Once, when I was very young, I used to think that all poison was green and smelled putrid, like sewage, and that if you ate anything green, you would die. I was very afraid of anything green until my mother told me otherwise.

Tucker

I stopped eating bananas for several years because I thought the little black things that were in the middle of the banana when you bit it were a spider's legs sticking up and that there were spiders in every banana.

Ansleah

After watching the "Blob" I was convinced that if I slept with no part of my body hanging out of my bed, the Blob could not get me. I also developed a fear of Jello and jellys. Especially the "jell" that came out canned ham.

Linda, Los Angeles

i used to believe that if i ate a peach pit, a peace tree would grow in my stomach.

seriously. i was a dumb kid.

gilibeanz

I've always liked all vegetables, but up until about 5 years ago, I thought that the stems of brocolli were poisonous.

Miss Nutkins

One day on tv I saw a banana slug, after that I thought bananas were slugs, and I wouldn't eat then till years later. now I love them.

Kat

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

You know that add on this website "ALL YOU CAN EAT IN DUBLIN"?Well,I used to believe that if you ate one of the green treets,your skin,hair,eyes and nails would turn green,whenever you touch somebody,the same happens to them,when you go poo poo or pee pee its green too.This was just last week(embarested and blushes) :!

Green Girl

For some reason I always check underneath everything I eat, I don't know why but I always claimed that food was hiding something. People used to laugh, until the day I found string in my salad, they were soon eating their words!!!!

Sarah

The first time I had peanut brittle, I broke out in chicken pox the next day. Scientific evidence that peanut brittle causes chicken pox!

Denise

When I was about 4 or so, I believed that Tapioca pudding was fish eggs. Then, when I was about 6 my sister told me I was gonna die because I ate a green potatoe chip.

Steven Cimprich Aka Smythe "black lightning" Rackham (RACK - EM)

One day I was eating a banana.
"Mum, is it OK to eat these stringy bits?"
"No, Philip, they're poisonous"
I believed it for years.

Phil

i think that when you put pop rocks in your mouth and drink soda,you blow up,is that true?or is it just stupidity?i think you just get sick or something,i dunno.

what a stupid belief

When I was at school, me and all my friends believed that the green bits in crisps were highjly poisonous and the black bits gave you cancer. Not only that but my Mum also told me that if you get a ball of flavouring inside a pack of wotsits and eat it, you'll die!
I believed this for years, and still cant eat crisps, and I'm 30!

Darrell

when I was 4, my mom once told me that spiders and scorpions and stuff lived in banana trees, so I was scared to eat bananas from stores, because I thought that when I peeled the banana, there might be a scorpion in there. heh.

CM52

When I was 10 or so my dad told me that freezer burn on ice cream gave you cancer. I never questioned this belief and held onto it subconsciously until I was 17. Whenever I saw freezer burn on ice cream I'd either a) eat around it or b) put it back in the freezer, never thinking that maybe I should either not eat around cancer or maybe even throw it out. It was when I wondered "why don't we throw it out, then?" that I realized maybe he had been joking.

sascha

When I was little, whenever we baked a cake, my mum told me not to lick the bowl too much or I would get worms. I never really understood what that meant, and I imagined that slimy multicoloured worms would grow on the roof of my mouth.

Harmony

My Dad convinced me that if you fed more than three slices of bread to a duck it would drown :(

Nats

When I was little, my mom used to tell us that if you ate too much sugar, you will get worms in your heiney.

Paul - Worm-free and Proud

I was told and continue to tell my kids that if they eat raw cookie dough they will get worms in their stomach.

Ann