I used to think that the white part of an orange rind was poisonous, so I would try to get every bit off before I ate the orange. Imagine my horror the first time I read a recipe that called for grated orange peel!
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- I used to belive that if I ate orange peel it would expand in my stomach and blow me up.— Paul
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- that red and orange were different shades of the same color— Larry
- i used to think that farts came out as a little orange cloud.— mh
- My dad told me that in Florida, snow is orange.— Belle