Mum used to tell me not to drink whild having food in my mouth, so i thaugt that we have one pipe for liquids and one for food, and that you could swallow the food/ liquid into the wrong pipe. I realized when I was 15 that this was wrong!
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- 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
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I thought i had to chew my food 27 times before i could swallow because Stephanie said it on Full HouseAnon
- i use to belive if you eat to much of a food u will turn into that food Anon
- I used to think a drain pipe in my backyard led to another world.Anon