I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- I used to belive that if I ate orange peel it would expand in my stomach and blow me up.— Paul
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- I used to believe that eating chicken skin will give me nightmares.— zihui