Little Surprise (Kinder Surprise)

Member Name: chickiepoo

Product:	Kinder Surprise
Date:	15/02/08 (281 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Kids love them

Disadvantages: Rubbish toys, abit pricey

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 Children Surprise. That is exactly what the children get everytime they open one of these eggs.
The wrapper
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This is just a peice of tin foil, that is neatly wrapped around the 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 egg is made up of milk chocolate. It is an oval shaped egg, and is sized slightly bigger than a normal egg.
The egg is very easily opened, length ways, and is hollow, which makes room for the yellow container, that contains the toy inside. The chocolate inside is a white chocolate, with the milk chocolate outside. The egg is just a plain smooth egg, which does taste very sweet. I would not recommend this if you are on a diet.

The ingredients
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Fine milk chocolate (47%)
Sugar
Whole milk powder
Cocoa butter
Cocoa mass
Emusifier
Soy lecithin
Vanillini
Skimmed milk powder
Sugar
Vegatable oil
Concentrated butter

The smell
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As soon as you take the tin foil off, you can smell the chocolate, at first it just smells like normal milk chocolate, until you open the egg, then you get a mixed smell of milkybar and dairymilk. It really is a lovely smell, but you can tell just by the smell that it is very sweet.

The toy
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The toy is in a yellow container inside the egg, you can get any toy ranging from ready made cars, to something that you have to build up yourself. You never know what you will get untill you open the container.

I find the containers hard to open, so i cant imagine my kids trying to open one of these, they should be made alot easier as they are made for children.
For some reason when the toys are took out for my kids there little eyes light up, when i was younger i always wanted big toys lol.

I do find on the toys that have to build up can also desemble just as quickly, which is not good for when the kids are playing with them, as i forever have to fix em up again.
The price
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I always get these from my corner shop, and they retail at 52p, which to be honest i think is abit steep for what you get, abit of chocolate, and a cheap toy!! but hey my kids love em so i am happy at paying that price to see my children happy.
Now i know that you used to get a code on these so that you could download a free game, i remember the T.V adverts on them, these appear to be no longer available, as none of the eggs i have bought have any codes on or a website address to use them on.

Warnings
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These eggs are not suitable for children under 3 years old, due to small parts that can be choking hazards.

I would also not advise these if you are diabetic, as they are very sweet.
My opinion
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In my honest opinion i think these are abit too expensive, but my kids love them, so that is worth the 52p plus abit more. The children mainly only want them for the toy that is inside, as there is only a hollow egg chocolate, which is gone in a few mouthfuls.
My kids get these once a day everyday, they have got a great collection of little toys now, some are good and some are rubbish, but they still play with them, and keep wanting more. The only problem is sometimes you can get the same toy twice, which is not good if your child already has this, as they dont want to have the same one twice.

I have tasted the chocolate on these, and it did taste nice like eating a milkybar and a dairymilk together. You would just not expect the taste that you do get. Although i did find these very sweet, and they would soon become sickly.
Why would i recommend this product
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Kids love them
Nice packaging
The chocolate is nice
Why would i not reccomend this product
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Abit pricey for what you get
Some toys break up easily
Ok i know you might think im a cheap skate for saying that these are pricey, but i am not i would just rather go out and spend a few pound more on a proper toy, that for 1 they cannot choke on, and 2 is alot better for them to play with. Like i said though my kids are happy with this product, which makes me happy with it also lol.

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