Parents, check Halloween candy for guns, invasive salmon and Raiders tickets: the meme returns
Every year, the decorations go up. The jack-o'-lanterns are carved and strategically placed. The costumes are meticulously planned (or thrown together in half an hour). The 15' skeletons emerge from attics and garages to terrorize or amuse passersby. And the dire warnings about tainted Halloween candy are spread.
Not the ones about razor blades, THC gummies, needles, or other rumored contaminants, of course. Those deadly-sounding dangers have been pretty thoroughly debunked.
No, these are the ones making fun of that hallowed Halloween candy myth, "warning" parents with images of Snickers, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Twixes, Butterfingers and more sliced open to reveal the horrific hidden snack additives that imaginary bad actors have stuffed inside such as munitions, reality show stars, Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, unused vacation days, the Carina Nebula, and tickets to see the Raiders.
PLEASE CHECK your kids Halloween candy this weekend! I AM SERIOUS. My son got a peanut butter cup with Hieronymus Bosch's Garden Of Earthly Delights inside it. pic.twitter.com/3p01aPt9jt
— Rachel Figueroa 🐝🐝🐝🌻🌻🍄 (@Jewyorican) October 31, 2021
According to knowyourmeme.com, in 2012 an image of an entire safety razor poking out both ends of an apple was posted anonymously to Imgur, later reposted to Reddit with the warning, "PSA: Make sure you check the candy on Halloween, If you look closely there is a razor hidden in this apple." In 2014 a then-Twitter user posted a picture of a handgun messily shoved through a Twix bar, advising parents to check their kids' Halloween candy. And it took off from there.
With the ever-present warning for parents to check their kid's candy this year, we have all been thoughtfully alerted about ominous threats such as losing sports teams, bad TV shows, hated politicians and abstract concepts, all waiting to emerge from the night's haul to attack our innocent children. Here are some of this year's:
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Parents, be sure to check your children's Halloween candy for:
Make sure to check your kid's candy this Halloween! Things are getting rough out there. pic.twitter.com/jugh0NHepT
— Saint Brian The Godless (@AWorldOutOfMind) October 23, 2023
parents please check your Halloween candy I just found mindflayer tadpoles altered with ancient netherese magic and weaponized by a villainous well-dressed triad for world domination in my son’s reeses pic.twitter.com/JaDfwVc2yX
— mister lou (@cannibalanders) October 23, 2023
Be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy. I just found FIREBLU in this Snickers bar. Unbelievable pic.twitter.com/TLXYZwdU5K
— Xenaero (@Xenaero) October 15, 2023
PARENTS: This is the time of year when you need to be vigilant and check your kids' Halloween candy.
My kids just went to a trunk or treat, and some guy in a Wharton costume gave them a Snickers tainted with a hidden LOI to acquire HVAC companies.
Truly scary stuff! pic.twitter.com/bCg2I6GD0S— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) October 18, 2023
*WARNING Please check your kids candy this halloween, just found some animation pencils in candy apples …may cause your child a lifetime of conditions that include impostor syndrome, spinal injuries, stomach pains, anxiety, heart ache, carpal tunnel syndrome & recluse tendencies pic.twitter.com/UgWdwmyGza
— 🏴☠️Milk&XYZ🏴☠️ (@milkandxyz) October 21, 2023
parents, please double check your child's candy this Halloween. we just found this retractable dog leash inside a box of milk duds. why would someone do this pic.twitter.com/T4vl0tib9z
— Nebooska Boomane Boociety 👻 (@NEHumaneSociety) October 15, 2023
Be sure to check your halloween candy this year. I just found I-80’s World’s Largest Truck Stop in a Snicker’s bar pic.twitter.com/3V6TeGokMD
— Iowa Chill (@IowaChill) October 18, 2023
Y’all check that Halloween candy… I just found this medieval disputation on ontological reductionism in a Carmel apple! pic.twitter.com/EGN9cLs6lX
— BingBong ☠️👻🌪️❌ (@AHSnfts) October 21, 2023
parents please make sure to check your kids halloween candy. i just found the ancient aztec winged serpent deity Quetzalcoatl in this snickers bar pic.twitter.com/PKWkKkNZCt
— Sam Ferenchak (@sferenchak) October 17, 2023
Parents - please check your children’s candy this Halloween! Last year I found two Raiders tickets in my kid’s bag. Some sick people out there!! pic.twitter.com/cBJQwIaRGd
— Chris (@chiefs_outsider) October 17, 2023
Check your kids candy this Halloween, Wastelanders. pic.twitter.com/zUto3MJ7Yy
— Draco Deathclaw ⭐⭐⭐ (@DeathclawAlpha) October 22, 2023
PARENTS: Check your kids' Halloween candy! My cousin found bogus claims that controlling for occupation, family size and marriage status the gender wage gap disappears inside a snickers bar pic.twitter.com/reuuN5UFK9
— Maia (@maiamindel) October 20, 2023
Parents, check your Halloween candy carefully, someone tried to hide Grammy Award winning Creed album "Human Clay" in this Snickers. pic.twitter.com/uFvIHw84gq
— Paul Hammond (@PaulxHammond) October 22, 2023
A reminder to always check your kids Halloween candy. I just found a Voter Registration Guide mailer and a “Find Your Polling Place on the Secretary of States Website” card hidden inside my sons snickers bar! pic.twitter.com/qnO9beYhml
— Driving Crooner (@dunktankdoug) October 15, 2023
Please check your kids’ Halloween candy. I just found Ska Punk legends The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones in this Twix bar. pic.twitter.com/fF4WP5nFT7
— Jason Goes to Hell (@benedictsred) October 11, 2023
be sure to check your halloween candy this year :( someone tried hiding chico's most notorious killer, motherface, from the hit horror comedy film dude bro party massacre 3 by 5 second films in my peanut butter cup pic.twitter.com/IojXnc8Zer
— Leon King 🦁 (@leekiings) October 14, 2023
Check your kids Halloween candy. Some tried to hide a 5 man defensive front in this candy bar pic.twitter.com/uEdGCYFgU0
— Lineman Probs (@linemanissues) October 18, 2023
WARNING! Check your kid's candy!
We found Samara in our 3 Musketeers and now the phone won't stop ringing! pic.twitter.com/NAzPAisOGo— SimplyAJ (@ajmcgucken) October 18, 2023
Check your kids' Halloween candy carefully this year! pic.twitter.com/tTgQl48wag
— Hypnospace Pizza 🥫 (@RandmMcSomethin) October 14, 2023
With some warnings for Florida parents
Parents, make sure to check halloween candy this year.
People are smuggling banned books! pic.twitter.com/Xmljguthai— Deweyoxberg (@Deweyoxberg) October 16, 2023
Parents, check your kids’ Halloween candy CAREFULLY this year, the woke, fentanyl-smuggling Mexicans are hiding WOKE BOOKS in it! Be sure to check every piece of candy for any mention of Black people, gay people or communism! https://t.co/mUa1Wa1N7i
— Conor Power (@ConorJimPower) October 19, 2023
Even some brands got in on the warnings
Parents, PLEASE check your kids candy this Halloween. I just found the most unacceptable airplane behavior inside this snickers bar. Absolutely terrifying. pic.twitter.com/f9C7aVt1Oo
— Frontier Airlines (@FlyFrontier) October 19, 2023
Parents be diligent this Halloween 🎃 and check your child's candy, we just found an invasive Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) AND an SLF egg mass shoved inside our candy bar!
🧵 (1/4) pic.twitter.com/VcEFmXeHln— Rhode Island Dept of Environmental Management (@RhodeIslandDEM) October 22, 2023
This is a nationwide struggle. Today, our aquatic invasive species team here in Montana discovered two invasive American bullfrogs hiding inside a snickers bar. Parents, please check and clean-drain-dry your kid’s candy.https://t.co/Ub18aDuCsr https://t.co/yp71DjkH0u pic.twitter.com/tbJH5CZm52
— Montana FWP (@MontanaFWP) October 17, 2023
Not that checking your Halloween candy is a bad idea
Check your bags of candy. One bag from @Walmart the @milkyway Chocolate had turned white. The other bag from @DollarGeneral the @MilkDudsUS were white and the @reeses looked like it had been melted. Something in shipping or from factory. Use by 2024🤷♀️ #Halloween pic.twitter.com/WZgXvSSRVq
— PatriotD (@freedomdiane) October 18, 2023
And a final warning
I aways check my Halloween candy for razor blades. They just don’t taste right without em.
— Garrison MacCraw (@GarrisonMacCraw) October 22, 2023
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: 'Check your Halloween candy' meme is back in 2023 with new, silly warnings
