Reading from news:rec.food.cooking,
Dan Abel > posted:

> It's OK. When I was a kid, my dad also used to lie to me. They think
> kids are too stupid to know any better. They're right.

I was told eating raw potatoes would give me worms. I didn't totally
believe that. I knew my mom hated it when I ate raw potatoes after she
had cut, salted, and peppered them for frying french fries. They were
nasty after she cooked them (limp, soggy, and very brown). I liked them
better raw.

Since my granddad got sick eating fish and drinking milk, my dad said you
should never eat fish and drink milk or eat ice cream after having a fish
meal. I don't like drinking milk with any kind of actual meal, though
it's good with dessert-type foods, or with pancakes. Even so, the only
time I've ever been sick after having fish was after having grilled
salmon, steamed vegetables and rice pilaf at the Texas Roadhouse. Even
then, I drank Coke, not milk. And I think it was the very crunchy
vegetables that made me sick, not the salmon. I figure the vegetables
were cut with a dirty knife, and not steamed long enough to kill whatever
raw meat contaminant was on them.

Damaeus