18th August 2007, 6:49 PM
Actually here's another stupid myth that won't die we have.
Every single year parents everywhere will be warned to "check your kid's halloween candy" (with no instruction as to what to even look for) because of that weird fear of needles or razor blades stuffed inside candy apples and stuff. Not a single case of this has ever happened, but every year the news acts like it does without siting a single specific checkable example. I mean there haven't even been copycat cases imitating the legend.
As a result, home made candy is taboo now, and that sucks. I like chocolate popcorn balls and DECENT rice crispy treats.
Oh yeah, there's also reports every couple of years or so of someone finding a needle or something inside a bottle of ketchup. How a needle could even end up in such a bottle is never really explained (what an industrial accident that would have to be), and really those news reports only end up just talking to the guy holding a bottle and they never really try to see if the person is just a liar out for attention. Usually upon further examination, it turns out they are, but that doesn't get reported because that's not newsworthy.
Every single year parents everywhere will be warned to "check your kid's halloween candy" (with no instruction as to what to even look for) because of that weird fear of needles or razor blades stuffed inside candy apples and stuff. Not a single case of this has ever happened, but every year the news acts like it does without siting a single specific checkable example. I mean there haven't even been copycat cases imitating the legend.
As a result, home made candy is taboo now, and that sucks. I like chocolate popcorn balls and DECENT rice crispy treats.
Oh yeah, there's also reports every couple of years or so of someone finding a needle or something inside a bottle of ketchup. How a needle could even end up in such a bottle is never really explained (what an industrial accident that would have to be), and really those news reports only end up just talking to the guy holding a bottle and they never really try to see if the person is just a liar out for attention. Usually upon further examination, it turns out they are, but that doesn't get reported because that's not newsworthy.
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