Editing Candy (section)

==Cultural significance==
Candy is the source of several cultural themes.

Adults worry that other people will use candy to poison or entice children into harmful situations. [[Stranger danger]] warnings include telling children not to take candy from strangers, for fear of the child being abducted. [[Poisoned candy myths]] persist in popular culture, especially around [[trick-or-treating]] at [[Halloween]], despite the rarity of actual incidents.<ref name="Kawash8" />

The phrase [[wikt:en:like taking candy from a baby|''like taking candy from a baby'']] is a common [[simile]], and means that something is very easy to do.<ref name="Kawash8" />

A 1959 Swedish [[dental health]] campaign encouraged people to reduce the risk of dental problems by limiting consumption of candy to once a week. The slogan, "All the sweets you want, but only once a week", started a tradition of buying candy every Saturday, called ''[[lördagsgodis]]'' (literally "Saturday candy").<ref>{{cite book|last1 = Kawash|first1 = Samira|title = Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure|date = 2013|publisher = Faber & Faber, Incorporated|location = New York|isbn = 9780865477568|pages = 257–258}}</ref>