My son is 24 and will still not eat raisins. Why? When he was little he thought they were mushed up dead flies!
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.— Toinette'
- My dad told me that raisins were the dead flies from the windowsill— Kellie
- i used to think raisins were inside out flies. i still can't eat them to this day. :)— booga
- I used to think bogies were made of dead flies which had flown up my nose.— Kate
- I use to believe that dragon flies and fire flies were fairies— lady eberly
- I used to believe that flies were called "bloody flies"!— Angelface