Just the Best of Twitter's 'Check Your Halloween Candy' Meme

It’s October. ‘Tis the season for darkness, coziness, and horror. Halloween’s not really much of a thing over here in the UK—or at least not as much as it is in the U.S., where you people go absolutely fuc*ing apesh*t over it. I like the darkness and the autumn-ness of it all, and as a newly created horror fan I now enjoy that angle too. But what’s even better—as always, with everything—is the memes! Here’s my absolute favourite so far this year, which rips the sh*t out of the traditional American media scare story of dangerous stuff found inside Halloweed candy. Seriously, it’s so good—I could read these for weeks:

Make sure you check your children's trick or treat haul for drugs this year, just found this in a chocolate bar. Shocking stuff. pic.twitter.com/KH29mWC6YF

— cakejumper 🎃 🍰 🦈 (@Itscakejumper) October 10, 2022

Please be careful this Halloween. I found the beach that makes you old inside a chocolate bar pic.twitter.com/lSuwj5OH9b

— jon drake (@DrakeGatsby) October 10, 2022

Parents, please check your kids' candy this Halloween. I just found several Cryptids in my chocolate bar. The good news is eating them leads to increased GP and other health benefits; the bad news is you're just as likely to be eaten ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/RZbgyMSRtb

— 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 (@UncleDeath4Real) October 13, 2022

Just a reminder for all parents and guardians this Halloween season to check your kids candy. I found a Goron Race in my childs chocolate bar! Please spread awareness to spare your child from the brutality of rng pic.twitter.com/nyAGnZMFEx

— Butter (Getting there) (@Butterlord120) October 13, 2022

parents please be careful this halloween, i found a chocolate bar with the twitchcon foam pit inside of it pic.twitter.com/xfrcFU4nBD

— 🎃× ï¹’tori (@TrickrTori) October 12, 2022

Be careful this Halloween, we just found a clown shark inside a chocolate bar! pic.twitter.com/BamhosGGLc

— Rhett & Link (@Mythical) October 12, 2022

please be careful this halloween, just found a ra song in my chocolate bar pic.twitter.com/KxooRXCEza

— shauna (@wednesdaysadums) October 12, 2022

Be diligent and check your child's candy this year, just found a fundraising ask shoved inside a chocolate bar. No words. pic.twitter.com/IvU0tV5NkU

— Kate Martin (@katekeepsit100) October 11, 2022

be careful this halloween, parents. I just found a magical gateway linking our world to a fantasy kingdom where it's always winter but never Christmas in a chocolate bar pic.twitter.com/n98QcjcWSs

— JRR Spookien 👻🗡️🏹🪓 (@joshcarlosjosh) October 13, 2022

Parents, please check your children's candy. Last year, someone gave my son a chocolate bar with shredded, sweetened coconut inside. pic.twitter.com/1GsMoT6Hd1

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) October 12, 2022

parents, please be careful this halloween. i found a chocolate bar with a modded nintendo 3ds inside of it

i wonder how easy this was to do pic.twitter.com/nve2BAc2mU

— AntDude (@antdude92) October 11, 2022

Please be careful this Halloween. I found the Allegory of the Cave inside a chocolate bar. pic.twitter.com/O8n1HjNqvQ

— Nickronomicon (Will Be @ MICE Table 3B) (@nickeldoodle) October 11, 2022

PARENTS, please check your kids candy this Halloween. I just found an entire sewing kit in this chocolate bar pic.twitter.com/s1Fu9Ug3IE

— Lavash Life 🇦🇲 (@LavashLife) October 12, 2022

Parents, please be careful with your kids trick or treat candy this year. I just found Felix Guattari's 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies' (1989) in my kid's chocolate bar. pic.twitter.com/DSWxqi1Qti

— Acid Horror Eye Zone (@acidhorizonpod) October 13, 2022

parents, please be careful this halloween. i found a chocolate bar with David Lynch inside of it. pic.twitter.com/pRiQFb9AaA

— Amanda (@DuganAmanda) October 12, 2022

Parents! Be careful and check your kids’ Halloween treats this year. I just found this blown Rifa capacitor in a chocolate bar. pic.twitter.com/WtMPFnI8tU

— dan, cursed by haunted printers 🎃🖨💾 (@billgoats) October 11, 2022

guys PLEASE check your kids halloween candy!!! look what i just found in my daughter’s chocolate bar, this is so scary please stay safe pic.twitter.com/ipt4GdtQOl

— libby 💌 is grieving trop s1 (@imladriseIf) October 9, 2022

parents please check your kids halloween candy this year, I just found Brian De Palma's 1993 classic crime film Carlito's Way inside my son's candy bar pic.twitter.com/RxqE6uncNF

— Jetskito’s Way (@jetski0) October 12, 2022

Please be careful on Halloween. I just discovered the Totaljobs advert inside this chocolate bar pic.twitter.com/AYJI21l2gx

— JustRandomThoughts (@randomstuffxzxz) October 11, 2022

PLEASE be careful this Halloween. I just found a chocolate bar with a no good, dirty, rotten, bell-stealing tanuki inside of it!!! pic.twitter.com/lwumEGXeu1

— Sl0thy (@sl0thysl0thx) October 13, 2022

parents, please be careful this halloween. i found a chocolate bar running a copy of doom inside of it pic.twitter.com/eNTcN6YLT8

— 🪄💫 PSX Bunlith 🐰🏳️‍⚧️ BLM ACAB (@b0tster) October 11, 2022

Please check your scientist’s candy this Halloween! We just found the Carina Nebula in a candy bar. Frightening! pic.twitter.com/gSxdivUJ46

— NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) October 11, 2022

check your kids halloween candy. someone tried to hide the poison. the poison for kuzco. the poison chosen especially to kill kuzco. kuzco's poison pic.twitter.com/rwNVR2UCaY

— sam (@gwsafetynet) October 13, 2022