When I was little my parents would bring home chinese food occasionally for dinner. My dad would offer us some soy sauce..........but he called it "bug juice", and for years I thought it was made of squished bugs. I never would touch it!!!
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.Anon
- I thought that grape juice was called "great juice". Anon
- I always thought that duck sauce (from chinese restaurants) was duck poop.
— emily - My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- i used to think tabasco sauce was tobacco so i'd always be like "mom! dont put that in our food!!"Anon