I used to believe that the little brown squiggles you got in biscuits were actually flies. I think I was about 15 before I found out they were actually raisins.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- i used to think raisins were inside out flies. i still can't eat them to this day. :)— booga
- i would never eat biscuits with currants in because someone told me they were flies.— ahab
- I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.— Toinette'
- My dad told me that raisins were the dead flies from the windowsill— Kellie
- I thought that gnats were baby flies, then one day I found out about maggots. yuck— Felicia
- I use to believe that dragon flies and fire flies were fairies— lady eberly