My mom told me that if I ate uncooked cookie dough I would get worms living in my stomach. This fear lasted for years, even after ice cream companies started making varieties with names like "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough". Later, as a young adult, I cautioned another adult who was licking the (cookie) bowl clean. My warning was greeted with a smirk followed by howls of laughter and accusations of believing everything my mother told me! Someone did tell me that uncooked flour can contain worms, but I think my mother was trying to protect the cookie dough more than she was trying to protect me!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate to much cookie-dough you'd turn into a camel.— Lenny
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel
- When I was about 6 years old I use to think that if a cookie crumbled all the flavor would escape.— Arilinia
- The moon was actually either a sugar cookie or a banana, depending on the time of the month. — Jessica Aspra
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen
- My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.— david