When I was 8 or so i believed we had two stomachs, one for food and one for fluids. I just couldn't figure out how the body knew which was which. So, when someone choked and said it went down the wrong tube, I thought they meant the food went down the fluid tube.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- if you eat toothpaste straight from the tube, you will get worms— wormelow
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I used to want hemmoriods so I could use a "float tube" in the tub and have a cushy toilet seat like my dad.— Tami
- I thought if food said it was fat free it meant you could eat as much as you want without getting fat!— Brainhead
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave