When I started first grade, the "big kids" (i.e., third graders) in the school cafeteria told me some kids had died from food poisoning after eating cafeteria food. I believed them and brought lunch in a lunchbox that whole year.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- As a kid I used to believe that you had to vomit at least once a year to get rid of all the food you ate.— Paula