Eating cookies when they're still warm from the oven will make you violently ill. That's why you have to ask Mommy before you take one.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I could make a chick hatch from egg carton as long as I kept it warm :)— Stephanie
- I used to believe that serial killers violently ate their cereal...yeah..Anon
- I used to believe you could pour lemonade in a pan, put it in the oven and make lemonade cake.— wumpmugg
- When I was young, I said to my mom, "Mommy, make the sun go down!"Anon
- I used to believe that eating too many tomatoes could make you pregnant.— Mariah
- I used to believe that eating vegetables would make me particularly tall— Aleksandr