When I was little I used to like to eat the salt at the bottom of pretzel bags. My mom told me that if I ate the salt, I would grow mushrooms in my stomach.
A childhood belief about salt

others believed things like this
- when i was a child (of course)i used to believe that the sea is salty because God throws bags of salt into it.— Kafka
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I used to believe that salt would dry up all of my blood because my mother told me so.— Charlotte H
- I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff
- when i was little, my mom told me if you ate to much salt, you'd wake up turned into a lamb. — Kristina