Healthy treats!

Manservant Hecubus · Oct 26, 2013

Pressed_Rat said:

I just see this strange irony in people's obsession with poisoned Halloween candy, because the candy itself is essentially poison once you consider some of the things that are in the candy and where those ingredients are sourced from. It won't kill you, at least not immediately, but acclimating kids to this sort of garbage only sets them up for bad health and bad habits in the long run.
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In our neck of the woods, it wasn't about poison. It was about razor blades in apples and shit like that.

wyldwynd · Oct 26, 2013

Manservant Hecubus said:

In our neck of the woods, it wasn't about poison. It was about razor blades in apples and shit like that.
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Hi-hO hi-hO it's off to trick or treating we go
With razor blades and hand grenades
Hi-hO Hi-hO hi-hO hi-hO :mickey:

newbie-one · Oct 26, 2013

There is, unfortunately at lease one major problem with offering home made healthy treats.

While still rare, there are cases (at least in the states) of giving out food/ candy tainted with poison or with razor blades inserted into them.
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Kinky Ramona said:

False. There are many many rumors of such things happening all over the country, but there is only one documented case of any Halloween treats ever being tainted and it was the child's own father that did it. Just some trivia I learned last year.
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according to snopes.com:

Claim: Pins, needles, and razor blades have been found in trick-or-treaters' loot.

TRUE

Origins: Unlike Halloween poisonings, many cases of tampered trick-or-treat loot involving the insertion of pins, needles, or razor blades have been documented.

To my mind, these cases constitute a different class of tampering than poisoning for a couple of reasons. First, the expected level of harm is severely reduced: poison is an attempt to kill; a pin in an apple is an attempt to frighten or injure. Professor Joel Best reported that he's been able to track about eighty cases of sharp objects in food Trick or Treat! incidents since 1959, and almost all were hoaxes. Only about ten culminated in even minor injury, and in the worst case, a woman required a few stitches. Compared to "eat something and die," a couple of stitches barely registers on the scale.
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