As a European who doesn't celebrate Halloween (it's explicitly an Anglosphere thing), I was always surprised by the amount of scaremongering about dangerous candy (let it be for razor blades and whatnot in it, or more commonly, drugs), when pretty much every single case - and that's maybe one or two a year - of dangerous candy, including candy that is simply... out of date... gets reported internationally.

Like, a few years back, I think right after COVID, it was headlines that a couple accidentally gave out a few - either THC gummies or brownies or mushroom chocolate - and immediately went after the kids and let the parents know, so there was no harm, and yet...

Meanwhile the child pedestrian death rate on Halloween is like, 3x higher than any other day in the year, yet you don't see THAT being the concern for parents...