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Kinder Surprise eggs are a teeny little miracle in chocolatey form. If you haven't heard of them and eaten one, then I'm both shocked and amazed, frankly.
Just a little bit of history to start us off; Kinder chocolate is made by the good people of Ferrero Spa (founded in 1946 in Italy ... Read review
Advantages: Chocolate AND a toy. What more could you possibly want? Disadvantages: None! Yay!
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Kinder Surprise eggs are a teeny little miracle in chocolatey form. If you haven't heard of them and eaten one, then I'm both shocked and amazed, frankly.
Just a little bit of history to start us off; Kinder chocolate is made by the good people of Ferrero Spa (founded in 1946 in Italy by the Ferrero family). No doubt you're already painfully aware of their heinous crimes against advertising "Ah, Mr Ambassador, ... ...back since.
Kinder Surprises are about 2 ½ inches tall by about 2 inches wide. They come wrapped in red and white foil and are available pretty much everywhere for 42 of your hard earned pennies. This is quite pricey bearing in mind that you get nowhere near as much chocolate as in an ordinary bar, but you do have the consolation of a dinky wee toy. On the outside is the Kinder logo, the ingredients list (I'm absolutely not typing ... more
You're still gasping in awe at the sheer awfulness of the pun in the title aren't you? Fret not my lovelies, it gets better after this (probably, I give no guarantees though).
Kinder Surprise eggs are a teeny little miracle in chocolatey form. If you haven't heard of them and eaten one, then I'm both shocked and amazed, frankly. Just a little bit of history to start us off; Kinder chocolate is made by the good people of Ferrero Spa (founded in 1946 in Italy by the Ferrero family). No doubt you're already painfully aware of their heinous crimes against advertising "Ah, Mr Ambassador, with these chocolates you are really spoiling us, no?" but they should not be castigated for this, as in the momentous year of 1974 they took the inspired decision to combine the joyous worlds of chocolate and toys. Neither they nor I have looked back since.
Kinder Surprises are about 2 ½ inches tall by about 2 inches wide. They come wrapped in red and white foil and are available pretty much everywhere for 42 of your hard earned pennies. This is quite pricey bearing in mind that you get nowhere near as much chocolate as in an ordinary bar, but you do have the consolation of a dinky wee toy. On the outside is the Kinder logo, the ingredients list (I'm absolutely not typing that out - suffice to say, if you eat 20 of them you may just feel a wee bit queasy) and a warning not to give them to children under 3. Well, preaching to the converted there I feel - why spoil children with these when you could scoff them all yourself?
Open the wrapper and you have, well, a small chocolate egg (no surprises there, then). The egg is easily snapped in half lengthways and is hollow, the chocolate being a sort of shell around the toy container. The outside of the chocolate shell is milk chocolate and the inside is white chocolate. The chocolate is smooth, milky and migraine inducingly sweet - much more so than standard milk chocolate such as Dairy Milk. This sounds like a negative point, but no…one of the beautiful things about Kinder Surprises is that most of the weight is taken up by the toy - the actual chocolate content is probably only that of one or two individual pieces of Dairy Milk, so there's not enough chocolate to rot your teeth or bring on a serious sugar rush (in case you're interested you need to eat approximately 8 of these to get a proper high - I have investigated on your behalf. I'm good like that).
Now on to the good stuff…the toy! This comes in an oblong plastic container about an inch and a half long that needs to be popped in half to access said toy. Here we encounter the second beautiful thing about Kinder Surprises - the toy container, whilst having limited range and being a bit tricky to aim can, with dedicated practice, be used quite successfully as a weapon. I tend to wait until one of my pupils isn't listening and then pop it at their head, however, there are no hard and fast rules here. I invite you all to find a method of attack that works for you.
The toys come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Sometimes they follow a theme (which at the moment seems to be Santa's elves) and most of the time they're just bafflingly random. Occasionally the toys come ready made (this is always a bit of a disappointment), but most of the time you make them yourself, often with the exciting addition of stickers. In the last week I've managed to scoff 6 Kinder Surprises and I have got: 2 odd red hole punches (odd because they only punch one hole), a teeny tiny elf sellotape dispenser, an ickle elf post-it note pad, a snail in a rowing boat and a swimming snail. Also inside the toy container part you get instructions for making the toy, a warning that you really shouldn't share this with toddlers and an invitation to the magic kingdom at www.magic-kinder.com. For this you get a code that you can type in to access a 'prize'. This is just a game you can download to your desktop, but it's diverting nonetheless. There are also options for Spongebob Squarepants etc sections, but my attention span wasn't long enough to explore these.
Those of you who know me know that there's absolutely no way I paid for 6 of Kinder Surprises myself, and yes, I did indeed steal them. It's worse this time though - a parent donated them as prizes for the weekly star pupils and I went right on ahead and pinched them anyway. I know no shame, and stolen chocolate is altogether much nicer than the stuff you have to pay for.
Advantages: cheap in multi-packs, lovely chocolate, bonus toy Disadvantages: impossibility of collecting entire range, near impossible to open plastic container
...were a whole load of Kinder Eggs, otherwise known as Kinder Surprise and immediately the thought of kids, chocolate and toys, what could make a better combination? sprang to mind. These were on sale at a reduced price of £1.00 for a box of 3 instead of £1.47 and so being a total sucker for the joyous gleam in my kids eyes seeing that they were the Shrek The Third edition and the bargain factor I picked up 2 boxes and continued on my slog around the ... ...and white chocolate inner, the Kinder logo in brightly coloured writing, pictures of all the toys in the collection according to the current theme (just to ‘egg’ you on a little to purchase them all), the ingredients and best before date on the bottom and a warning to the front regarding the small pieces contained within.
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Currently on offer at Lidl for £1.00, frequently available in Poundland and £1.39 in Tesco for a box of 3 (3x20g) or ...
chocliteclair 14.08.2007
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Advantages: Kids love em, nice to eat Disadvantages: some toys break easily
...mistake on ciaos behave of kinder surprise, it is not as they have put it kinder suprise!!!!!!
Abit about the kinder surprise!
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Kinder surprise's first started in 1972 in Italy, by the company Ferrero. They are sold world wide. and are very popular, the only place they are not sold is The United States, as they are deemed to be a choking hazard.
Kinder means children in german, so translated, they are ... ...egg. It has the words kinder with a black K and inder in orange letters, below that is the word surprice in multi coloured lettering.
On the wrapper it also contains the ingredients, which i will list later in my review. It has the warnings and a description of what you are purchasing.
I do love the wrapping as it is very easily disposable, you can just screw it up into a small ball, and hardly takes up any bin space.
The egg
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The ...
kineticspade 03.05.2007
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Advantages: Toy and chocolate all for one low price, interesting idea Disadvantages: "Low quality" toys in the UK, not as cheap as toyless chocolate
Kinder eggs. Children eggs. Completely over done jokes like the title spring to mind. I had my very first one on my very first trip to Germany when I was 7, and haven’t stopped eating them since. But gosh darn it, what are they? Kinder eggs are a new generation of kiddie products. Is it a chocolate bar? Is it a toy? It’s both. The chocolate comes in the form of a hollow egg containing a plastic cylinder. Inside this there’s a toy ... ...password style codes for the Kinder website – www.magic-kinder.com *O*O*O* The Chocolate *O*O*O* Even the chocolate in a Kinder egg isn’t what you’d expect. The outside is milk chocolate while the inside is white chocolate – a “surprise” in itself. The chocolate is rather thin and sticky – it’ll bend quite a bit before it snaps if you see what I mean. It’s sweeter than, say, Galaxy but still perfectly ...
zoe_page 02.12.2002
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Advantages: Just the right amount of chocolate to satisfy that craving. The TOY ! Disadvantages: No good for 3 year olds. ( or maybe thats a good thing.less choc for them..more for you)
...during Easter and xmas.
Kinder has a huge range but their “Kinder Surprise eggs” are the only ones who have stuck around. You wouldn’t pay for such a small bit of chocolate or for a small plastic toy…but put the toy IN the chocolate…and you have a hit ! These eggs are going to be around for years. (Remember Nestlé Disney Magic Balls? How naff were they ?!! )
Kinder Eggs are an international product. The name "Kinder Sorpresa" is used in Italy, ... ...Portugal and Brazil they say Kinder Surpresa. In Sweden and Norway they are called "Kinderoverraskelse" and "Kinder Surprise" is used in most other places. Kinder Surprise is a creamy chocolate egg that contains a plastic container, which contains a toy. It is wrapped in whit and orange wrapper, you cant miss it in the shops. The chocolate egg, made by Ferrero, measures about 2 ¾ in. tall by 1 ¾ in. The egg shell is made up of a layer of dark chocolate ...
randhawa 19.01.2005
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Advantages: Toy,Chocolate, Great for children Disadvantages: None
...short but SWEET review.....................
Kinder surprise has been around for age's, I can remember them when I was a child but I forgot about them untill my friend came round one night and bought my little girl one.
As Hollie-rose unwapped the kinder surprise, all the memories came back, they hadn't change at all.
Hollie-rose broke the chocolate egg and started eating the chocolate and it looked so nice, I just had to have a bit (it's o.k I ... ...A BIT OF HISTORY~~~~~~
Kinder Surprise originated in 1974, in Italy, when Ferrero decided to expand and launched a series of brands such as Kinder Chocolate, Kinder Cereal, Kinder Delice, Kinder Bueno, all of which were dedicated to children.
The chocolate eggs arrived in 1989 and immediately became the market leader in Italy.
Since then there have been various types of Kinder Surprise eggs, small and large. ~~~~~~~~ THE CHOCOLATE ~~~~~~~
MMmmm ...
star333 07.02.2005
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