when i was about 5 or 6, my older brother(13 or 14 at the time)managed to trick me to give him all of my ice cream when desert time rolled around. he would tell me that i am too young to eat ice cream and if i did, i would freeze into a giagantic life-sized icecube.i believed this until i told my little brother(2 years)tis fib, and my mom corrected me. LOL!

Missy Mahoo

When I was little I used to eat huge amounts of ketchup by itself all the time. Then my uncle told me I would get brain damage if I kept it up. I waited for years for the onset of the brain damage before I figured I was ok.

Andy

I didn't eat Gushers for years, because I didn't want my head to turn into an oversized fruit. Apparently no one explained the concept of special effects to me as a kid.

Anon

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 mother told me not to eat fish and drink milk at the same meal. If I did I would die. When I was about 13 I got brave enough to try it and found, of course, that it was not true. I must have, deep down, not really believed it or I wouldn't have tried it. Nobody would deliberately eat something that was going to kill them.

Mary Ann

When I was younger I was told that tapioca pudding contained frog eggs. So up until I was about 15 I continued to tell my friends this lie.

Carl F. Hendershot

Before I went to school, my mum would tell me that spiders laid their eggs at the very end of the banana, and they were poisonous. Being so old, though, she was immune to the poison, so I should always give her the last bite of my banana!

Daisy K

I used to beleave the foam on a glass of orange juice was poison. If you waited for the foam to go away then it was safe to drink.

Laura

In order to steal a bite of whatever I was eating, my dad used to tell me that he had to check and make sure my food wasn't poisoned. But if it was poisoned, my dad would die! I was so scared every time!

Lil Nicki

when i was little, my mom told me i could die if i inhaled pepper. it took me till i was 18 to realize that it was ridiculous

Anon

When I was 8, my 12 year old sister thought it would be funny to tell me that the citric "acid" in orange juice would burn my skin off if it touched me. Of course I believed her and made sure not to get any ot it on my lips as I drank it. Then she started to spit it on me and laughed as I was hysterically crying! I stayed far away from orange juice for a long, long time.

Anon

Once I was picking at a kiwi and my aunt told me to back away before it ate me. I believed this until I was 14.

Anonymous

Well, this isn't my belief but when my littler brother was about 6, i told him that if he ate Broad Beans they would take over his brain! Pretty cruel i know, but i was only 8 at the time and found it quite funny when he didnt eat them. He stopped eating them for 2 years! Before asking my mum if it was true that they did that.

Fairly Crazy

when i was younger my mom and i would eat crabs together, I was told that the white spongy looking meat that was on the inner shell before you could get to the real meat was called the dead man, i actually thought a man got inside all crabs and died there, i guess she just didnt want me to eat that part of the crab!!

Anon

I still believe that when i eat a gingerbread man that he would get mad at me and like hold a grudge against me, it's kinda scary to eat them since there kinda human shaped. haha D;

Ms.Mint ;d

My brother convinced me that if you ate a potato chip with green on the edges, you got cancer. Still can't eat a green chip today.

Anon

A bunch of friends and I loved eating the wild onions that grow in the yard , We'd collect buckets full and wash them , My mom didn't think this was healthy so she told us that they make rat poison out of wild onions , we stopped eating them in large quantities .

Alcides

I loved to eat paper in about 2nd or 3rd grade. Then a kid told me the acid in the paper would destroy my heart. I believed him and spent many nights crying and praying for God to fix my heart. I worried for many years because I had eaten a lot of paper

Anon

When I was in elementary school, all the kids at my lunch table would say that if you mixed cherries and milk together, that it was poison... the kind that killed you instantly. We used to mix the cherries in milk and dare each other to eat/ drink it... no one ever did that I can remember.

Monica

I used to think that gummy bears were evil and wanted to take over the world. I'm afraid of them to this day.

Anon