When I was little, my mom told me that the eyes on potatoes were poisonous, and to this day, I can't eat potato chips with green spots or french fries with black spots because, even though I know it's not going to happen, I think I'll get really sick.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that french fries were filled with mashed potatoes.... wonder how they got in there?— Nancy
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- I thought rice was just another way to prepare a potato, like mashed or fries.— Me
- I used to think that you had to be french to really taste french fries.— Not French;)
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- my mum used to tell me that it wasnt the ice cream man it was the potato man selling potatoes.meany!!!!— x[k][t]x