A question for those of the American persuasion

[oneiriad]

In the children's library I'm currently working in, we have small exhibits of various stuff - currently a small part of a collection of Kinder Egg things. Yesterday the collectors themselves were present - to answer questions and hand out chocolate - and they mentioned something very strange. Tell me, can it really be true that there are no Kinder Eggs in the US? That they are, in fact, illegal over there?

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[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Probably too much danger of children choking on them, since children here don't expect sweets to contain toys.
That's just because you poor, sheltered Americans have never been bombarded with poorly synchronized commercials telling you that "but that's three things at once!" I very much doubt any kids around here getting a Kinder Egg doesn't know what to expect. Besides, while the actual toys are small enough to choke on, then the yellow plastic egg they're kept in definitely isn't...