When i was younger, in summer i would constantly eat mangoes. it was all i wanted to eat. Once my mum saw me hacking into about 3 mangoes at once and told me that one day i would eventually turn into a mango. Since i was only about 3 or 4, i believed her and was terrified. the next day at preschool my friend was eating a mango and i matter-of-factly told her that she would turn into a mango.
To this day i still hear laughter in my ears.

XMangoManiacX

when i didnt want to eat something (like zuchini, i still dont yuck!) my mom told me that if i dont eat little worms in my stomach will eat me alive! i cryed sometimes until she told me its not tru but i still need to eat it. i felt relived after that!

Anon

My brother used to believe that egg yolk was poisonsous and thus refused to eat it; he gave it to my dad instead, and he ate it. My bro used to brag in front of his friends saying "my dad can eat egg yolk!"

Anon

i used to think mushrooms made you shrink

deanna

When I was little, my big brother told me that eating eggs will make me ugly like the witch from Little Mermaid. Needless to say, I stopped eating eggs all together...

Lior

I used to believe that you would explode if you drank cola and ate pop rocks at the same time.

Anon

I was also told that it was "death" to eat fish and to drink milk at the same time. Does anyone know the origin of this myth?

Additionally, when I was small, (about three years old), my mother would pick all of the bones out of my fish -- no filets then. She never said ainything, but I assumed that a fishbone in your mouth = instant death.

I have been and will always be psycho.

TexasToby

I misheard something my parents said and for years I believed that if you accidentally ate a mussel without removing its "beard" (the fibre it uses to attach itself to rocks) you'd be paralysed from the waist down!!

I didn't dare eat mussels for many years - and I'm still a little wary...

Musselhater

When I was little (I can't remember what age) I was told by my parents to "never ever put grapes in the microwave because they'll explode." When I asked if it would be a 'little explosion' (meaning the grape would pop or something) or a 'real explosion' (meaning an enourmous fireball) I was told "a REAL explosion".

Although I know better now, I'm still wary of putting grapes in the microwave :)

Helen A. C

My mother raised us with healthy attitudes toward food, and by the time I was five I knew that you should only eat things such as candy once in a while, but I had never ever heard a food called "bad." However, there were these TV commericals for so-called healthy cookies that said "all the flavor, none of the guilt." I could not figure out why someone would feel guilty for eating, so I concluded there was an entire class of bad (as in evil, not as in unhealthy) foods that it was sinful to eat. But because I'd never heard of any foods in my house being "bad", I also believed that those sinful foods weren't available at the store where we shopped. So every time I saw a store painted a color I didn't like, or kept in a bad state of repair, I thought that was a "bad food store."

Still not guilty

i think that when you put pop rocks in your mouth and drink soda,you blow up,is that true?or is it just stupidity?i think you just get sick or something,i dunno.

what a stupid belief

When I was maybe 4, I jumped off the high diving board at the pool. When I surfaced, my grandpa told me I "must've gotten butterflies from the jump." I was absolutely terrified that I had actually swallowed butterflies, and they were trapped in my stomach. I later whispered to him, completely humiliated, if I would have to poop them out...

Anon

up until a few days ago i thought eating the seeds of fruit was good for you. I swallowed sixteen highley poisenouis cherry pits and had to go thruogh a stomach pump

Ruby

I vaguely remember in nursery during lunchtime one kid told me that most foods go down a tube into your stomach but sausages get stuck in your throat.

You can't go wrong!

When I was in 6th grade, my friends and I always threw and flicked stuff at each other while eating. My friend threw an orange and a kid was walking by (nice kid)anyways, he stepped on the orange and slipped!!It was so funny! He got back up like nothing happened and walked away!XD

Anon

i used to beleive the moon was actually made out of cheese and that the clouds were cotton candy!

.......man did i want to go up into the clouds

carly

I loved bananas as a child (and still do). My mother told me that if I ate more than one banana a day I would turn into a monkey. I believed her for a long time!

Katherine Lobdell