My mom had me believing that if I ate chocolate I would break out in these horrible hives. She told everyone to make sure that I 'stay away from chocolate' because I was 'allergic.' When I finally had chocolate at someone's house, nothing happened. Now, as Mom is a huge chocoholic, I can only conclude that she didn't want competition for her stash...
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- I used to belive chocolate milk came from brown or chocolate cows.Anon
- I used to believe that chocolate milk came from chocolate cows.— Scott
- I USE TO BELIEVE THAT BROWN & BLACK COWS MAKE CHOCOLATE MILK— TINA
- i used to believe that chocolate would go mouldy if you didn't eat it quick enough— abi
- I used to believe that vanilla wasn't a flavor. It just didn't have chocolate in it!— Andrea