What’s a Story You Were Told About Food That You Laugh at Today?
This was inspired by a question Mike Pierce asked in the Facebook Community Group Grub n Chill.
Anyone else get fed a food myth as a child? - Mike Pierce
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Careful With Those Fortunes
I had an Asian friend tell me you had to eat the paper in the fortune cookie or it wouldn't come true. I didn't question it and did it for years! - Stormi Dettmann
That Hose Water
My Aunt caught me drinking water out of the hose and she said I was gonna have a bunch of worms in my stomach - Tyler Johnson
It Takes Two
My Dad would tell us eating garlic bread would make our boobs grow bigger but you had to eat two slices or they would become lopsided - Carrie Andrus
Careful With Your Gum
Swallowing gum will stay in your stomach for seven years and if you swallow watermelon seeds, they'll grow in your belly - Donna Archer
What About the Crusts?
Eat the crust of your bread or you'll have straight hair - Kendra Hopf
Dad the Great Story Teller
My Dad told me and my sister that rainbow sprinkles are clown boogers. Honey roasted pecans are sugar fried cockroach shells and tapioca is fertilized fish eggs - Alexandra Byle
Eat It All!
I used to not be able to finish my food but I was told that every rice grain left uneaten, was a worm you eat in the afterlife - Kayla Corilla
Careful with the Bell Peppers
If you don't take the seeds out of yellow, green, and red bell peppers you'll die or kill anyone who consumes them - Elizabeth Cardenas
Don't Waste the Toast
Burnt toast makes you sing better - Drugh Lay
If You Want Big Boobs
My Aunt told me that Pepsi makes your boobs big. It worked! - Mary Oman
Eat All the Carrots
If you eat all your carrots you'll have pretty eyes - Crystal Anderson
When the Ice Cream Truck Comes Around
I tell my kids if the ice cream truck is playing music that means he's run out of ice cream! - Kaytee Oceana
The Sauce
My brother's Dad always told me that soy sauce was ant blood - Marenda Haworth-Ziller
Mountain Dew
Drinking Mountain Dew makes you steril because of yellow #5 dye - Devin Aaron
Is it Chocolate Milk?
My Grandma had me convinced for years that chocolate milk came from brown spotted cows - Jess Finnell
Them Yolks
Egg yolks are poison - Allen Zeitgeist Greenky
Careful Now
Don't eat candy before bed or you'll get worms! - Angel George
You Can Do It!
Don't eat the leaves on broccoli, they're poison - Jenifer Dillon
Interesting Reason Why They're Salty
My Dad told me pistachios were salty (he bought the salted ones) because they grew in ditches and people peed on them! - Samantha Anderson
Watch Out for the Coffee
My Mom used to tell us that drinking coffee would make our knees turn brown - Amanda Conners
That's Bananas
During the depression when fresh fruit was scarce, my Aunt told my Mom that the seeds in the banana were poisonous so she could have them all to herself - Lauren Cole
It's All in the Pit
Almonds come from the center of peach pits - Elizabeth Adams
Where Nightmares Come From
Spicy food gives you bad dreams - Nalu Ryder
When the Grill is On
The meat on my Step Dad's BBQ was always roadkill - Kirstina Consford
What Frogs Do
One of my Mom's boyfriends told me mushrooms grow under frogs and they peed on them and I could get warts. I didn't eat mushrooms from ages 6-27 - Mae Danger
When You Drink
If I drink liquid, drink it after I was completely done eating and it would help to not gain so much weight - John Moore
They Are Crying
Back then I used to not like rice all that much, and my Grandma would point at the condensation on the bowl and say, "see the rice is crying because you won't eat it" - Samudra Kumaratungga
The Secret to Growing Tall
If you eat oatmeal you'll be tall, I ate a lot and indeed I was tall. My brother refused and he is short. - Kimberley Louchs Winarske
Do you Want Rosy Cheeks?
Eat your crusts to get rosy cheeks - KatieLynn Longmire
So That's Where They Come From!
Hot air balloons come from swallowing gum - Kimberly Seymour
I Refuse to Believe It
Eating raw cookie dough gives you worms - Angy Higgins Cowan
If You're in Cambodia
If you eat while laying down you'll turn into an alligator or a crocodile and when everyone's asleep and eat the family - Andernee Yin
Look for the Bubbles
My maternal Grandmother told my Mom that no one would kiss her if her tortillas didn't bubble when she cooked them. - Natalie Blevins
It Will Explodes Though
That mentos and diet coke will explode in your stomach if you ingest them both at the same time - Shayda Vahdat
Don't Do It
If you swallow a cherry pit, a tree will grow out of your butt and all the other kids will follow you around come springtime - Casey Heckman
More Things That Give You Worms
Things that give you worms; undercooked chicken, raw eggs, unwashed fruits and vegetables, pork that isn't cooked, unwashed hands, and dirt (in general) - Aimee St. Germain
Good Reason to Eat What You Want
If you don't eat whatever you're craving, you'll get a canker sore on your tongue - Stephanie G Rose
All the Lies
I was convinced (embarrassed to say until recently) that cotton candy disappeared overnight. My older siblings would eat it all after I went to bed and told me it dissolved - Bill Golden
To Get the Curly Ones
My Mom tried to convince me that zucchini would give me curly eyelashes. I didn't buy it for a second! - Lauren Harris
Doesn't Everything Grow on Trees?
My cousin believed spaghetti grew on trees for a long time - Amber Vankovsky
Look at the Bottle Tops
Sometimes you'll notice two little indents on the caps of plastic soda bottles and when I was very little my Dad used to tell me that vampires had gotten to the ones with the little indents and then I would obsess over trying to find those ones specifically - Maggie Hender
The Root of the Matter
Celery is the Devils root - Daijon Westling
Oh, You Like the Pulp?
The pulp in orange juice is the booger of the people who picked the oranges - Alex Griffin
Watch for the Fish Bones
My Mom told me if I swallowed the little fish bones they would stab me in the throat and I'd die - Charlie Bray
Something Everyone Has
My Dad called parmesan cheese toe jam! ~ Marlene Kent
Careful with that Expiration Date
Chocolate milk is made of expired milk - Jessica June Denning
Growing Up in Indonesia
My Dad said that if we drank the tap water, that we would grow an extra eye. We proceeded to chug the tap water! ~ Jordan Chu
Don't Drink That
My Dad used to tell us that Mountain Dew contained goat pee so we wouldn't drink it - Katie Bee
10 Second Rule
Donut holes are the middle of the regular donuts that fall on the floor, so they sell them. To be honest, I didn't care and ate them anyway. - Cameo Harmon
Careful with the Dairy
Can't drink milk after eating seafood - Shikha Singh
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