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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember people actually giving out homemade sweets like caramel apples and popcorn balls.  We loved them and no one freaked out about “unwrapped” treats. [/quote]

You had bad parents. [b]Weren't they concerned about razors and needles in the candy?[/b] The only unwrapped food items my parents would let us eat were the popcorn balls that my next door neighbor made (nobody wanted these anyway, yuck!).[/quote]

Total urban myth that seemed to get more press in the mid 80s. My 1970s parents never worried about this. We got caramel apples, popcorn balls, and one neighbor had freshly-made donuts. Yum![/quote]

Same here and we ate them, but we didn't covet them as much as we did the manufactured and heavily advertised candy. Delicious homemade baked goods? We could get those any time.[/quote]

That razor thing just seemed to come out of nowhere one year and that was it. It might have been around the time of the Tylenol poisonings and that serial killer of young boys in Chicago who also worked as a clown or something.  I'm not so sure anyone ever actually confirmed a razor blade in an apple anywhere.  [/quote]

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