When I younger one of my favourite things to eat was cucumber in salt and vinegar even though my mum told me that if I drank the vinegar it would dry up my blood. So I used to secretly sip it. Even now at 33 years old I still do it!
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- We were always told that if we drank vinegar our blood would dry up— Mike B. London
- I used to believe that if you drank vinegar that your blood would dry up.— Emily Hughes
- My gran told me that if you drank vinegar your brains would dry up!!!— Sam
- I used to believe that drinking vinegar would turn you into a robot.Anon
- I used to believe that salt would dry up all of my blood because my mother told me so.— Charlotte H
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon