When I was little and we went to mcdonalds to eat some fries, I would never eat the burnt ones because I thought they were poisonous. I was really amazed when I saw my dad eat a burnt french fry.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I used to think that you had to be french to really taste french fries.— Not French;)
- my grandma told me not to eat pizza coz the "brown squiggly" stuff there arent burnt cheese but WORMS!
— Mimi - I thought french fries were really invented in France (they are Belgian for those who don't know)— Quarm
- I used to believe that french fries were made of bread.— tendersoul