The story about a father who poisoned his sons candy to get life insurance is horrific and way worst than any story about getting bad candy by a stranger
I do believe everyone would agree with your point. I don't believe any part of this video was to cause anyone to have the opposite opinion of your point here. Your main point here is that you just stated the blatantly obvious.
@@CivilEngineerWroxton I'm point out that that people remembered him as the guy who gave poisoned candy on Halloween than the guy who killed his own kid for insurance money
My mother and grandmother were fabulous bakers, before there were TV shows about it. Our house was the most popular Trick-or-Treat house in the neighborhood, because they'd bake dozens of really cool Halloween cookie sandwich or cupcake items, wrap then in plastic wrap, and give them out. We had parents that asked if they could have one. Then in 1973, my senior year in High School, the local paper had a "homemade candy is dangerous" story. After they spent 3-4 days making these treats, nobody would take them. Many parents told us that even they knew our stuff was delicious, they just couldn't let their kids eat baked goods from strangers. It was the end of one of my favorite childhood activities, though I did make some money for the drama club selling the treats at school the next day. This is why we can't have nice things, we're idiots.
"Oh, I WON'T take those for FREE, but I will buy several of them at the SCHOOL bake sale where they are being sold for kids and adults to consume. All the razor blades and poison and such would be removed to sell them at the bake sale. Don't want a bad rep for next year's bake sale." ✌️😁
How idiotic the people are that wouldn't take them for FREE but would buy several of them for a price. “I'll buy several because they are to DIE FOR!" 😊👌
reminds me of the 2020 toilet paper craze. my mom bought like a six month supply while only having 1-2 weeks worth of food at home, and she could not tell me why she thought it was possible that a months-long toilet paper shortage might happen.
When I shoveled snow as a side job an old lady was really concerned about a half-eaten bag of candy. She said "all sorts of people put drugs into them". What a nefarious scheme: 1. Buy expensive drugs 2. Disguise drugs as candy 3. Lose the drugs by placing them on top of a trash bin of a small store in a tiny countryside town on Tuesday morning 4. ??? 5. Profit
@@joec200012 Oh, I didn't even think of edibles. This happened in a small European country which has basically zero drugs. I haven't even seen marijuana ever being used, let alone more hardcore stuff.
@@suakeli You haven't seen it, therefore it's not there? 😏 People everywhere obtain and use drugs. I agree they almost never hand them out to strangers disguised as candy, though, at least not without the recipient knowing it.
Nah! They would always go one of the good ones at least. But not all tax was painful. Mom always kept the good chocolate stuff at home for us. So it wasn't quite as painful as it could have been.
This makes me respect my mother even more than I already did. She never bothered with the whole inspecting candy thing, but she DID make sure that my costume always had some reflective elements on the front AND back, so it would be more visible to drivers.
Yes, my mother was also cautious about cars, she usually accompanied me trick or treating and made sure if I was wearing a dark colored costume it had reflective strips on it along with on my candy bucket. The only checking she did on my candy was to see if they were wrapped properly and hadn't come open, mainly for sanitary reasons to make sure the candy itself hadn't come into contact with random detritus or dirt. She worked at a hospital as a medical technician so she knew that after years of x-raying the candy they never found anything untoward so she saw that level of caution as unnecessary and paranoid.
One thing I've done is get bulk glow sticks and mix in with the candy cauldron. Let the kids take them, at least one per group will. They'll be twirling and waving them around and increase the chances motorists see them. Did this LONG ago when Glowsticks went from a pricey survival novelty to a seasonal and party store cheap thing.
That’s such a good idea! I was going to say I’ll do that next year but then I realised I live in New Zealand and halloween is in summer so the sunsets late and also everyone goes trick or treating at 5pm anyway.
@@rachelcookie321 Cool perspective! Might as well save the piles of plastic for the trash-bin then. I have friends from India and one of them visited and I was helping her shop and sightsee- and we were out till very late... Instinctively she'd been using the Sun's position in the sky as a timer - but it was summer and northern America so it's only starting to go down at 9PM... They don't do Halloween there of course (Hindu, Muslim and the Christians are a different branch for traditions) - a pumpkin would be grabbed for eating by a monkey (or a person...) instantly as a gift. Interestingly the glow stick toys even they love for festivals that do get late at night. Thanks for the feedback.
@@syro33 Cyanide is cheap in bulk, easy to purchase online, and only a minority of people can smell it (it's a genetic trait). You could purchase some baked goods or soft jelly-filled candy, inject cyanide inside with your thinnest needle, and slip the poison treats in other people's bowls while you trick or treat. Then it's impossible to trace back to you, unless everyone keeps exact records of who visited whose house when. Cameras won't help in catching you because you'll be wearing a masked costume.
When I was a kid, my family never bothered checking what I got in my basket. Some neighbors made homemade brownies, other dipped apples in Caramel for kids, and there was literally nothing wrong with any of it. My Grandfather used to joke that if I ever got sick "We had great health insurance to cover it". There was no panic or anything. Meanwhile, everytine I went out with friends, their parents frantically checked baskets with flashlights after every house and once actually forced me to throw away a homemade popcorn ball that some grandma made because "She could've laced it with LSD". My elementary school teachers were the worse though. One openly said to my class that my family should be reported for child neglect because they never checked my baskets. I even had to speak to one of the nurses after Halloween to essentially be like "No, my family didn't check my candy. Yes, I feel completely fine". Not to mention, the principal always phoned/emailed my Grandma to be like "We hear you don't check your granddaughters candy. Do you realize how dangerous that is?". My Grandma always replied "If she's dumb enough to swallow a razor, then that's on her".
The flip is wrong with your school Also whenever an adult of another family tries that with me my responses usually you’re not my parent so please stop
I feel like it’s always smart to not eat candy that isn’t wrapped correctly, not just for safety reasons but also bc it wouldn’t be as hygenic. Besides that, just let kids enjoy their life
This was so helpful as I wondered why people older than me in their 40s were so afraid of Halloween- I imagine it is from this rhetoric. My parents didn't want me to eat candy until I checked it in the light at home and we threw away any open or torn packages.
I think their fear more comes from religion and the scare of "satanism" Also in plenty of places, halloween is a gang holiday/initiation night. That goes for actually established gangs and little kids playing gang because they want to be edgy
@@user-pk8bb6lf9b No, it was a tacit assumption in general in my neighborhood. We hadn't gotten to the point of "Trunk or Treat" yet, but we did observe conventions go out with a responsible adult, don't go to a house with the light out, and don't eat any candy till you get home. Easy enough. When the hospitals X-rayed children's candy, I thought that was so cool! I wanted to, but Dad said no. Now I know you can't really tell anything about the candy except if pins or razor blades were in it. I realized later in life that free X-rays were an excellent PR gimmick. Make a hospital friendly to children,and later on when they need hospital attention that they would remember how friendly and helpful the staff are.
My church did another event called "Trick -or - Treat for UNICEF." The weekend before Halloween we kids would collect change from our neighborhoods for UNICEF donations. Then we would bring our little boxes to a Halloween costume party and have a great time. Free little boxes had sayings on the sides that said things like, "a dime will give one child a vaccine shot against Smallpox." and "One dollar will feed [several] children a meal for a day." And stuff like that.
@@ginnyjollykidd what are you even arguing? Of course it was rp and sensationalism but even before the ~check your kids' candy~ scare, there was still religious and social-environmental fears of halloween...
One time my kids brought in all their candy (my wife and I NEVER made them check it.....we let them dig in and when they got that too-much-sugar look in their eyes and on their faces, we told them to put the rest away for All Saints Day). So even though they were wanting to eat more, they knew they would just feel sick and maybe even end up puking. It was almost binge-drinking and driving the porcelain bus. So Halloweén at our house was pretty mild because we had taught our kids (3 of them) a bit more about why we should have self-control and just why consuming TONS of sugary candy is not just bad for you, but can also have the exact same effects as too much alcohol, which has causes of other kinds. So we tied all this together for them into a nice grouping of misery and frustration during the worst of them REALLY wanting to consume MUCH more than they already had. I know most kids wouldn't listen to ANYTHING about ANYTHING like this, but my wife and I were surprised at how they actually saw all of our points and really did limit themselves. Taking that approach is something you out there might just try to see what happens. Hey, it can't hurt to try. Nothing else seems to work. ✌️😊
I remember going trick-or-treating as a kid back in the early 90s and this really nice older lady (presumably in her early 70s) was handing out homemade caramel apples. I remember noticing her yard was covered in the discarded apples that we as kids were told not to eat. I still feel so bad for this kindhearted woman to this day. :(
The irony is that kids are starting to sue their parents but not for the candy reason more for the reason that kids of family blogs grow up and realize that personal privacy is a thing and subsequently sue their parents for not respecting said privacy
My mom used to take all the apples, we didn't really want them anyway, and make apple pie. We liked the pie better and I think she liked that she got to cut up the apples and make sure there was nothing in them. No razor blade was ever found.
The current "giving your innocent children their edibles" variation always cracks me up, since I'd expect more parents now would react with excitement at getting $50 edibles for free than with outrage.
@@sage4365 they are a fantastic genre, one of my favorites is "check your kids candy I was going through mine and found an entire WW2 German regiment in a Snickers bar"
I grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s, and every October, I would be shown a "Halloween Safety" video at school warning about the dangers of potentially poisoned/tainted treats, which also briefly touched on the dangers of cars while trick-or-treating. I tended to shrug it off at the time, as my attention was focused strictly on the candy I'd be getting. My parents always checked the treats I got, but we never found anything bad in any of them. I was somewhat aware of the emphasis on tricks that had been the norm in the early 20th century due to my familiarity with the Halloween chapter in a children's book that was set during that era, and involved the story's protagonists pulling a major prank on their school bully.
I remember every year in my childhood hearing these silly stories and there being constant news articles as Halloween approached in Ontario... a lot of attempts to sow fear in our heads, "Make sure to always check your children's candy" etc. Luckily my parents weren't so easily fear mongered and it never affected my Halloween home life.
Yup, I grew up in the 70s/80s, and that urban legend was everywhere. All of our parents felt compelled to check our candy when we got home. They never found anything, but that sweet old lady in our neighborhood who gave us apples every year ("nature's candy," she used to say as she passed them out) might as well have thrown them away, because that's what our parents did.
We had a parent who had a metal handheld metal detector and would bring it into the school and let every parent have the candy checked. It looked like the wand u see or saw at airports. It took the whole day but parents loved it. She wouldn't socialize with any of the parents but always helped if anyone needed it.
growing up in new zealand (where halloween is way more low-key anyway) i never heard anything of this sort until it became an internet meme. we're usually very trusting people over here.
Hey, fellow kiwi! I also only heard about it through memes. I remember I got a snack bag of pick and mix one year and I thought about how this was definitely what people concerned about stuff in the sweets would suspect and then I ate them.
One Halloween I was with my step mother and when we got back from trick or treating she checked my candy. She found 5 small alcoholic candies. The ones that are chocolate shaped like bottles and filled with an alcoholic mix. I remember her asking what house I picked them up at and she went down the street to yell at her neighbor. And that was the only time I ever trick or treated near my step mothers place.
When I was in preschool, I was taught that, if somebody gives you candy, always have your mom or dad check it before you eat it. And due to then living in a small quiet town in Hawaii me having the best up close vison in the family, I was inspecting my own Halloween candy at 8 years old. And till this day, I always inspect any candy that I get from strangers. I also watch out for open candies that I or somebody might accidentally hand out, knowing that they will come across as suspicious. My lesson in preschool had a lasting effect on me!
I can’t remember my parents ever checking our Halloween candy (unless the intent was to eat some themselves…), but they did tell us to never accept/eat any unwrapped treats or homemade goods… so no apples, no baked goods, etc. Their reasoning was definitely rooted in the urban myths presented in this video!
My parents probably checked my candy when I was really young, but by time I was 6 or so just gave my sister and me a general rule of not eating anything that is unwrapped or the wrapper is torn. Enough so that to this day I’ll get a bag of candy from the manufacturer and automatically toss candies that don’t follow this rule, haha. Even if they aren’t drugged or laced with cyanide, they’re probably stale anyway. I also lived in a small town, though, where a lot of the houses I stopped at belonging to family members - and while statistically speaking you’re more likely to be harmed by people you know in this manner, the general mindset was “we know these people, and therefore it’s safe.”
my mom has a strict sense of smell compared to my dad, so when they inspected candies that were wrapped, mom would smell them to make sure there wasn't something there, and only a couple failed inspection bc my mom picked up something weird in terms of scent. she's also the same teacher who busted more than 10 middle schoolers for vaping in the school bathrooms
We had a ridiculous assembly every year of elementary school where police officers would come and tell us about the razors in the candy and make us sign something called the "pumpkin pledge" which we then wire home around our necks on horrible scratchy yarn. The pledge was just that we wouldn't eat our candy while we were out and let our parents check it all. It was ridiculous and frankly in hindsight kind of scary.
I love it when people panic about drugs and edibles getting into the kid's candy. Like, you realize how much these edibles cost? I ain't about to be giving it to your kid for free!
My mom grew up in the Rio Grande valley and knew kids who bit into needles and got their mouths and throats stabbed as well as a kid who got a lick & stick sticker that had LSD on it and it killed him. It's not unfounded to check your candy.
My parents always inspected my candy, same with my friend's parents inspecting theirs. The only thing any parent ever found was candy they liked (and ended up "borrowing").
Oh jeez, the 'Pot Candy' Hysteria, the world's dumbest moral panic imo. "Karen! Watch out! Some pothead is giving away their edibles for free to your kids!" smh...
The three big "Stranger Danger" rules we were taught as kids: 1) Don't talk to strangers ... now we have The Internet 2) Don't get in the car with someone you don't know ... Uber 3) Don't take candy from strangers ... unless it's Halloween.
I'm glad that you mentioned cars and the danger they can pose to children! It's a big problem in the U.S. any time of the year. This is why we need more walkable towns and more alternatives to driving.
1:15 Does any town still have trick-or-treating after dark now? I remember when I was a kid in the 90s that was stopped. I presume it's less because of "stranger danger", or anything like that, and more because of vehicle accidents.
That is one reason that the shift from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time happens in early November instead of mid October. An extra hour of light in the evening before bedtime. There is already a lot of irrational thought about how Daylight Saving Time operates, this is just one aspect.
Everyone still goes trick or treating after dark in my town and surrounding areas. I wasn’t arware that areas didn’t it earlier. Everyone is home before 9:00 usually cause kids have bed times.
I was born in '96 and luckily my parents never believed the fearmongering. All they did was tell me to throw away any candy that was opened/torn because it wasn't sanitary.
Our Hallowe'en routine, in our rural village in the UK, was dressing up to go round to the homes of the kids you went to school with, parents feign being scared, present you with a bag of Skittles or a mini Twix, and then you went home. Then this myth took root and the village hall would organise a Hallowe'en party instead. It felt a little institutional after that. Some of the magic disappeared. (Central heating was a bonus, though.) And I usually offered to share my sweets with my parents, they'd share with me if they had a box of chocolates, and they'd bought my costume. Least I could do was stand them a mini Snickers- mum usually said yes 😂
My parents would inspect every piece of candy I got trick-or-treating. Anything where the wrapper was slightly out of skew was thrown away. Never found anything. Though, this was back in the early 90's.
We always went around with a parent (who stayed a little far out so the kids could have their fun) or a responsible older kid like me at 14. I was dressed with my Dad's bathrobe, scrubs, and my Aunt's military shoes to be Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H*.
I remember the first Halloween I went trick-or-treating. My mom dressed my sister (age 2) and me (age 4) up in costumes and took us door-to-door through our apartment complex. It was an amazing and new experience for me. My only disappointment was that I could only have a few pieces of the candy every day.
@@DamonNomad82 I never thought about how trick or treating works in big cities with lots of apartments. To people usually just do it in their apartment block? What if they live in a small block?
@@rachelcookie321 In my experience, trick or treating in apartments is usually done either within the complex for large ones with multiple buildings, or in the general neighborhood both in the complex and at houses in the surrounding few blocks if they live in a smaller complex. I moved a lot as a kid, so I have experience in both situations.
My mom worked at a L.A. hospital in the 80s that did free candy x-rays. She was part of the team creating the publicity images for it. I went with her to the grocery store to get the supplies: candy, apples & razor blades. I was about 7 but I could feel the stares from other shoppers.
We came up with a fun solution to the car problem in our neighborhood. We all meet up at one spot in the neighborhood, we hook a trailer with railings up to a tractor / truck and give all the kids a hay ride through the neighborhood. This also allows us to watch traffic as kids go to the houses.
My parents always had me and my brother check our candies when we were old enough to properly inspect them. They never pulled the 'picking out the favorites', but if they did, they would always ask. Most of the time it was candy I did not prefer anyways. We were not panicked, but were careful about potential contamination/poison in open candies. Razor blades were not much of a concern as it would be obvious. Later on, it became more of a joke of my dad saying, "I will taste test the candy"
I recently looked up causes of death based on age. Death by traffic is first or second injury death among ages over 1, though 20x as much for adults. For homicides, kids are usually murdered by relatives, while older teens and adults under 45 get into trouble with others.
When i was 7 years old i went trick or treating and i asked my mom “can i eat this chocolate bar” and she said “sure but let me check it first” she opened the package and there was a razor blade lodged in the caramel part (it was a milkyway)
Ordinary time: don’t talk to strangers Halloween: you have to talk to strangers Ordinary time: don’t accept candy from strangers! Halloween: accept candy from strangers Ordinary time: it’s dangerous at night! Halloween: we’ll go at night This world be making no sense…
I wish my parents had liked snickers and Reese’s since I don’t like peanuts. But they always took a Twix or Hershey. They never pretended it was bad candy, we voluntarily shared our candy as thanks for taking us trick-or-treating but it was sad since the majority of houses would give stuff with peanuts. There was a year where I literally filled 3 of those plastic pumpkins and when I separated out the candy, less than a third of one of the baskets was stuff without peanuts. Which I then shared with my parents and younger brother. And let me just say that it kind of sucks when everyone in the family likes the exact same candy and dislikes the exact same ones. Not in selfish, “I don’t want to share” kind of way, but in a “I have several bucketfuls of candy and most of it goes to the trash” sort of way. (I remember trying to take the candy a couple of times to a program that used to send candy to soldiers but I’d always end up losing the candy in horrible places that led to ant infestations. My favorite happened when I lost the candy in my school desk. Ants everywhere. Lots of screaming.)
I was born in '72. They never checked our candy but they did warn us to look closely, throw away any opened or worrisome candy. I do think it's a good idea to check your candy or have an adult do it - better safe than sorry.
I don't think my folks ever checked my candy, but there was a case, during my late grade school years, of Tylenol tampering that caused a few deaths. That probably contributed to this whole idea of tampering with ingestible goods.
Dad always checked our candy, and one year he threw out anything that was not wrapped. (Tootsie Rolls were okay.) I think it included a popcorn ball in twisted Saran wrap. We never had anything poisonous in our loot, but Dad did take the opportunity to "tax" our candy, eliciting indignant cries of "Hey!" But I think it was a lesson in the grown - up necessity of paying taxes on one's income. Ah! Parents and their teaching moments! Subtle, but effective.
10:20 - every fall, I hear the news reminding people to be careful when driving in the evening, due to shorter days and daylight savings time (early Nov). Accidents increase this time of year.
I was a serious trick-or-treater between about 1956 and 1962 or so, and I remember hearing rumors about razor blades in candy apples or laxatives mixed into chocolates and such like. All the kids in the neighborhood were basically warned to only accept brand-name wrapped candies, as these were deemed safe enough, and were relatively difficult to tamper with- and that's what everybody gave out for kids on Halloween, anyway. I never heard of anybody getting poisoned or otherwise harmed from Halloween candy, but I've heard of laxatives-for-chocolate pranks being pulled in other settings.
In the early 80s, there was a TV newscast showing sewing needles found in apples on Halloween along with a kid showing his gums pierced by the needles. Maybe it was a hoax but after that, few people gave apples on Halloween and all apples obtained were thrown out without even looking at them.
Parents keep pushing the drugs/razor blades in Halloween candy myth as an excuse to "search" their kid's candy and steal what they want. Change my mind.
Last thing i told my kids to always say thank you regardless of candy...one woman had no candy gave each kid 3 m and ms yes 3 outside of a bag... memories
8:35 is very funny tbh XD And even if the whole drugs in candy is pretty bs, I would still check on the candy just to see what they got and make sure they didn't got anything they are allergic to or something like that.
We didn't have much of a candy check other than "offerings to the overlords", but one year we went with some family friends and their neighbor gave out mini Reese's cups. It was a good thing we would do a general once-over just to revel in the haul, because those dang mini Reese's were bug infested! No intentional "treat tampering" but just some old candy. We checked all the rest carefully that year. I work at a middle school, and they had a Halloween safety assembly this year, mostly focusing on not running from cops if you were out past curfew, staying visible to vehicles and not running across the street, and checking candy *to make sure it wasn't expired candy people had left over from last year's cancelled Halloween* !
I always thought it was weird that people thought stuff was put in halloween sweets. I remember one year I got a ziplock bag of assorted sweets that weren’t individually packaged. I thought about how this was definitely what those people would think had stuff in them and then I ate them all.
Now it all makes sense. My mom taught us to check our own candy but she really was mostly concerned about opened candy and expired candy cause she didn’t want me getting sick. 🤷 That part still makes sense to me.
I lived too far out in the country to do anything except get driven to our few newest neighbors. There was never any need to check and no danger of being run over. Only of crashing either due to driving in the dark on dirt roads or the drinking and driving mentioned in the video.
My mom never let me go in the old folks home because “none of the candy was store bought and could have razors in them” Plus she would go through it anyway and throw out anything that wasn’t store bought. Yay Halloween! (I’m 28)
Growing up I'd never I never found anything in my candy or had anyone find anything in my candy but it was something I was told growing up to always be mindful to check your candy before eating it
Ever since I was 3, my dad always said "Make sure to leave to candy bag on the table, so I could *check* it". It has always scared me. So to this day, I check my candy :,)
People in my area actually did find small blades in some pieces of Halloween candy a few years ago. Sure, it may have started as a myth, but it doesn't mean you should just trust everyone
@@Lennard222 the average person wouldnt report their trick or treat candy being tampered with... what actions are there to take besides tossing the candy?
when my dad was 9 (Halloween 1989) he had and his sister had gotten an Apple and my grandma decided to slice it up into wedges to put peanut butter on it for them and when she did she found a razer blade in it. my parents skimmed my candy as a child but as i got older they lost that fear and stopped by the time i was around 10...EXSEPT FOR APPLES we had to get our apples cut open before we eat it
When I was little (70's-80) there were houses in the neighborhood giving out homemade popcorn balls and caramel apples. Nowadays they'd probably get SWATted.
Occam's razor...often the simplest explanation is the correct one. As a child of the late 60s and 70s I can attest to the fact that for me and many others the 1974 Candyman Killer case - which was covered by the media throughout the country as noted - was the genesis for the fear. Prior to that incident, Halloween was an innocent affair with no extraordinary measures taken by parents...afterwards, parents became terrified of Halloween candy. Some parents prohibited trick or treating completely after that, while others threw the candy away upon return. Those that allowed their kids to keep candy would toss all Pixy Stix and all food items. It did seem as if the Tylenol poisoning cases a few years later added to the real and justified fear of product adulteration - including Halloween candy. However, as those stories have faded from memories, so too has the fear. My kids and their friends today trick or treat with little or no candy supervision.
Although Halloween was popular for a long time, Halloween wasn't considered a commercial holiday. It wasn't until around the late 70s and early 80s when Halloween sold out and became really big.
We don't celebrate Halloween down here but still, I'm sorry, but I don't take any chances when it comes to my children receiving candy from strangers. Simply put: it's a no no.
History of Halloween... without mentioning All Hallows Eve (?) Correct me if I'm wrong but its where the name comes from, and where the Treat part of Trick or Treat comes from. Its a *bit* of a missed detail in the quick history, which albeit quick, probably should've included it.
Cheddar always does such a great job on fact checking and showing their sources. Which makes it even more of a shame that they use conductor for a train operator...
But in North America, the Conductor manages a freight, passenger, or other type of train, and directly supervises the train crew, which can include a brakeman, flagman, ticket collector, assistant conductor, and on board service personnel, and is responsible for the movement of the train.
I had my Halloween candy tampered with as a kid, never ate it but def looked like someone messed with that candy corn it was weirdly colored. It was also unwrapped. My parents didn’t let me eat it
In this case, it was the press (communist NYT) inventing the fear, to help destroy the Western world. You know, use fear to control people & make them distrust their neighbors... Nothing like what we have now in the Scamdemic, of course. That was a long time ago, we don't do that any more...
I never had any problem with candy on Halloween. My mom would give some out, my brother did his things and i would be on my way to collect some sweets. When I got home, my mom would tell me to not eat everything now, because then I wouldnt eat anything at dinner (we ate late) and to keep some for the following days. Sometimes i even would give them an amount of candy and they didnt really care for the candy, just be thankfull that I thought of them. Living in Germany, Brandenburg has apparently an advantage on 31.10.
Trick or Treat originated from when children would go out and 'prank' their neighbors. Many of these so on so 'pranks' would be of them tricking, or scaring their neighbors. They would wear a mask, so they would go unnoticed. Later, the townsfolk started to give them candy, so they would go away, and the next year do the same.
If I'm hearing this right, historically the only people poisoning their children's candy is their own parents. It's honestly more horrifying than I thought.
A lot of parents know this poison candy myth in bunk but tell it to their kids anyway to prevent them from overeating too much candy. It was "Okay you can eat this one piece of candy and then you are going to bed in an hour."
This actually happened to an old teacher of mine. Her brothers were given wrinkly old apples by an old woman, and they thought it would be smart to tie a firecracker to each. When they exploded, razor blades came flying out of each.
The story about a father who poisoned his sons candy to get life insurance is horrific and way worst than any story about getting bad candy by a stranger
The amount was so small too, even back then.
He told him he could only have one piece of candy and picked the pixie stick out for him to eat 🥺
I do believe everyone would agree with your point. I don't believe any part of this video was to cause anyone to have the opposite opinion of your point here. Your main point here is that you just stated the blatantly obvious.
@@CivilEngineerWroxton I'm point out that that people remembered him as the guy who gave poisoned candy on Halloween than the guy who killed his own kid for insurance money
He also gave poisoned candy to 3 random kids in his neighborhood. It was only by chance that they didn't eat it.
My mother and grandmother were fabulous bakers, before there were TV shows about it. Our house was the most popular Trick-or-Treat house in the neighborhood, because they'd bake dozens of really cool Halloween cookie sandwich or cupcake items, wrap then in plastic wrap, and give them out. We had parents that asked if they could have one. Then in 1973, my senior year in High School, the local paper had a "homemade candy is dangerous" story. After they spent 3-4 days making these treats, nobody would take them. Many parents told us that even they knew our stuff was delicious, they just couldn't let their kids eat baked goods from strangers. It was the end of one of my favorite childhood activities, though I did make some money for the drama club selling the treats at school the next day. This is why we can't have nice things, we're idiots.
That’s so sad, good you could at least make money from it
"Oh, I WON'T take those for FREE, but I will buy several of them at the SCHOOL bake sale where they are being sold for kids and adults to consume. All the razor blades and poison and such would be removed to sell them at the bake sale. Don't want a bad rep for next year's bake sale." ✌️😁
How idiotic the people are that wouldn't take them for FREE but would buy several of them for a price. “I'll buy several because they are to DIE FOR!" 😊👌
reminds me of the 2020 toilet paper craze. my mom bought like a six month supply while only having 1-2 weeks worth of food at home, and she could not tell me why she thought it was possible that a months-long toilet paper shortage might happen.
I don't get it though. Like if people came back year after year they should've known that you won't do anything. 🤦
When I shoveled snow as a side job an old lady was really concerned about a half-eaten bag of candy. She said "all sorts of people put drugs into them". What a nefarious scheme:
1. Buy expensive drugs
2. Disguise drugs as candy
3. Lose the drugs by placing them on top of a trash bin of a small store in a tiny countryside town on Tuesday morning
4. ???
5. Profit
Maybe a handler or nurse tricked that old lady by putting her dementia pills into a Halloween bag?
Ngl I’ve and a lot of people have mistaken edibles as candy. 😭😭😭
@@joec200012 Did you accidentally give it to kids?
@@joec200012 Oh, I didn't even think of edibles. This happened in a small European country which has basically zero drugs. I haven't even seen marijuana ever being used, let alone more hardcore stuff.
@@suakeli You haven't seen it, therefore it's not there? 😏 People everywhere obtain and use drugs. I agree they almost never hand them out to strangers disguised as candy, though, at least not without the recipient knowing it.
I remember my parents "checking my candy" just being an opportunity for them to pick out their favorites. 😡
Smart parents
We call that the "Parent Tax" in our house.
I wish mine liked Mary Janes and those peanut-butter kisses in orange and black wrappers.
💀SAME
Nah! They would always go one of the good ones at least. But not all tax was painful. Mom always kept the good chocolate stuff at home for us. So it wasn't quite as painful as it could have been.
This makes me respect my mother even more than I already did.
She never bothered with the whole inspecting candy thing, but she DID make sure that my costume always had some reflective elements on the front AND back, so it would be more visible to drivers.
Yeah! For me, I had to carry a flashlight and extra batteries. Not only did it help other people see us, but us kids were able to see as well.
I used to go out with a torch so I could actually see but I live in New Zealand now and it’s still bright when people go trick or treating.
Yes, my mother was also cautious about cars, she usually accompanied me trick or treating and made sure if I was wearing a dark colored costume it had reflective strips on it along with on my candy bucket. The only checking she did on my candy was to see if they were wrapped properly and hadn't come open, mainly for sanitary reasons to make sure the candy itself hadn't come into contact with random detritus or dirt. She worked at a hospital as a medical technician so she knew that after years of x-raying the candy they never found anything untoward so she saw that level of caution as unnecessary and paranoid.
One thing I've done is get bulk glow sticks and mix in with the candy cauldron. Let the kids take them, at least one per group will. They'll be twirling and waving them around and increase the chances motorists see them. Did this LONG ago when Glowsticks went from a pricey survival novelty to a seasonal and party store cheap thing.
awesome
That’s such a good idea! I was going to say I’ll do that next year but then I realised I live in New Zealand and halloween is in summer so the sunsets late and also everyone goes trick or treating at 5pm anyway.
@@rachelcookie321 Cool perspective!
Might as well save the piles of plastic for the trash-bin then. I have friends from India and one of them visited and I was helping her shop and sightsee- and we were out till very late... Instinctively she'd been using the Sun's position in the sky as a timer - but it was summer and northern America so it's only starting to go down at 9PM... They don't do Halloween there of course (Hindu, Muslim and the Christians are a different branch for traditions) - a pumpkin would be grabbed for eating by a monkey (or a person...) instantly as a gift. Interestingly the glow stick toys even they love for festivals that do get late at night.
Thanks for the feedback.
There was a house that did that most years. Hands down better then even a full sized candy bar!
Why would anyone give their expensive drugs to some random kids? Waste of money.
Not everyone thinks like that, there are evil people out there just wanting to cause damage
@@rolloxra670 none of them smoke weed tho lmao
@@rolloxra670 Why would that be your preferred way of spreading chaos though? There's probably more efficient ways, and less expensive.
@@syro33 Cyanide is cheap in bulk, easy to purchase online, and only a minority of people can smell it (it's a genetic trait). You could purchase some baked goods or soft jelly-filled candy, inject cyanide inside with your thinnest needle, and slip the poison treats in other people's bowls while you trick or treat. Then it's impossible to trace back to you, unless everyone keeps exact records of who visited whose house when. Cameras won't help in catching you because you'll be wearing a masked costume.
@@turbolover-nh4vf I suspect a lot of people trust hippies way more than they trust Nestlé, and rightly so.
America: We can't provide healthcare, it's too expensive
Also America: "Need that candy X-rayed? No problem."
Nothing like a hint of radiation to bring out the flavor of a Snickers bar
Sure, you can get free X-rays to train your kids to live in fear. You know, make 'em totally controllable.
Government funded healthcare is shit, let's just have health stamps so like welfare for health!
@@Acemans And some uranium to give it a tangy aftertaste.
What? you can go to a hospital and have candy xrayed for free??
When I was a kid, my family never bothered checking what I got in my basket. Some neighbors made homemade brownies, other dipped apples in Caramel for kids, and there was literally nothing wrong with any of it. My Grandfather used to joke that if I ever got sick "We had great health insurance to cover it". There was no panic or anything. Meanwhile, everytine I went out with friends, their parents frantically checked baskets with flashlights after every house and once actually forced me to throw away a homemade popcorn ball that some grandma made because "She could've laced it with LSD".
My elementary school teachers were the worse though. One openly said to my class that my family should be reported for child neglect because they never checked my baskets. I even had to speak to one of the nurses after Halloween to essentially be like "No, my family didn't check my candy. Yes, I feel completely fine". Not to mention, the principal always phoned/emailed my Grandma to be like "We hear you don't check your granddaughters candy. Do you realize how dangerous that is?". My Grandma always replied "If she's dumb enough to swallow a razor, then that's on her".
The flip is wrong with your school
Also whenever an adult of another family tries that with me my responses usually you’re not my parent so please stop
@@melodysmusicaladventures596 I was about 9 when the Popcorn ball thing happened, so I was just really confused.
That sucks a lot but I absolutely love your grandmas response
Based grandma
Ha
I feel like it’s always smart to not eat candy that isn’t wrapped correctly, not just for safety reasons but also bc it wouldn’t be as hygenic. Besides that, just let kids enjoy their life
This was so helpful as I wondered why people older than me in their 40s were so afraid of Halloween- I imagine it is from this rhetoric. My parents didn't want me to eat candy until I checked it in the light at home and we threw away any open or torn packages.
I think their fear more comes from religion and the scare of "satanism"
Also in plenty of places, halloween is a gang holiday/initiation night. That goes for actually established gangs and little kids playing gang because they want to be edgy
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No, it was a tacit assumption in general in my neighborhood.
We hadn't gotten to the point of "Trunk or Treat" yet, but we did observe conventions go out with a responsible adult, don't go to a house with the light out, and don't eat any candy till you get home. Easy enough.
When the hospitals X-rayed children's candy, I thought that was so cool! I wanted to, but Dad said no. Now I know you can't really tell anything about the candy except if pins or razor blades were in it.
I realized later in life that free X-rays were an excellent PR gimmick. Make a hospital friendly to children,and later on when they need hospital attention that they would remember how friendly and helpful the staff are.
My church did another event called "Trick -or - Treat for UNICEF." The weekend before Halloween we kids would collect change from our neighborhoods for UNICEF donations. Then we would bring our little boxes to a Halloween costume party and have a great time.
Free little boxes had sayings on the sides that said things like, "a dime will give one child a vaccine shot against Smallpox." and "One dollar will feed [several] children a meal for a day." And stuff like that.
@@ginnyjollykidd what are you even arguing? Of course it was rp and sensationalism but even before the ~check your kids' candy~ scare, there was still religious and social-environmental fears of halloween...
One time my kids brought in all their candy (my wife and I NEVER made them check it.....we let them dig in and when they got that too-much-sugar look in their eyes and on their faces, we told them to put the rest away for All Saints Day). So even though they were wanting to eat more, they knew they would just feel sick and maybe even end up puking. It was almost binge-drinking and driving the porcelain bus. So Halloweén at our house was pretty mild because we had taught our kids (3 of them) a bit more about why we should have self-control and just why consuming TONS of sugary candy is not just bad for you, but can also have the exact same effects as too much alcohol, which has causes of other kinds. So we tied all this together for them into a nice grouping of misery and frustration during the worst of them REALLY wanting to consume MUCH more than they already had. I know most kids wouldn't listen to ANYTHING about ANYTHING like this, but my wife and I were surprised at how they actually saw all of our points and really did limit themselves. Taking that approach is something you out there might just try to see what happens. Hey, it can't hurt to try. Nothing else seems to work.
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I remember going trick-or-treating as a kid back in the early 90s and this really nice older lady (presumably in her early 70s) was handing out homemade caramel apples. I remember noticing her yard was covered in the discarded apples that we as kids were told not to eat. I still feel so bad for this kindhearted woman to this day. :(
I feel like the other source for this is just giving parents an excuse to take the candy they really like for themselves
That’s the parent tax, thank you very much.
I'm pretty sure you can sue your parents, because you EARNED that candy.
The irony is that kids are starting to sue their parents but not for the candy reason more for the reason that kids of family blogs grow up and realize that personal privacy is a thing and subsequently sue their parents for not respecting said privacy
@@aadarshroy3216 Not exactly, especially considering most of the things parents can take.
My mom used to take all the apples, we didn't really want them anyway, and make apple pie. We liked the pie better and I think she liked that she got to cut up the apples and make sure there was nothing in them. No razor blade was ever found.
You got a bunch of apples on Halloween?
The current "giving your innocent children their edibles" variation always cracks me up, since I'd expect more parents now would react with excitement at getting $50 edibles for free than with outrage.
That's why parents be checking their kids candy. They're looking for free drugs lol
One of my favorite parts of Halloween is the annual resurrection of the "check your kids candy" meme
that’s when they steal the reese’s
They even have hospitals X-ray your kid's candy.
"just found an apache helicopter in my kid's candy, make sure to check your candy!"
saw one that had such gems as: cocaine fun-dip, razor blade snickers, and... candy corn
@@sage4365 they are a fantastic genre, one of my favorites is "check your kids candy I was going through mine and found an entire WW2 German regiment in a Snickers bar"
I grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s, and every October, I would be shown a "Halloween Safety" video at school warning about the dangers of potentially poisoned/tainted treats, which also briefly touched on the dangers of cars while trick-or-treating. I tended to shrug it off at the time, as my attention was focused strictly on the candy I'd be getting. My parents always checked the treats I got, but we never found anything bad in any of them. I was somewhat aware of the emphasis on tricks that had been the norm in the early 20th century due to my familiarity with the Halloween chapter in a children's book that was set during that era, and involved the story's protagonists pulling a major prank on their school bully.
I remember every year in my childhood hearing these silly stories and there being constant news articles as Halloween approached in Ontario... a lot of attempts to sow fear in our heads, "Make sure to always check your children's candy" etc. Luckily my parents weren't so easily fear mongered and it never affected my Halloween home life.
I mean you should be careful but being nutty about it isn't warranted either ofc
Yup, I grew up in the 70s/80s, and that urban legend was everywhere. All of our parents felt compelled to check our candy when we got home. They never found anything, but that sweet old lady in our neighborhood who gave us apples every year ("nature's candy," she used to say as she passed them out) might as well have thrown them away, because that's what our parents did.
We had a parent who had a metal handheld metal detector and would bring it into the school and let every parent have the candy checked. It looked like the wand u see or saw at airports. It took the whole day but parents loved it. She wouldn't socialize with any of the parents but always helped if anyone needed it.
growing up in new zealand (where halloween is way more low-key anyway) i never heard anything of this sort until it became an internet meme. we're usually very trusting people over here.
Hey, fellow kiwi! I also only heard about it through memes. I remember I got a snack bag of pick and mix one year and I thought about how this was definitely what people concerned about stuff in the sweets would suspect and then I ate them.
One Halloween I was with my step mother and when we got back from trick or treating she checked my candy. She found 5 small alcoholic candies. The ones that are chocolate shaped like bottles and filled with an alcoholic mix. I remember her asking what house I picked them up at and she went down the street to yell at her neighbor. And that was the only time I ever trick or treated near my step mothers place.
Bro the liquor chocolate is the best ones
When I was in preschool, I was taught that, if somebody gives you candy, always have your mom or dad check it before you eat it.
And due to then living in a small quiet town in Hawaii me having the best up close vison in the family, I was inspecting my own Halloween candy at 8 years old.
And till this day, I always inspect any candy that I get from strangers. I also watch out for open candies that I or somebody might accidentally hand out, knowing that they will come across as suspicious. My lesson in preschool had a lasting effect on me!
I can’t remember my parents ever checking our Halloween candy (unless the intent was to eat some themselves…), but they did tell us to never accept/eat any unwrapped treats or homemade goods… so no apples, no baked goods, etc. Their reasoning was definitely rooted in the urban myths presented in this video!
My parents probably checked my candy when I was really young, but by time I was 6 or so just gave my sister and me a general rule of not eating anything that is unwrapped or the wrapper is torn. Enough so that to this day I’ll get a bag of candy from the manufacturer and automatically toss candies that don’t follow this rule, haha. Even if they aren’t drugged or laced with cyanide, they’re probably stale anyway.
I also lived in a small town, though, where a lot of the houses I stopped at belonging to family members - and while statistically speaking you’re more likely to be harmed by people you know in this manner, the general mindset was “we know these people, and therefore it’s safe.”
my mom has a strict sense of smell compared to my dad, so when they inspected candies that were wrapped, mom would smell them to make sure there wasn't something there, and only a couple failed inspection bc my mom picked up something weird in terms of scent.
she's also the same teacher who busted more than 10 middle schoolers for vaping in the school bathrooms
We had a ridiculous assembly every year of elementary school where police officers would come and tell us about the razors in the candy and make us sign something called the "pumpkin pledge" which we then wire home around our necks on horrible scratchy yarn. The pledge was just that we wouldn't eat our candy while we were out and let our parents check it all. It was ridiculous and frankly in hindsight kind of scary.
In the 50s Mom took me around to trusted friends that had homemade goodies like popcorn balls rice crispy squares and taffy apples.
I love it when people panic about drugs and edibles getting into the kid's candy. Like, you realize how much these edibles cost? I ain't about to be giving it to your kid for free!
My mom grew up in the Rio Grande valley and knew kids who bit into needles and got their mouths and throats stabbed as well as a kid who got a lick & stick sticker that had LSD on it and it killed him. It's not unfounded to check your candy.
Seriously. You still should check your candy. I got a crunch bar with maggots once. Absolutely shook me.
1 yikes
2 that’s at least a far cry from drugs or cyanite still gross though…
Why would maggots be in a Crunch bar? That's not what they eat
@@kashiichan idk. Probably was something else now that I look it up.
My parents always inspected my candy, same with my friend's parents inspecting theirs. The only thing any parent ever found was candy they liked (and ended up "borrowing").
Oh jeez, the 'Pot Candy' Hysteria, the world's dumbest moral panic imo.
"Karen! Watch out! Some pothead is giving away their edibles for free to your kids!" smh...
not to mention, depending where you live, weed can be expensive!
@@Angie-ze8bz Exactly! Literally NOBODY is giving away that shit for free, much less to random kids!
The three big "Stranger Danger" rules we were taught as kids:
1) Don't talk to strangers ... now we have The Internet
2) Don't get in the car with someone you don't know ... Uber
3) Don't take candy from strangers ... unless it's Halloween.
Exactly!
When I was young (in the '70's), it was "Red Light" and "Green Light" people.
Well I am pretty sure ubers are only used by adults but still your other points are good
I'm glad that you mentioned cars and the danger they can pose to children! It's a big problem in the U.S. any time of the year. This is why we need more walkable towns and more alternatives to driving.
1:15 Does any town still have trick-or-treating after dark now? I remember when I was a kid in the 90s that was stopped. I presume it's less because of "stranger danger", or anything like that, and more because of vehicle accidents.
in my country, kids go trick-or-treating after dark, because at this time of the year it gets dark really early
That is one reason that the shift from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time happens in early November instead of mid October. An extra hour of light in the evening before bedtime.
There is already a lot of irrational thought about how Daylight Saving Time operates, this is just one aspect.
In Canada everybody still goes after dark.
Everyone still goes trick or treating after dark in my town and surrounding areas. I wasn’t arware that areas didn’t it earlier. Everyone is home before 9:00 usually cause kids have bed times.
@@dustmybroom288 yessir
When I was a child, I received a large nougat bar that had expired 18 months previously
I was born in '96 and luckily my parents never believed the fearmongering. All they did was tell me to throw away any candy that was opened/torn because it wasn't sanitary.
Our Hallowe'en routine, in our rural village in the UK, was dressing up to go round to the homes of the kids you went to school with, parents feign being scared, present you with a bag of Skittles or a mini Twix, and then you went home. Then this myth took root and the village hall would organise a Hallowe'en party instead. It felt a little institutional after that. Some of the magic disappeared. (Central heating was a bonus, though.)
And I usually offered to share my sweets with my parents, they'd share with me if they had a box of chocolates, and they'd bought my costume. Least I could do was stand them a mini Snickers- mum usually said yes 😂
My parents would inspect every piece of candy I got trick-or-treating. Anything where the wrapper was slightly out of skew was thrown away. Never found anything. Though, this was back in the early 90's.
We always went around with a parent (who stayed a little far out so the kids could have their fun) or a responsible older kid like me at 14. I was dressed with my Dad's bathrobe, scrubs, and my Aunt's military shoes to be Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H*.
I remember the first Halloween I went trick-or-treating. My mom dressed my sister (age 2) and me (age 4) up in costumes and took us door-to-door through our apartment complex. It was an amazing and new experience for me. My only disappointment was that I could only have a few pieces of the candy every day.
@@DamonNomad82 I never thought about how trick or treating works in big cities with lots of apartments. To people usually just do it in their apartment block? What if they live in a small block?
@@rachelcookie321 In my experience, trick or treating in apartments is usually done either within the complex for large ones with multiple buildings, or in the general neighborhood both in the complex and at houses in the surrounding few blocks if they live in a smaller complex. I moved a lot as a kid, so I have experience in both situations.
My mom worked at a L.A. hospital in the 80s that did free candy x-rays. She was part of the team creating the publicity images for it. I went with her to the grocery store to get the supplies: candy, apples & razor blades. I was about 7 but I could feel the stares from other shoppers.
We came up with a fun solution to the car problem in our neighborhood. We all meet up at one spot in the neighborhood, we hook a trailer with railings up to a tractor / truck and give all the kids a hay ride through the neighborhood. This also allows us to watch traffic as kids go to the houses.
The 70s is the creepiest decade for me (8:30), even the camera “filters” make photos from that time creepy
My parents always had me and my brother check our candies when we were old enough to properly inspect them. They never pulled the 'picking out the favorites', but if they did, they would always ask. Most of the time it was candy I did not prefer anyways. We were not panicked, but were careful about potential contamination/poison in open candies. Razor blades were not much of a concern as it would be obvious. Later on, it became more of a joke of my dad saying, "I will taste test the candy"
So the takeaway here is that if there is something bad in a kid's Halloween candy, someone in their family put it there.
And that cars and children do not mix.
I recently looked up causes of death based on age. Death by traffic is first or second injury death among ages over 1, though 20x as much for adults. For homicides, kids are usually murdered by relatives, while older teens and adults under 45 get into trouble with others.
When i was 7 years old i went trick or treating and i asked my mom “can i eat this chocolate bar” and she said “sure but let me check it first” she opened the package and there was a razor blade lodged in the caramel part (it was a milkyway)
Ordinary time: don’t talk to strangers
Halloween: you have to talk to strangers
Ordinary time: don’t accept candy from strangers!
Halloween: accept candy from strangers
Ordinary time: it’s dangerous at night!
Halloween: we’ll go at night
This world be making no sense…
The biggest warning I've heard is on Halloween is just 'Brush your teeth'.
In my neighborhood it is discouraged to drive during trick or treating hours and doing things like that could really help with the car problem
My parents inspected my candy, the Snickers bars were always bad to them. Now as an adult I pass the same vibe across with my kids' Reece's
I wish my parents had liked snickers and Reese’s since I don’t like peanuts. But they always took a Twix or Hershey. They never pretended it was bad candy, we voluntarily shared our candy as thanks for taking us trick-or-treating but it was sad since the majority of houses would give stuff with peanuts. There was a year where I literally filled 3 of those plastic pumpkins and when I separated out the candy, less than a third of one of the baskets was stuff without peanuts. Which I then shared with my parents and younger brother. And let me just say that it kind of sucks when everyone in the family likes the exact same candy and dislikes the exact same ones. Not in selfish, “I don’t want to share” kind of way, but in a “I have several bucketfuls of candy and most of it goes to the trash” sort of way.
(I remember trying to take the candy a couple of times to a program that used to send candy to soldiers but I’d always end up losing the candy in horrible places that led to ant infestations. My favorite happened when I lost the candy in my school desk. Ants everywhere. Lots of screaming.)
I was born in '72. They never checked our candy but they did warn us to look closely, throw away any opened or worrisome candy.
I do think it's a good idea to check your candy or have an adult do it - better safe than sorry.
I don't think my folks ever checked my candy, but there was a case, during my late grade school years, of Tylenol tampering that caused a few deaths. That probably contributed to this whole idea of tampering with ingestible goods.
0:22 a whole mg42, that’s a score!
Dad always checked our candy, and one year he threw out anything that was not wrapped. (Tootsie Rolls were okay.) I think it included a popcorn ball in twisted Saran wrap.
We never had anything poisonous in our loot, but Dad did take the opportunity to "tax" our candy, eliciting indignant cries of "Hey!" But I think it was a lesson in the grown - up necessity of paying taxes on one's income. Ah! Parents and their teaching moments! Subtle, but effective.
Mom made the best popcorn balls - wish I had some. But sometimes she would put a pearled onion at the core!
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Ugh! Only a Vidalia would get my approval!
My heart rate spiked watching the clip of that kid nearly run into the middle of the road
10:20 - every fall, I hear the news reminding people to be careful when driving in the evening, due to shorter days and daylight savings time (early Nov). Accidents increase this time of year.
They only talked about that one night
I was a serious trick-or-treater between about 1956 and 1962 or so, and I remember hearing rumors about razor blades in candy apples or laxatives mixed into chocolates and such like. All the kids in the neighborhood were basically warned to only accept brand-name wrapped candies, as these were deemed safe enough, and were relatively difficult to tamper with- and that's what everybody gave out for kids on Halloween, anyway. I never heard of anybody getting poisoned or otherwise harmed from Halloween candy, but I've heard of laxatives-for-chocolate pranks being pulled in other settings.
In the early 80s, there was a TV newscast showing sewing needles found in apples on Halloween along with a kid showing his gums pierced by the needles. Maybe it was a hoax but after that, few people gave apples on Halloween and all apples obtained were thrown out without even looking at them.
Parents keep pushing the drugs/razor blades in Halloween candy myth as an excuse to "search" their kid's candy and steal what they want.
Change my mind.
My older brothers were usually the ones inspecting my candy. They never found anything.
Last thing i told my kids to always say thank you regardless of candy...one woman had no candy gave each kid 3 m and ms yes 3 outside of a bag... memories
8:35 is very funny tbh XD
And even if the whole drugs in candy is pretty bs, I would still check on the candy just to see what they got and make sure they didn't got anything they are allergic to or something like that.
My parents never checked my Halloween candy, they just told me to as I went through it. But I do remember them always telling me to watch for cars.
We didn't have much of a candy check other than "offerings to the overlords", but one year we went with some family friends and their neighbor gave out mini Reese's cups. It was a good thing we would do a general once-over just to revel in the haul, because those dang mini Reese's were bug infested! No intentional "treat tampering" but just some old candy. We checked all the rest carefully that year. I work at a middle school, and they had a Halloween safety assembly this year, mostly focusing on not running from cops if you were out past curfew, staying visible to vehicles and not running across the street, and checking candy *to make sure it wasn't expired candy people had left over from last year's cancelled Halloween* !
I was a child in the Sixties and those urban legends on booby-trapped treats was already well-established as early as 1964.
I always thought it was weird that people thought stuff was put in halloween sweets. I remember one year I got a ziplock bag of assorted sweets that weren’t individually packaged. I thought about how this was definitely what those people would think had stuff in them and then I ate them all.
Now it all makes sense. My mom taught us to check our own candy but she really was mostly concerned about opened candy and expired candy cause she didn’t want me getting sick. 🤷 That part still makes sense to me.
I lived too far out in the country to do anything except get driven to our few newest neighbors. There was never any need to check and no danger of being run over. Only of crashing either due to driving in the dark on dirt roads or the drinking and driving mentioned in the video.
now do one about the Satanic panic of the 70s and 80s
My boomer dad fell into the satanic panic and never left. He is absolutely sure that witches want to destroy religion.
The McMartin Daycare fiasco is truly cringe at how stupid people could be
My mom never let me go in the old folks home because “none of the candy was store bought and could have razors in them” Plus she would go through it anyway and throw out anything that wasn’t store bought. Yay Halloween! (I’m 28)
Growing up I'd never I never found anything in my candy or had anyone find anything in my candy but it was something I was told growing up to always be mindful to check your candy before eating it
I always assumed it was so my parents could take the candy they wanted
Still a good idea to check out stuff that your kid got from a literal stranger.
I still think kids and adults should check for expired candy, chocolate, or chips. Plus make sure the kids don't accidentally eat edibles.
Jesus now I realize my own parents are more likely to poison me on Halloween than strangers
Ever since I was 3, my dad always said "Make sure to leave to candy bag on the table, so I could *check* it". It has always scared me. So to this day, I check my candy :,)
People in my area actually did find small blades in some pieces of Halloween candy a few years ago. Sure, it may have started as a myth, but it doesn't mean you should just trust everyone
Can you show any proof (news article or something?)
@@Lennard222 the average person wouldnt report their trick or treat candy being tampered with... what actions are there to take besides tossing the candy?
@@Lennard222 a surprising amount of people don't actually report things or care enough about others to warn them of danger.
Hey, in the last 25 years with Fox News and Republican radio, I discovered lots of people lie without conscience or consequence!
@@Lennard222 I replied with 2 links to news stories and they both disappeared. Not sure what happened
when my dad was 9 (Halloween 1989) he had and his sister had gotten an Apple and my grandma decided to slice it up into wedges to put peanut butter on it for them and when she did she found a razer blade in it. my parents skimmed my candy as a child but as i got older they lost that fear and stopped by the time i was around 10...EXSEPT FOR APPLES we had to get our apples cut open before we eat it
I distinctly remember my parents reading that article in 1970 when I brought my candy home at Hallowe'en.
The guys Nosferatu bust is really amazing.!
When I was little (70's-80) there were houses in the neighborhood giving out homemade popcorn balls and caramel apples.
Nowadays they'd probably get SWATted.
Me, who lives in a country that doesn't celebrate Halloween: _hmmm, interesting_
Also, if trick or treating happened in my country, let's just say human trafficking rates would skyrocket :/
Occam's razor...often the simplest explanation is the correct one.
As a child of the late 60s and 70s I can attest to the fact that for me and many others the 1974 Candyman Killer case - which was covered by the media throughout the country as noted - was the genesis for the fear. Prior to that incident, Halloween was an innocent affair with no extraordinary measures taken by parents...afterwards, parents became terrified of Halloween candy. Some parents prohibited trick or treating completely after that, while others threw the candy away upon return. Those that allowed their kids to keep candy would toss all Pixy Stix and all food items.
It did seem as if the Tylenol poisoning cases a few years later added to the real and justified fear of product adulteration - including Halloween candy. However, as those stories have faded from memories, so too has the fear. My kids and their friends today trick or treat with little or no candy supervision.
Although Halloween was popular for a long time, Halloween wasn't considered a commercial holiday. It wasn't until around the late 70s and early 80s when Halloween sold out and became really big.
Im in shock. As a european never knew about this. Gotta love america
I love how she casually rhymes throughout the video
We don't celebrate Halloween down here but still, I'm sorry, but I don't take any chances when it comes to my children receiving candy from strangers. Simply put: it's a no no.
I can understand that especially during a pandemic.
Did all my trick or treating in the early/mid 70s, never even thought to check the candy but my parents were weary of unpackaged items like apples🎃
History of Halloween... without mentioning All Hallows Eve (?) Correct me if I'm wrong but its where the name comes from, and where the Treat part of Trick or Treat comes from. Its a *bit* of a missed detail in the quick history, which albeit quick, probably should've included it.
Cheddar always does such a great job on fact checking and showing their sources. Which makes it even more of a shame that they use conductor for a train operator...
Which is a shame that they have some whiny globalist fru¡t bringing up "class struggle" & "white middle class" blah blah blah til I puke.
But in North America, the Conductor manages a freight, passenger, or other type of train, and directly supervises the train crew, which can include a brakeman, flagman, ticket collector, assistant conductor, and on board service personnel, and is responsible for the movement of the train.
I had my Halloween candy tampered with as a kid, never ate it but def looked like someone messed with that candy corn it was weirdly colored. It was also unwrapped. My parents didn’t let me eat it
Thank you, Cheddar, for calling out every one with the truth!
Sometimes the Press would rather pander to people’s fears and prejudice than just accurately report the facts.
In this case, it was the press (communist NYT) inventing the fear, to help destroy the Western world.
You know, use fear to control people & make them distrust their neighbors...
Nothing like what we have now in the Scamdemic, of course. That was a long time ago, we don't do that any more...
8:48 "and, of course, all your favourite true crime stars--I mean, serial killers" SPILLIN' THE TEA
I never had any problem with candy on Halloween.
My mom would give some out, my brother did his things and i would be on my way to collect some sweets. When I got home, my mom would tell me to not eat everything now, because then I wouldnt eat anything at dinner (we ate late) and to keep some for the following days.
Sometimes i even would give them an amount of candy and they didnt really care for the candy, just be thankfull that I thought of them.
Living in Germany, Brandenburg has apparently an advantage on 31.10.
Trick or Treat originated from when children would go out and 'prank' their neighbors. Many of these so on so 'pranks' would be of them tricking, or scaring their neighbors. They would wear a mask, so they would go unnoticed. Later, the townsfolk started to give them candy, so they would go away, and the next year do the same.
If I'm hearing this right, historically the only people poisoning their children's candy is their own parents. It's honestly more horrifying than I thought.
A lot of parents know this poison candy myth in bunk but tell it to their kids anyway to prevent them from overeating too much candy. It was "Okay you can eat this one piece of candy and then you are going to bed in an hour."
This actually happened to an old teacher of mine. Her brothers were given wrinkly old apples by an old woman, and they thought it would be smart to tie a firecracker to each. When they exploded, razor blades came flying out of each.