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When I was in kindergarten I was introduced to those weird, uniformly shaped potato chips known as Pringles. "Don't eat those," my dad warned me. "They'll make your hair fall out."
"Really?" I said. My dad often told me things that weren't true. But this time there was irrefutable evidence.
He rubbed a hand over his shiny bald head. "Well, look at me."
Also, I harbored the belief (until fairly recently) that botulism was *caused* by dented cans, and that if I dented a can, the food preserved within would be seething with botulism in no time.
EvaZ
I have no idea where I got this from, but I remember thinking that the little red berries that grew on some trees were highly toxic, so much in fact that I used to hold my breath and run under the trees - in case I accidentally inhaled one. Oh yeah - my mates also told me that it took you 7 years to digest chewing gum - I swallowed it anyway, and still do :-P
Emma B
We were always told that if we drank vinegar our blood would dry up
Mike B. London
My mother once told me that you had to cut off the ends of cucumbers, and rub them on the tips of the vegetable to remove the poison. I did that for many years, when cooking for myself, until I realized it was just another of her
'myths', which she had plenty.
Sylver Wyrd, Northern California
i used to believe that if you ate mcdonalds for lunch for more than
7 days in a row you would die . This came about after a lesson at
first school in which a teacher told us only fruit and vegetables had
vitamins in and you need them to live.
For some reason i thought mcdonalds contained no vitamins so if
you kept eating them you died. i was an odd kid!
chris uk
When I started first grade, the "big kids" (i.e., third graders) in the school cafeteria told me some kids had died from food poisoning after eating cafeteria food. I believed them and brought lunch in a lunchbox that whole year.
Sparklefish
My mom has always believed that eating watermelon and drinking milk would poison you. I have never had the two at the same time because of it.
Ericka
I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.
jayne
When my parents were out and my Sister looked after me, she used to make up a drink from jelly cubes. I used to love this but after I had drunk it she said if I stopped moving it would set in my stomach as a big jelly...so I would keep jiggling about for about an hour.
Ally
As a child I used to believe that eating butter would make your hair fall out. My mother told me this. I grew up and shaved my head bald several times. Maybe she was sorta right.
My dad told me if you ate banana skins you would get elaphantitis(huge swollen legs)
And the wind blowing in the telegraph wires was the devil singing
Jane Parks
when i was 5, i believed easter egg dye was kool-aid. i finally drank it one easter. it didn't taste every good.
nina
I used to believe that the middle chocolate part of a feast ice cream was poisonous, i once saw my dad eating one and thought he was going to die. I shouted out for him to stop eating it and every one laughed at me.
Karen Herbert
I used to believe that the inside part of the banana was posonous, but fortunately the outside part was the antidote, so as long as you ate the whole thing, you'd be fine. I was told this by a microbiologist when I was 9 and believed him utterly.
Janet
We were told that if you played with egg shells you would get worts !
GAJ
I was told by my mum that eating sugar would give me worms.
Whatever that meant
Steve
that the green bit of cucumbers was poisonous
Once me and my frined were sick enoght to try a can of pepsi with half a bag of pop rocks and it donsnt make your mouch blow up.
My Jaw dosent work
When I was a kid I used to love Burger King fish sandwichs (called the Whaler) with a vanilla milk shake. My mom (from Pakistan) told me I should never drink milk with fish or it would cause me to have huge white spots all over my body. Once we saw a lady with huge white spots and my mom told me she drank milk after eating fish. She said I could drink milk first then eat fish and I would be ok, but never the other way around. I would still drink my milk shake after the fish just waiting for the white spots to appear. They never did. But I figured if ever they did appear, i would just keep drinking milk and eating fish until my whole body turned white. Then I would look ok.
I finally realized this was a Pakistani myth. But my mom still believes it. So do some of my uncles.
Rafay from Connecticut
My mother always told my brother and I not to eat the last tiny pointed bit of a banana. She said it was alcoholic and we would get drunk.
Although I now know this is rubbish, I won't let my kids eat the last bit either. Why? Because they will get drunk of course!!!!
Kazza
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