History Main / RazorApples

* In ''ILuvHalloween'', 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.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[VitriolicBestBuds Zoro and Sanji]] get into one of their usual fights. In an attempt to prove himself stronger than Sanji, Zoro states that if Sanji (the TeamChef) put blades and poison in his (Zoro's) food, he would be able to eat it without problems. WordofGod is that Sanji actually did it, and Zoro did eat it without problems.

* One of the stories in ''[[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Halloween: 30 Years Of Terror]]'' had Michael put razor blades in candy, ForTheEvulz.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', when John gets locked up in prison, an inmate attempts to spike his food with ground glass. Tables get turned, but God? only knows how. Results are messy.
* ConversationalTroping in the HalloweenEpisode of ''Comicbook/{{Impulse}}''. The over-100-years-old Max Mercury makes popcorn balls for trick-or-treaters, who freak out that if they aren't proper safety-sealed commercial products, he could have put anything in them.

* A Halloween special for Webcomic/ClarissaYungbluth had Clarissa go trick or treating as an apple with a razor in it. She makes up a sob story about a (nonexistent) sister dying from eating an apple with a razor in it to get more candy for her brother.

Not to be confused with the giant, kid-crushing apples[=/=]cherries[=/=]some sort of killer fruit of the rose family in ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy''.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Hagrid's cooking is a bit questionable, Harry found a talon in his casserole.

* The King Cake is a traditional pastry eaten during the Mardi Gras season, and oftentimes contains a small trinket inside representing the infant Jesus, usually a tiny plastic baby. The cake is hollow inside and the baby is easy enough to spot, but bakers have lately began leaving the baby outside the cake to avoid liability, on the off-chance some idiot chokes on it while wolfing down a piece.

* In ''Film/TrickRTreat'', the SerialKiller principle puts poison in some of his candy. There's also CreepyChild Sam, who uses a razor-chocolate bar as a weapon in one scene. Also, as a nod to this trope, [[spoiler: when Mr Kreeg falls down the stairs, they're littered with hypodermic needles, straight pins, shards of glass, razor blades and candy]].

* In ''Literature/{{IT}}'', a character kills young Mike Hanlon's dog by feeding it meat laced with antifreeze.

* A Taiwanese fanartist known as Avimedes was offered homemade cookies at a convention, only to find out too late that they had needles inside. It's believed that she may have been given the cookies because she draws [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Sans/Frisk]] art, which a fellow fan [[MoralGuardians really didn't like]].

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E07ItsTheGreatPumpkinSamWinchester It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester]] a man dies from razor blades in Halloween candy, in a supremely gory fashion.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' did an episode where a man dies from razor blades in Halloween candy, in a supremely gory fashion.

* Likewise, in England, it's traditional for a coin to be put in the Christmas pudding, to be kept by whoever's slice it turns up in. Because of the size of the coin and the consistency of the pudding, the recipient will usually notice it in the bowl and avoid biting it, though.

* The WWII [=POW=] autobiography ''The Colditz Story'' relates how the clique of prisoners referred to as the '[[{{Determinator}} Men of Spirit]]' spent the little time they didn't devote to escape attempts stuffing the rotten vegetables in the kitchen waste full of old razor blades, since it was taken out of the camp to be used as pigswill in the surrounding farms. Since the German authorities regarded this as sabotage, punishable by death, this was a risky pastime.

* The WWII [=POW=] autobiography ''The [[TheAlcatraz Colditz]] Story'' relates how the clique of prisoners referred to as the '[[{{Determinator}} Men of Spirit]]' spent the little time they didn't devote to escape attempts stuffing the rotten vegetables in the kitchen waste full of old razor blades, since it was taken out of the camp to be used as pigswill in the surrounding farms. Since the German authorities regarded this as sabotage, punishable by death, this was a risky pastime.

* The Hoornse Taart[[note]]"Hoorn" is the place it happened, "taart" is "cake"[[/note]] sentence is a core element within Dutch jurisprudence. In 1910, one man tried to murder another man by sending him a cake containing arsenic trioxide for his birthday. The intended victim didn't eat it, but his wife and maid did. The wife died, the maid barely survived. The perpetrator tried to get around the murder charge by arguing that there was no intent, because the wife wasn't his target. The judges didn't buy it and introduced the concept of recklessness to modern Dutch criminal law.

It should be noted that there has ''never'' been a recorded straight instance of this happening; the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII example below aside, it is ''entirely'' an UrbanLegend. There ''are'' documented cases of persons attempting to invoke this trope, however.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In season 4's HalloweenEpisode "Fort Night", the [[CouchGag Store Next Door]] in the opening is "Johnny Razor's Totally Normal Candy Store".

* The Hoornse Taart[[note]]"Hoorn" is the place it happened, "taart" is "pie"[[/note]] sentence is a core element within Dutch jurisprudence. In 1910, one man tried to murder another man by sending him a cake containing arsenic trioxide for his birthday. The intended victim didn't eat it, but his wife and maid did. The wife died, the maid barely survived. The perpetrator tried to get around the murder charge by arguing that there was no intent, because the wife wasn't his target. The judges didn't buy it and introduced the concept of recklessness to modern Dutch criminal law.

You just came home from [[AllHallowsEve trick-or-treating]]. You pour out your candy all over the floor, looking over your hoard.