When I was little I went to this toy store and bought some mexican jumping beans. Well when you open those up they have little larvas in them, which look like caterpillars. So I asked my dad were there beans in ALL caterpillars? And he said yes. So until this day I do not eat beans of any kind.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to think people were called "human beans".— Dave
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- My mum used to tell me that baked beans were just peas covered in tomato sauce.— munky
- Until just a few seconds ago, I thought gherkins were beans or something weird like natto...Anon
- I used to believe 'three bean salad' was an extremely small entree because it contained only three beans.— queeneve