I'm sure I'm not the first to add this one, but my mom instilled in all of her children the insane fear that if you don't cook your pork until it's a piece of shoe leather, you'll get worms that eat through your brain.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My sister believed the pork in pork and beans was marshmallow...and would always "fight" us for it.Anon
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- When was 5-6 I used to think that leather was made from hippo skin.— Richard Davies
- i used to think that you used pepper spray to cook— c-dogg
- I thought the lyrics to "Don't fear the reaper" were "Don't fear the reefer"— who new?
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena