When I was little I hated green beans and my dad would say if you don't eat them they'll turn into worms. Of course that made it worse and i thought they would crawl aroung in my mouth!
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if a dog stuck their tongue in your mouth, you would get worms no matter what.— ` [ A ] m a n d a .
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon