I actually did choke on a Life Savers as a child. I was at my grammy's house and had the bright idea to lie down on my back with it in my mouth, despite my mother's warnings. Once she realized what was happening, she dialed 911, and two policemen came to coach me on how to handle it. All throughout, the hole in the middle did actually allow me to breathe while it was lodged in my throat. I ended up just sitting there until it dissolved enough to slide the rest of the way down my throat. My mom wouldn't let me eat hard candy for some time after the whole ordeal. Mr. Crane's brilliant idea really helped me in that situation. It's my fault for not heeding the advice of my mother. If you have children, nieces, nephews, or grandchildren, advise them about having good posture and not lying down while eating hard candy.
I once had a piece of hard candy that was life savers like when I was a teenager and it got stuck in my throat for a while before I coughed it out. I never touch hard candy since. I'm too scared. There was a episode of 30 Rock where Liz or someone said living alone means you have to worry about choking to death on food because nobody will save you, and that's definitely my worry.
This reminds me of a time I was eating a lollipop as a kid, it was shaped like lips so it was pretty wide. I was eating it and playing on my computer, then it fell off the stick and into my throat It was a weird feeling because I could feel my throat being blocked, but I was breathing and talking just fine (tho it did hurt a bit) I told my mom and she just laughed, so I sat there and waited for it to dissolve 💀
I appreciate the blonde lady being a fan of candy, a representative of candy manufacturers, and a member of the FDA banning candy as well. What a well rounded life she must lead!
I was mad that lime skittles were replaced by green apple, but I do feel like green apple skittles could still work if they were part of a subgroup of skittles like Darkside Skittles or something.
Personally, I find biting into a Granny Smith more unpleasant that drinking squirts of straight lime juice for vitamins. The taste is just as sour but not as sweet, the fruit is hard as wood, and the fruit is awkwardly huge... big enough that you have to either bite away uselessly small nibbles or wrench away huge slabs which poke the roof of your mouth until mashed apart. Granny Smiths are pretty much giant versions of normal apples that needed more time on the tree. But green apple CANDY tends to be tasty.
@@mrspaghettiio I'm not the sort who make a bunch of apple slice I need Tupperware or a baggie to transport and which have to be fished out independently, when I could carry the whole apple around as a more convenient object I can just bite into on a whim._ That should be all I _need_ to do. Cutlery shouldn't be required to eat such fruit without complication.
@@henrysokol3466you have captured my feelings on granny Smith apples perfectly in words lmfao And i have a lip ring so it's hard to eat awkwardly shaped things due to not being able to use a stud in my lip lmfaoo
Lime Skittles are bullshit and mistake to begin with Green Skittles were perfection and should of stay ( you lime lovers have shitty taste, have you tasted a lime before)
I live in the UK and have 2 of them on my shelf (had 3 originally, but ate the third). I’ve seen these in a sweet shop as part of a selection pack thing, and didn’t know they were even recalled in the first place. IDK if they were recalled globally or just in the US, but I’ll chuck mine in the bin anyway. They taste rubbish so nobody’s really missing out.
I've had them. They're like Sour Warheads, except in a chewy candy bar form. To get lead poisoning from the candy, one would have to consume a significant amount of them, a couple dozen at least, in a day or two.
The only time I've had Toxic Waste candy, the sour coating was that strong it actually caused the skin lining the inside of my mouth to peel off in little stringy chunks. Never had that problem with Warheads, especially the Warheads sour soda, which has been making the rounds in my hometown. I once tried combining every flavour and charted the results of the colours. Mixing every can at once resulted in a delicious mass of purple.
It actually looks & sounds disgusting! I don't even think Muk (a Pokémon that's literally polluted liquid), the TMNT (they were mutated by sewage into superheroes) or Hexus (a villain literally made from all types of pollution from Ferngully) would even touch it.
Kinder Surprise is banned in the states, but a variation of them is legal in the states and the Yowie candies are also absolutely allowed in the states. I've had them both and they're pretty cool! Also @PhantomStrider, the Lucas Limon candy is pronounced "lee-MON". It's a Mexican brand, so it's pronounced the Spanish way. :)
I’ve actually had the sludge bar, to be honest, it wasn’t great, it was very bitter for me and the sourness was VERY overwhelming (which I guess makes sense), I would give it a 2\10, I hope someone finds this interesting Edit: guess lots of people found this interesting
Actually, as an American, I'm not 100% sure about the kinder surprise egg (before you ask, its not joy version, i even bought one. I find em a bit gross imo). I see em all the time at Walmart! They don't seem popular though as they're always filled. So either my Walmart is pulling an illegal operation or it varies state to state (from Pennsylvania).
The US has Kinder Joy eggs, not Kinder Surprise. They're a bit different. Surprise eggs are chocolate eggs with a toy inside. Joy eggs split in 2 sealed halves: one side has the toy, the other has a creamy filling with 2 chocolate wafer things. Since the toy is separated, the FDA considers it less of a choking hazard
The eggs that are banned are the ones that are ENROBED in chocolate. Which is understandable. Cause you know kids be dumb and I can definitely see teens making challenges of swallowing them whole.
Complaining about a grossout candy is a bit odd though. This animal rights group is aghast at candies shaped like roadkill but is fine with candies shaped like bears, worms, and other animals?
@@paragon4770 They tend to be self-defeating, that's for sure. I'm all for the ethical treatment of animals, we probably should stop factory farming of animals for a number of reasons, but putting the needs of animals over human beings is more than a little silly. They often care more about poor treatment of livestock than they do the migrant workers picking their organic, locally sourced kale.
What I don't get is why Kinder Surprise are banned in the US...but I've seen Yowies (or something with a different name) where I live, and Yowies are basically the same concept.
It’s been a while since I had one, but don’t they have an outer rim of plastic (protruding from the toy capsule) separating the two pieces of chocolate? So technically not fully enclosed? Might be thinking of a different chocolate egg tho
Kinderjoy has been a thing forever here they are sold in the summer instead of the normal ones (though strangely i also found them this winter in the store)
7:13-8:44 I only knew about LifeSavers Holes because Pixar animated the commercials for it. Which actually makes the clip from Toy Story 3 at the end of that part very appropriate.
Huh, I'd always assumed it was because it was shaped kind of like the emergency flotation device, but the actual explanation makes sense in this context, as well. I wonder if it's possible for the company to convert the Holes into regular Lifesaver candies. I see "Limón", the Spanish word for "lemon", and say /lee-MOAN/.
I learned something new from this video today from the Lifesavers candy part; That's why Polo mints have those holes! I always thought it was just to look cool (no pun intended), but now I know, it is to prevent choking. 😄
Oh I actually heard that the Commercial for Life Savors Holes was actually done by Pixar, and was one of their first public animation deals aside from their shorts.
I've had and enjoyed candy-flavored fruit (cotton candy grapes) which is a treat. How about covering some 'top ten foods with unexpected flavors' or something like that? I love your videos ^^ Figured I'd toss this idea out there, you can probably make it sound better/modify it to make sense though.
Apparently, those Yowie candies are popular at anime conventions. I don't recall ever seeing them being sold at them, but I hear people saying that name a lot whenever I'm at a con. Also, Limon is pronounced Lee-mown. Like own, but starting with an M.
I would’ve never thought something as child friendly and wholesome as Kinder Surprise Eggs would have a Black Market behind them. I guess you learn something new everyday.
I learned that the holes in Polo mints are not just to look cool (no pun intended at all), but are to prevent choking, because the Lifesavers candy have those same holes & donut shapes.
A couple food based lists that would be interesting to see you make would be 10 fruits and vegetables(or other non lolly/junk foods like dairy, meat) that are illegal in other countries or 10 regional dishes/specialities that are illegal in other countries (like haggis or cazu marzu for example).
I think my favorite part about why Kinder Eggs got banned in America is that supposedly Mars Candy filed the suit about choking hazards because they feared the competition from a foreign brand.
Honestly doubt it. It's just one product owned by Ferrero, which doesn't do many candy products compared to, say, Hershey's or Mars themselves. Plus, the Kinder Surprise Eggs DO violate a law, which when banned had been around for around 50 years, in the US that prohibits hidden inedible objects in food, as stated in the video. Chances are, the FDA spotted it before a suit had been made and the eggs were promptly banned due to the blatant lack of validity under US law.
I used to love Lucas Limon candy as a kid. I remember kids in Elementary school pouring it on their Lay's potato chips and Flamin Hot Cheetos. This was before the Limon flavor hot Cheetos existed.
For those confused about the surprise eggs what he doesn't mention is there actually was an incident not with kinder surprise, but with the rival company nestle's wonderball where a 2 year old a kid did choke on the toy prompting the banning I remember being really pissed as a kid when the wonderball was discontinued because they had tiny Disney figures in them which I was trying to collect
I wouldn't be surprised if the same bonehead that left the lead candy out on shelves was the same idiot that allowed the CSI Fingerprint Toy that had ASBESTOS in it...
Very entertaining and enjoyable video as always Strider! As a suggestion for a future video, how about one of foods that you like but everyone else hates and vice versa? I think that would be entertaining as well as informative, by adding facts and nutritional knowledge to each food in the videos.
We don't buy Kinder eggs anymore because one of our dogs kept chewing the capsules. We had removed the toys inside of the capsules, and gave the capsules to our dog. Never got them again, so hearing the sad news about them being banned is upsetting
Good video! Since you like branching into other topics, I was thinking of doing one like "Top 10 strangest internet mysteries" or "Top 10 ARGs". That'd be interesting to see!
10. Why was there lead in this candy?! 😱 9. The design of that candy was done in poor taste 😬 8. Makes sense, though a bit excessive 😅 7. I used to eat those as a kid, but I can see why it was recalled 6. Hippy Sippy? The most hilarious name for candy ever, but yeah probably for the best it's gone 😂 5. Reese's Bites? Never heard of them, but I can see why it got discontinued 4. Green Apple Skittles? Eww no thanks! 🤢🤮 3. Space Dust? Understandable, but excessive 2. Joose? WTF even is this? It doesn't even look like candy at all 😤 1. Lucas Limon'? This candy is *UNACCEPTABLE!* 😡 Great video as always PhantomStrider! 👍🏿
It's not reasonsable to excessively ban kinder eggs. There is bigger fish to fry in the USA. Allow adults to import Kinder Eggs to share and just be more careful. Fining 300 over a toy is insane.
You don't realize just how much lead is in our environment. The ban of leaded petroleum is only about 50 years old now and we're STILL dealing with the effect of burning something containing lead. It's in the water, it's in the soil, so of course it's in the food we eat. The candy had twice the legal limit, which means someone eating two of the other candy is going to get the same amount. They should have looked into what source they were using had the lead in it and done something about it, but if you think you aren't consuming lead regularly, you're fooling yourself.
@@dankmemes8619 I would be more lenient to just not have them easily on the shelves because parents birthed a crotch fruit that will potentially die due to their neglectful parents. Kinder EGGS aren't worth fining people 300 dollars. I tried Yowie chocolates, which they're mediocre, but the fact Kinder Eggs are 100% banned in the USA is dumb.
How does lead even _accidentally_ find its way into candy? I can understand how it happens with things like toys since lead is used to make cheap paint, but _candy?_ Are they tryin'a' use paint instead of food coloring?
It wasn't one of the candies talked about, but I remember seeing Camel Balls candy in a candy store on the boardwalk once. I honestly couldn't believe it was a real candy being sold in a candy store supposedly aimed at children. I'm not sure if it was recalled or banned, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
Doesn't sound like it was banned, that sounds like a tourist candy more designed for adults to pick up, I've definitely seen different animal balls ones as well as various animal poops
I've seen candy shaped like privates & candy that is weed flavoured, both at some sweet shop in Blackpool (yes, weird candy is also in the UK). They're the weirdest candies I have seen in my life so far.
I was initially confused on seeing Skittles in the thumbnail, wondering if there was a choking hazard incident but upon hearing lime got replaced, I was like “oh yeah, I remember that!” I like green apple as well (and it can still be found with a different flavor) but I think a lot of people were really used to the flavor combination of Original and that’s why the backlash was so immense.
What I find endlessly hilarious is the fact that we also have Yowie Surprise (really good chocolate, btw) available in the US, but we can only get the Kinder Joy eggs.
I would recommend you try Kinder Joy if you can, as the the chocolate side is actually really good, with small Ferro Rocher type treats in a cream base. The toys still tend to be cheap of course, but the candy itself is better.
Apparently people in the US south (I’m from northeastern US myself so no actual experience) literally take roadkill sometimes and turn it into soup. Yes Roadkill soup is a thing….
A star walks into a black hole but doesn't seen phased. The black hole then turns to the star and says, "I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."
The only Kinder products we have in America are the chocolates,Bueno,and the Hippos during Christmas. I had to get someone to bring me Surprise Eggs over from Canada or New Zealand. I did find them for sale in Knoxville a few years back...for 3 bucks an egg.
The Life Savers story is interesting although unfortunately not true! Crane put a hole in them to make them stand out against the pillow-shaped mints he was competing against. They were called Life Savers because of their shape, which resembles a life-saver that you would find on a ship. There is still a little irony in the real story, though. One of his sons committed suicide by jumping off of a ship's stern. (This was many years after the candy's invention. )
Holy Heisenberg, Josh, you _ROCK!!_ I _love_ how you included a short clip from the JN movie!!! Granted, it helped you illustrate what you were discussing, but I love that you did that! You're flippin' awesome!!! 🤩
Saw a stall in my town that sold packs of candy bars, I picked one up and there was about 4 toxic waste bars in them! (Had no idea about the recall, so I ate them) this was only a few months ago aswell...
In my 50 years of living, working 25 years as a pediatric nurse, I never heard of a child bring hurt by a Kinder Surprise Egg. I have had them as a child, and so does nearly every child I know. Just take away toys that are too small for little children. Really bizarre it is banned in the US. But weapons around children are perfectly fine.
Ok a slight correction, kinder eggs are banned not due to choking hazards but rather a very old law that bans non-food items in food. It exists from a time to stop things like adding sawdust to flour to make the flour last longer, as well as other less scrumptious things.
I _love_ the Toxic Waste brand of sour candy! I buy their Smog Balls and Hazardously Sour Candy (the individually-wrapped candies inside the yellow container designed to resemble a nuclear waste barrel). I had no idea they ever made something the Nuclear Sludge candy bar, and I certainly didn't know it had high levels of lead in it. If I had more money to spare, I'd buy one of those candy bars - not to eat, but to have just for the sake of having it.
I like both green apple and lime. Skittles has multiple different flavors spanning across multiple different packs so there wasn't any excuse not to bring back lime in a separate pack from the original while also keeping green apple. Do you know why? Because they did it twice. In the orchard and darkside packs which for some reason were both discontinued.
Seeing toad rage again brought back memories of me seeing the book and being frightened over the cover. And the Skittles thing, i thought I was going crazy because people thought green apple was always the flavor and lime Skittles never existed. But yeah, I never liked green apple.
i suppose cause theyre smaller its ok? personally i like the m&m size they have its the only reeses candies i like now 🤔 (also youre the only one i saw bring them up)
When I was 10 I Started watching your vids 14 now and still watch them and love them no other youtuber kept me entertained like you love your vids strider
@@carlycarmine3858 my mom doesn't work, only my dad does, so unfortunately i may not be able to get my hands on one but perhaps i can convince her to buy two of the eggs
I was so confused when you said that Kinder was banned here in the US I didn’t know Kinder Joy was technically different. Learn something new everyday I suppose
There used to be an international store that sold Kinder Surprises in the USA. I got two of them, and I had no issue with smuggling them back to my home.
As a German, I loved the Kinder Eggs as a kid. I haven’t had them in a while though because I moved to America in 2014 and last had a Kinder Egg when we visited in 2019.
Oh man, Kinder Suprises are illegal in the USA? There's a lot of them in Poland and also most of Europe, they still do the toy collabs. At the end of 2022, they got recalled, but that was just Salmonella...
One point that was missed in the bit about Skittles is the fact that people would eat the Lemon and Lime Skittles together to make a Serra Mist, Sprite or 7up flavor in their mouth and you couldn't do that with the Green Apple flavor. That is why there was such a big uproar about the whole change. Also who remembers Wonder Ball?
About pronouncing the Lucas Limon product, as you explained, it is a Mexican product. Therefore, the word "Limon" is simply the Spanish word for "Lime." So, technically, it is meant to be written out as "Limón," with the pronunciation being "lee-MOHN." If you ever see a package of chips like Lay's being labeled as "Limón" flavor, this is the same thing. I hope that helps!
Lime skittles were more like key lime pie, sweet with a hint of sour. Green Apple, or sour apple, is generally more sour than lime flavors in candy. I, personally, preferred the lime flavor than sour apple, as I dislike sour foods and candy. I would eat a whole jalapeño before even considering eating a green, sour apple.
I don't think the kinder eggs should've ever been banned adults should just pay attention to the warning label and make sure their kids are eating it properly also who remembers wonder balls? I need them to bring those back
I loved life saver holes! I wish tangy life savers were still being made. For every person that likes green apple replacing lime, there’s about 10 more that hated it!
I mean...I get where you're coming from with the Lime Skittles: it's a preference thing. I've just never been a fan of apple candy; it's kinda the same problem I have with banana flavored candy: it just never tastes like the real thing. Maybe I'm just more in to sour things than sweet things? But I've always loved the Lime flavor the most; it changed over time to me having a sort of 3-way-tie with the Orange, Strawberry, and Grape flavors, but yeah...Apple just always tasted so gross to me. I think I remember they even briefly replaced Strawberry with Watermelon and...yeah...it was just straight-up nasty. :/
@@dnb5661 Why can't candy manufacturers ever make the stuff taste like the real deal? I'd rather regular watermelon before artificial watermelon flavor...and I don't even LIKE watermelon any more! O.o
I actually found an error, in 4:07 instead of putting the Australian flag you put the flag of New Zealand 🇳🇿 I don’t blame for you for this mistake because many people even my friends and family get confused with the two flags. It’s okay though Strider
The kinder eggs are EVERYWHERE in Europe! My cousin used to eat them when he was 3! He never choked on them, he just ate them and collected the toys ALSO!!! You are SUCH A GOOD YTBER!!!
4:12 Hol' up Josh , they still make those things?! Jesus, what rock have I been living under? I swear they stopped back in the early 2000s... Or maybe I just never saw them.. Wow.😮
I honestly prefer the Lime Skittles. I never even knew Lifesaver Holes existed until maybe five or so years ago and I doubt I would have liked the OG Four Loko (it got banned when I was 18,below America's legal drinking age) since I didn't like the current variant.
I actually did choke on a Life Savers as a child. I was at my grammy's house and had the bright idea to lie down on my back with it in my mouth, despite my mother's warnings. Once she realized what was happening, she dialed 911, and two policemen came to coach me on how to handle it. All throughout, the hole in the middle did actually allow me to breathe while it was lodged in my throat. I ended up just sitting there until it dissolved enough to slide the rest of the way down my throat. My mom wouldn't let me eat hard candy for some time after the whole ordeal.
Mr. Crane's brilliant idea really helped me in that situation. It's my fault for not heeding the advice of my mother. If you have children, nieces, nephews, or grandchildren, advise them about having good posture and not lying down while eating hard candy.
I once had a piece of hard candy that was life savers like when I was a teenager and it got stuck in my throat for a while before I coughed it out. I never touch hard candy since. I'm too scared. There was a episode of 30 Rock where Liz or someone said living alone means you have to worry about choking to death on food because nobody will save you, and that's definitely my worry.
Kind of strange policemen came instead of emergency medical technicians
@@milesdodson3510 They were the closest ones, and probably trained on things like the Heimlich maneuver and resuscitation.
This reminds me of a time I was eating a lollipop as a kid, it was shaped like lips so it was pretty wide. I was eating it and playing on my computer, then it fell off the stick and into my throat
It was a weird feeling because I could feel my throat being blocked, but I was breathing and talking just fine (tho it did hurt a bit) I told my mom and she just laughed, so I sat there and waited for it to dissolve 💀
Solid advice but include all food as a recall eating a lot of food on my back as a child not realizing the danger.
I appreciate the blonde lady being a fan of candy, a representative of candy manufacturers, and a member of the FDA banning candy as well. What a well rounded life she must lead!
That's actually his wife
HA-HA YOUR SoOOoOooOoOOo FUNNY
@@mummyman2031 sarcasm... how very British
@@carlycarmine3858 ...
@@mummyman2031 I'm guessing you're the woman mentioned in the above-mentioned clip?
Kinder Eggs are legal in the UK, but had to be recalled earlier this year, due to Salmonella being found in them. They're fine now.
Good
I can never find it tho
Salmonella? From the plastic toys?
@@handlesbelike I think it’s the chocolate
From the chocolate, it was in the chocolate
@@JustaHedgehoginSonicBoom What I mean is did the toys were dirty to get the egg sollemela?
I was mad that lime skittles were replaced by green apple, but I do feel like green apple skittles could still work if they were part of a subgroup of skittles like Darkside Skittles or something.
Personally, I find biting into a Granny Smith more unpleasant that drinking squirts of straight lime juice for vitamins.
The taste is just as sour but not as sweet, the fruit is hard as wood, and the fruit is awkwardly huge... big enough that you have to either bite away uselessly small nibbles or wrench away huge slabs which poke the roof of your mouth until mashed apart.
Granny Smiths are pretty much giant versions of normal apples that needed more time on the tree. But green apple CANDY tends to be tasty.
@@henrysokol3466 bro just cut the apple up into slices or something
@@mrspaghettiio I'm not the sort who make a bunch of apple slice I need Tupperware or a baggie to transport and which have to be fished out independently, when I could carry the whole apple around as a more convenient object I can just bite into on a whim._
That should be all I _need_ to do. Cutlery shouldn't be required to eat such fruit without complication.
@@henrysokol3466you have captured my feelings on granny Smith apples perfectly in words lmfao
And i have a lip ring so it's hard to eat awkwardly shaped things due to not being able to use a stud in my lip lmfaoo
Lime Skittles are bullshit and mistake to begin with
Green Skittles were perfection and should of stay
( you lime lovers have shitty taste, have you tasted a lime before)
I have never had the Toxic Waste bar. But man that sounds awful. I feel bad for anyone who ate them
I live in the UK and have 2 of them on my shelf (had 3 originally, but ate the third). I’ve seen these in a sweet shop as part of a selection pack thing, and didn’t know they were even recalled in the first place.
IDK if they were recalled globally or just in the US, but I’ll chuck mine in the bin anyway. They taste rubbish so nobody’s really missing out.
Eh there in uk and I guess I like led
I've had them. They're like Sour Warheads, except in a chewy candy bar form. To get lead poisoning from the candy, one would have to consume a significant amount of them, a couple dozen at least, in a day or two.
Yummy.
The only time I've had Toxic Waste candy, the sour coating was that strong it actually caused the skin lining the inside of my mouth to peel off in little stringy chunks. Never had that problem with Warheads, especially the Warheads sour soda, which has been making the rounds in my hometown. I once tried combining every flavour and charted the results of the colours. Mixing every can at once resulted in a delicious mass of purple.
That Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge Chew Bar looks like a snack that not even the Toxic Avenger would want to scarf down!
Exactly
It actually looks & sounds disgusting!
I don't even think Muk (a Pokémon that's literally polluted liquid), the TMNT (they were mutated by sewage into superheroes) or Hexus (a villain literally made from all types of pollution from Ferngully) would even touch it.
No the bar is made from died muks thats why muk doesnt eat it
Guess what arcade game is getting remade for 2024?
@@greenhowiewhich one?
Kinder Surprise is banned in the states, but a variation of them is legal in the states and the Yowie candies are also absolutely allowed in the states. I've had them both and they're pretty cool!
Also @PhantomStrider, the Lucas Limon candy is pronounced "lee-MON". It's a Mexican brand, so it's pronounced the Spanish way. :)
Why are Yowie candies legal but not Kinder candies? What’s the difference that makes one acceptable and not the other?
Fun fact Pixar made the cgi life saver holes commercial
@mrsomicsimpsonmam7202, really? That is so cool. I love Disney and Pixar. I've never had Life Saver Holes. I loved Life Saver Mints and Gummies, yum.
This must have been before they got famous for making toys come to life in movies.
I just love phantom strider's voice. He could read the dictionary and I'd watch every minute of it. Keep up the good work.
I’ve actually had the sludge bar, to be honest, it wasn’t great, it was very bitter for me and the sourness was VERY overwhelming (which I guess makes sense), I would give it a 2\10, I hope someone finds this interesting
Edit: guess lots of people found this interesting
Thank you. I never got to try it myself. I appreciate your review of the taste!
I thought Lifesavers were named that because they were shaped like life preserver rings.
I suppose I'm half right.
Same here. It looks a bit like life preserver rings so...
Actually the myth is wrong it is because of the boat things
The only questionable message I got from the Trolli Roadkill is that it's OK to eat dead things you find on the highway.
it is
@@user-gj7lp5iz6k what
Actually, as an American, I'm not 100% sure about the kinder surprise egg (before you ask, its not joy version, i even bought one. I find em a bit gross imo). I see em all the time at Walmart! They don't seem popular though as they're always filled. So either my Walmart is pulling an illegal operation or it varies state to state (from Pennsylvania).
I see them at various Walmarts in North Carolina so it could vary from state to state but I see them all the time
The US has Kinder Joy eggs, not Kinder Surprise. They're a bit different. Surprise eggs are chocolate eggs with a toy inside. Joy eggs split in 2 sealed halves: one side has the toy, the other has a creamy filling with 2 chocolate wafer things. Since the toy is separated, the FDA considers it less of a choking hazard
The eggs that are banned are the ones that are ENROBED in chocolate. Which is understandable. Cause you know kids be dumb and I can definitely see teens making challenges of swallowing them whole.
I've seen yowies being sold and even wonder balls. But the toy is always on the outside in a separate container.
Kinder joys are so good
I love eating trolli stuff so seeing that they actually had a "roadkill" version of it was both surprising and also kind of scary too.
Complaining about a grossout candy is a bit odd though. This animal rights group is aghast at candies shaped like roadkill but is fine with candies shaped like bears, worms, and other animals?
@@Craxin01 I assume they talked about that specific candy from the angle of 'promoting animal cruelty' more than anything
@@luigifan4585 That's like saying gummy bears promotes eating bears. It's a candy, a novelty, not a serious endorsement of behaviors.
@@Craxin01 Animal rights groups aren't known for being the brightest
@@paragon4770 They tend to be self-defeating, that's for sure. I'm all for the ethical treatment of animals, we probably should stop factory farming of animals for a number of reasons, but putting the needs of animals over human beings is more than a little silly. They often care more about poor treatment of livestock than they do the migrant workers picking their organic, locally sourced kale.
What I don't get is why Kinder Surprise are banned in the US...but I've seen Yowies (or something with a different name) where I live, and Yowies are basically the same concept.
A 3 year old girl died because of Kinder Surprise.
@@JustaHedgehoginSonicBoomyeah but people shouldn’t be arrested for carrying them there not emitting harmful radiation
@@JustaHedgehoginSonicBoom a 3 year old dies from lots of things every day
I think that's the least worrying thing that ain't banned there
It’s been a while since I had one, but don’t they have an outer rim of plastic (protruding from the toy capsule) separating the two pieces of chocolate? So technically not fully enclosed? Might be thinking of a different chocolate egg tho
Kinderjoy has been a thing forever here they are sold in the summer instead of the normal ones (though strangely i also found them this winter in the store)
It's not the original version tho with a little plastic egg that holds the toy in the middle
>Doesn't drink alcohol and prefers iced tea.
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well.
7:13-8:44 I only knew about LifeSavers Holes because Pixar animated the commercials for it. Which actually makes the clip from Toy Story 3 at the end of that part very appropriate.
Huh, I'd always assumed it was because it was shaped kind of like the emergency flotation device, but the actual explanation makes sense in this context, as well.
I wonder if it's possible for the company to convert the Holes into regular Lifesaver candies.
I see "Limón", the Spanish word for "lemon", and say /lee-MOAN/.
I learned something new from this video today from the Lifesavers candy part; That's why Polo mints have those holes!
I always thought it was just to look cool (no pun intended), but now I know, it is to prevent choking. 😄
They don't stamp Lifesavers like they do yeasted doughnuts. They're poured onto a mold stamped out of corn starch; hole already formed.
Oh I actually heard that the Commercial for Life Savors Holes was actually done by Pixar, and was one of their first public animation deals aside from their shorts.
@Mr. Zach the Nostalgic Guy it's a great lesson that tells up that we all get our start somewhere.
Whom ever thought a sour bar would have worked must never work in a sweet factory
Sour candy and spicy came are very popular all over the world
I remember Kinder Eggs from my easters, especially the big ones. Man, those were great memories for me, I always loved them!
These lists always fascinate me and, in many cases, bring about some serious nostalgia. Thanks for these videos!
I've had and enjoyed candy-flavored fruit (cotton candy grapes) which is a treat. How about covering some 'top ten foods with unexpected flavors' or something like that? I love your videos ^^ Figured I'd toss this idea out there, you can probably make it sound better/modify it to make sense though.
Apparently, those Yowie candies are popular at anime conventions. I don't recall ever seeing them being sold at them, but I hear people saying that name a lot whenever I'm at a con. Also, Limon is pronounced Lee-mown. Like own, but starting with an M.
That’s Yaoi, which is something VERY different.
Oh God, who's gonna tell them-
Yaoi is male-male romance (and NSFW sometimes)
@@coolfinel Nobody calls yaoi lemon anymore, beisdes Bara is the new standard
He doesn’t know…. 😬. Ima just tell you there not obsessed with yowie candies
I would’ve never thought something as child friendly and wholesome as Kinder Surprise Eggs would have a Black Market behind them.
I guess you learn something new everyday.
time for a new phantom strider video, these are educational in a different way from other youtubers, lets freaking go!
I love how he’s serious and also funny in his videos
@@GoofyAhhBoxy same
I learned that the holes in Polo mints are not just to look cool (no pun intended at all), but are to prevent choking, because the Lifesavers candy have those same holes & donut shapes.
Oh shut up!
A couple food based lists that would be interesting to see you make would be 10 fruits and vegetables(or other non lolly/junk foods like dairy, meat) that are illegal in other countries or 10 regional dishes/specialities that are illegal in other countries (like haggis or cazu marzu for example).
Always makes me happy to see a notification saying PhantomStrider posted a video!
Same 🙂
I think my favorite part about why Kinder Eggs got banned in America is that supposedly Mars Candy filed the suit about choking hazards because they feared the competition from a foreign brand.
L Mars
Honestly doubt it. It's just one product owned by Ferrero, which doesn't do many candy products compared to, say, Hershey's or Mars themselves. Plus, the Kinder Surprise Eggs DO violate a law, which when banned had been around for around 50 years, in the US that prohibits hidden inedible objects in food, as stated in the video. Chances are, the FDA spotted it before a suit had been made and the eggs were promptly banned due to the blatant lack of validity under US law.
I used to love Lucas Limon candy as a kid. I remember kids in Elementary school pouring it on their Lay's potato chips and Flamin Hot Cheetos. This was before the Limon flavor hot Cheetos existed.
I had never been aware of the backlash Skittles had gotten when they replaced the Lime ones with Green Apple!
You have no idea how happy I was when they brought back lime! I hate green apple. I literally threw them away 😂
I don't like lime flavors, period. Sad to see that apple was so hated
@@mxdramapixie I didn’t feel like having to pick the green apples out so I just didn’t buy any during those years 😂
The worst thing was thinking you got a lime skittle only for it to taste like a weird apple. It didn't even taste like a good green apple!
@@MeilokkI know
Lime skittles are bullsh🤬🤬🤬
The Kinder Egg contraband was something I wasn't expecting at all
Me too
Today I Found Out has a comprehensive video about this: th-cam.com/video/ffzbfO0c5Qs/w-d-xo.html
You can’t even hide them up your arse as they’d melt.
I honestly love the idea of roadkill themed candy it’s delightfully macabe
Awesome new video as always :) Also I'm loving the Plants Vs. Zombies music playing in the background of #4 lol 😂
Toxic Waste is meant to be toxic from being overly sour, not lead!
For those confused about the surprise eggs what he doesn't mention is there actually was an incident not with kinder surprise, but with the rival company nestle's wonderball where a 2 year old a kid did choke on the toy prompting the banning I remember being really pissed as a kid when the wonderball was discontinued because they had tiny Disney figures in them which I was trying to collect
The Reece's Bites along with Butterfinger BB's were my favorite from childhood. The petition part had me laughing so hard.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same bonehead that left the lead candy out on shelves was the same idiot that allowed the CSI Fingerprint Toy that had ASBESTOS in it...
Very entertaining and enjoyable video as always Strider! As a suggestion for a future video, how about one of foods that you like but everyone else hates and vice versa? I think that would be entertaining as well as informative, by adding facts and nutritional knowledge to each food in the videos.
We don't buy Kinder eggs anymore because one of our dogs kept chewing the capsules. We had removed the toys inside of the capsules, and gave the capsules to our dog. Never got them again, so hearing the sad news about them being banned is upsetting
Wait why would you give something to your dog that they can easily choke on…?
@@Dogsnacc She was always interested in them
@@pinkgirl294 seems a little careless on your end . Thankfully she didn’t get hurt
Good video! Since you like branching into other topics, I was thinking of doing one like "Top 10 strangest internet mysteries" or "Top 10 ARGs". That'd be interesting to see!
10. Why was there lead in this candy?! 😱
9. The design of that candy was done in poor taste 😬
8. Makes sense, though a bit excessive 😅
7. I used to eat those as a kid, but I can see why it was recalled
6. Hippy Sippy? The most hilarious name for candy ever, but yeah probably for the best it's gone 😂
5. Reese's Bites? Never heard of them, but I can see why it got discontinued
4. Green Apple Skittles? Eww no thanks! 🤢🤮
3. Space Dust? Understandable, but excessive
2. Joose? WTF even is this? It doesn't even look like candy at all 😤
1. Lucas Limon'? This candy is *UNACCEPTABLE!* 😡
Great video as always PhantomStrider! 👍🏿
It's not reasonsable to excessively ban kinder eggs. There is bigger fish to fry in the USA. Allow adults to import Kinder Eggs to share and just be more careful. Fining 300 over a toy is insane.
Oh grow up. Lime green was the aame as yellow lemon.. green apple was amazing
You don't realize just how much lead is in our environment. The ban of leaded petroleum is only about 50 years old now and we're STILL dealing with the effect of burning something containing lead. It's in the water, it's in the soil, so of course it's in the food we eat. The candy had twice the legal limit, which means someone eating two of the other candy is going to get the same amount. They should have looked into what source they were using had the lead in it and done something about it, but if you think you aren't consuming lead regularly, you're fooling yourself.
@ラット魔王 for real. Kinder eggs are like my favorite chocolate. God I love kinder eggs
@@dankmemes8619 I would be more lenient to just not have them easily on the shelves because parents birthed a crotch fruit that will potentially die due to their neglectful parents. Kinder EGGS aren't worth fining people 300 dollars. I tried Yowie chocolates, which they're mediocre, but the fact Kinder Eggs are 100% banned in the USA is dumb.
I wait for the day this channel uploads it's so informative and fun and I love the cute black ghost🤣
How does lead even _accidentally_ find its way into candy? I can understand how it happens with things like toys since lead is used to make cheap paint, but _candy?_ Are they tryin'a' use paint instead of food coloring?
I don't know, but I would guess it's some improperly maintained factory or something like that. But it could be something completely different.
Cross contamination probably
“ Workout, plenty of rest, you know eat your green vegetables.” Peter Parker
15:35 Space dust sounds like a drug some guy would try to sell you on the street
It wasn't one of the candies talked about, but I remember seeing Camel Balls candy in a candy store on the boardwalk once. I honestly couldn't believe it was a real candy being sold in a candy store supposedly aimed at children. I'm not sure if it was recalled or banned, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
Sounds exactly like something they would eat in a Bush Tucker Trial on I'm a Celebrity
Lots of candy stores sell weird things. One in my area has edible crickets.
Doesn't sound like it was banned, that sounds like a tourist candy more designed for adults to pick up, I've definitely seen different animal balls ones as well as various animal poops
I've seen candy shaped like privates & candy that is weed flavoured, both at some sweet shop in Blackpool (yes, weird candy is also in the UK). They're the weirdest candies I have seen in my life so far.
i find it really funny
"Howdy Howdy." Where the fuck is the ghost being like "Yah!"
I was initially confused on seeing Skittles in the thumbnail, wondering if there was a choking hazard incident but upon hearing lime got replaced, I was like “oh yeah, I remember that!”
I like green apple as well (and it can still be found with a different flavor) but I think a lot of people were really used to the flavor combination of Original and that’s why the backlash was so immense.
What I find endlessly hilarious is the fact that we also have Yowie Surprise (really good chocolate, btw) available in the US, but we can only get the Kinder Joy eggs.
It is weird isn't it lol. Yowie's the nicer-tasting chocolate in my opinion anyway 😄
I would recommend you try Kinder Joy if you can, as the the chocolate side is actually really good, with small Ferro Rocher type treats in a cream base. The toys still tend to be cheap of course, but the candy itself is better.
Apparently people in the US south (I’m from northeastern US myself so no actual experience) literally take roadkill sometimes and turn it into soup. Yes Roadkill soup is a thing….
That's messed up...
@@stanthemanmmmm9126 agreed
@@stanthemanmmmm9126 yes it’s disgusting….
A star walks into a black hole but doesn't seen phased. The black hole then turns to the star and says, "I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."
"I get it. It ain't makin' me laugh, but I get it."
The only Kinder products we have in America are the chocolates,Bueno,and the Hippos during Christmas. I had to get someone to bring me Surprise Eggs over from Canada or New Zealand. I did find them for sale in Knoxville a few years back...for 3 bucks an egg.
As someone named Tanner who's alltime favorite candy is Reese's, I think I've found my evil doppelganger 😅 (great vid as always!!)
The Life Savers story is interesting although unfortunately not true! Crane put a hole in them to make them stand out against the pillow-shaped mints he was competing against. They were called Life Savers because of their shape, which resembles a life-saver that you would find on a ship.
There is still a little irony in the real story, though. One of his sons committed suicide by jumping off of a ship's stern. (This was many years after the candy's invention. )
4:07 you gotta love how he uses a stock video of New Zealand's flag for representing Australia
Editing mistake?
Holy Heisenberg, Josh, you _ROCK!!_ I _love_ how you included a short clip from the JN movie!!! Granted, it helped you illustrate what you were discussing, but I love that you did that! You're flippin' awesome!!! 🤩
Living in the US, I actually prefer the yowies chocolate egg then the kinder joy. Its flavor and the joy of having the toy inside is way better :)
Saw a stall in my town that sold packs of candy bars, I picked one up and there was about 4 toxic waste bars in them! (Had no idea about the recall, so I ate them) this was only a few months ago aswell...
I preferred the lime Skittles, but I wasn't too upset about it. I just really like citrus, especially citrus candy 😋
In my 50 years of living, working 25 years as a pediatric nurse, I never heard of a child bring hurt by a Kinder Surprise Egg. I have had them as a child, and so does nearly every child I know. Just take away toys that are too small for little children.
Really bizarre it is banned in the US. But weapons around children are perfectly fine.
Ok a slight correction, kinder eggs are banned not due to choking hazards but rather a very old law that bans non-food items in food. It exists from a time to stop things like adding sawdust to flour to make the flour last longer, as well as other less scrumptious things.
I _love_ the Toxic Waste brand of sour candy! I buy their Smog Balls and Hazardously Sour Candy (the individually-wrapped candies inside the yellow container designed to resemble a nuclear waste barrel). I had no idea they ever made something the Nuclear Sludge candy bar, and I certainly didn't know it had high levels of lead in it. If I had more money to spare, I'd buy one of those candy bars - not to eat, but to have just for the sake of having it.
As a person in the UK, I think they remade the nuclear sludge bar because I see it sometimes in stores or in a toxic waste bundle
Ayy I was watching a bunch of your videos earlier today, very happy to see another one to watch today :)
Loving your videos Strider! New sub
It’s always a good day when Phantom strider posts a new video
I am absolutely with you on the green apple Skittles being better than the lime. Also thank you for making me want to eat fruit!
"People don't usually bite into a lime"
Lemon Skittle: *sweats profusely*
I like both green apple and lime. Skittles has multiple different flavors spanning across multiple different packs so there wasn't any excuse not to bring back lime in a separate pack from the original while also keeping green apple. Do you know why? Because they did it twice. In the orchard and darkside packs which for some reason were both discontinued.
Seeing toad rage again brought back memories of me seeing the book and being frightened over the cover.
And the Skittles thing, i thought I was going crazy because people thought green apple was always the flavor and lime Skittles never existed. But yeah, I never liked green apple.
So Reeses bits got discontinued... and then it came back in the form of Reeses Pieces...?
i suppose cause theyre smaller its ok? personally i like the m&m size they have its the only reeses candies i like now 🤔 (also youre the only one i saw bring them up)
When I was 10 I Started watching your vids 14 now and still watch them and love them no other youtuber kept me entertained like you love your vids strider
Oddly enough, even though Kinder eggs are banned here, the gas station near my house sells them (Yes, the original versions with the toy inside!)
Get a couple of em and for god's sake hide them while you're walking home, let me know what you think
@@carlycarmine3858 I could try but idk if my parents want me to buy sugary choco eggs.. lol
@@birthdayboyblam. just get it while the stricter of the two are at work and wait to take it out until you get to your room
@@carlycarmine3858 my mom doesn't work, only my dad does, so unfortunately i may not be able to get my hands on one but perhaps i can convince her to buy two of the eggs
@@birthdayboyblam. well get one either way, because goodness knows no place near me sells em
You're a legend for showing the NZ drunk driving commercial during the Joose segment.
I was so confused when you said that Kinder was banned here in the US I didn’t know Kinder Joy was technically different. Learn something new everyday I suppose
There used to be an international store that sold Kinder Surprises in the USA. I got two of them, and I had no issue with smuggling them back to my home.
I think that’s where I found them too, well at least at a similar store.
As a German, I loved the Kinder Eggs as a kid. I haven’t had them in a while though because I moved to America in 2014 and last had a Kinder Egg when we visited in 2019.
I don't understand how kids can choke on the toys when they come in big, plastic yolks. Anyway, sorry about that.
Hi PhantomStrider. This is an amazing video. Have you ever considered doing a top 10 Harry Potter TV video on what you want to see?
Oh man, Kinder Suprises are illegal in the USA? There's a lot of them in Poland and also most of Europe, they still do the toy collabs. At the end of 2022, they got recalled, but that was just Salmonella...
I am from the US and I used to love seeing them in Poland
One point that was missed in the bit about Skittles is the fact that people would eat the Lemon and Lime Skittles together to make a Serra Mist, Sprite or 7up flavor in their mouth and you couldn't do that with the Green Apple flavor. That is why there was such a big uproar about the whole change. Also who remembers Wonder Ball?
I’ve always wanted to try the kinder eggs bc I always watched those vids-
I don’t watch them anymore obviously but i wanna try them still
Meanwhile, in a US jail:
"So what are you in for?"
"I took chocolate eggs across the border."
About pronouncing the Lucas Limon product, as you explained, it is a Mexican product. Therefore, the word "Limon" is simply the Spanish word for "Lime."
So, technically, it is meant to be written out as "Limón," with the pronunciation being "lee-MOHN." If you ever see a package of chips like Lay's being labeled as "Limón" flavor, this is the same thing. I hope that helps!
Spanish major myself, thanks for the tip!
"These toys are cheaper than happy meals toys" 😂💀
Please Do Top 6 Worst Turkish Cartoons!
Lime skittles were more like key lime pie, sweet with a hint of sour. Green Apple, or sour apple, is generally more sour than lime flavors in candy. I, personally, preferred the lime flavor than sour apple, as I dislike sour foods and candy. I would eat a whole jalapeño before even considering eating a green, sour apple.
I don't think the kinder eggs should've ever been banned adults should just pay attention to the warning label and make sure their kids are eating it properly also who remembers wonder balls? I need them to bring those back
I vaguely remember commercials for Wonder Balls but never had one.
@@MaryS2022 I remember having them occasionally but not often
I loved life saver holes! I wish tangy life savers were still being made.
For every person that likes green apple replacing lime, there’s about 10 more that hated it!
I mean...I get where you're coming from with the Lime Skittles: it's a preference thing. I've just never been a fan of apple candy; it's kinda the same problem I have with banana flavored candy: it just never tastes like the real thing. Maybe I'm just more in to sour things than sweet things? But I've always loved the Lime flavor the most; it changed over time to me having a sort of 3-way-tie with the Orange, Strawberry, and Grape flavors, but yeah...Apple just always tasted so gross to me. I think I remember they even briefly replaced Strawberry with Watermelon and...yeah...it was just straight-up nasty. :/
Artificial watermelon is by far the worst next to green apple and orange
@@dnb5661 Why can't candy manufacturers ever make the stuff taste like the real deal? I'd rather regular watermelon before artificial watermelon flavor...and I don't even LIKE watermelon any more! O.o
New movie, Reese’s chocolate saves the world.
I actually found an error, in 4:07 instead of putting the Australian flag you put the flag of New Zealand 🇳🇿 I don’t blame for you for this mistake because many people even my friends and family get confused with the two flags. It’s okay though Strider
He said "balls" so many times 💀
The kinder eggs are EVERYWHERE in Europe! My cousin used to eat them when he was 3! He never choked on them, he just ate them and collected the toys
ALSO!!! You are SUCH A GOOD YTBER!!!
Fun fact: when I was 9 visiting Canada, I actually MANAGED to smuggle a kinder surprise egg across the border!
Good thing you didn’t get caught
4:12 Hol' up Josh , they still make those things?! Jesus, what rock have I been living under? I swear they stopped back in the early 2000s... Or maybe I just never saw them.. Wow.😮
I still remember cigarette shaped chocolates back in primary school 😂
Y’all know it’s the best day when Strider uploads Lmao
I honestly prefer the Lime Skittles. I never even knew Lifesaver Holes existed until maybe five or so years ago and I doubt I would have liked the OG Four Loko (it got banned when I was 18,below America's legal drinking age) since I didn't like the current variant.