When I was 5 or so, my uncle told me that little green men lived under mushrooms. Of course I believed him and never ate mushrooms again. To this day I still can't don't eat them.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the smurfs lived in ordinary mushrooms and i would never eat them!!!— eimear
- When I was a child I used to believe that smurfs lived in the mushrooms. So I didn't use to eat.— Ezgi
- I used to think that mushrooms were meat.Anon
- i used to believe that if i ate mushrooms they would grow on me— gwen
- I used to believe mushrooms were a meat.— Lee Ann
- I used to believe that smurfs were real. I never ate mushrooms. I still don't eat them.Anon