When I was little, I thought that if you just ate plain ketchup (no food with it), it made a hole in your stomach and it leaked into your body and that is why blood is red!!
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- i used to believe ketchup was blood and refused to eat it with anything Anon
- I used to think that instead of bones and blood and tissue that you body was made up of tuna.— m.n
- When I was little, I thought ketchup came from ketchup trees— cristina
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva