When I was four, my dad's best friend told me that the black olives on his pizza were cockroaches (to keep me from eating his pizza - how much pizza could a four year old eat?). To this day, I can't eat black olives.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate the little seeds on pizza that pizza would grow out of your ears— chana
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- I used to believe that black olives were made out of whale skin.— Troyson
- I thought the Mountain of Olives was made out of Olives— Tanuki
- In the song "We're going to Ibiza", my friend thought they said "we're going to eat pizza"!— Smaranda
- my grandma told me not to eat pizza coz the "brown squiggly" stuff there arent burnt cheese but WORMS!
— Mimi