When i was young i used to eat Brown Sugar non-stop. My mum told me that if i eat it, i'd get worms. i believed her up until about i was 17 when i went shopping with her and she bought some brown sugar, and i said to her "doesn't that give you worms?" she laughed.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB
- 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
- I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon
- I used to think that if I ate sugar out of the sugarbowl I would get worms in my stomach.— Arc
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon