History Main / SweetsOfTemptation

* Parents are often warned to keep medicine out of reach of children and/or in locked cabinets, because the small colorful pills may look like candy to them. Some public school health classes also teach students how to tell the difference between medicine and candy for the same reason.

** In the sequel, ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'', the Oompa-Loompas sing a song about a girl named Goldie Pinklesweet, who eats an entire jar of chocolate-coated pills from the medicine shelf while unsupervised. They turn out to be extremely powerful chocolate laxatives.

* Parents are often warned to keep medicine out of reach of children and/or in locked cabinets, because the small colorful pills may look like candy to them.

* In the PIF "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TugVVrT4I3I Keep Medicines Away From Children]]", three little girls are eating pills that they think are candy. Downstairs, their mothers comment that [[ItsQuietTooQuiet it's gotten very quiet]]. Cut back to the table, which is still covered in medicines but the girls are nowhere to be seen.

* Parents are often warned to keep medicine out of reach because it may look like candy to young children.

'''Country mouse''': Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.\\

* ''Literature/AesopsFables'': In "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," a country mouse invites his cousin, a town mouse, to dinner. The town mouse is not impressed by the country mouse's simple meal, and invites him to taste fine life in the city. He leads the country mouse to the remains of a delicious feast, including jellies and cakes. In the middle of eating, they are interrupted when the cat jumps on the table and chases them away. After they escape, the country mouse decides to go home. "What, leaving already?" asks the town mouse. "Yes," says the country mouse, "better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."

* In Music/MelanieMartinez's song "Cake", the singer uses a LysistrataGambit to punish her boyfriend who she feels is only using her for sex.
-->''You smell just like vanilla''
-->''You taste like buttercream''
-->''You're filling up my senses''
-->''With empty calories''
-->''I feel like I'm just missing''
-->''Something whenever you leave''
-->''We've got all the ingredients except you needing me''

* Because antifreeze naturally tastes sweet, it has caused some poisoning deaths in animals and small children, and has been used in some cases of deliberate poisonings for the same reason. Nowadays, manufacturers add a bittering agent to prevent this from happening.

* In 1974, on Halloween, Ronald Clark O'Bryan gave his son Timothy tubes of Pixy Stix laced with cyanide so he could collect the insurance money from their deaths. He also gave his daughter Elizabeth and three other children cyanide-filled Pixy Stix to divert suspicion away from himself, but none of them ate it. After Timothy's death, O'Bryan was quickly arrested, sentenced to death, and was executed by lethal injection in 1984.

* In 1974, on Halloween, Ronald Clark O'Bryan gave his son Timothy and his daughter Elizabeth tubes of Pixy Stix laced with cyanide so he could collect the insurance money from their deaths. He also gave four other children cyanide-filled Pixy Stix to divert suspicion away from himself, but none of them ate it. After Timothy's death, O'Bryan was quickly arrested, sentenced to death, and was executed by lethal injection in 1984.

* Given that candy is an AgeStereotypicalFood, candy examples tend to be more associated with child characters, while dessert examples are more associated with adult characters. After all, it's harder to lure adults into the back of an unmarked white van with free lollipops.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-animation ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ady5wUpIZDw Derpy Gets Pranked]]'', Derpy sees [[SchmuckBait a muffin on a plate sitting on the ground]] and flies down to eat it. It turns out to be a trap set by the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who drop an anvil on her while she's distracted by the muffin, crushing her head into a bloody paste.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-animation ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ady5wUpIZDw Derpy Gets Pranked]]'', Derpy sees a muffin on a plate sitting on the ground and flies down to eat it. It turns out to be a trap set by the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who drop an anvil on her head while she's distracted by the muffin, killing her.

* In the video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ady5wUpIZDw Derpy Gets Pranked]]'', Derpy sees a muffin on a plate sitting on the ground and flies down to eat it. It turns out to be a trap set by the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who drop an anvil on her head while she's distracted by the muffin, killing her.

* TemptingCookieJar: Cookies in a jar, even high out of reach, are irresistible to small children.

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Harry's FatBastard cousin Dudley is forced to go on a diet when his school runs out of uniforms that fit him. When the Weasleys arrive at the Dursleys' house to pick up Harry for the summer, [[TricksterTwins Fred and George]] "accidentally" drop several candies in brightly colored wrappers on the floor, and Dudley picks one up and eats it. It turns out to be a magical prank candy called a Ton-Tongue Toffee that makes his tongue turn purple and swell to four feet long. Mr. Weasley angrily calls them out for this because he knows they did it on purpose, knowing Dudley wouldn't be able to resist it because he was dieting.

* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': Stocking is addicted to sweets. Usually she doesn't suffer any consequences from over-eating them due to being an angel (she claims that all the fat goes to her boobs), but in "The Diet Syndrome," she mysteriously starts to gain weight. She exercises vigorously and even stops eating her favorite sweets, but when she finds out she's somehow gained even ''more'' weight, she calls it quits and devours several plates of her favorite Swiss rolls. The next morning, she balloons to a comically enormous size; it turns out the rolls were made by a Ghost who's trying to make everyone fat, created from [[WeightWoe the despair of obese women who couldn't get thin]].

*** A tube of "Russian Roulette Drops" that dispenses a randomly flavored sugar pellet when bitten down on. Flavors include chocolate frosting, blueberry, orange cola, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick 85% pure capsaicin]].