I used to believe that eating raw cookie dough would give you worms. It wasn't until I had my first child and was baking cookies myself, when I found out the truth. I repeated the tale to him and my mother said I cant believe you are using that one too. Boy did I feel stupid.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate to much cookie-dough you'd turn into a camel.— Lenny
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- i used to believe that i could get a yeast infection by eating raw dough!Anon
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon