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[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Kinder Surprises are inferior to Yowies and you can fight me over this.

Or at least, they were. Prior to 2005. Then they got discontinued and brought back over a decade later with inferior Kinder-style simple solid plastic toys.

Apparently though, both the new Yowies and Kinder Surprises are available in America these days.

[โ€“] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Dunno who "you guys" is, considering the original Yowies sold in Australia are far more of a potential choking hazard than Kinder Surprise's lame lumps of plastic. The fact that it's smaller pieces you assemble yourself is a big part of the reason they're so much better!

Anyway, someone clearly needs to verify this, because the two articles are stating contradictory things. Obviously, one of them is wrong.

[โ€“] Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yuris are superior if you ask me.

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar. Where are those from?

[โ€“] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Japan. Just google Japanese yuri.

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were having a serious interesting conversation here.

[โ€“] Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Who said we werenโ€™t?

On a serious note, though, American kinder eggs are sadly different. Theyโ€™re the โ€œtwo halves with tiny plastic spoonโ€ kind instead of the โ€œget banned for choking childrenโ€ kind. I kind of prefer the latter. Iโ€™m lucky enough to have a friend from Belgium who visits every year or so and brings a bunch of โ€˜em over.

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

I've had those. In Europe, in fact. That's a Kinder Joy, not a Surprise.

If you're American, I recommend you try and find a Yowie somewhere. Apparently they're sold there. I don't actually recommend the productโ€”unfortunately new Yowies are just as bad as if not worse than Kinder Surprise, unlike the vastly superior version they used to makeโ€”but just to see the way the skirt a loophole in America's law. Instead of being a completely enclosed (but hollow) case of chocolate, as both Surprises and old Yowies are, new Yowies' eggs have small "wings"which poke out the side of the chocolate.