The best part of this überraschung   was that, it used to cost only 1 DM/- (which costs 1 Euro now a days). How cool is that?  So, every time I went grocery shopping, I ended up buying 2 of these eggs. And just imagine I lived there for more than 2 years!!! My collection was really huge then. Later, I learnt that I was not the only adult who was interested in these eggs. People at work actually got their collections to show each other. In fact they exchanged duplicates. So I joined their gang.  There were a series of these toys that went on to be popular and coveted. There were “limited” editions and festival editions, metal figurines, hand painted single figures and jigsaw puzzles. There were barnyard animals, Egyptian figures, pre historic series, magician series, metal soldiers and I don’t know just too many interesting ideas. It quite got to be a hobby with me really.

There were controversies about the toy being too small and could be swallowed by kids. So this exceptionally enjoyable sweet/gizmo was banned in the US and UK. Well, too bad for them I would say. The version that we get in some countries, is nowhere close to the ones I have seen in Germany. The chocolate has wax coating hence caused a furore there as well.  My daughter did not get interested in it and I don’t blame her. But, when I showed her my collection, she was quite impressed and realized why I keep saying, “Old is gold”.