I had a friend who used to believe if you put too much salt on your food, you could use the pepper to "neutralize" the salt-taste (as if the pepper cancelled out the salt). He must have ruined a lot of meals!

Banjoknee

Salt is bad tasting sugar.

cobra

when i was 3 or 4 my father told me that if you put salt of rice the world would end, and i belived him. so until i was 6 i would steal salt shakers to make sure no one did.

Anon

Times were confusing as a child...and fustrating for my parents.
On frequent occasions I would end up putting sugar all over my food, thinking it was salt.
I finally learned the theroy of Food/Salt...until breakfast came...salt on cerael, didn't go down very well.

Matt T, UK

I never used to understand why salt was bad for you, but pepper wasn't.

Lara

My sister and I used to eat alot of salt when we were little. We used to even pour it in our hand and lick it off.

One day while doing this in a fast food restaurant my parents told us a story about a little boy who kept salt next to his bed and licked some off his hand each night before he went to sleep.

Consequently, they told us, he died. We stopped eating so much salt after that...

Dana K.

I used to believe that salt was the opposite of pepper. If you used to much salt then just adding more pepper would correct the problem.

Silvio

When I was little I used to like to eat the salt at the bottom of pretzel bags. My mom told me that if I ate the salt, I would grow mushrooms in my stomach.

Delkri

i used to think salt was made of sand

hibiscus

When I was in the 7th grade, the science teacher explained that salt was made up of two poisonous elements- sodium and chlorine. I proceded to ask her if that was why salt was bad for you.

Anon

I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.

Anon

When I was young, my dad had told me that salt was appetite dust, and i believed him for years

It only made matters worse when the MacDonalds staff only had salt and pepper.They were so incompetent.

SeRpEnT

I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".

Anon

I've read a lot beliefs to do with 'salt and pepper cancelling each other out', well, I had a similar one.
Aged about....4 or 5....I had the belief that salt and sugar cancelled each other out, as a sugar lover I would eat some (in handfuls), then eat salt right after (in handfuls) so that they would cancel each other out and (technically) I wouldn't have eaten anything.
It took me several months to devise the 'ingenious' idea of eating the salt FIRST so that it's nasty taste would be taken away by the sugar. It took many more years for me to realise that my idea was wrong. I was a dumb kid (I once tried to make peanut butter by chewing up a handful of peanuts and some butter- that's how they make it, right?).

Paranoid British Kid.

My mom told us that if we ate too much salt, we would grow antlers on our head, we were always feeling around for new bumps!

Myrna Abrego

I used to think that salt and pepper cooled down food. This was evident beacuse people would try their food, say "This is hot. Salt and pepper, please."

Anon

I used to believe that salt was sugar that had gone bad.

Anon

When I was little, I always wndered hy my grandfather was badldon the top of his head. I asked my dad and he said, "Its becuase when you cousin was little, he used to sprinkle salt on the top of your grandfathers head." For years I believed that if you put salt on your haed you would go bald.

dani

If I had a sore throat when I was little my mother would give me warm saltwater to gargle with. Since I normally drank water cold, I assumed that salt made water warm.

Kelsie

i used to think that we put salt on our food because it made you feel more full. so i decided to eat salt straight from the shaker into my mouth. once i found out the truth, i decided to just do it anyway coz by then i was addicted to it...

i have really high blood pressure