dangerous food

i used to think mushrooms made you shrink

deanna

When I was little, my big brother told me that eating eggs will make me ugly like the witch from Little Mermaid. Needless to say, I stopped eating eggs all together...

Lior

I used to believe that you would explode if you drank cola and ate pop rocks at the same time.

Anon

I was also told that it was "death" to eat fish and to drink milk at the same time. Does anyone know the origin of this myth?

Additionally, when I was small, (about three years old), my mother would pick all of the bones out of my fish -- no filets then. She never said ainything, but I assumed that a fishbone in your mouth = instant death.

I have been and will always be psycho.

TexasToby

I misheard something my parents said and for years I believed that if you accidentally ate a mussel without removing its "beard" (the fibre it uses to attach itself to rocks) you'd be paralysed from the waist down!!

I didn't dare eat mussels for many years - and I'm still a little wary...

Musselhater

My mother raised us with healthy attitudes toward food, and by the time I was five I knew that you should only eat things such as candy once in a while, but I had never ever heard a food called "bad." However, there were these TV commericals for so-called healthy cookies that said "all the flavor, none of the guilt." I could not figure out why someone would feel guilty for eating, so I concluded there was an entire class of bad (as in evil, not as in unhealthy) foods that it was sinful to eat. But because I'd never heard of any foods in my house being "bad", I also believed that those sinful foods weren't available at the store where we shopped. So every time I saw a store painted a color I didn't like, or kept in a bad state of repair, I thought that was a "bad food store."

Still not guilty

i think that when you put pop rocks in your mouth and drink soda,you blow up,is that true?or is it just stupidity?i think you just get sick or something,i dunno.

what a stupid belief

When I was maybe 4, I jumped off the high diving board at the pool. When I surfaced, my grandpa told me I "must've gotten butterflies from the jump." I was absolutely terrified that I had actually swallowed butterflies, and they were trapped in my stomach. I later whispered to him, completely humiliated, if I would have to poop them out...

Anon

up until a few days ago i thought eating the seeds of fruit was good for you. I swallowed sixteen highley poisenouis cherry pits and had to go thruogh a stomach pump

Ruby

I vaguely remember in nursery during lunchtime one kid told me that most foods go down a tube into your stomach but sausages get stuck in your throat.

You can't go wrong!

When I was in 6th grade, my friends and I always threw and flicked stuff at each other while eating. My friend threw an orange and a kid was walking by (nice kid)anyways, he stepped on the orange and slipped!!It was so funny! He got back up like nothing happened and walked away!XD

Anon

i used to beleive the moon was actually made out of cheese and that the clouds were cotton candy!

.......man did i want to go up into the clouds

carly

I loved bananas as a child (and still do). My mother told me that if I ate more than one banana a day I would turn into a monkey. I believed her for a long time!

Katherine Lobdell

I used to think that adults turned into worms at nigt and ate all of the spinach,which was actually candy,and threw it back up and that is how it got how it looked and tasted.Now i know that this doesnt happen.The people in the factory do it to cut some slack on the parents.

Alfalfa Bo Banana Joey Bo Houdini Gritz Larry Blahghggi Dohinnih Cunjuktinn Baharr the 3rd

when i was younger my mom and i would eat crabs together, I was told that the white spongy looking meat that was on the inner shell before you could get to the real meat was called the dead man, i actually thought a man got inside all crabs and died there, i guess she just didnt want me to eat that part of the crab!!

Anon

Two summers ago, 2006, a girl from Belarus came for six weeks through a charity (chernobylkidslondon.com). Anyways, we went to a belarussian store and she bouht a bag of - can you geuss?- whole dried fish. With the eyes and everything. I was terribly disgusted, just by the fact that she was eating dried fish like candy, and the fact that I thought she was going to choke and die from the bones and skull. Probably from when I choked on a fish bone, and the fact that I could hear her crunching on them. Needless to say, I always kept an eye out for her choking when she ate the stuff.

Anon

In an effort to break bad habits, my mother told me that eating spoonfuls of sugar would give me worms. I pretty much accepted this as fact until I was about 13.
This was also the case with uncooked hotdogs.

Anon