When I was about ten, a friend of mine, who was a few years older, and whose mother was a pediatrician, told me that if you eat ramen, it temporarily makes your stupider. She said she only ate ramen during summer break so that she'd be smart when she was at school. I seriously believed her for a few months, then I went back to eating ramen. Sometimes I can still feel it shutting down my brain when I eat it.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon
- My sister used to think that because I was 15 months older than her, I would die 15 months before her!— Nicola Braden