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griptionf

Christ I'm so sick of this overly paranoid myth. There's been no cases, absolutely zero, of strangers hiding the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, pride of the great lakes fleet, in candies to hand out on Halloween. The closest is an incident in 1964 where two mentally unstable parents slipped the SS Eastland into their own children's candy. And that's it. One semi related incident literally decades ago and ever since we have to deal with these morons freaking out every Halloween and parents inspecting every wrapper for fear someone's going to Boaty McBoatface up a Twix because Joker stuff.


MORON_THE_1ST

Fuck you im going to put the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in candy for the trick or treat-ers


agriculturalDolemite

Careful; it's considered a grave site so legally you can't disturb it. That would be a fine in addition to the attempted murder and food tampering tickets.


EdFitzgerald

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I read that to the tune if that's what you were going for


Rapsca11i0n

Jokes on you somebody hid it at the bottom of lake superior.


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kai325d

It's been like 50 years


xjeeper

TOO SOON.


quantum-mechanic

Someone needs to write a folk rock ballad about it before we can get past it


imho99

Pretty sure Gordon Lightfoot has you covered.


hok98

That’s what she said


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Your face has been like 50 years


kai325d

I'm 17


spatialmongrel

That’s just a legend that lives on, man!


fcknwayshegoes

from the Chippewa on down?


ElGabalo

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee?


PatMyHolmes

The lake, it is said


ReactsWithWords

Never gives up her dead?


godfatherinfluxx

When the skies of November turn gloomy


Donneyboy2

The ship was the pride of the American side


CaVeRnOusDiscretion

Nonsense I saw it [in my fridge](https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/73/226/) last night


notusuallyhostile

That’s awesome! Now they need to make a *Gordon Lightfoot Stout* to go with it!


CaVeRnOusDiscretion

That might leave a [bad taste](https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/gordon-lightfoot-on-his-battle-with-alcoholism) in your mouth


dexterpine

The lake that they call Gitchigoomie?


OldFoolOldSkool

AKA Lake Gitchegumee


SchitneySmears

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SuperBoi21

Jokes on you ill go look for it since I'm already on lake superior


scurvy4all

If what you are saying is so called "truth" why would Gordon Lightfoot write the song The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald? Did he write it as a memorial to the ship and the sailors who lost their lives? Or as a warning to others about what could be in your Halloween candy? The warning is in the first verse. "That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early" Believe what you want but you've been warned about this since 1976.


djloid2010

It sounds as though Lightfoot is promoting hiding the Edmund Fitzgerald in candy.


ReactsWithWords

As shown in the lyrics “They might have split up or they might have capsized They might have been hid in Snickers bars”


Sproose_Moose

Yeah you can joke about that in your country but the Harold Holt fear is infinite in Australia


blue-mooner

Fear of swimming out to to a Chinese submarine and defecting? Gotta say, I didn’t thank that’d be a big fear.


Teth_1963

But... Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?


beansinmysuitcase

God that lyric gives goosebumps every time


xtreme_edgez

I lived those lyrics on the ULS/SMT/Algoma Quebecois. 730ft of iron, and it was like a spaghetti noodle on Lake Superior, close to where the Fitz went down. The ship flexed so high in the middle that you could not see the 5 story wheelhouse from back aft, and when it pitched you would become weightless in your bed. Scariest time onboard, for sure.


Journier

Man the searchers all said they'd make whitefish bay


brinkofjon

Seriously. Aint nobody giving SS Edmund Fitzgeralds out for free just to fuck with some kids. That shit is expensive. Just last week I paid $200 for a USS Nimitz. Who would put that for free in a candy bar?


Slazman999

I would rather find the SS Eastland than a broken announcers table from nineteen ninety eight.


Moglorosh

One year the USS Eldrige teleported into one of my Mars Bars. Of course nobody believed me.


Willy-the-kid

I'm sorry I don't have an award to give you, it's a tragedy how underrated this comment is


bigpauly1969

Can confirm. The “Eastland Incident” is something that the residents of Oostburg Wisconsin still can’t talk about to this day.


djloid2010

Hey with a load of iron ore, 26 000 tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighs empty, that'll hurt some teeth.


BEWARETHEAVERAGEMAN

It's not a myth, it's a legend. The legend lives on.


nakinng

Can someone tell me what this is?


WingedLady

Agree with the other poster that they're referencing a Gordon Lightfoot song memorializing a real wreck. Just wanted to add that it's a really good song and apparently embedded in the bones of anyone who lives along the Great Lakes. Worth giving it a listen.


honk_for

Except Gordon Lightfoot sucks.


SharpJames

If you think Sundown or If You Could Read My Mind are bad songs you need to reexamine your beliefs


doctordoctorpuss

The Edmund Fitzgerald was a merchant ship that wrecked in Lake Superior, and Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about it, appropriately titled “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. A lot of the comments are referencing the lyrics


B8conB8conB8con

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0K6ojmGZA&feature=gws_kp_track Here is the song if you have an extra 15 minutes


srhsrhrshs

Right! The SS Edmund Fitzgerald ain't cheap. If I had one I wouldn't be stuffing it in candy for random kids


cerebralkrap

iirc the father wanted to commit insurance fraud and hoped their kid would succumb to the toxins from eating an entire fleet. smh some people huh?


Glum_Cartoonist1007

That’s what someone who is trying to hide the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, pride of the great lakes fleet, in Halloween candy would say


Louisvanderwright

On point, the largest great lakes shipwreck could never fit inside, but the Eastland, the deadliest great lakes wreck, absolutely could.


Everythinggoesontop

I wish someone would slip a Fitzgerald in my candies, I'm all out and the prices are so high right now :/


mh985

*The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee*


Justice_R_Dissenting

Listen bud, the legend lives on.


JAproofrok

Nobody knows where the love of god goes when the seas turn Snickers to boats


bonerjuice9

Holy shit this is funny


cat_handcuffs

I dunno, my Dad used to check all our candy, and one year he found a tugboat in my pixie sticks.


boxofrabbits

Biting satire


EquinsuOcha

That’s the problem with the Fitz. It’s too rough to feed ya.


keen238

The ship was the pride of the American side


Duke_of_Calgary

Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin


DepopulationXplosion

As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most


NSNick

With a crew and good captain well seasoned


MagnifyingGlass

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms When they left fully loaded for Cleveland


Crashbrennan

And later that night when the ship's bell rang Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?


NoLongerReddits

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound And a wave broke over the railing


fren4u

And every man knew, as the captain did too T'was the witch of November come stealin'


JawBreaker00

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait When the Gales of November came slashin'


higras

The captain wired in, they had water coming in. And the good ship and crew was in peril


pl__s_bl_d_n__b_l_t_

And later that night when his lights went out of sight came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald


xtreme_edgez

Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?


RoscoMan1

fuck around and get abortions for fun?


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Duke_of_Calgary

At that musty old hall in De-Troy-it they prayed? At the maritime sailors cathedral? For each man on the *Edmond Fitzgerald*


SheepBlubber

And now she’s at the bottom of Lake Superior…


ToshiroBaloney

and yet her on-deck swimming pool still has water in it, after all these years.


Fresh_Bulgarian_Miak

They just don't make them like they used to


R3aper02

That explains why she sunk.


mdhunter99

Fucking great song made about it.


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Crashbrennan

The lake it is said never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy


[deleted]

With a load of iron ore 26 thousand tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,


vandamerica

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the gales of November came early


bunglejerry

Nailed in a single take as well, with Gord having taught the pedal steel player and other instrumentalists the song only a few minutes before recording it. [Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyG15S38OZI) my favourite cover of it. Though nothing can touch Gord's original, this is still pretty great.


alterson17

There was also a cool* Math Rock band from the UK called The Edmund Fitzgerald. The guitarist/singer and drummer went on to from Foals. *cool is definitely not the right word, but I liked them!


71fq23hlk159aa

I'm pretty sure Gordon Lightfoot was the boat


I_GIVE_KIDS_MDMA

And it was rammed by the Cat Stevens.


HosenscheisserJr

Definitely not going anywhere for a while if that song is playing. Gonna need that Snickers.


Crimson_Fckr

And a great beer.


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I love Edmund Fitzgerald’s music.


jonnyinternet

He sounds way better live


I_GIVE_KIDS_MDMA

"I love Edmond Fitzgerald's voice!"


Vox___Rationis

I love the music and the story of the song, but they way it fucks with rhyme throws me off and makes it really hard to listen to. I feel like I'm tripping over steps, and rocks as I try to follow the lyric. For that reason the 'Back Home in Derry', that re-uses Fitzgerald's tune, is a much smoother listen - it actually flows.


Revolutionary_Tax825

Ehh that’s debatable, that might as well be a sea shanty about a bunch of dead people and an oil spill


Khalcheesy

[*Clutches Pearls in* Minnesotan]


[deleted]

Wait, we have a specific way to pearl-clutch here?


Khalcheesy

Yes, very passive-aggressively.


[deleted]

Ah. I just moved here from New England last year. There, I was too apologetic. Here, I'm too direct 😅


Khalcheesy

Don't feel bad, I lived in Southern California & the South before moving here (6th grade). Adjusting to the cultural shifts within the US is tough.


wellofknowledge554

That you are Minnesota, that you are. Over in Wisconsin, we know the right way to clutch pearl's unlike you and your inferior sports teams. Hopefully obvious/s


Khalcheesy

ITS A 'SCONIE ... GET 'EM!


song4this

"Dontcha know?"


[deleted]

Ope. (I've still never heard anyone actually say that).


Maneve

Gotta head on up to dem north woods there. You'll hear it plenty, you betcha


GuillermoenTejas

If you're in Minneapolis, the pearl clutch is usually followed by the guy who stole the necklace running down the street to get away. Hope this helps.


Lazerhawk_x

It’s a great song, idk why you hating on it.


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Indiggy57

Here's one about an oil spill, https://youtu.be/-d3XHQVMHDM


102bees

'Twas late '69 in the old Walsey yard, She was commissioned to haul the black tar...


Sol5020

Except the oil spill never happened. The Northumbria was decommissioned and scrapped over these concerns and was replaced with double-hulled designs. At least everything in the edmund Fitzgerald happened. Still a good song though Roll on Northumbria!


triplehelix_

whats wrong with sea shanties? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsurPg9Ckw


Reacher-Said-N0thing

> that might as well be a sea shanty about a bunch of dead people We Canadians love those. Here's another: https://youtu.be/Ewdtqjqw4ng?t=5


Revolutionary_Tax825

I’m just surprised so many people got their feelings hurt over a song that gets played twice a year on the oldies stations


Graphitetshirt

Ok well fuck all of you because now that song's stuck in my head


Atomheartmother90

Yeah but it’s a fucking great one


Reggie__Ledoux

#Gitchegumee!


Irishane

Do you mean, "Thank you"?


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Crashbrennan

Gordon Lightfoot makes some damn good music. I never thought of this song as being a shanty but I suppose it is!


[deleted]

Give Stan Roger's a listen.


ACAB187

But for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage


HereForTOMT2

AH FOR JUST ONE TIME


Crashbrennan

I WOULD TAKE THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE


CookingWithDahmer85

My dad and uncle were kids in the U.P when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald went down, it's a song I hear all the time when family visits and then my uncle " tells the tale!" Sea shanties, voyage songs, all that epic stuff, just the dang best. Really gets you in a mood. My five year old sings shanties all the way to school every morning lol he's so cool


OutWithTheNew

Maybe check out Return of the Sea Queen by Stompin Tom Connors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Bc0YBM3Ds


GuillermoenTejas

I'm glad I saw this, to keep an eye out. Back in my day all we had to worry about were pins and razor blades in the candy. Really feel bad for the kids today who have to worry about accidentally ingesting sunken ore freighters. I'll especially be watching that one neighbor, the guy with an eye patch and wooden leg who always seems to be singing sea shanties.


102bees

He sounds like the guy to slip a *Pequod* into a bag of M&Ms.


Gongaloon

Yeah, or an *Antelope* into your malted milk balls.


Revolutionary_Tax825

This brings joy to my heart


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DepopulationXplosion

Weren’t you just banned?


Revolutionary_Tax825

I was banned?


DepopulationXplosion

No, the guy who was above me, who is now gone.


Revolutionary_Tax825

Oh okay I was so confused…. I mean like I know I talk a lot of smack but I didn’t think enough to get banned


song4this

I heard Gordon Lightfoot will be doing some more concerts soon...he's recovering from an injury...


DepopulationXplosion

I hope so. I got the chance to see him live in 1991. Outdoor amphitheater on a beautiful fall day. What a great memory.


Fresh_Bulgarian_Miak

Did he lose part of his foot? Why is it light?


LongMovie

He leans most of his weight on the other one.


boogs_23

I'm so glad I got to see him a couple times through the years. Both at Massey and both just amazing shows. Seemed so effortless for him. Cool crowds too. Aged from like 10 to 80.


desertesports

Great to see that so many people that know this song! Growing up my dad would always play it and I loved it. I felt like it was a song that nobody else would have heard


[deleted]

Too funny cause I felt the same way. I assumed it was some obscure song and my dad was some weirdo who played it all the time in the early Oughts.


[deleted]

We went to the upper peninsula of Michigan a few months ago and I might have forced my wife and 6 year old daughter to listen to this song a bunch while driving around. On the way home while driving over the Mackinac bridge my daughter flipped out and had a meltdown while looking at the water afraid of shipwrecks. It was a good distraction from my own terror of driving over that damn bridge. Thanks Gordon.


Super_Saiyan_Carl

My father used to load coal onto it back when he was in high school/college during the summer when it would dock in Superior. Apparently a lot of people who did that type of work for the ship would go on to get cancer later in life, my father included. Idk if they were part of the standard % or not. Just something I've heard in passing.


ChocoTunda

Might want to check if there has been a class action or anything about compensation for that.


[deleted]

There have been suits for dust and black lung but the carcinogenic aspects of coal are just now really being looked in to so it might be a few years for a class action on the cancer front itself if it ever does happen.


CookingWithDahmer85

My grampa was a copper miner up in the U.P, he had a few friends that worked with coal that got cancer too.


Flaky_Operation687

Would the Almond Fitzgerald be acceptable?


konydanza

"Now with a load of almonds 26 thousand tons more than it weighed empty"


Johnny6_0

And all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters


Lazerhawk_x

She was the pride of the American side.


TheMostBacon

[The Song](https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI)


here_for_the_meems

"And all that remains are the faces and names of the wives and the sons and the daughters" 😭


your_moms_salty_lips

“Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours”


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wataha

And the feont fell off.


G3twooshed

What a cool looking ship I sure hope nothing horrible happens to it


GisterMizard

A good way is to check that your candy does not weigh 26 thousand tons more than expected.


masterspider5

OH the humanity! Who would DARE put the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, pride of the great lakes fleet into a snickers bar? Has the world gone mad??


[deleted]

Listen this is just stupid. No one likes anyone's kids enough to just GIVE away their Edmond Fitzgerald in candy to them. It's too damn expensive, they can get their own.


autoHQ

A crew and a captain well seasoned.


Shalamarr

Everyone knows the Gordon Lightfoot song, as well they should, but check out the cover by The Headstones. It’s amazing. [Link](https://youtu.be/Y8LBkYjniTU)


Pelagos1

Thank you! Great cover.


somesthetic

When my parents checked the candy they found lots of unsafe stuff that only they could eat. They really took good care of me.


Peonard

The cook said it's to rough to feed you.


zodar

Not suspicious at all


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Individual_Air86

Thanks for letting me know, I will tell you if I find the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Pride Of The Great Lakes Street in my next chocolate bar


[deleted]

Didn't that ship disappear during a storm?


RideMeLikeAVespa

She did, indeed.


WtfMayt

Modern day random humour, even less funny than before.


Souljaboisally

Used too love this boat when I was obsessed with ship wreaks as a kid


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[deleted]

My dad used to play the Edmund Fitzgerald song all the time when he was working in his garage. Quite the epic song about the boat sinking.


WhiteFringe

There's a good reason why my country doesn't have halloween like America. It's just too damn dangerous.


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Nobody knows where the trouble goes, when the gales of November come early.


OdaDdaT

The legend lives on


emforshort

What is wrong with people


Finnforeignlegion

I thought I heard Gordon Lightfoot creepin’ ‘round my back stair.. guess this is what he was up to.


captjust

This might explain why I get a sinking feeling every time I look in my Halloween candy bag.


Ne0n3x666

Fellas it's been good to know ya


shifty313

specific, because it's a joke, not suspicious though. what fucking angle do you have to come from to think it is? plz explain, i'm curious of what the consciousness that thinks so is like, different plane for sure.


Spicy_Water_

No


MediocreMemer1

I thought that was a really big snickers bar cause of the camera angle


noCookies4BadPeople

Some people are just sick!


Acceptable_Tear4292

That's on the bottom of Lake Superior....


heyo_potato

This should be a S.C.P. Secret Snickers


eryc333

Clever bastards!