All the kids in my grade school class used to eat paper to be "cool". Who knows why. Anyway, my Mom told me that if I ate paper, I would have to have surgery on my butt. That scared me out of doing it and I promptly went around and told all the kids what my Mom had told me (since she is a nurse, she knew).
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- Until I tried it in 3rd grade, my parents told me that if I ate paper my poop would come out in packages.— The Mailman
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I used to think that when you sent a fax, the paper went through the wires.— em
- I used to believe that school was a place kids go to get turned into adults.— Samantha
- When I was little, I believed that clouds came from paper mills.— Ryne
- I use to think that mummies were wrapped in toilet paper.— Glowworm