food: dangerous food

As a child I was a huge fan of Soreen Malt Loaf. My Mum told me that if I had more than three buttered slices I would get a very bad stomach ache.

I only discovered the truth five years ago, and I'm thirty now! My Mum was just trying to stop me from eating the whole loaf in one go.

When I was a kid there were these candies called pop rocks. My friends and i believed that if you didn't let them finish popping in your mouth they would make your stomach explode.

when I was about 5, we would go out as a family and get ice-cream over the weekend. My dad had nearly finished his cone and I had hardly eaten mine, so he said "Sarah! Nooooo stop eating your cone, whats that?" pointing at my cone. There was a tiny speck of chocolate or something on the ice cream, so I looked at him and he said, "Its a bomb, you better trade with me, my cone is safe!" So I did! Thats the reason why today I weigh 120 pounds and He weighs like 290!

As kids my Dad told us that if we ate the little squares in the waffles that our stomachs would blow up, so i remember thinking dad is always right cuz he is the smartest man in the world, so my brothers and sister would try to pick around the waffle squares so our stomachs wouldn't blow up.

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.

Learning about chemical reactions made me worried that my mom would mix the wrong things together when cooking and make some kind of poison. I refused to eat anything she made without a recipe until I was in third or fourth grade, and I was terrified that she would accidentally kill herself with her strange cakes.

My grandma told me when I was a littler girl that if I ate cake batter raw, worms would grow in my stomach...of course that was after I had a fingerful. Thanks Grannis

On the Johnson Smith Company catalog, i saw the book about bodily fluids and when I saw the phrase "toe cheese," I thought that cheese came from human toes. And then when my mom and I were eating crackers and cheese, she said "why are you not eating?" and I said "because It is dreadful!, cheese came from toes!" Then I showed the magazine to her and pointed to the bodily fluids book where it says "toe cheese" on it.

When my sister and I were younger, she used to love to eat slices of bread. One day, she had a very bad tummy ache and I told her that it was a giant breadball in her gut that was about to explode. Needless to say I got the ol' backhand.

When I was little, my dad was reading the ingredients list of a Dr Pepper to my brother, when he got to where it said "phosphoric acid", I got scared and thought there was acid in Dr Pepper. I stopped drinking it for years, because I believed it would melt your stomach.

My parents told me when I was young that if i drank coffee my feet would turn black. Not sure if it's the reason, but I hate coffee today

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!

my grandmother told me that mulberries were poisonous. i think this was to to keep us from walking under the trees and getting mulberry stains on our shoes and feet.

My mother convinced me that if I swallowed a pit, especially a lichii pit, it would be caught in the appendix and give me appendicitis.

As a child I used to believe that eating butter would make your hair fall out. My mother told me this. I grew up and shaved my head bald several times. Maybe she was sorta right.

I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.