I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to think eating raw potatoes would give you "BEZORES".
Our family doctor told me this— Moodycop - I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest— Muddinyori
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon