When I was in elementary school, I used to attend an after school program called "A Plus", where we, the children, would be watched upon by the "leaders" (adults) until our parents came to pick us up. At the time, I went through the phase of being obsessed with enjoying my afternoon snack of dry, uncooked ramen noodles. After eating them for a couple years, a friend of mines had exclaimed that eating it raw can eventually cause you to end up with worms in your stomach. He said that the reason we cook the saimin was to "kill" the parasites in it, however eating it raw could result in us acquiring these worms in our stomach where they would grow. The sad thing is, I believed it until now, especially since the shape of it was really convincing.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon
- I used to think that if I ate sugar out of the sugarbowl I would get worms in my stomach.— Arc
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody