stackyFACTSCutting corners in 1858 Bradford meant using powdered limestone to stretch out expensive sugar in candies.
Cutting corners in 1858 Bradford meant using powdered limestone to stretch out expensive sugar in candies. But because Victorian supply chains were a literal death trap, a pharmacist's assistant accidentally sold a candymaker twelve pounds of pure arsenic trioxide instead. The resulting peppermint humbugs killed 21 people and poisoned 200 more. It was the original "Halloween candy will kill you" panic, except this time it was aggressively, tragically true.
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