As a European who doesn’t celebrate Halloween (it’s explicitly an Anglosphere thing), I was always surprised by the amount of scaremongering about dangerous candy (let it be for razor blades and whatnot in it, or more commonly, drugs), when pretty much every single case - and that’s maybe one or two a year - of dangerous candy, including candy that is simply… out of date… gets reported internationally.
Like, a few years back, I think right after COVID, it was headlines that a couple accidentally gave out a few - either THC gummies or brownies or mushroom chocolate - and immediately went after the kids and let the parents know, so there was no harm, and yet…
Meanwhile the child pedestrian death rate on Halloween is like, 3x higher than any other day in the year, yet you don’t see THAT being the concern for parents…
It all started cause some dude put a razor blade in a kids candy but it turned out the guy who did it was a relative that didn’t like the kid or something.
The much more common problem with Halloween candy is how old it is. They start making Halloween candy months and months before it’s needed on the shelves so it tends to dry out. Now that every candy maker has eliminated real cocoa cause of cost cutting measures it also tastes like shit.
As a European who doesn’t celebrate Halloween (it’s explicitly an Anglosphere thing), I was always surprised by the amount of scaremongering about dangerous candy (let it be for razor blades and whatnot in it, or more commonly, drugs), when pretty much every single case - and that’s maybe one or two a year - of dangerous candy, including candy that is simply… out of date… gets reported internationally.
Like, a few years back, I think right after COVID, it was headlines that a couple accidentally gave out a few - either THC gummies or brownies or mushroom chocolate - and immediately went after the kids and let the parents know, so there was no harm, and yet…
Meanwhile the child pedestrian death rate on Halloween is like, 3x higher than any other day in the year, yet you don’t see THAT being the concern for parents…
The car is sacred, but Halloween is the Devil’s holiday
It’s that simple 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It all started cause some dude put a razor blade in a kids candy but it turned out the guy who did it was a relative that didn’t like the kid or something.
The much more common problem with Halloween candy is how old it is. They start making Halloween candy months and months before it’s needed on the shelves so it tends to dry out. Now that every candy maker has eliminated real cocoa cause of cost cutting measures it also tastes like shit.