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Friends were abroad and brought back this little prize: a 6-pack of Kinder Surprise Eggs. I love Kinder Surprise Eggs, which, to the uninitiated are very thin eggs of chocolate that surround a capsule packed with a little collection of plastic pieces that can be fit together to form a tiny toy.
Is this description unhelpful? Well, the company web site is rather more illuminating and there are tons of avid collectors. (In fact, these friends previously gave us a book detailing all the Kinder Surprise Egg surprises by category.)
Now, my excitement about this is that, of course, these items are not really legal in the United States. The toys are all meant only for children aged 3 and up (choking hazard fears), but the actual illegality comes from the fact that in this country, you are not allowed to see food that has encapsulated toys (chocolate eggs, for example).
Responsible me will put my Kinder Eggs into hiding, away from the grasp of my climbing toddler, but I can't banish them entirely. I know they're illegal in this country, but latex balloons sure aren't and they are a thousand times more deadly. One can't be too careful, but it is rather against my tendencies to deny myself things like this, where danger is actually manageable with the help of high shelves.
Addendum: Quite a bit of sad, hard news has come in lately, including a death- someone with whom I had not been in touch in recent years but who, as it turns out, managed to shape a large part of my life. I won't go into it all, but I am so grateful to this friend and so sorry that life ended so suddenly and so strangely.
posted by Elise at 1:26 PM
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