When I was a kid my mom told me if you drank full strength chocolate milk it would give you worms. The only safe way to drink it was to dilute it with white milk. I'm pretty sure she was trying to save some cash!
A childhood belief about milk

others believed things like this
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- I used to believe chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk came from black and white cowsAnon
- i used to think chocolate milk came from brown cows and normal milk came from white cows Anon
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk and white cows made regular milk.— andrew mient
- I used to think that if you drank too much milk and had a nosebleed, your blood would be white.— Tina