10 February 2014: The Kinder Surprise Egg

 Since my Monday lecture/seminar kind of took it out of me today and I'm really in the mood for something sweet, I've decided that today is the day that I eat my very first Kinder Surprise egg. I honestly could not be more excited right now and am literally trembling with anticipation.

Let me explain.

A Kinder Surprise egg is a delicious chocolate egg with a toy inside. From what the Internet has told me, it's literally the greatest sweet in the world. However, since the American FDA does not permit food with inedible objects inside of it to be owned or consumed in America, these delicious little treats are illegal in my home country. The people of the Internet like to rub it into the Americans' faces that we cannot have Kinder eggs (to which we usually reply with a picture of an eagle saying something along the lines of, "I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY FREEDOM!!!" but the moment that Kinder eggs are brought out, we know that we've lost the argument). 

America takes this Kinder egg thing really seriously

Too bad I'm in England right now!!!

So as you all might imagine, this is a really big deal for me.

I'm going to try something a bit new today. Instead of doing this blog post as a reflection, I'm going to do a bit of "live blogging." I'm going to type down what's going on as it happens. There's going to be pictures taken, but they'll be inserted after the actual writing. I know that I could just do this in video form, but as you'll all see when I upload my "Nutella" video, I'm much better at writing things down than speaking things out.

So without further to do...

Right now, I'm looking at my egg. It looks so pretty in its wrapping. I have no clue how to get it undone.

I've ripped back some of the foil. I feel a bit sad that my perfect egg is about to be eaten, but then I remind myself that I can get another one the next time I go to the store.

I can smell the chocolate so well! It appears that there's a white stripe in the center.

I squeezed the egg gently and it divided into two halves! It's white on the inside!!!!!!

IT TASTES SO GOOD! OH MY GOSH THIS IS LITERALLY THE YUMMIEST THING EVER. LIKE PERFECT COMBINATION. WHY DON'T WE HAVE KINDER CHOCOLATE AT HOME? WE GET SOME CADBURY STUFF. BUT THIS MAKES CADBURY SEEM LIKE CHILD'S PLAY. OH MY GOSH!

I'M EATING THIS SO SLOWLY BECAUSE IT'S MY NEW FAVORITE THING EVER. MOVE OVER, FREDDO FROG.

THE CAPS LOCK IS NECESSARY BECAUSE IT'S SO IMPORTANT!!!

Okay, now that half of my shell has been eaten, it's time to figure out what's in my surprise!!!

First of all, I'm trying to figure out how anybody could accidentally eat this thing. It's inside of a capsule thing and, like...no one can swallow that.

I'm too dumb to open the darn thing.

Aha! You just have to squeeze it! And inside is...a thing?

Just trying to build it following the instructions...

Aha! I've got a little...ball thing...

Apparently it's a magic ball. And the kids on the instructions seem to be having the best time ever playing with it, so I'm assuming that it's going to be a hoot.

Ignore the empty bag of crisps...

It's telling me to go to 2.magic.com, so that's what I'll do...

Aaaand once again, I'm not allowed to have full access to my Kindery fun because of my location. I thought that Kinder eggs were okay here!

But that's okay, because I still have another half an egg left!!!!!

In conclusion: The Kinder Surprise Egg was everything I could have hoped for and more. 10/10 would recommend, will buy again. Now it's time to play with my nifty toy!!!!