I used to believe that the icing on packaged oatmeal cookies was old people's spit. I don't know where I got that one from!
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- Little Debbie put her boogers in her oatmeal piesAnon
- My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.— david
- my friend used to believe that the swirly icing on hostess cupcakes was her name written in script ;]— Mrs. L
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- Croutons are called "Salad cookies"Anon
- I used to wonder why fortune cookies never predicted something bad like "you will fall off a cliff"— Izual