Up until this past year, I thought the crispy shell on shrimp and shrimp tails were poisonous.
My dad told me at a young age not to eat them because "they were not good for you". Of course, in my little head, that meant they were deadly poison.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- i believed that carrots with milk was a deadly poison until i was 11.— Jennifer
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- As an artist, i used to believe that my drawings were visions of my past life.(i had a good past life)— Blind dreamer
- That the "glitter" in crispy snow was angels— HH
- I was told as a young child that if I didn't smile going past the police station, I wouldbe arrested.Anon
- As a kid, I thought "No Outlet" signs meant the houses past that point didn't have any electrical outlets.— Julie