When I was in kindergarten I was introduced to those weird, uniformly shaped potato chips known as Pringles. "Don't eat those," my dad warned me. "They'll make your hair fall out."
"Really?" I said. My dad often told me things that weren't true. But this time there was irrefutable evidence.
He rubbed a hand over his shiny bald head. "Well, look at me."
Also, I harbored the belief (until fairly recently) that botulism was *caused* by dented cans, and that if I dented a can, the food preserved within would be seething with botulism in no time.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- i use to believe that bald people had such shiny heads cause they didnt eat there vegatables — TEM
- I thought until fairly recently that bacon came from the skin of a pig and that's why it was so thin— Nate
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle