When I was little my Uncle told me that if I ate to many sour cream and onion chips that I would get brain damage. He said there was a ingrediant in the chips but noone could link it to them yet. And I believed him.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.— jayne
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon