when i was a little girl my dad told me corn in a can was old people's teeth that had fallen out. i still can't eat corn.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that corn was pigs teeth. And when it was corn on the cob, I thought it was the jaw.— Brianna
- I used to think that pickles were made out of frog skin and corn was old peoples teeth.— mandy
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin
- When I was a small girl, I used to believe black men had fallen into chocolate. — elodie, French student in eighth grade
- I thought a "fallen soldier" was one who'd tripped and fallen during a battle.Anon