My dad told me that if I ate raw spaghetti noodles they would poke holes in my stomach and everything I ate would come out. My grandmother even confirmed it. Funny, I never had stomach problems until I stopped eating uncooked pasta.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.— david
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- I was told that if you chew your hair you end up with a hairball in your stomach and DIE!!!!!— Cat
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon