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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?"
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.
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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 ''[[
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