When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I didn't finish eating my meal (food), it would cry after me.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- 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 was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- I usd to believe that at restaurants that had a BYO sign out the front, you had to "bring your own" meal.— Fiona
- I used to believe that if you licked ice-cream, it would never finish. Anon
- i used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)— cady