When AIDS was first announced to the public, there was a diet candy called Aids. I used to think that if you ate Aids candy you would get AIDS.

Melissa

When I was very little I distinctly recall Mom telling me to watch out for fish bones when eating fish, becuase if you accidently ate one, it would travel through your bloodstream and pierce your heart and then you'd die. I confronted the family with this a few years ago, and they denied it, of course.

Claire

Dad told us the stringy things on a peeled bannana were deadly ...
26 yrs old and still peeling them all off...

antibodie

when I was little my uncle told me that if I ate the brown bits in bananas I would get cancer. He also told me to hold my breath when I went under power lines, or I would also get cancer.

** Sarah **

When I was about 4 my mum caught me stealing peanuts that she had put out for the birds, to stop me she said they were poisonous to humans. I was sceptical but stopped eating them to be on the safe side. What we didn't realise was that my little sister had also been stealing them. She was firmly convinced that she was going to die and too scared to tell my mum she'd also been eating them. She still isn't fond of peanuts.

Cal

that the green bit of cucumbers was poisonous

Anon

i was about 5 or 6 when my mother would take my brothers and i to the grocery store, they once told me that if i touched an eggplant i would turn into one. And after that i was always afraid to touch it. Now that i am older...i laugh at myself when i see an eggplant but wont touch it

aDeL

I used to take Ritalin when I was little. It was nasty stuff. Then I saw my first Pillsbury commercial. Because of the first five letters in the name, I though Pillsbury products contained actual pills.

Will

When i was little, mad cow disease worried my mum and she never let me eat beef until i was about 9. Because i wasn't allowed it, i assumed i was allergic to it, and told everyone i was allergic to beef. once, my dad gave me a "beef" tomato to eat and i wouldnt eat it until he explained that it didnt have beef in it!

acey

My brother told me that if you eat the white bits of pith left when you peel oranges and satsumas, you will die. Even now, it takes me ages to eat an orange as I have to be sure there are no killer white bits.

Sarah

My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.

david

When I was little, my brother and sister and I believed that if you tore the processed cheese when removing the plastic covering, that slice was bad and should be thrown away.

Canadian Ninja

adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...

Anon

I believed that the green part of the small onion(chive)was poisonous.My parents told me that so that I would quit eating them. Unfortunately, I never questioned them about this and did not find out the truth until a few years ago at a family dinner. I was making a salad and was trying to figure out how high up I could cut the onions. I thought my mother was going to die laughing! Needless to say I felt like an idiot and everyone got a good laugh.

Jennifer

I used to believe that if you ate a grape upside down it would come out your nose.

Cath

My siblings told me that if I ate too much cheese, I'd turn into a cow. I believed them.

Sophie

Once in kindergarten we watched a lame brained tv show, and it was talking about berries, the guy said "There's all kinds of berries! Blueberries,blackberries,raspberries,boysenberries..." When he said "Boysenberries" I heard it as "Poison-Berries" like the kind in my backyard. I kept wondering who in the right mind would in poison berries.

I'm poisoned! GAAA!

My mum used to tell me that black fruit pastilles were poisonous to children so every time I ate fruit pastilles she would eat the black ones for me. I believed she was doing me a favour!

Alex

When I was 4 my two boy cousins told me that if you eat the strings on the inside of a banana you would die. I still throw them away even now when I'm 51.

Anon

My uncle convinced me that if you ate octopus, the suckers on the tentacles would suck your tongue out

Minnie