my mother told me taht if I swallowed raw jelly cubes
(before they have been put in water and set) that they swell up in your tummy and go hard and you die.
She told me this just after I had eaten a cube. The bastard.
I still vividly remember that moment, I cried and cried and it has affected me all my life. I was only 4.
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:37, archived)

this is one of the reasons
why I don't want to tell my kids that kind of thing. also because at some point you have to tell them that you've lied to them. it's one thing to have Santa and tooth fairies and things, but horrific things that might happen we didn't like the idea of
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 18:41, archived)