When I was younger I heard about you might get salmonella if you eat eggs raw. I didn't know what it was and spent a lot of time wondering why would you get salmonella in egg since there isn't any salmon in it.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather
- When I was younger, I thought Eskimos ate penguin eggsAnon
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.— Chris
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!