I used to think that the white part of an orange rind was poisonous, so I would try to get every bit off before I ate the orange. Imagine my horror the first time I read a recipe that called for grated orange peel!

Peggy

I used to think that grits were worms... my mom told it to me, and to this day she deny's it... but I know she did........

kimi

My mother used to tell me if I ate cheese in bed (she caught me doing this once) that mice would chew off my ears as I was sleeping.I always pictured the abominable doctor Phibes and thought he must of fell to the same fate.

oneno

I used to think the mushrooms the Mario Brothers eat made you grow big if you ate one. I used to look for them. Then I looked in a book and noticed that it was real, and poisonous.


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James the Great

When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.

Eric Rustman

my older brother told me if i ate fat off a steak it would stop my heart and i would die i was 5 at this time i still dont eat fat becasue it tastes terrible

fandoh

On the Johnson Smith Company catalog, i saw the book about bodily fluids and when I saw the phrase "toe cheese," I thought that cheese came from human toes. And then when my mom and I were eating crackers and cheese, she said "why are you not eating?" and I said "because It is dreadful!, cheese came from toes!" Then I showed the magazine to her and pointed to the bodily fluids book where it says "toe cheese" on it.

Anon

When my sister and I were younger, she used to love to eat slices of bread. One day, she had a very bad tummy ache and I told her that it was a giant breadball in her gut that was about to explode. Needless to say I got the ol' backhand.

Jules

When I was little, my dad was reading the ingredients list of a Dr Pepper to my brother, when he got to where it said "phosphoric acid", I got scared and thought there was acid in Dr Pepper. I stopped drinking it for years, because I believed it would melt your stomach.

Amanda

Up until this past year, I thought the crispy shell on shrimp and shrimp tails were poisonous.

My dad told me at a young age not to eat them because "they were not good for you". Of course, in my little head, that meant they were deadly poison.

Jessica Tinch

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 loved bananas as a child (and still do). My mother told me that if I ate more than one banana a day I would turn into a monkey. I believed her for a long time!

Katherine Lobdell

I was also told that it was "death" to eat fish and to drink milk at the same time. Does anyone know the origin of this myth?

Additionally, when I was small, (about three years old), my mother would pick all of the bones out of my fish -- no filets then. She never said ainything, but I assumed that a fishbone in your mouth = instant death.

I have been and will always be psycho.

TexasToby

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

My mother convinced me that if I swallowed a pit, especially a lichii pit, it would be caught in the appendix and give me appendicitis.

Anon

As a child I used to believe that eating butter would make your hair fall out. My mother told me this. I grew up and shaved my head bald several times. Maybe she was sorta right.

Anon

I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.

jayne

a kid i went to daycare with told me that all mushrooms were poisoness, and i knew that my parents loved muchrooms so i immediately called my mother crying and told her to stop eating mushrooms!

shayla

my mom told me not to eat a lot of butter i wounder why then it came to me if you eat a lots of butter your insides would get slipery and you would fall to the ground because you were greasey

romeo

When I was little, I remember watching a health cartoon about a little boy who got acne when he ate chocolate- I thought the acne was permanent freckles and I REFUSED to eat chocolate for years.

Sonia