ANSWERS: 17
  • Nothing ever. I grew up in the 60's and 70's (after you a bit!), we had 6 kids in the family and lots of friends, and everybody passed around stories of razor-blades in apples (like any kid would eat an apple!). Now that my own kids have come and gone, and all of their friends are older: still nothing. Never heard of a single dangerous thing in all those years and all of those kids showing up in a trick-or-treat bag. But the urban legends continue, and probably somebody did get something bad once. Its a great ghost story...
  • Saturated fats Artifical coloring Artifical flavors LOL
  • high fructose corn syrup
  • I have never found anything dangerous in Halloween and will never will like almost all the population.
  • I'm from a small town and we haven't found anything
  • I remember getting some SEALED candy that I bit into - an Almond Joy bar - but I bit it from the top, eating the almonds first. I bit into a broken needle that had been put inside. Had I bit it properly, it would have done damage. (I bit so I grabbed the piece of needle with my teeth, had I bitten regularly, it would have pierced my mouth above or below, or both) This was back in the late 70's.
  • Instructions to build a low grade thermonuclear device with blue prints and some plutonium starter.
  • I have not, myself, found dangerous objects in my Halloween candy. My father was an intelligent man and I never kept the Halloween candy, even before the scare hit the news... I brought it home, he discarded it, and gave me candy to replace it. However, in my neighborhood, my friends found needles in candybars, razor blades in apples, and the like. I grew up in Marin County, California and, if I remember correctly, the news first hit about this in my area of California, spreading across the country as it was being done everywhere. In our neck of the woods, the hospitals opened their ER's for x-raying of Halloween candy and, indeed, these items were found in them and the fruit. Anyone who says that it was an urban legend I know, from personal experience, is incorrect. Later on there were scares of poison or street drugs being injected through the wrapper into the candy. I do not know from personal experience if this was correct but I would not be surprised. I know that, for those who still ate Halloween candy a huge caution was put out 1) to NOT, 2) if you must, inspect the wrappers as well as have it x-rayed. A needle hole is VERY easy to hide and, to me, an "untampered with" piece of candy can hide a busload of poison.
  • Nothing ever.
  • I got a caramel apple once as a kid - My mom flipped out and wouldn't let me have it - good mom.
  • I strongly suspect the whole razor blade in an apple thing is just an urban myth....
  • Nothing.
  • hah good question, think i was given a toy soldier once, the sword was rather sharp to be amongst the candy
  • My little brother's hand. You let one of those into your treat bag and there goes the whole batch.
  • Nothing other than the regular: sugars,dyes,corn syrup,etc.
  • Preservatives, coloring, excessive sugar content.
  • My mom once found antifreeze in a 3 musketeers bar. luckilly she had broken open the bar to share with her baby sister but her mother noticed it imeddiately. thats y i do as aristzid said and we go to my dentist office to get my candy x-rayed every year.

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