when i was little, my mom told me that if i drank pickle juice, my face would get stuck in that sour position. because of that, she said i wouldn't be able to eat, drink, or breathe. needless to say, i was scared to death of anything sour until i was around 12 or 13.

Jessyca

My Granny said if I drank milk and ate fish at the same time, I would die.

Anon

Mom used to tell me that if I put too much vinegar on my french fries, I'd eventually suffer from a blood shortage

Les Wenninger

When I was about 4 years old, my sister told me that the mushrooms that grew in our yard in the summer were poisonous mushrooms that would kill you if you ate them. So, I always imagined someone walking down the sidewalk, taking a bite out of a mushroom, and shooting straight up into the sky to go to heaven.

Emily

I vaguely remember in nursery during lunchtime one kid told me that most foods go down a tube into your stomach but sausages get stuck in your throat.

You can't go wrong!

My mate used to believe that the lids of yoghurt pots were poisonous, and to this day won't ever lick one.

Anon

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

When I was young (about 4 or 5) my older brother told me those tiny strawberries that grew wild in our yard were poisonous. When I was thirty one a neighbot offered me some. They were delicious. I'm mad that I missed out all those years. Brothers!

Tracy

When I was a kid, my sister told me that
the ends of bananas were poisonous. I've
since realized that it's not true, but
I still never finish bananas, I always
eat right to the end, then throw it away.

Anon

when i was 4 i used to think that mushrooms were going to attack me with their furry stigers

Milan

I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.

porkchop

My older brother told me that there was radiation put out by tv ads and that if you ate... say, skittles, during a skittles commercial,you would get really sick.

TankFu

My mom used to make stir fry a lot and always used a large amount of green peppers. My sister told me that if i didn't eat every pepper the ones in my stomach would turn to snakes. It made sense at the time and I still have a hard time leaving any green peppers uneaten.

Jen

When I was about 4, I met one of my parent's friends who happened to be an old lady who wore false teeth. She had made meatballs for dinner and for some reason she took out her teeth and told me that she had lost all her real ones from eating too many meatballs. For years not one meatball touched my mouth.

Priscilla

my cousin told me that if you ate cherries and drank milk, it would poison you and you could die. Naturally, I had to try it...

Still Alive

My mom told me that if I ate raw hotdogs or spoonfuls of sugar, I'd get worms. I believed her until I was 13.

seale

My teacher told me one time~when I ate the unpopped popcorn, the unpopped popcorn would pop in my stomach.

Petra

My parents told me not to drink out of the milk container because I'd get germs in it and then people could get sick when they drank the milk. So one time I was drinking a glass of milk and my dad drank the rest of the milk out of the carton to finish it off. I thought I was going to get sick because I was drinking the milk that came out of that carton!

Doofus

When eating boiled eggs with my father,
he used to say that eating egg shell was
good for you as the egg shell used to
"cut the cords", my father believed this explanation was more than enough, and I never did find out what "the cords" were !

Stuart

I was abut 8 when my Dad was teaching me how to crack and eat walnuts - he told me that you shouldn't eat the membrane bits in between an you should make sure that they get thrown away - I asked him why, and he told me that they were poisonous - I believed this until I was 18 and I still eat walnuts with some trepidation

steve