How far our society has fallen! In these wicked days, word is making the rounds that police departments are warning of razor blades hidden in Halloween candy and/or apples!
Er, wait. Haven't those warnings been making the rounds since, like, the 1950s? Every year? And it always happened in Some Other City?
Why, yes! SnowPeas only traces it back to the mid-1960s (which is consistent with "as far back as I can remember"), though I'm pretty sure I read of it in some 1950s-vintage work of fiction.
And, indeed, as far as evil people actually distributing tampered goodies to the neighborhood kids: mostly mythical; the reported incidents seem to have been mainly hoaxes. And mainly inspired by the very warnings that were being tossed about.
The title of the post has nothing to do with Japanese-style fried eels.
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