in the end it's just illegal to show: the pedestrian did something wrong. It's a matter of liability.
"Live maggots in cheese should be banned"
First time I've agreed with the US government since practically ever
what you said is a roscón de reyes, here in Spain we have them in January and usually inside there is a bean (if you find the bean you pay el roscón) and a figurine of the 3 kings or baby jesus, etc. (if you find the figurine you are crowned king)
The thing about jaywalking not being a crime here doesn't mean people can cross streets whenever they want and cars have to let them cross. When there are cars on a road, you can cross only on zebras or green traffic lights. If you cross somewhere else it's not illegal but if you are hit, you are the guilty one, not the driver. But if there are no cars, or you see a car in the distance, or cars are slow, you can cross and you will be fine. So as long as you make sure you can safely cross the street, you can do it wherever you want and won't get a ticket. That's the idea. And those giants darts?? Wtf, I have never heard of them before, and I live in Europe :))
Jaywalking in Germany pretty much doesn't exist. And I'm not talking about the fact that germans just don't jaywalk (at least not in front of witnesses), there is just no law regulation regarding jaywalking. We do have laws regarding traffic lights and crosswalk(e.g. crossing the street at a red light, 5 bucks fine). And of course, IF you cause an accident because of jaywalking, it will be taken into consideration negatively, as long as there is a crosswalk or traffic light nearby. If there is neither nearby, you can cross a street whenever, wherever, as long as you make sure there are no cars or bikes in sight.
Dunno if anyone else explained it but you don't "eat around the toy" 😂 😂. Chocolate wrapping cracks open (like an egg), you take the toy part which is a rather large orange plastic egg with the toy inside(think matrioska dolls; impossible to mistake for chocolate) and eat the chocolate.
If you're feeding an orange plastic egg to your kid, you shouldn't reproduce.
I played lawn darts as a kid. They are not very sharp. You would have to throw one as hard as high as you possibly could and have a hit somebody right on the top of the head. It was an awesome game that I enjoyed playing. The tips were made of metal but they were rounded. They can stick in the grass but there's no way it would stick in a person
In France, if you are a pedestrian, in a road accident, because you wanted to cross the road, you may be in the wrong if you did not use a passage dedicated to it, and said passage is located less than 50 meter (160~feet rounded down) to where the accident happened. If there is no such passage, the driver is always in the wrong.
It is, in a way similar to a gun, a car can kill and could be considered a weapon, and so, it is the responsibility of the driver to be careful with how he use it.
After all, I said "may be", there can be plenty of reason as to why the driver would be responsible, despite the pedestrian ignoring common sense, It usually come down to who didn't pay attention for "x" reason. (like no looking left and right to make sure it is safe, for the pedestrian, or looking at a text message for the driver etc...)
" If there is no such passage, the driver is always in the wrong." Are you sure? If there is a 100km/h road outside cities of course, with no crossings, and a drunk guy jumps in front of you, are you in the wrong?
"Survival of the fittest" exactly my thoughts 😄
The plastic eggs is pretty big. A small child would have to try really hard to swallow that. The most recent case I found was a 3 year old girl didn't survive it. And that's because she swallowed the toy inside the plastic egg.
@@merrydiscusser6793 Totally right. A grown-up could not swallow this yellow plastic thing without an acrobatic act.
And the toys themselves in the allowed american kinder-egg version are not different from those of the original, so can lead to the same accidents.
I had to laugh a bit on this one, too 😀. Esp. since some Americans seemingly have a problem with Darwin in general. LOL.
Kinder eggs have a toy in a plastic egg inside the chocolate here in England I remember having them when I was younger I ate chocolate while playing with the toy chances of choking is very small, I read about one child choking but no ban happened.
I think it is because here in Europe we realize that it is not Kinder's fault if a child chokes on it. There are so many thing that are small enough for a adult or child to choke on be we can't ban all of it. It is just stupid. My sister almost choked on a hard candy, my neighbour'kid almost choked on plastic bottle cap,... It's like person walking into a pole, injuring their head and then country banning all poles in the country...it doesn't make sense.
I live in a smaller town and jay walking is a religion here, even traffic will give give way for jay walkers lol.
Note that the Dutch Jaywalking law was about not crossing the street within 100 meters or so of an official pedestrian crossing, and not really heavily enforced. Crossing highways might still be forbidden (but they are fully separated in the NLs)
6:55 a ban on kinder eggs to protect children, but no ban on guns. Say's everything you need to know about how America is run.
Kinder Eggs were very popular in Canada. I have never known of any children choking on the toys or toy parts inside. Lawn darts were pretty dangerous, though with their pointed metal ends. Banning them was a good idea.
The American government started subsidized dairy production during President Jimmy Carter's years. Since milk was hard to store, it was turned into cheese. Cheese was then promoted as something to add to lots of foods as a means to increase sales. There is still tons of surplus US produced cheese in storage.
never heard that jaywalking is illegal in some places. Over here in germany you can literally cross the road everywhere (except there's a traffic light near to you or on highways where crossing the street logically is completely forbidden). When you get caught walking when the traffic light is red for pedestrians (do not walk) you have to pay 5€. I guess it's more a symbolic fine to remember you beeing a better role model for children
The reason about kinder eggs being ilegal is just the wording of the law to prevent adding non edibles to food as an adulteration (IIRC it was to prevent adding chalk to the milk at the time). If choking hazard were the issue, then it would be illegal to sell the toy just outside of the egg too.
Your are supposed to crack the hollow chocolate kinder egg in half and remove the plastic toy capsule, which is sealed, then the child is given the chocolate egg pieces and toy capsule is separated and toy removed from within.