My dad got me to stop licking out the inside of the microwave popcorn bags, not by telling me that it was unhealthy, but by telling me that it was coated with motor oil. Somehow, the popcorn was still ok to eat.........
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I planted popcorn kernels I could grow a popcorn treeAnon
- My teacher told me one time~when I ate the unpopped popcorn, the unpopped popcorn would pop in my stomach.— Petra
- I used to think popcorn grew on trees until i was 13.— Davina
- I believed that Reindeer loved popcorn, and so I would cook a bag and scatter it on the porch.— Popcornsanta
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon