I used to sneak into the kitchen and eat spoonfuls of sugar at night as a young child until my mum told me that if you did this, sugar worms would grow in your stomach and eat you up. I still make sure I don't put too much sugar in my coffee to this day...
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My mom told me that if I ate raw hotdogs or spoonfuls of sugar, I'd get worms. I believed her until I was 13.— seale
- My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon
- I used to think that if I ate sugar out of the sugarbowl I would get worms in my stomach.— Arc
- I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon