When i was younger, my mom always told me to finish my veggies and said, "You'd better keep eating or else it'll get cold." this made me thik that every time you took a bite, your food would magically re-heat!
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- 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 thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous
- I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.— Mario
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin