Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
If there is one thing all humans have in common, it’s that we eat. If there are two things all humans have in common, it’s that we pass along dubious wisdom about the food we eat. Some food myths start off with a plausible connection to reality, while others may have been born as a joke.
Either way, many have been passed down over generations until no one know how they started. Here’s one I heard in childhood:“Cherries and milk are poison. I must have been about 6 or 7 when I first heard this one. It was common knowledge among the kids in my neighborhood. We all believed the two were deadly poison when combined. And some of the kids in school claimed they knew somebody who heard it from someone that a third grader once dropped dead in the school lunchroom when he dropped some cherries into his carton of milk and drank it. One summer, my brother…
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