My Mum told me if I ate too much toast I would get cancer! I couldn't eat it for years and years...
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- My mom told me if I picked my nose, I would get cancer.— xxXSaraXxx
- My sisters once told me if I blinked too much I would get cancer.
How mean... D:— Budster - My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- I used to think that the toast would never pop out of the toaster if you watched it while you were waiting.Anon