dangerous food

I thought pink wafer biscuits would bite me if I touched them. Absolutely no idea why.

Anon

i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die

Bill

I used to think "firecrackers" we're some kind of really spicy cracker.

MAG

When I was 4 my two boy cousins told me that if you eat the strings on the inside of a banana you would die. I still throw them away even now when I'm 51.

Anon

When i was little, mad cow disease worried my mum and she never let me eat beef until i was about 9. Because i wasn't allowed it, i assumed i was allergic to it, and told everyone i was allergic to beef. once, my dad gave me a "beef" tomato to eat and i wouldnt eat it until he explained that it didnt have beef in it!

acey

When I was about seven (i'm now 84), the grandfather of one of my friends not to eat the ends of bananas because that's where deadly spiders lived, waiting to bite you. Of coutse, I found out much later, he was confused with tarantulas that sometimes are found when bananas bunches are first harvested and are fumigated before the bananas reach the market. Een knoing the truth, to this day, I still cut off both tips.

Theodore Lustig

I didn't eat Gushers for years, because I didn't want my head to turn into an oversized fruit. Apparently no one explained the concept of special effects to me as a kid.

Anon

when my bro was 5 he came up to me and said "Is a serial killer someone that makes a knife out of serial boxes?" at that time i didnt even know so i said yeah i think so

Chloe

When I was about 4 or 5 my dad told me that the spice pepper was ground up flies and mosquitoes. I have not used pepper since then.

Anon

While visiting relatives, I was standing in the kitchen while the moms were frying chicken. Some flour fell on my back. My uncle walked by and said that it would eat a hole in my skin. I was unsure if it was true, but I spent the whole day in fear and secretly tried to find mirrors that would let me look at my back and see the hole being created. A few times I could swear I saw it. Later that day I was obviously sad. My mom asked what was wrong. I told her. She laugh and said he was kidding...but I was skeptical...maybe he know something that she didn't...

Jerrell

If you leave salt on you for too long the salt will eat a hole in your skin. I was afraid of potato chips for the longest time.

Jenns

My dad always told us that pancake batter and cornbread batter would eat a hole in your stomach if you ate it raw. Because it has a bit of a bite to it, I COMPLETELY believed him. He said cookie batter and such just gave you worms, so I didn't mind sneaking some of that now and then.

Batter eater

I used to believe the peppercorns in salami were poison -- because my dad told me so. I think I stopped picking them out when I was about 15.

Lisa T

When I younger one of my favourite things to eat was cucumber in salt and vinegar even though my mum told me that if I drank the vinegar it would dry up my blood. So I used to secretly sip it. Even now at 33 years old I still do it!

Nicola

My siblings told me that if I ate too much cheese, I'd turn into a cow. I believed them.

Sophie

I used to believe that if you ate rice and water and jumped up and down you would explode. Thanks Dad.

Nina

I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.

Anon

my friends and i believed that eating peanut butter and mayonnaise together would poison you.
i also believed that the dark colored (burnt) potato chips gave you cancer, and that was what killed my great grandmother.

Anon

adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...

Anon

When I was very small (3 or so) I drank coffee because I thought it was hot stuff. Coincidentally I always ran around barefoot. My aunt told me that drinking coffee turns your feet black and of course I'd look down see my black feet and blame it on the coffee.

Gullible Girl