Candy Apple Scare in The USA
During the 1960s and 1970s, news reports about children supposedly receiving candy apples with pins and razor blades in them, created hysteria during Halloween in the USA. During the hysteria, hospitals offered free X-rays to detect foreign objects in the candy apples.
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This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Edward A. Boyden, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 423-5 (April 1888)
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I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
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