When I was a child, my step brother told me he had heard a story about a restaurant who couldn't afford to buy shrimp to put on their pizzas. Instead, they cut up baby mice and served them in place of shrimp. I believed him. To this day, I will not eat shrimp.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- i used to think that mcdonalds served ballons..(the sign said billions and billions served)Anon
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- pizza hut made their pizzas in a tiny hut out back of the store
Anon - When I was a child my mom told me that when it rained it was because the baby Jesus was crying.— Tatiana
- My dad told me SPAM was made of Squirrel, Possum, and Mice YUM YUM — Suzanne
- I used to believe that mosquito larvae were baby hammerhead sharks. Made the ditch a very dangerous place!— Karen