Trick-or-treating: Poison candy is an urban myth (parents, son, safety)
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Oh I’m sure it happened somewhere, long ago. Maybe even a handful of times in this nation of 250 mil+. But for the most part there is no danger whatsoever of receiving poison candy trick-or-treats. Especially if you accompany your kids in your own local neighborhood.
It is a shame that this urban myth has nearly destroyed a great tradition. Trick-or-treating was a BLAST many years ago. Now it is just another great tradition nearly gone by the wayside due to over-protective, scaredy cat parents who will believe any urban myth they hear.
Why couldn't you? I would feel comfortable with my son receiving homemade treats in my neighborhood and for those people that come outside the neighborhood, well that's their problem!
One of my biggest pet peeves, like your neighbors are just waiting to poison your kids...silly. And no, it hasn't happened, not even ONCE, unless you count a father poisoning his own child.
Because we don't have kids trick or treat in my area. I have been here in this neighborhood 7 years and there has been not one trick or treater up and down this street.
The trick or treating tradition is alive & well by me.
All the kids trick or treat right through high school. We've never had any problems. My kids won't eat the loose unwrapped candy. We once had a lady give out handfuls of potato chips just thrown into the bag..
We still get a good number of trick or treaters. Our kids still enjoy going out-as long as they will wear a costume, they can go. Our old neighborhood we used to get over 100 kids, now we get 40 or so.
I think some places have trick-or-treating, while other places don't. I am not sure if it is because people fear poison candy, or there just are not many kids.
Sadly, I've known a number of people who won't let their children go trick-or-treating for fear of the poison candy urban myth.
We do pick over the candy just to double-check what's there, but no, we don't worry about poison and razor blades and all that. When I was little, my mom would cut up each "fun size" candy bar into small pieces before I could eat it. The razor blade myth was in full force then. I went trick or treating one year with some neighbor friends, and a friend of the mom (another neighbor my mom didn't know) gave us large, frosted, homemade cookies. They would have made a mess in our bags, so we just ate them. My mother about lost her mind, despite the neighbor's assurances that she knew this woman very well.
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