My Mother told me that too much sugar would give you worms, high school Biology was my first insight as to the origin of parasitic infestation
A childhood belief about sweeties
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
- 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
- I used to think that if I ate sugar out of the sugarbowl I would get worms in my stomach.— Arc
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl