When I was in grade school a kid told me that eating dog food would give you worms. Why the hell would you eat dog food?
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave