I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".
A childhood belief about salt

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that salt would dry up all of my blood because my mother told me so.— Charlotte H
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe that belly buttons were for putting the salt in while you were eating celery in bed.— David T
- I used to believe that adding salt to food will make it cooler.— Ale Nijamkin
- When I was a little girl I thought that if you put salt on your food it cooled it off! lol What — Darlene
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F