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by chrisseaton 2732 days ago
And of course some foods are banned in the US but not Europe.
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Do you have any examples? (Genuinely interested)
In the US, unwashed eggs aren't allowed. In the EU, it's the other way around; eggs must be unwashed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-am...

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-europeans-dont-refrigera...

Super interesting, did not know this and looked it up (I'm a Swede). Washing eggs is NOT illegal in the EU (at least in Sweden) if your washing them at a certified plant. Washing them the wrong way can spread bacteria through the shell of the egg. So a farmer without the certified plant is not allowed to wash the eggs. Washed eggs are marked as washed to the consumer and all eggs I've ever bought in stores here have been washed.
Horse meat, anything deemed unsanitary like haggis (edit: think like scottish-made haggis, meaning containing "unsanitary parts" like lung), unpasteurized milk (though some states override this). I think banana tree oil and sassafras oil are allowed in EU as well but are banned in US due to links to cancer.
Kinder chocolate eggs, because they have toys that are surrounded by food. The toy is at risk of being eaten.
edit: they sell Kinder joy, but not Kinder surprise. Joy has the egg cut in half and the halves are packaged separately.
Washed eggs (required in the US) vs unwashed eggs (required in Europe)
Interesting, never knew there was a difference. Just looked it up: in EU chickens are vaccinated against salmonella and the US not. But cleaning them does make the eggs vulnerable due to removing the outer protective layer. Hence they need to be refrigerated. Still strange though every fridge I know comes with a egg basket though nobody I know in the Netherlands puts their eggs in the fridge.
Netherlands may not be hot enough but in Cyprus for example we store our eggs in the fridge or they go bad much sooner.
Haggis, is one example. They don't like the sheep lung used in it, apparently.
Haggis is not illegal in the US. It's illegal to import it eg from the UK. You can make and sell haggis domestically in the US.
> You can make and sell haggis domestically in the US

I don't know if you're an expert in Haggis, so maybe you know more than me, but this FAQ says otherwise.

http://www.scottishhaggis.com/index.php/frequently-asked-que...

> the USDA does not allow sheep lungs to be used in manufacture

The text before your quote is "since we cannot import haggis to the US our haggis for the US market is made in Bangor Maine" and the text immediately after is "all haggis made in the US except our haggis links is in an artificial casing".

In other words, you pointed to a source which confirms that it is possible to make and sell haggis domestically in the US.

That's like saying hamburgers are allowed, you just can't have any ground beef in them. Haggis is made from sheep's lung - that's what it is. They just do a phony version for the Americans and call it haggis anyway.
Sodium cyclamate - used as an artificial sweeter in the EU but banned in the US (and other countries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_cyclamate

Mustard oil.
That's not completely true. While it is banned for consumption, Indian cooking and more recently, American cooking, has begun using mustard oil[1].

Edit: the linked article mentions that research into the health risks of mustard oil has not been conclusive.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/dining/american-chefs-dis...

> That's not completely true. While it is banned for consumption, Indian cooking and more recently, American cooking, has begun using mustard oil

How is it untrue? The chefs in that article are (technically illegally) using massage oil with a required "for external use only" warning label, because that is "the only use for which it is legally approved in the United States."

Raw milk cheese is a classic
Raw milk cheese is not banned in the US, in fact it has a specific exemption in the federal law regarding unpasteurized milk. Further, those laws only apply to transportation across states, so you can legally buy raw milk within most (all?) states.
> For now, these are the states that allow the sale of raw milk at retail stores: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and Vermont

https://www.epicurious.com/archive/blogs/editor/2014/04/wher...

Kinder Eggs..
Kinder Eggs aren't banned in the US, Kinder Surprise is. Even Costco sells Kinder Eggs.
There are two types of Kinder Eggs: Kinder Surprise[1] and Kinder Joy[2]. Kinder Surprise is banned in the US because it contains "non-nutritive objects" inside the egg. Kinder Joy packs the toy separately and has been sold in the US since 2017.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Joy

The person I responded to said "Kinder Eggs." Which they do in fact sell in the US, and this distinction doesn't change that.

If they had wished to say Kinder Surprise, they could and should have done so.

I bought one the other day. It turns out the US kinder egg is nothing like the EU one. The EU one is a chocolate shell containing a plastic package with a toy in it. the US one is two halves, one with a toy, and the other containing a (white-chocoate?) fondant with 2 hazelnut-chocolate balls in it. It was pretty bad and I threw it out after trying it.
My apologies, where I come from, the UK, Kinder Egg is colloquially used in place of Kinder Surprise. It wasn't until a week ago, after decades of only knowing one type of Kinder Egg, that I came across Kinder Joy. I've just seen on the Kinder Surprise Wikipedia page.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise the very first line "Kinder Surprise, also known as Kinder Egg"
These are not the same product as is sold in Europe.
Actually you can find the new style in Europe now too. They're moving away from the in-egg version everywhere.
Any evidence that Ferrero is planning to drop Kinder Surprise?
They’re not the genuine article. If I recall and the toys either on the outside or the egg isn’t completely encompassing it.
The ones with the toys in then are in my understanding.
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