i am trying to think of some old-timey toxic substance that might look like candy. what about mothballs? couldn’t they have been mistaken for candy? wasn’t a cause celebre back then if they were, but suddenly P&G is the antichrist for making colorful pods. you’d swear that the opponents are accusing them of doing it intentionally!
Pod people. Lol
I could never understand how they get them. How do they hold the moth's legs apart?
I can’t abide the odor of naphtha mothballs-they stink-but I do use the para ones which do not smell so bad-I can’t see anyone getting past that smell to eat them, though-hell, I use them to keep deer and other critters from eating my garden.
When I was a kid, I’d visit my grandparents, and everything they had on their shelves was in brown bottles. Drain cleaner, prescriptions, coffee syrup, etc. It all came in brown bottles. How the heck did my moms generation ever survive!
A few years back (Ok, about 30ish I guess) there was a new dishwasher soap in a bright yellow bottle called Sunlight. Of course there were urban legends abut people getting sick from using it in their tea, etc.
I recall mothballs used to come in milk carton type packages. I wonder how many people fed their babies moth balls instead of milk?