I used to believe that if I ate all my dinner the pattern on the dinner plate would change.
Then I found out that my mum told me this to make me eat all my tea!
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees - I use to believe that kissing your elbow would make you change your sex when you woke up the next day.— Chuck
- When I was 4 i always believed that the brocolli would jumpoff the plate and eat me and today im still scared— Katrina S.