If you leave salt on you for too long the salt will eat a hole in your skin. I was afraid of potato chips for the longest time.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman