From Cracker Jacks to cereal boxes, packaging sweets with a surprise is not a new concept, here or abroad. However, pairing candy with a toy or another surprise hasn’t always been met with easy success in the United States.

It should come as no surprise that on the Internet, there are places where people are very fixated indeed on the fact that Ferrero's Kinder Surprise eggs are banned from sale in the United States.

The makers of Yowie, the Australian chocolate with a toy inside, have brought a lawsuit against Candy Treasure, the makers of the American Choco Treasure chocolate eggs with the toy inside.