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

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

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

My dad always told us that pancake batter and cornbread batter would eat a hole in your stomach if you ate it raw. Because it has a bit of a bite to it, I COMPLETELY believed him. He said cookie batter and such just gave you worms, so I didn't mind sneaking some of that now and then.

Batter eater

When I was very small (3 or so) I drank coffee because I thought it was hot stuff. Coincidentally I always ran around barefoot. My aunt told me that drinking coffee turns your feet black and of course I'd look down see my black feet and blame it on the coffee.

Gullible Girl

I thought pink wafer biscuits would bite me if I touched them. Absolutely no idea why.

Anon

I used to believe the peppercorns in salami were poison -- because my dad told me so. I think I stopped picking them out when I was about 15.

Lisa T

i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die

Bill

When I younger one of my favourite things to eat was cucumber in salt and vinegar even though my mum told me that if I drank the vinegar it would dry up my blood. So I used to secretly sip it. Even now at 33 years old I still do it!

Nicola

My bestfriend's grandma tells us that if we eat too much bread, it will soak up our blood. We're 23 & she has alzheimer... Also, every sunday she buys two loafs of bread from the bakery.

Jessica

I used to think "firecrackers" we're some kind of really spicy cracker.

MAG

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

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

Anon

When I was about six or seven years old, my nanny told me that if I took a shower right after eating, my food in my stomach would turn into popcorn and explode! Of course I was skeptical about the exploding bit, but I still never shower after eating!

Ria

My mother used to tell me that diluted juice was poisinous unless water had been added to it (to stop me drinking it). One night I sneaked to the kitchen to get a drink. I drank the juice without diluting it thinking it had already been diluted. I started screaming for my mother to call an ambulance quickly because I thought I was going to die in a couple of minutes

Anon

I used to believe that if something touched mold, be it food or even a body part, that the touching party would "catch" mold too!

Brie

when i was little i used to believe that when i opened the fridge a huge block of cheese would jump out an attack my nose because that's what giant cheese's do!

Josie and Keri :) mmmm

You know how when you make jello, it is first in a liquid form? Well when i was little i would drink that when i got thirsty and my brother would always tell me the jello will sit in my stomach and i would explode. Well that night he got spaghetti, ketchup and jello and put it all over the inside of my bed so i would think i exploded...
Needless to say, i beleived it. Now i'm 24 years old and i still won't go near jello

Lisa

When I was young, my grandfather had me beleiveing the Center hole in the suger cookies he gave me was poisenous. So I always ate AROUND the hole and ended up with the tinest bit of cookie ring left over

Cynthia

My mother turned me into the most paranoid freak when I was little. She would tell me not to eat those cherries on top of ice cream sundaes because the dye would give me cancer! I would always take the cherry off the top of the sundae, but the whipped cream on top would be dyed red from the cherry. I would eat the red whipped cream anyway, but I always thought I was going to die from it!

Katie