When I was little a doctor told my mum I lacked iron and my diet should include iron suplements. As she worked in a shipyard and was explaining this to me in the car on the way to her office I was convinced she would feed me ship parts.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi - when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe that the people who take your blood at the doctor's office were vampires. — Andy
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay
- My dad used to tell me that "smoked" bacon came from pigs that had been fed on a diet of kippers !!!— Tony . Newcastle on Tyne