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My older friend told me when I was a little girl that if I kept eating only the sugary marshmellow in the Lucky Charms that I would go to hell for being picky. Til this day I cannot eat the marshmellows alone.

deb

I assume sometime when I was a young child, I ate a banana and then requested another one. My mother, thinking that one piece of fruit was enough, told me "No, you'll get sick." For the longest time, I thought there was something special about bananas in that one was a tasty treat but two would make a person sick.

Frank W.

My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.

david

My stepfather told me that if I swallowed too large a lump of food, it would twist my voicebox so that I would never be able to swallow again and have to be fed with a tube.

Ray

My mother told me that Hershey chocolate bars were made at three mile island and that they were radioactive. This was just after the meltdown was in the news. A very effective method of curtailing my desire for the candy when we went to the store. Years later I asked her why she made up the story and she claimed that she never said it.

caleb

Dad told us the stringy things on a peeled bannana were deadly ...
26 yrs old and still peeling them all off...

antibodie

Remember the advert for Special K ?
It had the tag line "For grown up people who don't want to grow any more."

My Mum offered me a bowl once. I freaked out. I thought I would stop growing if I ate it.

Simon

My Dad convinced me that if you fed more than three slices of bread to a duck it would drown :(

Nats

WHEN I WAS SMALL I WOULD NOT EAT CHICKEN SOUP BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS THE COLOR YELLOW BECAUSE IT WAS CHICKEN PEE

S. B.

my dad used to tell me that the meat park of a steak was poisonus for children under the age of 10 to eat and he had to eat that whilst we had to eat the less dangerous white parts i.e. the fat!

Jack

My uncle convinced me that if you ate octopus, the suckers on the tentacles would suck your tongue out

Minnie

My Wifes dad used to tell her that if she ate the dark lumpy bits in the instant gravy she would die!!

Okse

when i was young my mum used to refrain us from drinking fizzy drinks so she said that if we drank too much we would become a bubble and POP! she made my twin sis cry!!

pips twin

We used to call pimento loaf (the one with the green olives in it), "hognose meat". I am not sure why, perhaps the cross-sections of the olives looked like a hog nose, I donno... But anyway, I used to believe that it was really made of hog noses. And now that I know what can actually go into processed meat, I am not so sure I was wrong...

Anon

my dad told me that the white stuff on oranges was deadly, and made me peel it all off, everytime i ate one. it took me hours to munch one, sometimes days if it was a jaffa.

speedymarks

I used to believe that the crunchy things in the fillings of Fig Newtons were actually hornets eggs...ever since then I can't eat them.

Melissa Shea - Durham, NC USA

My Dad convinced us that the round part at the top of a chop was poisonous, and that the best bit was the long streaky bit of fat down the side. He always made sure to get rid of the posionous bit for us 4 kids........

H. Hill

When I was at school, me and all my friends believed that the green bits in crisps were highjly poisonous and the black bits gave you cancer. Not only that but my Mum also told me that if you get a ball of flavouring inside a pack of wotsits and eat it, you'll die!
I believed this for years, and still cant eat crisps, and I'm 30!

Darrell

I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.

Anon

I used to believe that Marmite was made of ants...

Tam

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