As kids my Dad told us that if we ate the little squares in the waffles that our stomachs would blow up, so i remember thinking dad is always right cuz he is the smartest man in the world, so my brothers and sister would try to pick around the waffle squares so our stomachs wouldn't blow up.

Katie

My parents told me when I was young that if i drank coffee my feet would turn black. Not sure if it's the reason, but I hate coffee today

Anon

I used to believe that I was allergic to rice. Every time I ate it, I spent five hours in the bathroom. Finally, I realized that I wasn't allergic to it, It just gave me constipations.

I still tell people that i'm allergic to rice.

Lee

My older brother once convinced me that the ice that sometimes forms in the fridge was poisonous, and that I would die in 24 hours if I ate it. This was directly after I'd eaten some.

I was in hysterics for, ooh, i dunno...about...24 hours?


The next day I went up to my brother and said "HAH, I'm NOT dead, you were WRONG!"

He laughed at me. Not the reaction I was looking for.

Tufty the Squirrel

when i was 9 once a girl told me that what's the whole prepartion of bread.In one room a person goes and throuh his feet he mold all the needed flour.then onwards i have never eated bread.

cherie

when i was little i thought that toothpaste and flavored lip gloss what food.

Morgan

When I was a kid, my mom and dad would sometimes sing this song to me about peanuts. It had something to do with eating a rotten peanut and going to heaven, but heaven was full, so I came back down... and I don't remember the rest. I used to be terrified of eating peanuts, because if I ever got a rotten one, that would be it!

Ieatcashews

I thought that if you ate paw-paw (papaya) you had to get a needle in your spine. I think I must have seen two stories on the news, one about pawpaw and one about epidurals - somehow they melded in my brain. I still can't make myself eat pawpaw - even though I like the taste

CNB

When i was little, mad cow disease worried my mum and she never let me eat beef until i was about 9. Because i wasn't allowed it, i assumed i was allergic to it, and told everyone i was allergic to beef. once, my dad gave me a "beef" tomato to eat and i wouldnt eat it until he explained that it didnt have beef in it!

acey

When i was younger i thought corn was plastic because it never seems to get fully digested....

Anon

While at a friend's house when I was about 7, we decided we wanted hot chocolate. We warmed up the milk and put in powdered baking chocolate because it was the closest thing to Swiss Miss we could find. However, after we tasted it we declared is was poisned because chocolate is supossed to be sweet. I believed for years this bitter chocolate meant certain death.

Anon

I went through a carrot phase when I was little in which I ate many carrots a day and absolutely loved them oddly enough. One day in school my teacher proclaimed that when she was little she ate so many carrots her skin turned orange. I took this to mean she was beginning the process of 'you are what you eat' and she was slowly but surely turning into a carrot. I kicked my carrot addiction that night.

Anon

When I was young and visited my grandparents, I would use my grandpa's cocktail cherries on my ice cream sundaes. In order to keep me from eating them all, and leaving him cherryless with his evening cocktail, my grandfather told me that the human body couldn't digest maraschino cherries, and if I ate too many my tummy would get full and I would die. When that didn't work, he told me the red dye was poisonous and if I ate more than one per day it would kill me.

Sara

When I was a kid one of my friends moms told us kids that you could die if you ate too many Nanaimo bars (coconut/chocolate/crumb base with custard creme middle and hard chocolate top layer), while we were all oogling a plate of them. Obviously, she told us this because then we wouldn't eat them all, but it stayed in the back of my head for years and years afterwards.

Anon

Worms and Uncooked pastry.

My Grandmother told me that if I ate uncooked pastry it would give me worms. All she had to say was "Don't eat the dough." When I was 7 or 8; during a class cooking day at school, I touted my belief to a number of my peers (about 7 or 8 years old). The teacher overheard and dismissed my belief. I felt really silly and embarrassed.

Kids are programmed to believe the things adults say.

Daniel

When I was a kid my grandmother went to hospital to have a hysterectomy. Being a child I was protected from an explanation which I would have been unable to comprehend. However I did get an answer when I asked my grandmother why she had to go for an operation. She told me that she'd eaten a tin of cold baked beans. I was six and after that explanation I never EVER entertained the idea of eating tinned beans until I saw steam coming off them. My first mouthfull of cold beans was in my teens.

Ian

My dad told me that rice was dried maggots, and would become alive in my stomach... I wouldn't eat it ever... the first time I tried it I was 23 and I still had to drink a lot before I was talked into it..

Anon