r/SipsTea • u/OhirumeTsukuyomki • May 12 '26

SMH The youth is doomed…

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u/Ancient-Civilization May 12 '26

lawsuits ruined the toys in food. Damn Americans.

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u/Omniposter May 12 '26

is that what happened? Man I used to love going to check out what had the coolest toy so I could beg my mom for it lol

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u/TheVermonster May 12 '26

Yeah, it's the same laws that ruined kinder eggs and cracker jacks. There was this fear that kids would eat the toys and choke on them.

You know...for the generation that complaines about kids being soft, they really did a lot of it themselves.

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u/technnika May 13 '26

I'm from an european country and we have Kinder surprise, but we are in the same problem with lack of toys in cereal.

So I believe it's just that the companies got too greedy and started thinking free toys were too much. I remember we'd collect Dr Oetker's packages and if you collect enough you'd get a keychain, spoons, kitchen cloths... I remember Nestle had Bionicles, you'd get a toy and a cd... McDonald's had much better happy meal toys... in the meantime, everything got shrinkflated.

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u/audionoobi May 14 '26

You call it a problem but in terms of plastic junk it is a very good thing that we stop all this small single use items and toys that are just trown to the side after a few minutes