When I was little, I remember watching a health cartoon about a little boy who got acne when he ate chocolate- I thought the acne was permanent freckles and I REFUSED to eat chocolate for years.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I once was told that ONLY virgins get acne. After sex, no new pimples grow. I believed that.— MD Caruso
- That by drinking a daily dose of buttermilk one would clean the blood thereby avoiding ACNE— Richard in Durham
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- I used to belive chocolate milk came from brown or chocolate cows.Anon
- I used to believe that chocolate milk came from chocolate cows.— Scott
- Thought chocolate milk came from brown cows.— Patti