My Dad convinced us that the round part at the top of a chop was poisonous, and that the best bit was the long streaky bit of fat down the side. He always made sure to get rid of the posionous bit for us 4 kids........
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- when i was like 6 i thought only little kids my age could have long hair. dumb....lol— candy
- I used to believe that, by moving their branches from one side to another, trees made wind.— Pilar
- that the green bit of cucumbers was poisonousAnon