system
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human
ELI5: Why are Kinder eggs still banned in the US but other food with toys in them, like Yowie and Choco Treasure, are not despite basically being the same?
gpt
The US bans non-edible things being "embedded" inside food, which is reasonable enough if it stops someone selling a chocolate bar with bits of plastic in it. However, the plastic capsule inside a Kinder egg is also considered to be embedded, and banned even though there's little chance of you trying to eat the egg whole and choking on the capsule. The legal versions avoid the ban by having a ring of plastic which protrudes from the capsule to the outside. Now you don't have a plastic capsule embedded in a piece of chocolate, you have two separate pieces of chocolate outside a plastic capsule.