When I was 5 or so, I believed that if while I was eating a grapefruit and swallowed a pit, it would grow in my stomach and pop out of my navel.

M.

I believed that the green part of the small onion(chive)was poisonous.My parents told me that so that I would quit eating them. Unfortunately, I never questioned them about this and did not find out the truth until a few years ago at a family dinner. I was making a salad and was trying to figure out how high up I could cut the onions. I thought my mother was going to die laughing! Needless to say I felt like an idiot and everyone got a good laugh.

Jennifer

When I was about 4 my mum caught me stealing peanuts that she had put out for the birds, to stop me she said they were poisonous to humans. I was sceptical but stopped eating them to be on the safe side. What we didn't realise was that my little sister had also been stealing them. She was firmly convinced that she was going to die and too scared to tell my mum she'd also been eating them. She still isn't fond of peanuts.

Cal

I used to think that if you ate cat food you would die. I found out it wasn't true

Bob#4

My older brother had me convinced that flour would burn your hands if you
touched it. It never occurred to me for several years to wonder why Mom
could use it all the time to bake and it never burned her.

Kathy

My Mum told me if I ate too much toast I would get cancer! I couldn't eat it for years and years...

Pauliboy

That is you ate polistyrene packaging it would blow up like a ballon and choke you because of the water in your throat.

Anon

If you leave salt on you for too long the salt will eat a hole in your skin. I was afraid of potato chips for the longest time.

Jenns

While visiting relatives, I was standing in the kitchen while the moms were frying chicken. Some flour fell on my back. My uncle walked by and said that it would eat a hole in my skin. I was unsure if it was true, but I spent the whole day in fear and secretly tried to find mirrors that would let me look at my back and see the hole being created. A few times I could swear I saw it. Later that day I was obviously sad. My mom asked what was wrong. I told her. She laugh and said he was kidding...but I was skeptical...maybe he know something that she didn't...

Jerrell

up until a couple of years ago (i'm in my late 20's), i use to believe if you ate out of an ice cream tub and put it back in the freezer, germs would culminate enough to make the next person who ate the ice cream deathly ill. turns out my mom told me this so we wouldn't eat of the gallon. i'm wise to her ways now....about damn time!

hellobert

I was told as a child that I couldn't drink black coffee because it would either 1)stunt my growth or 2)turn me black. Consequently, I always drank coffee with creamer and still do to this day.

Anon

when I was little my uncle told me that if I ate the brown bits in bananas I would get cancer. He also told me to hold my breath when I went under power lines, or I would also get cancer.

** Sarah **

I was told my my mom that drinking tea or coffee would make your nose grow crooked. I still don't drink tea to this day... look what happened to Michael Jackson!

Lisa

my grandmother told me that mulberries were poisonous. i think this was to to keep us from walking under the trees and getting mulberry stains on our shoes and feet.

richard

I used to sneak into the kitchen and eat spoonfuls of sugar at night as a young child until my mum told me that if you did this, sugar worms would grow in your stomach and eat you up. I still make sure I don't put too much sugar in my coffee to this day...

Lisa