My mother used to tell me if I ate cheese in bed (she caught me doing this once) that mice would chew off my ears as I was sleeping.I always pictured the abominable doctor Phibes and thought he must of fell to the same fate.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought he was called the "Abdominal Snowman" instead of "Abominable."Anon
- At the time I thought the moon was made of cheese and with oceans of cheese— 123
- I used to believe that grilled cheese was called 'girl cheese,' and only girls could eat it.— Paige
- I usde to believe that 'camembert cheese' was actually 'common bear cheese'.— Dan
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- I thought when you chew gum and you swallot it you would choke and die o_o— Courtney