My mum would always talk about the dangers of eating raw meat for fear of tapeworms, and said that if you had one, you needed to put a bowl of soup up to your mouth and the tapeworm would come out. I believed this for quite some time, until I learnt that tapeworms live in your intestines, not your stomach :P
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie