My Wifes dad used to tell her that if she ate the dark lumpy bits in the instant gravy she would die!!
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to think gravy was made in graveyards.Anon
- I use to think that alka seltzer tablets were instant 7UP soda until one day I tested my belief. — aj
- When I first heard the song "Constant Craving" by KD Lang, I thought she was singing "God save gravy."Anon
- I used to beleive that liver (as in liver and onions and gravy) was rhinocerous meat.Anon
- I used to think that you could get arrested for having a packet of Rizla's that had bits torn off the top...— Patch
- I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.— jayne