My mother raised us with healthy attitudes toward food, and by the time I was five I knew that you should only eat things such as candy once in a while, but I had never ever heard a food called "bad." However, there were these TV commericals for so-called healthy cookies that said "all the flavor, none of the guilt." I could not figure out why someone would feel guilty for eating, so I concluded there was an entire class of bad (as in evil, not as in unhealthy) foods that it was sinful to eat. But because I'd never heard of any foods in my house being "bad", I also believed that those sinful foods weren't available at the store where we shopped. So every time I saw a store painted a color I didn't like, or kept in a bad state of repair, I thought that was a "bad food store."
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to be believe that vanilla ice cream was the "healthy" flavor.Anon
- I used to believe that if you were Caucasian you from New Orleans because they eat cajun foods.— Serena
- I used to believe that tofu was actually called "toe food" and that it was made out of toe-jam.Anon
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I used to believe that every time i went in a store that the grown ups had to buy me something.— jvf