When I was a kid I'd read the backs of boxes for the USDA servign sizes and nutrients. I thought it was like medicine, so if the serving size was four cookies, and I'd have five, I'd worry I'd poisoned myself.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- I used to believe hampsters were miniature kittens and that when they bit me i would be poisoned.— Dylan McDonald
- I used to think that Serial killers were people who poisoned cheerios.— Ashley
- I thought Tic-Tacs were medicine until I was 11 years old.Anon
- I believed serial killers were people who poisoned cereal to kill others.— Matthew
- I thought Viagra was an allergy medicine for a really long time.Anon