My mother told me if I ate chocolate before breakfast I would get worms. I believed this until I was about 10.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- When I was little my mother told me that the chocolate sprinkles you put on ice-cream were ants.Anon
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- My mom told me that if I ate raw hotdogs or spoonfuls of sugar, I'd get worms. I believed her until I was 13.— seale
- MY SISTER TOLD ME THAT CANNED SPAGHETTI WERE REALLY WORMS THAT'S WHY THEY WERE SO CHEAP...I BELIEVED— CATHY
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster