Top 20 Products That Were Banned After People Died
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- These deadly products were taken off the shelves. For this list, we’ll be looking at various items, not including medical products, that were banned or recalled after someone passed away using them. Our countdown includes Burger King Pokéballs, Peloton Tread+, Ford Pinto, FCKD UP, Kinder Surprise Eggs, and more! Which of these stories do you think is the scariest? Let us know in the comments below!
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@@johnlima1703 *WHAT!? WHAT THE FUCK!?*
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The floor mats one. It’s sooooooooooooooo scary
So basically most of this cases are actually because of people's stupidity and, let's be honest, parents negligence 😒🙄
We need to let natural selection run its course
"ONLY IN AMERICA"
Only in murica you can neglect your child and sue a company for it.
... or sue McDonald's for "hot" coffee and win nearly $3M. But kind of dumb for McDonald's as the lady suing only wanted her medical bills paid ($20k) as a result for 3 degree burns. 🤔
Yes. Parents should have more common sense. But that airbag Tanaka are very tragic. From my hometown in Borneo, there was a 8 months old pregnant woman died when she got involved in a minor accident and was hit by the shrapnels from the airbags. The fake milks are the worst. Some people put profit over life.
As a German I'm still baffled about the ban of Kinder eggs in the USA.
Vor dem Video, ich auch. Jetzt? Jetzt glaub ich die Amis haben eine Oralfixierung, sprich das sie alles in den Mund nehmen müssen selbst wenn es giftig ist.
Mich wunderts nur das die hier nicht diese Reinigunsbeutel aufgeführt haben. Die die wie Bonbons aussehen.
@@hellraider2006 Tide pods?
We have them in Canada so yeah it's weird.
as an american, i don’t get it either lol
I was going to agree... then I remembered Tommy Lee Jones' most memorable scene in Men in Black: 'A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it.'
The USA clearly need to teach people to read because WHY THE SHIT DID EVERYONE ELSE KNOW KINDA EGGS HAD TOYS IN THEM
The American population can't even maths correctly. They had a ban on Poke balls, too, because they assumed a child who is only 1 and a half years old is old enough for a 5 year + plastic ball. Of course these same idiots are too dense to read packaging that literally says and is marketing to have a "surprise" inside. Even the marketing said "surprise TOY". I, also, agree with you on the Peloton treadmill thing as well. Since treadmills have always been a thing long before Peloton, the injuries and fatalities is, again, at the fault of the consumer.
Don't they chew stuff which is supposed to be eaten? Or do they swallow this whole egg in one?! I am utterly confused...
It's like bobba or milktea pearls. Some people (boomers and millenials) hate them because the tapioca pearls are a choking hazard. I was baffled when I've seen some news about people choking on them. Meanwhile, Asian countries still love chewing on the tapioca pearls with our milktea
@@charliejoson9145 I´m millenial,, i love boba,, is a drink that you can chew
@@satsukysusume - but I've read about the part that "boba is a 'choking hazard'" some time ago when the boba craze first appeared in the U.S. But back then I didn't want to comment that boba pearls....or tapioca pearls are meant to be chewed. Apparently, children choked on the pearls.
i love how companies always get blamed for stupid children and careless parents. What's a toddler doing near a running treadmill? Let's ban everything mechanical, electrical, heavy, or smaller than a soccer ball.
lazy parents who won't accept the blame of their negligence.
Also especially with Kinder surprise how are these retarded kids trying to swallow that whole Plastic egg that’s larger than an adult’s throat.
Thank u
@@4Corry part snake?
Right. I would never blame the company for the death of a child.
I DO understand the thing with the pokeballs, HOWEVER toys you get from burger king, McDonald's etc do tend to say that the toys aren't recommended to be given to children under the ages of 3 or 4 years old so the fact that the child that died and the one that almost did should not have been playing with or given the toys so the parents should also have checked that these BABIES weren't able to access them.
As I said in the beginning I do understand they concern and people wanting them stopped and recalled because a child of 3 or 4, or even older, could also do the same thing BUT in these to incidents the toys shouldn't have been accessible to those two babies either! Xxxx
Exactly
Who's the irresponsible party? like why are you giving an 18mo old a pokeball that seems like the parents are at fault
How hard is it to mold in small holes in the toy so there’s no chance of suffocation?
@@joermnyc how hard is it to keep an eye on what goes into your kids mouth
@@Dracoboy94 kids are fast
Some of these products were the parents' fault, not the makers. Who the hell lets a small child on a treadmil??
I don't see how the Peloton was more dangerous than an average treadmill...
@@slowanddeliberate6893 I think because it was open on both ends, many tread mills only have the top of the belt exposed, with plastic covers over the part where the belt wraps around. Kids were getting pulled under the machine.
That maybe true
Mike Tyson lost his 4 year old daughter after being strangled by a treadmill cord
@@ChonkyCat9000 why let a four year old near a machine??
Some of these are just parents not watching their kids, not necessarily the product's fault.
You are correct
Right
Im baffled that adults choking on a kinder egg
That's what I thought about the Poké Balls: _"Where the fuck were the parents??"_ You're going to let your baby play with that with no supervision whatsoever when it's clearly not meant for kids that young?
But then again maybe I was just sheltered. When I was little enough that choking was a real hazard (the late '80s) my mom had a little tube that was specifically made to be the average size of a child's throat to make sure my food was cut small enough to not be a choking hazard (especially things like hot dogs), and she paid attention to my toys until she knew I was old enough to know better than to put the damn things in my mouth.
Unfortunately, some parents can’t be held responsible for inability to watch their kids. It’s considered “easier” to sue a company for their product, than it is for some parents to admit their shortcomings.
"No sir it was pokemon" "no that's a danger treadmill" maybe learn to be parents? Shit, when my nieces and nephews started to crawl I was always behind then.
Agreed!! Why was your "small child" messing with it to begin with! Watch your kids !
No apologies needed, i blame the parents
@@stephie-jaxx3216 Its common sense, you don't have to be a parent to know that a babies/infants life is/should/needs to be the main priority.
I know. My niece is 15 months old and the only time she’s alone is when she is sleeping in her crib. And even then we still watch her on a baby monitor
@@hilarywitt exactly! Even right now that my niece is 9, I still watch the candy she eats 😅 and always tell her to sit up when she's eating a piece. Kids need full attention.
Hey, parents who's toddlers choke to death on small plastic toys: How about you watch your kid better and don't let them play with objects that are choking hazards, instead of blaming the ones selling them. It's not Burger King's fault that you are too stupid to know that kids at that age put everything in their mouth. It's like letting your kid play with matches and then blame the manufacturer after your house burned down.
So true👆
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And Kinder Surprise those people literally just gobbled the entire egg and not watching the ad and I believe most of the people who died were kids and the parents were not watching over them.
And of course the parents blamed it on the company.
Unfortunately when you create things for kids you have to know that shit can happen 🤷🏿♀️
Take the necessary precautions so it doesnt .
The Kinder Egg being banned after someone dying was stupid.
Expected anything else from americans? It wasn't baned because people died btw. It was baned because Ferrero took a share big enough to threaten american candy manufacturers.
@@peterpain6625 oh.
Sorry.
It also really dumb for the parents blame the company, like dude it they fault for not watching their kids well hope they understand and let kinder egg Punic
Well, in the US you can sue a company because your hot coffee is hot and make millions....
Half this list is parents not keeping an eye on their kids. I'm 30 and even I knew about the surprise in a kinder eggs. My aunt also owns yawn darts and I love have fun with my cousins. We all know not to me fucking stupid.
Kratom needs to be studied and offered instead of banned...
No one can get pain pills. So people turn to kratom. Take that away wtf. ..
@@dragonturner1119 What country do you live in? My chronic pain is easily managed by Tylenol or Advil, which people can easily get OTC. And I don't have mild pain. My knees are super screwed up and sometimes I can't even walk from the pain, and I have pretty terrible arthritis in my shoulder that even affects my back and chest. OTC pain pills really help with it all. Kratom and weed aren't even a consideration.
Pharma has it's own agenda. Also, the dead that were reported, included other drugs in the system.
I want to know why they made it like an opiate.
The fact that Kinder surprise eggs are banned in the States, yet something notoriously dangerous for obvious reasons, such as assault-styled weapons aren't, is INSANE!
Edit: If that doesn't make you made, nothing will.
You would think cigarettes would be on the list, but that tax money makes them smoke so well
Reading this while 🚬...
Bruh 🤣
I Mostly Blame The Parents of That 13 and 18 Month old Girl for Bringing her That PokeBall in The First place
Edit : I didn't Exist in 1999 and I Got This Info On TH-cam
Me too
This video forgot to mention those that died with kratom in their systems also had illicit or Rx drugs in their systems. Kratom was never determined to be the cause of their deaths.
But it threatened the pharma industry. People needed to be kept addicted to Opitates! Even if they never needed them in the first place.
@@peterpain6625 This this this. It's similar to Big Tobacco wanting to ban vapes. Not necessarily because it's more dangerous, but because it takes money out of their pockets.
I wonder how not faulty products like pencils or forks aren't banned yet...
Give it time. I bet when the "forever empire" of the Trump dynasty has ruined the country the only thing you are allowed to use as utensil is a rubber spoon. I'd say 2 decades and the us is back in the stone age...
Hang on products recalled or cancelled, due either to parental errors and bad supervision, or choice of toy given to their child, or let's be honest people's stupidity!
So it's okay for children to die... is this your point?
@@davidhoward437 uh, no. Holding the parents accountable for their poor choices and bad supervision is NOT equal to saying that it‘s OK for children to die. Please learn how to think more logically and critically.
Kinder Eggs were banned, but not guns.
Sad to think how easily the human body can die
Right? Our body is so soft, but more importantly, we spend so much time working on ourselves, on our interests, on our jobs, having family and friends, and in a moment all that personality is gone just like that. Absolutely horrifying.
Surprised about the Peleton Tredmill. They push those commercials down your throat. All treadmills can be harmful to kids and pets.
Virtually every death of kratom in the US also showed other extensive drugs in their system at the time.
Yeah, it's absurd that fact is not mentioned
It's called pushing our own agenda, including this channel.
THATS JUST WRONG
"pokey mon" - that's "How do you do fellow kids" material
Totally
There’s a reason why there is an accent on the letter e.
@@RedChaos1208 The original Japanese pronunciation isn't pronounced like the Fonz's catchphrase so the é doesn't make any sense.
What about Rely Tampons? Procter & Gamble had recalled the product in 1980 after women had died of TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). Which prompted other tampon manufacturers to include the warning.
What warning? "Don't keep it in a decade!"
@@peterpain6625 Are you being ignorant about the safety of tampons since the Rely Tampon scare? After the Rely Tampon scare, many Tampon manufacturers had include the warning that tampons, particularly highly absorbency tampons (super and super plus) may cause TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome).
This is why I use maxipads.
When I was 16, my car’s accelerator also got stuck by a car mat. I had little to no car knowledge at this time, and I still don’t, yet immediately knew to put the car in neutral. Of course I panicked for what felt like forever, I was driving up a busy highway’s on-ramp to possibly kill myself and/or others. It worked, and I still don’t know why I knew it would work. An airbag also caught my hair on fire, but that’s another story.
The family dying because of the toyota issue made me sad. Imagine how terrifying it must feel that you cannot protect your family and you desperately seek a way to save them. Or seeing your dad trying to save you and being filled with a sense of dread, hoping deep inside that Daddy will find a way out of this one. I just... Can't.
Edit: Wait, why did the 911 officer not tell him to shift to neutral?
I agree but I also can't help but think. Put the vehicle in neutral.
I thought many of those Brake Failures were Floormats getting wedged under the pedals...
@@codystewart177 I never got that either? But I dont have the heart to re-listen
@@codystewart177 if only...
Panic must have clouded their thinking because they could have slipped the gear shift to Neutral.
14 year old female teen drinking alcohol, I wouldn't blame the specific drink just alcohol poisoning.
Blame the product. Never the irresponsible parents. Classic.
I always ate the old Kinder Suprise in my childhood, so I wondered why it changed into Kinder Joy, so the previous design was banned :(
And it’s all the peoples fault that it was banned because they didn’t watch the ad and know that a freaking toy was inside and died to it and now it’s banned which sucks.
Sorry
Outside the USA you have Kinder eggs and Kinder joy, 2 different sweets.
I feel like that 13 out of 20 of this list was caused by kids.
Specially, unsupervised kids.
No you can’t blame the fucking kids bro. Blame the parents. Who really should’ve known better !!
Nobody cares about your feelings
@@ARC1300 For real though, people are getting dumber, watch your kids carefully and these things won’t happen
@@neromauritzen9083 See a psychiatrist. Soon.
When you got people that don't use the product the way it was intended for and then blame the makers as defect or dangerous! Now that is just Sad!
#20 isn't there an age warning for toys like this?
Yes. But apparently reading and basic math left them when giving their 1 year old a 5+ year old toy.
@@ArtistChibi that is REALLY what it seems
Parents refuse to read... or to care.
Jeeze! I didn't see pencils on the list. Long, sharp, lead center. You could poke an eye out! Really, we had lawn darts, a couple of Pintos, crib bumpers & baby carriers, Pokeballs and more. We're all still alive and unharmed. All it takes is one incident of "Oops, the kid got into it and almost died" for an irresponsible parent to sue and shut down an entire company, putting hundreds out of work and the fun product destroyed.
Never did I think that Kinder Surprise of all products would cause a murder.
In Germany, Kinder Suprise is the most popular chocolate😅
That's true, I still buy them sometimes just for fun and I'm 34.
Most of these are reasonable, but kinder eggs being included pisses me off…. I always hope they won’t be included in lists like these, but they always are. I hate the lawsuit culture of the United states.
A lot of these were the direct result of people abusing or missusing the products, so responsability and guilt should be shared equally between companies and customers.
Uh huh
Americans: We can't have this dangerous toys
Also Americans:Selling guns like bread 🍞
🤷🤷🤷
yup Americans are inconsistent if you consider guns are toys
Does anyone else remember Wonder Balls? They were kind of like kinder eggs but they had little candies inside of them instead of a toy. I loved those when I was a kid.
I remember those! We used to get them in Christmas stockings and Easter baskets every year growing up!
I remember playing with lawn darts at my grandparents house as a kid. We thought they were great fun back then, but being children, didn't think about the dangers. I can't believe our parents allowed us to play with them.
America banning a chocolate egg because someone dies, also America, here buy a gun
Dang, what were just supposed to be products for people apparently they turned into killing machines
I don't wish ill on anyone who doesn't know,
But it's their job to test & be tested!
If they knew about dangers: Sentence, Sue, Recall & Compensate away!
I feel bad for people's losses.
Very informative video.
Takata airbags caused 2 deaths in my country. A pregnant mother died and a mother died in a minor accident leaving her children orphaned.
To my knowledge, no person has ever died from consuming kratom alone. Mixed use with other drugs has been the problem.
Right. I like how they left out that other substances were ALWAYS involved.
It helps with opiate withdrawal. God forbid there's help for the opiate crisis.
Exactly
Maybe they took it with medications?
We just passed 100,000 opioid deaths and 100 deaths from Kratom is the problem?!
This is why we, as a species, can't have nice things...
Yet we're still able to get alcohol and cigarettes.
I thought with most deaths involving kratom, it's a mixture of it with a number of other drugs (opiates, benzos, alcohol) that is what kills people, not the kratom alone.
It is I’ve been taking kratom for almost two years rather than opioids for my back pains and I’ve followed news related to it pretty closely they credit alot of deaths to kratom that the person just happened to have it in their system at the time of death almost always mixed with other more dangerous substances
@@KILLaN4TivE57 Exactly! It's been an absolute life saver for me and a lot of friends as well. And I worry that because people (wrongly) think it's deadly they'll end up making it illegal.
@@christine9146 they will have a fight on their hands trying to ban it especially with all the attention it’s been getting lately like the documentary leaf of faith on Netflix I don’t understand how anyone could justify a ban after watching that and it includes doctors and experts opinions
@@KILLaN4TivE57 I haven't seen that yet I need to watch it. But yeah you're right, and that does make me feel better. Thank you Netflix.
Besides the poisonous baby milk, the Chinese also sold poisonous toothpaste in Central America. That killed people. Then there was the poisonous pet food that killed people's dogs and cats. This was all around 2008. The company's Chinese owners had embarrassed the State, so they were harshly punished. Some committed "suicide"!
The whole Pokemon ball thing I don't know if that's really the Burger King fault or the fault of the parents like I understand but at the same time if it's not an actual infant / toddler safe products I think that that would be on the parents in away.... I know when I worked at McDonald's every toy that we gave out had warnings on them or were for only a certain age and that's why we had baby toys that were done by an area that we would give out I guess you would say..idk if that was printed on burger king packages but just a thought..
It's not Burger King fault at all. It's the parents fault.
I loved those pokemon toys back n the day
IMO, this was a stupid design flaw. The halves should have just had a hole in them. It would have eliminated the problem from the beginning. It's why plastic easter eggs have holes in the halves. You can't blame lack of knowledge either, as by the time the toys were out, that design aspect was already a part of other items to prevent that very thing. They shouldn't have been made without the hole and they should have been recalled and redesigned immediately.
Parents should also be smarter, but, hey.
The ones involving baby products are the most heartbreaking. You think you’re doing everything right for your child, only to lose them to a popular product.
Though, as a childless adult, the car recalls scare me the most. You can be in a different car, built as safe as possible, and still get hurt/killed by another malfunctioning car. It’s bad enough that there are dangerous drivers out there, let alone a car that can go out of control on its own.
when I was a kid I used to love the Kinder Eggs and I want to say that A, the commercials make it clear that there is a toy inside and B, the chocolate breaks easily. so if any kids died by eating that product is because A, the parents didn't know what they bought to their kids and B, they weren't paying attention to their kids.
Parents have to keep an eye on their kids, toys shouldn't be put in their mouths, and if the kid can't understand it, it shouldn't have the toy either. This is why we can't have funny things because parents can't keep track of their kids!!!!
Agreed , a majority of these, was it really necessary for banding or apologizes? Why would u let your child swallow anything that is smaller then your baby's hand?? That whole pokè ball mess , im sorry but that is a poor misfortune, things do happen , but then Said toy was ment for the child old enough to play with it
16:18 how was that kid able to crack the egg open so perfectly
It's sad, but you can just turn the car off and roll to a stop if the accelerator gets stuck. It's happened to me a few times
Kratom has most likely saved more lives than anything of people who would still be eating opioids like candy also most of the deaths claimed to be from kratom are bull someone literally jumped off a bridge to there death while being on antidepressants and other drugs but the use of kratom was somehow being blamed
That War of the Worlds clip at 7:25 was perfect lol
AGREED.
Kinder Surprise eggs have been a thing here since I was a kid, and not a single case of death because parents realize the kid should not be allowed to open the container, and adults actually read the label...
Those buckyballs have not been made for small children. I am sorry for the crazy parents who gave their toddlers this toy but it is no suprise that they swallowed it. Thinking before bying would have helped instead of complaining later. Sorry parents but that's completely irresponsibel!
This whole video has me terrified of having a baby with just those recalls for infants alone.
I put a crib bumper in my daughters crib once she got older because her toys kept falling out. She loved pulling it aside and peeking through at us😅
I'm surprised the baby slings were even allowed to come on the market at all. The images of these things just scream of safety hazard.
I remember that I had those the Burger King Pokéballs!
Bruh, I'm now realizing all most if these fatalities were caused by neglectful parenting, some people just shouldn't have kids smh 🤦♂️
i had a kinder surprise literally yesterday. they still sell them in droves in Australia... maybe because Australian's aren't idiots.
Same here in Canada
I’m gonna be real most Americans are really smart but then there are “THOSE” Americans that make me glad I’m not one of them because they let their child die on a pokéball and a treadmill
My Aunt got mistakenly hit in the leg with a lawn dart when she was a kid. It just missed the major artery!
what's tragic about his is that many of these could have been prevented if the parent's had acted more responsibility, If you know that your kids are prone to putting things in their gobs then don't give the toys to them. Age warning are there for a reason!
Funny how Kinder eggs have never been banned in the UK.
Very sad list. Condolences. You guys forgot the window blinds that strangled children.
A lot of these bans were because parents choose not to do their job or people misused the product
The comedy Top Secret! with Val Kilmer had a hilarious scene with a rear ending of a Ford Pinto, based on the problems!
Burger King PokéBalls.
2 kids died, and they ban them, hundreds of kids get killed by a gun in a school, and no ban…
They showed Arthur when they mentioned Peanut Butter on the list
Rest in peace to the families of the ones that died in all 20 of these entries.
So the families died too? I think you tried to send condolences.
@@KingPingviini You get what I mean condolences to the families of the people who died from the products in each entry
Most were because of stupidity of their parents.
Should be called "companies that had to take responsibility for people being too irresponsible or lazy to watch their crotch goblins".
They were the scapegoats for poor parenting. Much like the Kinder Surprise Eggs, don't recall the UK banning them. . . maybe cause people understood and actually read the warnings on them. Like the Lawn Darts.
Yup, lots of 8 year olds working in factories making cheese, peanut butter, airbags, floor mats, ford pintos, tires and baby formula.
Yes!!!
I remember the peanut butter incident. My little brother and gma got horribly sick from the tainted PB. And my gma nearly died. Thankfully they both did fully recover. But, it was a scary few weeks. Seeing them so sick. And not knowing why it was happening! 🥜😨
As someone who's Mexican American living in LA... I remember the Jalisco Cheese incidents ... they were a big deal.
A lot of these are parents not watching their kids or giving them toys that aren’t age appropriate. I have a child so I know you can’t catch everything they do and this is not meant to be a disparaging comment.
In the late 70s there was a Battlestar Galacitca toy space fighter that shot mini rockets. The company quickly recalled this model after one choking death. It was immediatly replaced with a new version where the rockets didn't fire. (I'm surprised this incident wasn't included here.)
All of them are scary because all of those products killed someone
Most were because of stupidity of their parents.
In Canada they literally have a separate cardboard stand for kinder eggs in some stores or smaller cardboard stands. Also btw people in the US who haven’t had a kinder egg uhh there not that good the chocolate is meh and the toy kinda sucks 90% of the time (unless it’s a car those were the best toys)
Who else remembers toys in the kinderjoy egg
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Glad you enjoyed it!
New number one spot. Prop Guns
How appropriate. Especially from people whos name rhymes with Calec Galdwin
Too soon
Does timing not mean anything to you?
too soon
I wouldn't be surprised if Baldwin did it on purpose. The man is well documented for being an @sshole.
I love those BK pokeballs! I had a gengar
Kratom? Really........ smh
Thankfully this Doesn't put me Off peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Cuz I always go with Jif or Planters peanut butter
The first four things, the Buckey Balls and Kinder Surprise Eggs are only hazards because lazy parents didn't pay attention to their kids. The girl was under aged and shouldn't have been drinking
That Toyota floor mat one happened here in San Diego. I remember driving pass that memorial often. San diego put measures to assist ppl if that were ever to happen again. So sad.
Lisa: Wow! Look at all this Be Sharps merchandise! Lunch boxes... coffee mugs... "Funny Foam"? (squirts some on Homer)
Homer: They took the foam off the market because they found out it was poisonous, (scrapes the foam off his shirt and holds it in his palm) but if you ask me, if you're dumb enough to eat it, you deserve to die. (discards foam and looks over) Bart!
Bart: (through a mouth full of foam) What?
I'm pretty sure that cars have killed more than Kinder eggs
In the US you can buy a semi automatic gun at Walmart, but Kinder Surprise eggs are unsafe. Go figure.
TRUE
Welcome to america, where you can buy a gun at walmart, but chocolate with a little toy? NO WAY!
Kinder surprise eggs still exist with the teenie toy kits in Australia
You know some of these things require common sense that seems to be something that people like nowadays
Like? Really?
@@davidhoward437 Let me list some for you:
- Why would you give your kids small magnets to play with if on the package it says "not a toy for kids"?
- The whole point of Kinder surprise eggs is that there is are small toys inside. As parent, why would you buy something without reading the label? That‘s just irresponsible.
- Again, why would you give small toys to children *without* adult supervision?
For the lead charm bracelets, blame goes to the people who produced it, however on some of these examples, these children dying because of their parent‘s lack of common sense and responsibility is to be blamed on the parents themselves, not necessarily on the toy manufacturers.
There’s actually more to the Kinder Egg story that wasn’t mentioned in this video (probably because the crap I’m about to talk about didn’t occur til later in life but oh well).
So a little while back, Kinder Chocolates were recalled in the United States because salmonella broke out and many, many, MANY kids were ill from the bacterium. If you don’t know what salmonella is, it’s a bacterium that can cause food poisoning. Since lots of kids were eating the Kinder Chocolates while salmonella was breaking out, they were getting really, really sick and the chocolate treats were recalled in the United States after those concerns about the bacterium.
If that doesn’t make you back away from your favorite chocolate snacks, then I don’t know what will.
Our next door neighbors had a set of lawn darts called "Jarts." That tip was not only fairly sharp, but weighted as well so the pointy end would hit the ground 1st. Adding "afew" beers to that mix one Sat evening resulted in a trip to the Emergency Rm for their oldest boy after a thrown dart stabbed him in the foot!
My dad told me about how used to play with lawn darts with my uncles when he was a kid and let’s just say the story didn’t end well for him.
@@10640404 Neighbor boys were a rough bunch anyway, so they took it in stride and just quit playing barefoot. Sorry about your Dad.
Those poor souls deserved better....if only these products were double double-checked.
kratom isn’t banned…they sell it in NC
Some of the items are just stupid consumers.
Interesting to note: Kinder Surprise is still legal in the UK, however, in April through August of 2022, they were recalled along with four PARTICULAR other chocolates due to a salmonella contamination. No other Kinder or Ferrero product was affected by this recall.