In 5th grade my best friend told me if I ate mashed potatoes for a meal without eating anything else, i would shrink. Her dad was a doctor so I believed everything she told me. For years I was terrified to eat mashed potatoes at all.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to think clouds were mashed potatoes in the sky.— Will
- I used to believe that french fries were filled with mashed potatoes.... wonder how they got in there?— Nancy
- When I was little, I thought that big puffy clouds in the sky were actually mashed potatoes.Anon
- I used to think eating raw potatoes would give you "BEZORES".
Our family doctor told me this— Moodycop - I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest— Muddinyori