My Grandma told me that if I kept eating sugar crystals they turn into ants in my stomach.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- 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
- My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB
- Until recently I thought you could only get diabetes from eating too much sugar not just from being overweight— Tooken
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- I used to believe that there was a shop in switzerland that sold bags of bogeys with sugar for eating— laura