A Master List of Things to Check Your Kid’s Halloween Candy for This Year
When I was a kid, my mom spent at least an hour on Halloween Night poring over all of our candies to make sure they were safe. No matter where we trick-or-treated, or how well we knew the people we got the candy from, we would follow the same ritual every year. Get home, file into mom’s room, dump all of the candy onto the bed for inspection. If she didnt recognize the wrapper, it was instantly thrown away. My brother and I would wait anxiously, hoping that none of our precious treasure haul would make its way to the trash. If you grew up in my generation (or the one before it), you probably heard many horrifying accounts or drugs or even weapons being slipped into Halloween candy in an attempt to harm someone. Whether this was propaganda made up by our parents so that they could get first grabs at the best candies in our bags every year (why yes, those Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups do look poisonous), or whether it was based in a horrifying reality where someone actually would do something as fucked up as tainting Halloween candy, we may never know. But what I do know is that in this economy, people probably aren’t putting free drugs in candy that they’re giving away. Instead, here are some other things you might want to check your kid’s candy for this year:
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