kinder eggs, c or d

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the funny chocolate one with the miniature toy inside;

my first and only toy this far (I only recently bought one, though I know an occasional freak who has vast amounts of them, anyway he's from vancouver so) was a kangooroo mother with three baby kanga's who can ride threesome holding mama by her tail

c (ollect them) or d (etest them)?

― erik, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the chocolate = uneatable, some of the toys howevah = unbeatable

― mark s, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

content vs. form here

― erik, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Uneatable? I really like Kinder Egg chocolate. Especially the bars (not those stupid "Bueno" things with the nuts in, and the adverts where it is portrayed as bizarro living girly choc whore, but these solid proper kinder chocolate bars that only the Woolworths in Oxted appears to stock).

As for the toys, some of them can be quite good. There was a great hedgehog toy I got with one where you could curl it up into a ball.

― Christopher Lyons, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I love Kinder Bueno, it's the hazelnut and milk combination that gets me. Num num.

On the subject of Kinder Eggs, they used to be class, BUT, these days all the toys seem to be horribole solid static models that don't require any building, which defeats the point, cos putting them together was the best thing.

― Nick Southall, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the chocolate wuz yummy, mark. the toys broke too easily.

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i find the choc contains some sort of sedative. all toys lame except for motorcars

― Bob Zemko, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i like the way my kanga family had a vvery simple but ingenious construction design, even the stickers that you had to put on to give them a face (and a smile) were ok.

― erik, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kinder Eggs are SOOOO 1996. At least here

― Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The chocolate is OK, but there's not very much of it, is there? Not nearly enough.

The toys are cool however. Except the ones which you have to construct yourself. I can't always manage to do those, being completely ham-fisted and also unable to follow the diagrammatic instructions for where to stick the palm tree or whatever. I usually have to ask a passing five year old to make the toys for me. They can always do them very easily, and look upon me pityingly. Harumph.

― C J, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I got one with Pingu inside of it. Collect them all and you can get a whole clan of Pingu, Pinga and the rest of the family. Dud, though when I had just begun my collection and the toy store stopped inporting these lovely chocolate eggs with toys inside from Switzerland. How lonely my little Pingu is, wishing to be reunited with the rest of his hidden inside chocolate eggs family.

― Mary, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I *heart* Pingu!!!

― C J, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

These are great, and are best enjoyed socially, that is, in groups of four or more, with three eggs per person. There will always be someone in every such group who will eat the chocolate of those who don't like it, and odds are good that everyone will receive at least one cool thing to build.

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mmm, Kinder chocolate. And three presents in one!

― Anna, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Has anyone ever had any dealings with an unkind egg?

― N., Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yes, one I thought was boiled at Glastonbury '97, which exploded all over me as I was trying to get the shell off. A mean and thoughtless egg.

― Anna, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

all eggs are unkind! (they are also part of a Great Egg Conspiracy if the Simpsons are to be believed haha)

― katie, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

kinder eggs with complete toy inside rather than one you build = ULTIMATE DUD, and as close to "unkind" as eggs can get.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

are you saying that the pleasure is in building the toy, as opposed to playing with it afterwards?

― MarkH, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

But you can't do much playing with a porrly painted vaguely gnome shaped lumb of plastic.

― Graham, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

One day they will make the kindest egg. One day.

― Archel, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bet Katie will still be kinder.

― Tim, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i am kinder than any fool egg!

― katie, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gosh those eggs must be bastards.

** adjusts ice pack on arse **

― Graham, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And three presents in one! I've never understood this. What's the third present? Surely toy + choco egg = 2?

― Ellie, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Maybe you are supposed to use the foil wrapper for origami or something? That would be present #3, though a rather pathetic one really.

― C J, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If you have ever watched a cat chase the plastic casing around the room, you know what the third present is.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's a toy, chocolate and a surprise. Or that's what the nice man on the advert told me.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Don't you get a link to an interweb game too now?

― Graham, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So... the surprise is that you don't get anything else?

― Archel, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

At least it's not the *spring surprise* chocolate of Python fame ........ covered in dark, velvety chocolate, when you pop it into your mouth, stainless steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks.

That's what I call a surprise.

― C J, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

Today I impulse purchased one for the first time in YEARS and I got a FABULOUS maid robot, and it was very makey (with STICKERS!). I may photograph it for you all, it's os greta and has th most fabulously shaped head.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 16:32 (twenty-two years ago) link

seven months pass...

I got one of those big ones for Easter last year and it came with a plastic tree hollowed out to make a bar and a little model of Smurfette. I threw away the tree but Smurfette now live on top of my TV.

― Nick H, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

get on soulseek and search for what zizek have to say on kinder eggs in his text _ideology today_

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Good ol' Sebastien :)

It's often ocurred to me that, if I had any designing abilities to speak of, my dream job would be to come up with kinder egg toys. Ok, so the unbuildable ones are mostly lame*, obvious stuff to get the kids buying. But the other things, the toys that don't appear on ads or commercials, those can get really *freaky* and amazing. And they all come in little groups, like whenever you get a toy there's a little paper with it showing you the other members of their particular clan, so the possibilities for crazy miniscule world-building are endless.

Bueno is the weakest link as far as kinder products go. The chocolate bars are grebt, better than the eggs (which still taste great!); kinder country is good too. In Germany there were these chilled creamy things which were very very good also, but they don't have them here :(

* Though as a kid I totally prefered those, because just like CJ I'm no good at building the others. Plus occasionally they had liscensing deals - for a time there you could collect Mickey Mouse ones! There was a Black Pete in that collection, dressed in full Al Capone gear, that was all sorts of badass.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Kinder Milk Slice had possibly the best slogan of all time. "Ever tried to bite milk? Well now you can!" It's like they read my mind...

― tenbuck, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

classic! in the mid-80's when i was little and lived in germany (my dad was stationed there, we lived off post in a small german town), my mom would buy them for me and my brother.

― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

as a matter of fact i don't think i've had one for nearly 20 years!

― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

its all about synergism

both the toy and the chocolate by themselves would be average, but combined....they become something more

im gonna go buy one to eat right now

― splates (splates), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

a friend just brought back some from her trip to eastern europe, and I got a little music note dude who spins around on a turntable. classic!

also, best wedding favors ever.

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Mark Pawson to thread...

Obviously classic. Also frustrating--I shake them in the shop to make sure that I get a toy that you have to construct rather than the moulded plastic crocodile or whatever shit non-constructable range they have at that time. You can get dbl-crossed here tho' bcz you might end up with a thin cardboard jigsaw which is the worst Kinder toy of all.

When I was a kid, before you could buy them in the UK, a relative brought me a Kinder Egg back from holiday. I claimed, and couldn't be persuaded otherwise, that the lighter of the two chocolates that made up the egg was plastic and laboriously peeled off the darker chocloate in order to eat it. Wot a dummy.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

C, totally.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

You can get dbl-crossed here tho' bcz you might end up with a thin cardboard jigsaw which is the worst Kinder toy of all.

Oh God yes. Me and my friend Hedgehog used to get stoned and eat these, getting a puzzle was the fucking worst.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I got one with Pingu inside of it.
Puh puh-puh puh puh-puh puh PIN-GU PIN-GU PIN-GU!

― In The Court Of The Redd King Harvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I really love Kinder eggs. Unfortunately, they're way overpriced here in Australia. When I lived in Spain I collected over a hundred of the toys. I don't understand people who don't like the chocolate it's made up of - I think they're great.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Bueno is the weakest link as far as kinder products go.

This, too, is insanity.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I suggest everyone buys one today and posts here with the toy they get. I want to know how many of the toys are actually any good because I always seem to get crappy little cartoon characters in stupid poses and these are useless to me.

my last toy about a couple of months ago was a 'Smart Car'. !

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 13 April 2006 08:08 (eighteen years ago) link

They used to be great, my default "oh shit I forgot to get a present" present, but the odds on getting a really cool constructable have been viciously slashed in the last five years, the vast majority are "chassis of car + body of car = you're done!". Also lots of merchandising (the current 'sponsor' is Chicken Little). A month or so back one of the shops on Cally Road was selling Super Mario eggs, but they've stopped.

Kinder Country is mental, it's chocolate + chipboard. Hippos are the way to go these days.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 April 2006 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link

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