When I was little, I used to have a weird habit of opening and closing the fridge all the time when I was bored, and my mom got mad at me for doing this. She told me that if you open the fridge way too many times, then the butter would get mad and turn into a monster and eat me.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- that a piece of liver in your fridge if left overnight would wrap itself around a bottle of milkAnon
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- My mum told me that if you picked your nose and flicked it on the floor then it would turn into a monster!— MadMack
- my mum told me that the 'public' park was closing so she could go home— xx-lotty-pop-xx
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon