I was told by my mum that eating sugar would give me worms.
Whatever that meant
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- My mom told me that if I ate raw hotdogs or spoonfuls of sugar, I'd get worms. I believed her until I was 13.— seale
- I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon