I used to believe that finding a hair in your food was good luck, because my mother would tell me that to get me to eat. To this day I have no aversion to eating food in which I find hair, but I also know it isn't good luck
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I used to believe that if you accidentally ate grape pips you 'd get appendicitis.
At school we all believed that if you swallowed chewing gum instead of spitting it out, every piece wedged in your lungs and eventually you could not breathe anymore. I never swallow gum, thirty years later!
As a child, we always had strawberries and raspberries growing in the garden. During the winter, my mother sometimes bought tinned fruit and, for several years, I believed that the tinned fruits were artificial and made in a factory! You can't blame me because they taste so different to the fresh fruit!
i used to believe that if you ate mcdonalds for lunch for more than
7 days in a row you would die . This came about after a lesson at
first school in which a teacher told us only fruit and vegetables had
vitamins in and you need them to live.
For some reason i thought mcdonalds contained no vitamins so if
you kept eating them you died. i was an odd kid!
If I ever ate an apple as a girl I would never dare eat a pip as I believed an apple tree would grow in my tummy and eventually kill me. I still cannot swallow pips.
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My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.
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I thought gherkins were pickled slugs.
My whole family have persuaded my niece of 4 1/2 that brussel sproats are green sweets and yorkshire puddings are "pudding"! Well...she eats all her sunday lunch!!!
i used 2 believe that fig newtons were made of newtons from newton trees
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if you drink water from unsafe places, frogs will grow in your stomach...
When I started first grade, the "big kids" (i.e., third graders) in the school cafeteria told me some kids had died from food poisoning after eating cafeteria food. I believed them and brought lunch in a lunchbox that whole year.
My older sisters used to tell me that if I ate dirt, watermelon seeds, and went out into the sun I would start to grow watermelons in my stomach.
Having grown up in Wisconsin (a cold northern state), I thought that limes were lemons picked early. Now living in California, I have made friends here who also believe that ... STILL ... and they are natives!
My mom would make "Lime Cloud" pies when I was young. She would only make them when I was taking my nap and only on cloudy days. She had me convinced that went out and gathered clouds to make the pie!
when i was about 7 at a family barbecue i was really curious o find out what part of the animal a sausage came from. as you can imagine my cousuns told me the "truth" and i refused to eat a cows weiner again.
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My mom has always believed that eating watermelon and drinking milk would poison you. I have never had the two at the same time because of it.
I remember searching a box of Triscuits for a cracker with elaborate toppings like on cover of the box
(cheese,olive, tomato etc.) and being disappointed that the only ones left inside the box were plain dry crackers.
My mother-in-law used to tell my daughter that if she ate dry stuffing mix her tummy would swell up and she would explode.
WHEN I WAS LITTLE MY OLDER BROTHER TOLD ME THAT IF I ATE WATERMELON PIPS THEN WATERMELONS WOULD START GROWING OUT MY EARS AND NOSE SO I WAS ALWAYS TO SCARED TO EAT IT