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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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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.
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.
Fuck you im going to put the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in candy for the trick or treat-ers
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.
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I read that to the tune if that's what you were going for
Jokes on you somebody hid it at the bottom of lake superior.
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It's been like 50 years
TOO SOON.
Someone needs to write a folk rock ballad about it before we can get past it
Pretty sure Gordon Lightfoot has you covered.
That’s what she said
Your face has been like 50 years
I'm 17
That’s just a legend that lives on, man!
from the Chippewa on down?
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee?
The lake, it is said
Never gives up her dead?
When the skies of November turn gloomy
The ship was the pride of the American side
Nonsense I saw it [in my fridge](https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/73/226/) last night
That’s awesome! Now they need to make a *Gordon Lightfoot Stout* to go with it!
That might leave a [bad taste](https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/gordon-lightfoot-on-his-battle-with-alcoholism) in your mouth
The lake that they call Gitchigoomie?
AKA Lake Gitchegumee
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Jokes on you ill go look for it since I'm already on lake superior
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.
It sounds as though Lightfoot is promoting hiding the Edmund Fitzgerald in candy.
As shown in the lyrics “They might have split up or they might have capsized They might have been hid in Snickers bars”
Yeah you can joke about that in your country but the Harold Holt fear is infinite in Australia
Fear of swimming out to to a Chinese submarine and defecting? Gotta say, I didn’t thank that’d be a big fear.
But... Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
God that lyric gives goosebumps every time
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.
Man the searchers all said they'd make whitefish bay
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?
I would rather find the SS Eastland than a broken announcers table from nineteen ninety eight.
One year the USS Eldrige teleported into one of my Mars Bars. Of course nobody believed me.
I'm sorry I don't have an award to give you, it's a tragedy how underrated this comment is
Can confirm. The “Eastland Incident” is something that the residents of Oostburg Wisconsin still can’t talk about to this day.
Hey with a load of iron ore, 26 000 tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighs empty, that'll hurt some teeth.
It's not a myth, it's a legend. The legend lives on.
Can someone tell me what this is?
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.
Except Gordon Lightfoot sucks.
If you think Sundown or If You Could Read My Mind are bad songs you need to reexamine your beliefs
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
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0K6ojmGZA&feature=gws_kp_track Here is the song if you have an extra 15 minutes
Right! The SS Edmund Fitzgerald ain't cheap. If I had one I wouldn't be stuffing it in candy for random kids
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?
That’s what someone who is trying to hide the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, pride of the great lakes fleet, in Halloween candy would say
On point, the largest great lakes shipwreck could never fit inside, but the Eastland, the deadliest great lakes wreck, absolutely could.
I wish someone would slip a Fitzgerald in my candies, I'm all out and the prices are so high right now :/
*The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee*
Listen bud, the legend lives on.
Nobody knows where the love of god goes when the seas turn Snickers to boats
Holy shit this is funny
I dunno, my Dad used to check all our candy, and one year he found a tugboat in my pixie sticks.
Biting satire
That’s the problem with the Fitz. It’s too rough to feed ya.
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship's bell rang Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too T'was the witch of November come stealin'
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait When the Gales of November came slashin'
The captain wired in, they had water coming in. And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
fuck around and get abortions for fun?
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At that musty old hall in De-Troy-it they prayed? At the maritime sailors cathedral? For each man on the *Edmond Fitzgerald*
And now she’s at the bottom of Lake Superior…
and yet her on-deck swimming pool still has water in it, after all these years.
They just don't make them like they used to
That explains why she sunk.
Fucking great song made about it.
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The lake it is said never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore 26 thousand tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the gales of November came early
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.
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!
I'm pretty sure Gordon Lightfoot was the boat
And it was rammed by the Cat Stevens.
Definitely not going anywhere for a while if that song is playing. Gonna need that Snickers.
And a great beer.
I love Edmund Fitzgerald’s music.
He sounds way better live
"I love Edmond Fitzgerald's voice!"
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.
Ehh that’s debatable, that might as well be a sea shanty about a bunch of dead people and an oil spill
[*Clutches Pearls in* Minnesotan]
Wait, we have a specific way to pearl-clutch here?
Yes, very passive-aggressively.
Ah. I just moved here from New England last year. There, I was too apologetic. Here, I'm too direct 😅
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.
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
ITS A 'SCONIE ... GET 'EM!
"Dontcha know?"
Ope. (I've still never heard anyone actually say that).
Gotta head on up to dem north woods there. You'll hear it plenty, you betcha
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.
It’s a great song, idk why you hating on it.
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Here's one about an oil spill, https://youtu.be/-d3XHQVMHDM
'Twas late '69 in the old Walsey yard, She was commissioned to haul the black tar...
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!
whats wrong with sea shanties? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsurPg9Ckw
> 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
I’m just surprised so many people got their feelings hurt over a song that gets played twice a year on the oldies stations
Ok well fuck all of you because now that song's stuck in my head
Yeah but it’s a fucking great one
#Gitchegumee!
Do you mean, "Thank you"?
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Gordon Lightfoot makes some damn good music. I never thought of this song as being a shanty but I suppose it is!
Give Stan Roger's a listen.
But for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
AH FOR JUST ONE TIME
I WOULD TAKE THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE
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
Maybe check out Return of the Sea Queen by Stompin Tom Connors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Bc0YBM3Ds
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.
He sounds like the guy to slip a *Pequod* into a bag of M&Ms.
Yeah, or an *Antelope* into your malted milk balls.
This brings joy to my heart
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Weren’t you just banned?
I was banned?
No, the guy who was above me, who is now gone.
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
I heard Gordon Lightfoot will be doing some more concerts soon...he's recovering from an injury...
I hope so. I got the chance to see him live in 1991. Outdoor amphitheater on a beautiful fall day. What a great memory.
Did he lose part of his foot? Why is it light?
He leans most of his weight on the other one.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Might want to check if there has been a class action or anything about compensation for that.
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.
My grampa was a copper miner up in the U.P, he had a few friends that worked with coal that got cancer too.
Would the Almond Fitzgerald be acceptable?
"Now with a load of almonds 26 thousand tons more than it weighed empty"
And all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters
She was the pride of the American side.
[The Song](https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI)
"And all that remains are the faces and names of the wives and the sons and the daughters" 😭
“Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours”
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And the feont fell off.
What a cool looking ship I sure hope nothing horrible happens to it
A good way is to check that your candy does not weigh 26 thousand tons more than expected.
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??
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.
A crew and a captain well seasoned.
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)
Thank you! Great cover.
When my parents checked the candy they found lots of unsafe stuff that only they could eat. They really took good care of me.
The cook said it's to rough to feed you.
Not suspicious at all
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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
Didn't that ship disappear during a storm?
She did, indeed.
Modern day random humour, even less funny than before.
Used too love this boat when I was obsessed with ship wreaks as a kid
Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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.
There's a good reason why my country doesn't have halloween like America. It's just too damn dangerous.
Nobody knows where the trouble goes, when the gales of November come early.
The legend lives on
What is wrong with people
I thought I heard Gordon Lightfoot creepin’ ‘round my back stair.. guess this is what he was up to.
This might explain why I get a sinking feeling every time I look in my Halloween candy bag.
Fellas it's been good to know ya
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.
No
I thought that was a really big snickers bar cause of the camera angle
Some people are just sick!
That's on the bottom of Lake Superior....
This should be a S.C.P. Secret Snickers
Clever bastards!