dangerous food

When I was about 4 years old, my sister told me that the mushrooms that grew in our yard in the summer were poisonous mushrooms that would kill you if you ate them. So, I always imagined someone walking down the sidewalk, taking a bite out of a mushroom, and shooting straight up into the sky to go to heaven.

Emily

i used to think mushrooms made you shrink

deanna

whin i was little i watched dora the explorer and was convinced that the monkey guy had eatin to many bannanas and turned into a monkey so i used to think that eating bannanas would turn you into a monkey

bannana

i ised to love tomatoes until someone told me they turn your ears red I still can't eat a tomato today and I'm in my late twenties

mandi

My older sister told me that crisps that that dark mark/blemish on them were bad for "little boys" and ate them for my own safety. Bitch.

Ashley Power, UK

I used to sneak into the kitchen and eat spoonfuls of sugar at night as a young child until my mum told me that if you did this, sugar worms would grow in your stomach and eat you up. I still make sure I don't put too much sugar in my coffee to this day...

Lisa

We were always told that if we drank vinegar our blood would dry up

Mike B. London

when i was little, my mom told me that if i drank pickle juice, my face would get stuck in that sour position. because of that, she said i wouldn't be able to eat, drink, or breathe. needless to say, i was scared to death of anything sour until i was around 12 or 13.

Jessyca

once my maid got scared and looked at me with pity when i started eating sprouts.

she believes that they start germinating in stomach .....such a weird and scary thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was sick of convincing her that nothing happens and infact they are quite nutritious......

raji

I used to believe that drinking vinegar would turn you into a robot.

Anon

My mate used to believe that the lids of yoghurt pots were poisonous, and to this day won't ever lick one.

Anon

I used to believe that the crunchy things in the fillings of Fig Newtons were actually hornets eggs...ever since then I can't eat them.

Melissa Shea - Durham, NC USA

When I was young (about 4 or 5) my older brother told me those tiny strawberries that grew wild in our yard were poisonous. When I was thirty one a neighbot offered me some. They were delicious. I'm mad that I missed out all those years. Brothers!

Tracy

When I was a child my mother never allowed us to have coffee only tea. When I asked her why she said that it would give you spots and make you bad tempered!This was a rule until I got to the age of about 14. Then I developed spots and I became bad tempered. So I said to my mum well I'm both of which you said I would become without drinking coffee, so now I might as well start drinking coffee. Even to this day whenever I am visting my Mum and drinking a cup of coffee I remind her of this.

Ray

When I was younger i belived that you could not eat the cone part of the ice crean cone it was too dangerous for you to eat it it would kill you. my older couzin told me that i was about 4-5

weird

weird

I thought that the reason I shouldn't take candy from strangers was that it was poisonous. My sister-in-law thought it was because it had drugs in it. We were both in our 30's when we compared notes.

EAP

When I was a kid I'd read the backs of boxes for the USDA servign sizes and nutrients. I thought it was like medicine, so if the serving size was four cookies, and I'd have five, I'd worry I'd poisoned myself.

Anon

When I was a little kid, I would never eat the wrinkled ends of a hotdog because I thought they were poisonous. I suppose it was just because they're sort of ugly looking...?

Anyway, grew out of that one.

Pfilip

My Granny said if I drank milk and ate fish at the same time, I would die.

Anon

When I was about 4, I met one of my parent's friends who happened to be an old lady who wore false teeth. She had made meatballs for dinner and for some reason she took out her teeth and told me that she had lost all her real ones from eating too many meatballs. For years not one meatball touched my mouth.

Priscilla