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There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.
And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.
Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.
There's a John Mulaney joke about this
Huh...I can't find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like "quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected"?
Found the podcast...
I'm fairly certain it's in "New In Town"
As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.
As a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol