When I was little and I would help my Mom bake cookies I used eat the raw dough. My Mom started telling me that if I ate alot of raw cookie dough I would get worms so I would start asking her each time I took a bite if it was small enough so I wouldn't get worms.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate to much cookie-dough you'd turn into a camel.— Lenny
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- i used to believe that i could get a yeast infection by eating raw dough!Anon
- I used to believe that the grated cheese served to cool the dough.— Silvia Spinetti
- I believed that linguini was made of tape worms and was scared to eat pasta for a long time!— Mojo!
- If you eat your boogers you'll get worms— Kit