My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I believd that if you ate popping candy and drank softdrink just afterwards your stomach would explode— Kat
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- Little Debbie put her boogers in her oatmeal piesAnon
- I used to believe that crocodiles were green because they were uncooked— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- my mom told me that if i held in too many farts, i would explode. i took it seriously.— ginger