As a kid my brother and I used to put salt on our watermelon (tasted really good for some reason). He told me that if I put too much on I would die so I'd always ask him if I had too much every time I ate it.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- i thought hot dogs were made from real dogs and sum tasted good sum didnt.— Wayne
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo