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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In the beginning of the ''[[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
* 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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** In another case, a child died of candy apparently laced with heroin, but police found that the child had actually died after getting into his uncle's drug stash. Both cases are [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp discussed on Snopes.com] as well as other cases which were initially thought to involve Halloween poisonings. The presence of foreign objects in candy, including needles, has occasionally been shown as true, but only in isolated cases.
* 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
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