When I was little, my mother would cook pasta quite frequently and I would dread it because I had somehow been convinced that the noodles had once been a living animal. I remember crying into my plate and apologizing after every bite when I was alone.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...— Trusting little brother
- I thought there was a beaver living in the toilet that would bite me if I wasn't ever vigilant. — Camille
- I used to believe that barf always had noodles and carrots in it no matter what you ate that day. — DumbKid
- I used to believe that noodles that were dyed different colors such as green had been killed.— Tasha
- but my aunt used to tell me that if i eat too many noodles, i wud turn into a mummy when i died Anon
- when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.— Sabrina in Italy