You know those hard round lumps you sometimes find in a chicken nugget? I had heard something when I was about 6 or 7 about breast cancer lumps and thought that since the chicken nugget box said "made with all breast meat" I thought those lumps were breast cancer and if I ate it I would get breast cancer too
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that black babies who were breast fed got chocoate instead of white milk.— Susan
- When I was little I used to think that women had two hearts - one inside each breast.— Rick
- I used to believe that cancer itself made you bald, rather than the chemotherapy treatment!— Maggie
- I thought you always die if you A. get cancer or B. have a heart attack— Nate
- when i was little i thought people with big heads or big noses had cancer...Anon
- I used to believe that you could get cancer from looking in the microwave while it was running.— Kayla