In reply to Karl.

Yea, they do that here in the states too. We've tried those and they sucked.

We live in a city with a very large hispanic population. What we realized is that to get the good piniatas we had to go a bit out of our normal haunts and head down to the Spanish Speaking part of town and go to the store there. Much more choices, much better prices, and the traditional, hit it with a stick type.