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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 109 points 4 months ago (16 children)

ChatGPT is allowed, but chocolate eggs with toys inside are supposed to be too dangerous? 🤔

[–] grue@lemmy.world 65 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I am literally just making this up on the spot and have no evidence for it, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe the real reason for the kinder egg ban was anticompetitive lobbying by Hershey or something like that, and the toy thing was just the excuse.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 months ago (8 children)

The american law prohibiting objects in food predates the kinder eggs by decades. And it's because people use to put all kinds of shit in american food. The law that bans them into is the Food, Drug and Cosmetic act of 1938.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, people like to mock us about it, but I think it's a reasonable regulation.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, people like to mock us about it, but I think it’s a reasonable regulation.

It should apparently be amended, though. There is a known case that it accidentally forbids but should not forbid.

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