My mother told me that I should not take food from strangers because it might be poisoned. She then had to clarify that I could eat food at my friends' parents houses, because their food would not be poisoned. So I came to the conclusion that parents of young children had some sort of special ability to know if food was poisonous and wondered why anyone ever ate anything with poison because they should just ask a parent of a small child to check.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- i use to belive if you eat to much of a food u will turn into that food Anon
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.
- When I was a child I used to believe that the steam rising from my food were ghosts. Anon