Abstract
In a YouTube video entitled ‘Suicide Candy’ a poster named Sir Sebastian displays a bag of White Rabbit Creamy Candy and declares dramatically:
I’ll be the first one to admit I’ve eaten a lot of weird candy treats in my day. Scorpion lollypops. Mexican maggots. But never, NEVER, have I ever been in so much danger than I am with the creamy candy by White Rabbit, which has been known to actually POISON people!
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Jones, R.H. (2016). Suicide Candy: Tracing the Discourse Itineraries of Food Risk. In: Crichton, J., Candlin, C.N., Firkins, A.S. (eds) Communicating Risk. Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478788_20
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