at some point when I was a kid I looked at a box of cereal and read that it had 454 "germs" instead of grams. I wouldn't eat cereal for a while after that, because I thought I'd get sick.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you poured milk into your cereal, the cereal multiplied.— Allen
- When I was a kid I believed that if I ate cereal I would be a cereal killer.Anon
- I used to think that serial killers were "cereal killers" and would kill you by poisoning you cereal.— Jello
- When I was really little i thought serial killers were people who stole your cereal.Anon
- when i was little i thought a serial killer was someone who killed people for their cereal— emily
- When people talked about serial killers, I thought that they put poison in your cerealAnon