Did your parents ever tell you something as a kid to keep you from doing something? It’s not uncommon for parents to tell their kid a certain lie to keep them from doing bad things. A popular example of this don’t be naughty, or else Santa will bring you coal instead of presents on Christmas.

But come to think of it, there are way more examples of that. In a survey sent out to the school, there were a lot of responses that came back that are laughable.

Of the most common, parents told their kids things like: “don’t eat watermelon seeds, or you’ll grow a watermelon in your belly,” or “if you make a face for too long, it will get stuck like that,” or the über popular, “don’t swallow your gum or it will stay in your stomach for 7 years.”

The less common ones, however, were the best ones by far. Most of them are food beliefs. These include the strange occurrences that happened if you didn’t eat certain foods, or in certain cases, when you did eat certain foods.

“My parent told me that if I didn’t eat my vegetables, they would eat me,” one person admitted. “They told me this to make me eat them, but I was terrified of all vegetables for the longest time after that.”

“Eating bread crusts makes your hair curly,” another person said.

“I believed that eating noodles would turn me into a noodle,” another anonymous source claimed. “I never ate noodles for the first half of my life.”

This goes to show that the things you believe as a kid can have a huge impact on your lifestyle. How did we ever believe these things? The world may never find out.