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[[File:razor apple 6941.jpg|link=Visual Pun|frame|Now they've gone too far.]]
You just came home from trick-or-treating. You pour out your candy all over the floor, looking over your hoard.
"Now, now, eat something healthy first. How about that apple [[Meaningful Name|Mr.]] [[Corrupt Hick|Hick]] gave you?"
▲You just came home from trick-or-treating. You pour out your candy all over the floor, looking over your hoard.
Sighing, you take a bite into the apple, only to discover that there's something painful in your bite! You spit it out to discover that the apple's full of razor blades!
▲"Now, now, eat something healthy first. How about that apple [[Meaningful Name|Mr.]] [[Corrupt Hick|Hick]] gave you?"
▲Sighing, you take a bite into the apple, only to discover that there's something painful in your bite! You spit it out to discover that the apple's full of razor blades!
A trope common in [[Urban Legend]], this is when someone puts something sharp, pointy, or just unpleasant into someone's food. Common objects to put in are pins, needles, and razor blades. Note that this is ''not'' just for Halloween candy; this applies to all foods equally, but gifts tend to be prevalent.
Named for one of the major examples; apples filled with razor blades.
It should be noted that there has ''never'' been a recorded straight instance of this happening; the [[World War II]] example below aside, it is ''entirely'' an [[Urban Legend]]. There ''are'' documented cases of persons attempting to invoke this trope, however.
▲It should be noted that there has ''never'' been a recorded straight instance of this happening; the [[World War II]] example below aside, it is ''entirely'' an [[Urban Legend]]. There ''are'' documented cases of persons attempting to invoke this trope, however.
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the first arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', Rena gives Keiichi a box of rice balls. The first one he bites into contains a sewing needle. {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator|But not really.]] It's actually Tabasco sauce, but Keiichi's escalating paranoia has started screwing with his ([[Through the Eyes of Madness|and the viewer's]]) perceptions.}}
* In ''[[I Luv Halloween]]'', Finch fills an apple with razor blades after he and his friends were cheated out of their candy. He gives the apple to a cop. The result isn't pretty.
== [[
* One of the stories in ''[[Halloween]]: 30 Years of Terror'' had Michael put razor blades in candy, [[For the Evulz]].
* ''Odd is on Our Side'', a graphic novel based off the [[Odd Thomas]] series by Dean Koontz, has a miserly man sick of trick-or-treaters trampling his garden pass out candy laced with corn cockle seeds (a Class IV toxin). One kid dies. The worst part? The candy laced with said seeds: candy hearts, purchased on the cheap after Valentine's Day. He was such a bastard he didn't even poison ''good'' candy.
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* In ''[[The Ghost Squad]] and the Halloween Conspiracy'', the eponymous group of ghosts has to deal with a man trying to sabotage his brother's political campaign by spiking Halloween chocolates with rusty phonograph needles.
* In Chuck Pahlaniuk's novel ''Rant'', the main character's mother puts things like ceramic beads and tacks in all the food she cooks so that the people who are eating it have to eat it very slowly and carefully, and thus actually get a chance to enjoy the flavor, not just wolf it down.
* Invoked in one of the ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In the beginning of the ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' episode "War Stories," the crew is indulging in a box of fresh apples Jayne bought for them, when Kaylee asks Zoe why she always cuts them with a knife instead of biting in. She relates a story from the war, where the Alliance and Independent armies had a standoff, got to talking, and the Independents mentioned they had no food. The Alliance soldiers tossed over apples—which had "Griswold" grenades in them and before anyone realized it, "[[Your Head Asplode|there's three guys just kind of end at the ribcage]]."
* In an episode of [[Monk]] a man plans to use poisoned candy bars to cover the murder of his wife. However, after the theft of the poison is discovered by his employers he attempts to recover all of the bars before people are killed and the poison is traced to him.
* In an episode of ''[[Leverage]]'', Sophie and Elliot are attempting to teach Parker the art of persuasion. She is told to persuade Elliot to give up his apple for her orange. She does so by claiming to have put a razor blade in the apple, just as Elliot takes a bite out of it, causing him to spit it out.
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== [[Music]] ==
* [[Insane Clown Posse]] seem to [[Author Appeal|love]] this trope when mentioning Halloween. Check out "Mr. Rotten Treats" and "Halloween on Military Street" to name a couple.
* [[Stephen Lynch]]'s song Halloween contains the
{{quote|Razorblades hidden in Three Musketeers}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* An episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has the police x-raying the kids Halloween candy and finding [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|razors, syringes, and...white chocolate]], to which Chief Wiggum cringes at in disgust.
* Sniffles is forced to eat one in ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''.
* [[Jail Bake|Although the objects were intended to be helpful,]] sometimes Burger Beagle of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' would eat Ma Beagle's cooking before checking it for nail files or grenades.
== [[Theater]] ==
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* Fear of this causes some communities to go to extremes like x-raying the kids' candy. Of course, some parents choose for a more low-tech solution like not letting the kids eat anything that's clearly homemade and making sure none of the store-bought candy looks like it's been tampered with.
* In Newfoundland, Canada, it was a common practice for people celebrating Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) to put items in the pancakes—usually coins, but sometimes thimbles, rings, or needles. Obviously this necessitates eating the pancake very carefully—you don't want to bite into a coin, not to mention the needle.
* A taiwanese fanartist in the ''[[Undertale]]'' fandom [https://www.reddit.com/r/Undertale/comments/6akpsc/a_fan_literally_tried_to_murder_a_fanartist_over/ received cookies filled with needles] in a convention, apparently as retaliation over [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|the artist drawing a popular if controversial ship]].
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Food Tropes]]
[[Category:Subverted Innocence Tropes]]
[[Category:Horror Tropes]]
[[Category:Razor Apples]]
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