When I was 8 or 9 and eating lunch in the school cafeteria one day, a classmate told me that mayonnaise was made out of snot. I believed him and didn't eat mayonnaise for years.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.— julia
- I believed that if you ate snot, it would poisen you. And you would die.— demonrachel
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- I used to believe that gum was made outta pig fat becuase of what my dad told me. I believed him for years.— Maddy
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon