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This shocked me - According to Wikipedia, 10 children 'worldwide' have died from choking on parts of the Kinder toy since it's launch in 1968. This equates to roughly 1 in every 5.4 years. By comparison, every day, 22 children and teens (1-17) are shot in the United States alone. This means that since Kinder was introduced 54 years ago, 10 children around the world choked on Kinder toys while 433,620 US kids were shot. Clearly banning Kinder eggs is justified - in the US..
@@ShenandoahTim something I’ve noticed is that most American swimming pools don’t have a fence around them…. In Australia we have strict regulations regarding pools being fenced.
@@sharaharper2253 Here that varies by state or local government. The majority require it, but not all. I think fewer people per capita drown in pools in the states than Australia. I'm guessing you all just have more pools per capita than we do. I live in the mountains about 120 miles west of Washington DC (Washington is on the east coast of the US, midway up) very few people have pools, but my family lives in south Texas, hot and dry, everyone has one.
USA isnt a developed country! Its not even a democratic country votes for president can be worth 3 times that of another, also the elections are run by politicians! This is not allowed in developed democratic countries! Trumps mates where able to remove lots of voting booths in Democrat areas! To deny them their right to vote!
To me it's mind blowing how kinder eggs are threat to children but then nothing is done against guns which is the number one killer of children in the USA
I watch a lot of war documentaries and I cannot count the number of atrocities committed by rogue nations/units/individuals armed with illegal Kinder Eggs.
yep, and children are taught to watch out for cars, and to use crosswalks / traffic lights if any are in sight. Basically: everybody should be acting carefully, but the more damage you can do if you get it wrong, the more you'd better watch out.
@@JoeMartinez18 yeah because we all know accident with guns dont happen in the home or mass shooting are not a regular thing in the US. oh wait a minute.... 🤔 yes they are. But let's ban the chocolate eggs. Yeah that logic seems ligit.
The USA in a nutshell: not allowed to eat chocolate with a toy inside, because that’s too dangerous for kids, but they can walk around with guns 🤦🏻♀️ Never heard of anybody chocking on an Kinder egg. We all know that there is a toy inside. That’s why we bought them. Greeting from Germany ✌🏻
I saw an "americans try" video with kinder egg f. It was the first time I heard it was illegal there, I was so shocked. Hald a minute later, I witness one of the panellists shoving the egg as a whole in his mouth. F*in adult, I wasn't even certain of whether he was joking or simply acted on his first instict. It was then and there that I was convinced it is the right choice for america to keep them eggs banned.
You never heard but in the video he literally searches for it and it says that ten kids worldwide in total. Still a ridiculous number compared to kids that died because of guns in the us
Neither here in México kids are chocked with that candy. I remember when traveled to US someone told me if I brought that needed to ride off thought was joking!!!
Not an American,but I've never heard of a nation executing millions for being different. And no,they weren't the mythical "Nazis",a seperate people, they were everyday Germans. Everyday Germans were the Nazis. Actually,yes I have.
On a visit to the US in the 1990s I discovered jaywalking and found the concept crazy. Being British I have always had the freedom to cross a road (except for motorways) whenever I like and I’ve never had a problem. The only person I have known to be hit by a vehicle, was a guy from San Francisco who told me that when he was in London he looked the wrong way before crossing and got hit by a double decker bus! He was more shocked that he received extensive medical treatment and didn’t have to pay a penny.
In Berlin I am often admonished by mainly elderly people for crossing the street on red on a pedestrian crossing despite the fact that there were near or far no vehicles in sight. It is actually illegal but I've done it in full sight of police officers, with no comeback. I was taught as a kid to only cross the road when it was safe. But I was brought up in the UK.
Every (almost every) kid in Germany eats kinder eggs like this: break it in a half, take the yellow egg out, open it, being disappointed it's not the fancy item they wanted, then drown their sorrow in the chocolate. Joke aside: every kid knows that there is a toy inside and they are quite careful. But the age regulation is important: not for children under three due to small parts/choking hazard. (This warning is on every egg)
choking on huge big yellow capsules is almost impossible, and choking on small parts of toys does not apply exclusively to these eggs, but to ALL toys with small parts !!!
@@Anson_AKB When I was young in hospital, a kid was brought suffocating, purple, because he put a bean in his nose and inhaled it, thus blocking his trachea. I'd say ALL beans, coins, pebbles, bug and small objects should be banned, and ALL kids live in a white wall nut house room to be kept safe. Or the parents just have to supervise them instead of doing stupid things.
As a Belgian, I always laugh when Americans call themselves 'The land of Freedom' because compared to many countries here in Europe the US looks like a concentration camp. 😂
And every time an American is against something beneficial for the country (like universal healthcare), they hate it because it would "take away their freedom" ... The projection that every other country has less freedom than the US is just mind-boggling ... it's insane how stupid that is ...
Actually is the inverse. Nonetheless America still hates freedom, since forbidding fireworks to FDA's world's stricter regulation code to mandatory vaccination. Ad nauseum America hates freedom.
As a French fan of cheese I can confirm that we are completely okay with the non pasteurize ones and that you are really missing out (especially the Reblochon mentioned this one is very good!) but that give you more to enjoy if you travel I guess!
Racist Comment That Only European & Canadian kids Are Smarter Than Kids In The USA Are You Implying That Kids In Africa, The Middle East, South America & Asia Are Not or Less Smart?
Pas sûr qu'un palais americain, nourrit au "cheddar" industriel en boite de conserve toute sa vie puisse apprécier un fromage de caractère. Je pense qu'il aurait la même réaction qu'après avoir bu sa première bière 😆 J'opterais plutot pour une approche progressive : fromage "doux" genre brie/vrai cheddar, puis fromage de brebis/camembert/chèvre, et enfin reblochon. Mais pour ce qui est du level du morbier, maroilles et roquefort, je pense que tu peux oublier (sachant qu'ils sont déjà clivants chez les français) 😂
@@blazikarbon One thing he is right about, you don't keep Casu Martzu near other food. Those maggots jumps quite high, they often keep it in a bag but you'll see the little bastards jumping out anyway. But they also make the cured version, which is not creamy, it's quite dry, and it doesn't have living maggots.
They might not be as ok if their unpasteurized cheese were from the US though, since they have way more salmonella et.c. than we have in Europe. I mean, they can’t let their kids taste the cake batter in fear of getting sick from raw egg, while we wouldn’t think twice about cracking an egg to make homemade mayo (or as some people do, add hole raw eggs to smoothies) …
I heard about "loitering" in US. My friend wait for ride on parking of shopping mall for 10 min, and police showed up, so he must to explain what exactly he was doing there. They checked his ID and and tell him to go somewhere else, because he was loitering. And it's actual crime. For real. wtf
"The moment we find out that something puts children in danger, legislators pull out all the stops to insure that we try to keep our kids safe" UNLESS they get shut at school. Then we do nothing. Oh wait, thoughts and prayers.
The US logic against Rampages with weapons is ...... legalize more guns. 🤯😵💫🤯 Wasn't it Trump who wanted teachers to carry guns in schools for "safety reasons"?
…unless it’s “gender-affirming” hormones (puberty blockers) and mutilation surgery. THEN it’s “safe and effective,” and oh-so-wonderful for their feelings and self-esteem. What utter 🐂💩
why didn't they simply rebrand the lawn darts as either "sports tools" (like normal darts) or as weapons ? then they still could be sold at all those major outlets that also sell weapons, and children would be able to play with them ...
As a kid i got this metal samurai figurine in one of my many Kinder Eggs, and i always loved it. A few years ago i found out from a Kinder Egg toy collector site that it was part of a series of four figurines. I found the other three on eBay and reworked them into zipper pulls for my gym bags (martial arts), so now twice a week i get to carry my old friend with me to the dojo. In the Netherlands you'll often find these plastic Kinder Egg toys on peoples' desks, no matter their age. They have become a cultural thing both children and adults still enjoy.
In Norway we were taught in primary school how to look each way when crossing a street (even if there is a zebra crossing), and how it is your fault if you are hit by a car not having followed the traffic rules. It was also made clear how it is hard to look around corners and we were shown how fast cars would approach from different distances. I think this is a better approach because people are going to jaywalk anyway, and teaching people how to do it safely honestly seems like the safer choice.
To look left, right, left once more. It was never rocket science to kids, adults can't control their drama and need to create snowflakes worse than they are. Where is Darwin when you need him?!
Similar here in Germany. And traffic lights are a bit of an easy going approach. If there is no car, we just walk. Unless there are children. We try to be good role models, so we wait for green. I still remember as kid when we lived on a busy 4 lane street, we would go halfway (between opposing traffic), wait there, and then go the rest. Basically treating it like a pair of one-way streets. And obviously looking out for traffic. Basically, if you are the soft part of a collision, you take extra care. Same with biking on the wrong side or the sidewalk. Always be cautious and assume the other person isn't.
In Italy we teach children to cross by calculating the pace of the car and the amount of attention the driver is apparently paying to you. Works most of the time
Indeed. My father taught me even to deal with fire ar the age of five! In the fifties we used to play outside in the meadows, at the riverside, in the forest. I also knew how to use a knife etc. We built huts etc. My parents thought , better to teach me.
As a french person with a family member in the cheese industry, I laughed so much XD. Also, the cheese with like green/bleu things in it, it's call "Roquefort" because it's a name reserve if the cheese is made in the city with that name or its call "Bleu" , Blu. Yea like the color. And that's things in the cheese are bacteria introduce in the process of the cheese. It's really flavoring apparently -
If you are referring with bacteria to the blue bits, those are not bacteria. That's mold, specifically the fungus Penicillium Roqueforti. (Same family of fungi as in Penicillin)
Actually, the Kinder Joy wasn't made for the USA but for the summer break. For decades, supermarkets and kiosks hadn't fancy air conditioning, refrigerated transport was incredibly expensive, and cars hadn't air conditioning either. So, many manufacturers decided to shut down their chocolate selling in the summer or tried to find ways around. I remember when Ferrero announced the Kinder Joy at the ad break of kids TV directly after they declared the summer break for the Kinder egg. Ferrero solved the issue of molten eggs by just replacing it with a creme perfectly fluid at summer conditions. In the autumn, they announced in their ads that the Kinder egg is back and the Kinder Joy goes into the break. Since the introduction, they swap the product selling every summer as far as I can remember it, and we loved it when we were children because both products were great but kinda boring other time. The swapping adds variety. That they can sell the new product into the USA what is kinda ridiculous because just 10 kids died from choking the toy in 50 years of selling it and everyone of them died from choking the toy after they opened the egg because the yellow cover is in fact too big to be swallowed by a normal human. Not even most adults can swallow it. So, what's the point of allowing the sell with the toy separated but forbid the sell of the egg with an anti-ckphoking protection around the toy? That's stupid ah.
anyway some children choked not because they ate the plastic egg inside the chocolate egg, but because the ate the toy inside the plastic egg after opened it (and that's can happen with all the toys, a few children died choked by a Lego or by a balloon for example). And I assure you that a 3 years old child is not able to open that plastic egg without the help of an adult.
I am surprised by the hot dog choking... are they "bad" hot dogs, with problems in it? it is a genuine question, I am french, having eaten only one hot-dog in my life!
@@kaki3151 Just regular hot dogs, people just choke on food sometimes, especially when there are held contests to eat as much as they can in a limited amount of time
@@kaki3151 C'est le diamètre de la saucisse de Francfort qui fait qu'un enfant peut s'étouffer en mangeant un morceau ,il faudrait la couper en deux sur toute la longueur .
if they're gonna ban cheese because it can cause an allergic reaction, then they might as well ban everything else that causes allergic reactions too (basically every food in existence, assuming you have the right allergy)
@Fee watt living in europe, i hate most of those "stinky cheeses". (loving fresh brie/camembert/etc, don't want the aged ones even at arms length) but on the other hand i don't care about them at all since nobody forces me to buy and/or eat them ! i also wouldn't eat the maggot cheese, but allow them to be available anywhere else as long as the maggots are well contained and can't "crosscontaminate" other food.
In contrast almost all of the "cheese" I have had in the US should be banned and anyone selling it should be locked up. It should not even be referred to as a food product.
I really like the reason they banned cheese because of cheese mites. It’s like you can’t get allergies or other reactions while eating strawberries, or drinking milk in general and what not. Same goes for jaywalking. The US was incompetent to help pedestrians so they made it a misdemeanor or a felony to cross the street where you want 😂 Kinder eggs aka Überraschungseier (surprise eggs called in Germany): 10 deaths, cause of choking of toy parts. Meanwhile guns: almost half a million deaths caused by guns to children (not adults) alone since about 50 years (when Kinder eggs launched). It really seems like American (US) citizens really need that extra extra care aka rules and laws, cause they can’t handle it.
Speaking of Not Just Bikes, they made a video called "Why cars rarely crash into buildings in the Netherlands". I found that the most illuminating about the difference between european and north american roads.
As a gen x, we used/ate and played with all these, we had something called .. stamina.. a time where childhood was great, lessons in everything we did.😊
As an Aussie parent the experience of a Kinder egg was for me to buy one on occasion for my kids to which you would give as a treat, then sit down and assemble the toy with your child. It was a fun family time experience. Not give as a regular chocolate bar. Maybe it's just me but I doubt it. Cheers mate 👍
I had the same thought. I remember eating Kinder eggs as a shared experience, and really as a parent, wouldn't you want to see the excitement and joy as your child finds out what's in their Kinder egg? It puzzles me how some people seem to buy stuff for their kids and leave them to it without checking that it's safe.
Yes! In Ireland you get your kid the kinder egg, they have a little treat, but they also have the toy to then play with. You get your kids the treat and then they mess with the toys inside, the toy being different then what their sister got or whatever and they're playing with them and swapping them. They're like Christmas Cracker toys which are also a surprise. And also not in the US. Sadly.
It was really expensive in the past (I am not sure how it is today, I don't see it in shops that often now), so it was definitely not a regular chocolate bar.
Yeah, thats how I grew up with Kinder eggs. I mean, what kind of parent would just toss that to a small child, when every1 knows, kids just love to taste/eat, stuff up their noses etc all kinds of stuff? Plus, it really was something special, both in getting it and in having the sharing with ur parent(s). Apparently, US "freedom" includes leaving small kids to fend for themselves, then banning everything a 2y old cant figure out.
Around here, we call the individually-wrapped slices of cheese, such as you find in MacDonald's burgers, "plastic cheese" - due to its consistency, appearance and taste, not because it's wrapped in plastic.
I've jaywalked more than a handful of times this past week. Crosswalks aren't always placed where it's most advantageous to me. If there are no cars I have no problems crossing.
To me all the situation would be solved only if parents Say to their Kids that when you're opening this egg you've Just got tò remove the Surprise and then eat the remaining part of the egg
When my kid were too small to open the Kinder egg, I would do it for them, gave them chocolate, assemble the toy if needed and they never put any of above in their mouth. If you teach kids what is edible and what is not, trust me, they get it. They are humans, only smaller 😂
give them time, they will ban the Kinder Joy as well because someone will let their kid attempt to eat the toy because it came in the same foil packet as the chocolate..
Here in the UK we have so many amazing varieties of flavours of cheese. Thankfully we don't have anything like the Sardinian maggot cheese (that I'm aware of).
Yet if you have your dog make a nazi salute you go to jail.... I've changed my mind over the years ... If we've moved everything to 21 in the states, we might as well move voting to 21 also..
In the UK a 16 year old can have a beer in a restaurant if they have parents with them and are having a meal. There is no practical age limit for drinking at home (but getting a toddler drunk would have you prosecuted as child abuse)
@@charlesunderwood6334 About 50 years ago we decided to go bat crap crazy about anybody under 21 drinking. If I had to pick one organization, it would be mothers against drunk driving.There are a huge lobbying group and They have convinced us that if a 17-year-old has a single beer, He's going to drive the family car through a crowd of 5 years olds. In many states if someone under 21 is found to have any alcohol in their system. They'll restrict their driving privileges.
Well… the US are responsible for the fact user’s manuals contain warnings like “do not put pets in this microwave”, “may contain peanuts” on the bag of peanuts, “This product may contain eggs” on the box of eggs, “Do not hold the wrong end of a chainsaw”, “Do not iron clothes on body” or “Contents may catch fire” on a blow torch gas bottle. But there is no problem when 8yo girl gets a pink AR15 with a Hello Kitty sticker as a birthday present. :)
Guns are designed to be dangerous, not the items you mentionned. (On the user's manual of a gun, you can read mentions like "May need several uses to be lethal", "Proper aiming is required", “Do not shoot last"...
@@emileduvernois6680 I thought the whole point of shooting is that after that, nobody is alive & present any more to shoot at you, AKA you're the last one shooting? Also: a bag of peanuts is designed to contain peanuts, and a blow torch gas bottle is very much designed to hold a gas that not only might, but _will_ catch fire.
Just imagine you walk to a dealer and he asks: What do you want? Heroine? Kokaine? And you: Nah, I want some serious stuff. Do you have some Kinder eggs?
Note how when he googled it it said ten have choked on the toy parts after eating the chocolate, they didn't choke on the thing inside, they removed and unpacked it first, then choked on the toy which itself wouldn't be illegal and can still be brought to the us
Your reaction to unknown foreign foods is hilarious - it's the "eeew" factor. Before you decry other countries, check out the US regulations on how much rat poop or dead insects are permitted in your own food. You will gag...and probably never eat again! 😂
Also the amount of chemicals, salt, sugar etc that is allowed in American food is insane compared to Europe and that alone is enough to gross me out. I spent just over two weeks in America just before COVID hit and not once did I have bread that didn’t taste like a bland piece of cake. So much of the food I had just tasted disgustingly sweet and unnatural. To me that is more disgusting than cheeses and I’m not even a big cheese fan, but I might just be biased since I am European.
but even people who eat those cheeses don't deny that it's nasty, they just like it like that, I just can't eat something what smells like 1 month old fish, I am vommiting when I smell fermented food, which is really bad for me as a Czech because fermented things are all around me 😀
@@silh3345 Yeah, true. They don't even know how bad their own food is. When I was there, even the water they bring you in restaurants taste really bad and undrinkable. Don't know if that was just in those specific states or in general, but it tasted disgusting to me, so I couldn't drink it.
Oh my god, I'm from Austria, every child gets kinder eggs. Even I for myself got lots of kinder eggs, when I was a child. I've never heard of any child swallowing the toys.
14:49 This wasn't just extremely bad luck, that was a normal injury with those. Those darts were made of solid metal and were extremely good at penetrating bones and had an uncanny abillity to penetrate softer tissues (just google lawn dart injuries). Those darts caused brain damage, because when falling down, they would get enough kinetic energy and had enough weight to at least fracture the skull or even penetrate into the brain. That's why they got banned, because they were to be thrown up into the air, where they would become potentially lethal projectiles. Just to fall down on the target. If anyone is interested in some statistics from a case study in 1990 where 75 cases in children got reviewed, there you go: 675 emergency department visits per year were caused by lawndarts 82% of injuries were above the victims shoulders head (54%) eye (17%) face (11%) 54% of injured children needed to be hospitalized The datrts had a lethality rate of 4% Sourced from: Sotiropoulos SV, Jackson MA, Tremblay GF, Burry VF, Olson LC. Childhood lawn dart injuries. Summary of 75 patients and patient report. Am J Dis Child. 1990 Sep;144(9):980-2. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1990.02150330040018. PMID: 2396629.
The Jaywalking issue is in fact very relevant. Because by criminalizing the freedom to walk, city structures tailor-made for the automobile industry are created and not for increasing people's quality of life. Instead of pedestrian-friendly cities and therefore more suitable for people to interact with each other throughout the city, the only places suitable for relationships among others are those suitable for increasing consumption. And the rest, delimited by vehicular needs.
That's something that felt really weird to me when I first was in US towns, outside of the, let's say, leisure parts where a lot of pedestrians are expected: the moment I'm out of those areas, I barely see anybody. If at all. And the pedestrian walks are tiny, it'd be awkward to pass by some oncoming pedestrian. It felt like ghost towns to me, because i'm used to people walking: the tram station, or bus station, or shop. AFAIK, that anti-pedestrian propaganda was the rule, not the exception. Public transport within cities is a gods-given: you save the costs for a gasoline or even owning a car, malls and other public places don't have to be surounded by acres of parking lots, no time wasted on searching or a parking space ... but there's definitly astroturfing going on to remind US-Americans that there's no life without a car.
Yes the car was getting a bad rep for the rising death rate of pedestrians, the auto industry lobbied for jaywalking to be a law, thus shifting blame to the pedestrians
I love your reaction to anything insect related, while USA is known for using the most food coloring to artificially make all the food out there more appetizing. Check out where "natural red 4" food dye comes from :D
As a child, I always bought bread for the family breakfast at the bakery on Sundays and I always got an egg from the baker. the highlight of the weekend =)
A propos Jaywalking. About every sizable city in Europe has pedestrian streets in the city center. No car, no truck, except in the early morning for deliveries and except taxi cabs and ambulances. Outside pedestrian street areas, you have to cross the street on zebra crossing areas. You might get a fine if a policeman sees you crossing the street with the red light on, especially in Germany.
I've only watched the segment on Kinder eggs so far. I'm no expert on the subject, but all my red flags tell me that the reason they're illegal in the US isn't because of a real fear of children choking, but because of lobbying from the insurance industry over THEIR fear of possibly having to make some kind of large payout as a result of one or more children choking. But, I guess "Won't somebody think of the children?" is an easier sell than "Won't somebody think of the insurance companies?" And not to get too political, BUT: seven children dying as a result of choking on Kinder Egg toys between 1989 and 2016. That's enough to make sure it's banned in the US. How many children were killed in school shootings during that same 27 year period? I don't know the answer, but I know it was a lot more than 10.
I really don’t think small children put the toy inside the capsule into their mouth because it originally came from within the chocolate egg. They put it into their mouth because they are too young to know that not everything that fits into a mouth is safe to do so. Apart from the aspect of being able to open the capsule in the first place, giving a child young enough to run that risk a Kinder egg is as risky as giving them small toys in the first place. All kinds of stuff contains warning labels to not leave small children alone with it; the same could be applied to the Kinder egg.
I remember Wonder Balls here in the US as a kid. It’s like kinder bueno eggs. In 1997 they stopped selling little toys in it and in 2000 replaced it with little candy in it
In the sixties Kelloggs packages came with a small toy in a tiny plastic bag hidden among the cornflakes, that usually remained undiscovered untill ending up in your actual breakfast, may have something to do with the Kinder Egg ban.
The difference between soda and cigarettes is that if you drink a soda in a room with someone else, you're not killing them. Too many children and young people are inhaling this stuff and it's killing them. That's why the UK banned smoking in public places, placed so many restrictions and warnings on the packets and banned advertising them. You can take risks with yourself but you don't have the right to infect the person sitting near you with cancer.
New Zealand is a smoke free nation & as a smoker I applaud it , to smoke over here is highly embarassing unlike Europe & Asia where it is still popular. Our cigarettes are taxed more & more each year to stamp it out. Currently $NZ 35/ 20 so kids cant afford it ! But sadly our teens vape !
Well that is the USAs bastardisation of Libertarianism fundamentally. In which they are taught to only be concerned with their own Freedom, Liberties & Rights. Their version barely has any consideration or mention of how they can impede the Rights, Liberties and Freedoms in the pursuit of exercising their own. Which is only the most overt, direct and obvious of ways. Consideration for how exercising their own may impede or even harm others capability to exercise ttheirs in any less of a direct manner however? Such circumstances are twisted & perverted to instead place all of the onus on the other person. As we saw in the video with pedestrians being blamed for getting hit by a car. Whereas here in Australia, cars must give way to pedestrians and the driver is at fault. Provided the pedestrian isn't crossing an arterial road, highway or motorway that is. On such roadways the pedestrian must cross at designated crossings, the driver will be at fault if they hit a pedestrian on a designated crossing. If a pedestrian is hit when not using a designated crossing on such roads then they will be at fault. Additionally in the instance of motorways; lt's illegal for a pedestrian to even be on it. This is due to the higher volume of traffic including significantly more heavy vehicles, all of which are traveling at much higher speeds than on other roads. It's basically a law because it is too dangerous for a pedestrian to be on a motorway, not just for themselves but also for the motorists. It's depressing that the US version of Libertarianism has been pervasively seeping into Australian society. Sigh...
The "Jaywalking" one genuinely surprised me. I'm British and had no idea you're not allowed to cross roads anywhere. I'm not even sure how that would work over here in England. Where I live it would mean me having to walk over half a mile up the street to the traffic lights, then walking all the way back on the other side just to get to the shop across the road from my home. We're taught from a very young age to look both ways before crossing roads. Whereas I always understood "jaywalking" to mean crossing the road without regard for approaching traffic, so without looking both ways (in other words to lack basic common sense).
In Romania it is illegal to jaywalk. You must wait for the green light or to cross on the zebra crossing only. Many people do not respect this but it is not legal. Actually jaywalking is dangerous on large boulevards.
That's the problem in the USA, we don't have common sense. No one is taught common courtesy or respect for others. This all started in the 1970's with the "Me Generation" and has stopped since.
@@alexandra.v What they should do is make the boulevards safer by making them smaller with speed bumb so the cars need to slow down and easier to cross possibly with a median pedestrian strip in the middle. It is stupid to build large speedy roads in place where pedestrians want to be.
@@AlbertZonneveld oh those are good ideas! But just think that in the capital we have a very important square with a pool of cars in the middle that simply cannot be crossed. And there are always traffic jams 🥲
Fun fact about jaywalking: I am an Italian citizen living in Austria. In my home country jaywalking is technically legal as long as there is no crosswalk in the near vicinity but in actuality crosswalks are so frequent that it's completely unnecessary and next to impossible to take advantage of that freedom. In Austria however jaywalking is very much illegal but crosswalks are extremely rare, so it is not just way more dangerous to cross the street in Austria, it can also put you in conflict with the law in most instances (even though fines in Austria are ridiculously low).
In the UK, "jay-walking" was never repealed because it was never a law. We cross where we like as adults. If we have kids with us, we use cross-walks which are (during school start/end hours) manned by a crossing patrol (the so-called "Lollipop Ladies and Men") who guide accompanied/unaccompanied children across the road and ensure all traffic is safely stopped. Drivers have to stop by law.
@@jillhobson6128 I wait when I'm not in a hurry.. not once I was almost killed because out of nowhere some asshole turned in with 80kmh. I use my common sense and I value my life more
I live in the countryside in the UK. If I had to use a regulated crossing, I would have to walk to my nearest town, 12 miles away. But to get to my local town, I would have to cross many roads, jaywalk, on the way. All you need to do is use common sense when crossing a road.
French person here : mimolette and roquefort are awesome, and you should try them. :') Mimolette is similar to gouda if you've ever tried it! Both are very orange cheeses, and gouda was often available in schools cafeterias when I was little, alongside emmental (tho they weren't really of great quality haha) Also roquefort is top-tier, was actually my favourite cheese when I was a child It may seem disgusting (like, technically, the green spots are mold, and you may be like "what ?? eww", and I was shocked too when I learned it back then) but I mean.. Idk, it's so good?? It's a strong cheese, and like, make a salad with nuts, endives, almonds, emmental cubes, and bits of roquefort, and mmmh it's so good !! Another cheese I'd recommend from the top of my head is Saint-Marcellin, un classique, creamy and so soft and tasteful 👌 Those three are all very different by the way, they make a good little starter pack ! So here you go, don't judge a cheese by its cover ! If you got a chance one day to try mimolette/gouda, roquefort/bleu (similar and look about the same), and Saint-Marcellin, try them !! Big bonus points if directly from a french fromagerie ! :D It's part of french culture, and I'm really happy to share it with you ! ^-^
@@jpsphoto-vision8803 Even so the number of shootings where a child has got hold of a gun and shot someone is dreadful. Lawn darts were probably safer.
@@tompiper9276 lol, but the comment was in reference to the op saying kids could get them legally, your reply has nothing to do with what I said, I was simply clearing up a false statement in the op. Both can be dangerous in the hands of someone that misuses them and children unless trained otherwise are not going to be safe with either. My daughter can safely wield a bow, a sword, a rifle, throwing darts and a knife. The difference is in the parents of the child.
Well, as you might have guessed, it’s not actually cheese-at least, not legally. The FDA calls it “pasteurized processed American cheese food.” In order for a food product to be a true “cheese,” it has to be more than half cheese, which is technically pressed curds of milk. So each Kraft American single contains less than 51% curds, which means it doesn’t meet the FDA’s standard.
@@danceswithcritters but that's how useless the FDA are as they allow this processed crap to be used widely across the States like a lot of their food being full of chemicals etc
There is a large community of enthusiastic collectors of the small toys and especially the collectible figures in these "Kinder Surprise Eggs". Especially older, rare and well-preserved complete collection series are often traded for a lot of money if they ever actually sell at all.
I was once stopped by police here in Norway for NOT jaywalking. I walked over the white lines and they pulled up next to me and questioned me why i would go through the trouble of taking a detour just to cross there. Needless to say, nobody ever gets fined for jaywalking, unless you run mindlessly back and forth over a major highway.
Down here in France, you can get fined up to 7€ for jaywalking, but in specific situations (when a pedestrian crossing exists under ~50 meters around you). Even then, I can say that I've done it in front of cops plenty of times, never got fined for it. It's so incredibly rare to see this rule being enforced that you'd either have to actively make the most ridiculous jaywalking possible, or find cops on a very slow day in order to get fined.
@@EricTheBroBean detained? locked up? um... even walking to red light and stuff don't get you detained in most of europe, just halted, perhaps a fine.. i suspect nowhere in Europa a police officer could detain you just 'jaywalking' , that is such a purely american word .. for crossing the road were you are not mend too :). In Belgium it used to be illegal in domestic roads to cross the just cross the road is the cross way was no more then 50 meter away, else it was allowed, and they cancelled that to, at least within a few meters of the cross way /zebrapad it is now allowed to just acts as if it's 5 meter wider then painted.
The kinder eggs thing always amazed me, they say that is dangerous for kids because they can choke with the capsule (it is huge, and you have to crack the egg to eat the chocolate) but they don't mind to give very small toys to the same kids. The article you found about that ten kids worldwide that choke was with the toy, not the capsule. Nowadays, the toy is one piece, when I was a kid, you have to put together the toy, that was small pieces.
@@manueltapia1859 When I was a kid, some fifty odd years ago, basic LEGO had plenty of rice grain size bits and pieces.... Must be a miracle we survived ! 😳 Love from Norway 🇧🇻
For jaywalking there should be mentioned that in the EU we have a certain amount of meters surrounding a pedestrian crossing where it is not allowed to jaywalk. So only if no "Zebrastreifen" or traffic lights is near you it is ok. If you are 10m away from the traffic lights you have to use them.
In the UK a lot of pre-formed cheese slices are technically described as "cheese food product" because they don't contain enough cheese to just be called just 'cheese'. They have other ingredients like milk, stabilisers, preservatives, skimmed milk powder and a load of E numbers. Typing that I realised that 'cheese' is one of those words which seem to not make sense when you say it often enough. Say cheese! 😃
the yellow thing is bigger then the mouth of a child that could accidentally eat it. even i couldnt swallow that thing. and if it is about the even smaller toys inside the yellow thing then pls ban all toys because kids could choke on it
We do like to make fun of the Yanks, but to be fair, they're right up there at number 23 in the world in terms of standard of living (IHDI)..... which puts them above Israel and Slovenia!
French here! The French cheese ban was actually due to US cheese lobbyists fighting against French cheese being imported and competing with their own business… 😅 I wouldn’t eat all cheese out there, but would definitely try the maggot one over US cheese. It tastes less of cheese and more of plastic… While some disgusting looking (or very smelly) cheese can definitely surprise you taste wise!
Also: any (actual) cheese is made from interaction between some type of micro organisms (bacteria / mushrooms / mites/etc.) and milk. As yogurt is. (And bread that rises). It’s basically wasted milk, cultivated to taste a certain way. I totally get how disgusting that looks like… Funny how cheese, bread and wine are all made this way, and are what France is famous for. I guess we like leaving stuff out until it turns delicious 😂
@@Laedde Also beer! Vanilla get's its typcial taste from fermentation, too, and so does cocoa. I'd probably eat the maggot cheese on a dare, to see if the taste is worth it.
@@DJgeekman I think he's talking about european cheese when he say "out there". We have most european cheese available in every supermarket in France. But Casu Marsu is indeed a sardaigne cheese we cannot get in France so the curiosity about this one is very high.
Still for real now, I don’t get why they banned kinder eggs, I get you can easily choke on them especially young kids, but maybe put more money into schools and they would learn stuff and learn that you can choke on the things.
"Edible object with nonnutritive core embeded? Certainly peaches, cherries and so on are illegal as well? And their (peaches) core even contains hydrocyanic acid!
Just to clarify, Cheddar Cheese is not American, its English. First made in the town of Cheddar, Somerset, England in 1170. I say this because the chart they showed said American Cheddar but Italian, French, Greek and Swiss cheese were left as the countries they originate, these cheeses are also made in America. So it should state English Cheddar, not American if cheeses from other parts of the world are being stated as their country of origin.
Cheddar cheese is one of the most English food items imaginable, and also the most delicious cheese ever made. Real English cheddar is expensive in Norway, though. It's a rare treat for me, but it is party in my mouth every time! 🥳😋
Funny in the context that the yellow capsule is so hard to open an adult like myself struggles doing that. Also its diameter makes it virtually impossible to swallow by an adult, let alone a child. Toys and toy parts can be a choking hazard, clearly.
But other toys with small parts (e.g. Lego) are perfectly safe to swallow in the US? BTW It's not a problem to send my US relatives hundreds of toys that we found in Kindereggs! And can we talk about Happy Meals?
They weren't banned because of a choking hazard. It is illegal in the USA for something other than the wrapping to contact a food product. It was the toy container coming into contact with the chocolate that made them illegal. The packaging has been redesigned for the USA market and those ones are legal there.
I grew up in Denmark and I'm not the biggest fan of molding cheeses tbh, but I remember my mom used to make a banger gorgonzola gravy and I sometimes make it to this day ❤ Edit: my grandpa loved the mite cheese A LOT! xD
They discovered in the netherlands that giving the more vulnerable ppl in traffic more rights can actually make the roads safer, bc you give the ‘stronger’ trafficers more responsibility. You will drive a lot safer and slower and be more alert when you know that ppl can be walking or cycling in front of you at anytime, and that you are at fault if it goes wrong. Ofc this does not apply on highways (bc of high speed.)
Yeah but i still think that if their is proove that the more vulnerable person was at fault. They should not be able to punish the driver. Like thinking about passing trough a red light. Cause that happens a lot as wel
@@miepmiep2274 if it is proven that it was the pedestrians fault (only true if they walk into a road that they currently see a car driving towards them on, then and only then does the pedestrian get punished.
I had sooo many Kinder Eggs during my childhood (and beyond 😀) and i never ever choked on the yellow capsule. It's so big that you literally have to put work into swallowing that thing.
"We have to secure our kids from dangers by making Kinder Eggs illegal!! Say the country with the highest infant mortality rate in the western hemisphere!
Not paying allimony, here in Belgium, they may confiscate part of your paycheck... In Muricastan, 1/5th of jailbirds are put there because there wives&judge agreed that men should not have freedom.
In Australia, we drink tap water and if you have a connected rain water tap, we drink that to! We're a tough bunch. We also boil water using an electric kettle. Yep. Take that world!!
I think a huge factor in the deaths because of jaywalking is the easiness to drive a car in the US. I understand, why this is so. Much of the city isn't for pedestrians, so it's important, that people get a car. In Germany it is much more expensive and needs a lot of more work for you, to drive. (plus TÜV) So, when you got your drivers licence in Germany, you know, that you are a safe driver.
Agreed - it's a lot harder to get a drivers licence in the UK as well, and our tests have developed along with new technology to include following sat nav ect. because that's part of every day driving these days
The city of Cincinnati does not have a jaywalking statute. For many years the police fined people for jaywalking until someone did some digging into the statutes and fought a ticket in court. The citizen was correct, there wasn't a statute and so everyone that had been fined had to have the fine refunded from city coffers.
You should see how Americans Cities looked like before cars were a thing. They were beautiful and pedestrian friendly. After cars however, the US completely forgot to think about pedestrians.
Funny thing that wasn't mentioned here was the OLD 1950's CHEMISTRY SETS. It had all kind of goodies for chemicals including radioactive stuff, bunsen burner. I remember my older sister catching her flannel nightgown on fire from the fumes. I haven't seen any lately but I think still available but the chemicals are maybe more tamed.
The thing about jaywalking in Sweden is that if you drive a car and hit a person who crosses the road without a pedestrian crossing, the pedestrian is held liable. They took a risk and can't blame the driver for the consequences. So it's not illegal to jaywalk but you have to be extra careful.
In The Netherlands, there's a crosswalk that's marked as being under the jurisdiction of The Ministry Of Silly Walks, and the signs feature John Cleese with one foot up over his head! The Dutch seem happy to show off their best silly walks. In the US, a family designated the sidewalk in front of their house the same way and set up a security camera so they could see the fun, if any. Soon, people were driving to the house for a short silly walk, then hopping back in the car and leaving.
A good metric for whether a country's laws encourage freedom or are repressive is the proportion of a population incarcerated in prison and denied their rights. The US has by far the highest per capita prison population in the world.
That really isn't a good metric to use as it could also be that there are better investigations. Also some places (China I'm looking at you) aren't truthful in their reporting, or hide numbers by only including those in prisons but not those incarcerated in other types of facility.
It’s because most prisons in America are run by private corporations . They lobby corrupt politicians who creat nonsense laws to get more customers . Three strikes and your in for life . Permanent customers .
In 5 decades, 10 children have died choking on the kinder egg toy... But most likely those children were stupid enough to choke on something else if not this.
Jaywalking to me is bizarre. When you cross the road, you cross where ever you want. But, you stop, look left to right, you know all that stuff your taught as a small child. Like I don’t understand the problem 😂
Millions of Australians die on American roads every year as the road safety song we learned in kindergarten would have us walking confidently into traffic in the USA .
About the whole cheese thing, it's funny how in some cases the US is super strict about food safety, yet the amount of the chemicals and other crap that is allowed to be used in manufacturing of food products over there but banned pretty much anywhere else is insane..... But of course thats different cause these chemicals allow the companies to make bigger profits, and anything is obviously acceptable in the US if it means more money money money xD
Everytime I watch a US movie or TV show and they talk about it being 'the land of freedom', I wonder how much more 'free' they can be. Turns out, less than us lol
It's a bit suspicious when a country needs to remind itself on a regular basis of how super free they are. I know that I live in a nation with universal health care and I rarely feel the need to randomly point that out to other citizens.
for excample freedom to roam. in nordics countries, it's okay if roam in nature just be sure you don't roam in someones yard. cause that isn't good manners. in U.S meanwhile theres high change you have sudden lead poisoning
Sorry the girl died however since it was sold too adults and told not to let kids play with them without supervision, then it was the fathers fault for not keeping an eye on his kids playing with them!
why didn't they simply rebrand the lawn darts as weapons ? then they still could be sold at all those major outlets that also sell weapons, and children would be able to play with them like with guns ... 😱
@@Anson_AKB They look just like the anti-personnel flechettes dropped from aircraft in WWI. The USA used something similar called the "Lazy Dog" in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
One of the first (if not *the* first film banned in the US) was a documentary about cheese and cheese mites. Cheese producers didn't want the public getting all het up about the tiny cheesy friends living in our favourite food so they lobbied and *CHOP!* the film was banned from distribution. 1903 if you're interested.
Wait, what? Kinder eggs are illegal in the US? WTF those poor children! Getting an egg every Thursday with my dad while my mom was working late is one of my fondest childhood memories. Also, they're delicious. I love having one every once in a while to this day.
Why only kids in US chocked??? Still I eat that delicious candy and even my nephew knows he's not supposed eat the yellow capsule. Greetings from northern México
1:55 No child would be able even to try to swallow that huge capsule. The small thingies within the capsule however are another thing - but you'll find the likes of them at many other places and products also. And the trick to avoid the FDA ban found by Ferrero was simply to sell (kind of) half eggs only, so the toy is not enclosed by the chocolate, but also not in a protective capsule to big to be swallowed. Imho that is even more dangerous to little children. 9:00 Casu Marzu is also officially banned within the EU since 2005, but still produced for the black market. Some producers are trying together with scientists of the University of Sassari to breed hygienically impeccable cheese flies which were never in the wild before lying their eggs into the cheese. Any maggots eaten with the cheese should still be crunched before swallowing them to avoid enteric myiasis, because they are able to survive for some time in the stomach. 23:45 Crossing a street where there is no crosswalk in sight is not considered to be jaywalking in Germany (at least as long as there is no barrier impeding any crossing). If there is a crosswalk with traffic lights and you cross while your traffic lights are red, you can be fined, and you can (in theory) also be fined if a crosswalk at a main or a heavily trafficked street is less than about 50 meters away and you don't use it to cross. However if you come to a crosswalk without traffic lights, the cars have to stop to let you cross: the pedestrians have the right of way there. (You should nevertheless look right and left before you cross.)
_" if you come to a crosswalk without traffic lights, the cars have to stop to let you cross"_ yes, but not at any crosswalk (like a crossing with broken or shutoff traffic lights), and only at those that are built and marked in specific ways as a protected crosswalk, including signs and "zebra stripes".
@@NicolaiCzempin yes, THAT part is cheap, but as a repeat offense you can get points too, even if you don't have a driving license or are only 12+ years old. and with too many points you can lose your license, or have difficulty getting one in the first place. and of course, you are guilty if you cause an accident, and need to pay damages, compensation, etc.
1:54 I literally grew up watching parents crack real eggs in half while cooking! So obviously when I was 6 or 7 years old, I did the same with Kinder egg! You have a plate, you crack the egg in half, eat the shell which is a funny quirk of it, then you get a toy! But hey, what do I know?
