My best friend in the second grade told me that her grandpa had a heart attack because he ate too much mustard. For years I avoided mustard.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- My mom used to tell me if I ate mustard I would grow mustard.Anon
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- the beatles song 'mean mr mustard' says "shes a real go-getter", i was sure it was "shes a real coconut"...— sally
- I thought you always die if you A. get cancer or B. have a heart attack— Nate
- I use to think i heart attack was when you got stuck in an elevator. I have no idea how i came to believe thisAnon
- I used to think you could have a heart attack if you fell in love too deeply!Anon