My mother always told my brother and I not to eat the last tiny pointed bit of a banana. She said it was alcoholic and we would get drunk.
Although I now know this is rubbish, I won't let my kids eat the last bit either. Why? Because they will get drunk of course!!!!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that if you ate too much grapes, you'd get drunk.— Grace
- I used to think that being drunk was permanent— Boyd
- I used to believe that if you swallowed wine or beer in two sips then you would get drunk— Heather
- once i was drinking aot of orange juice and my sister said i would get drunk if i had too much— deanna
- I used to think that apple juice was beer and I'd drink it all the time and pretend to be drunk.— Dee
- Up until I was about seven, I thought soda pop was alcoholic and that's why kids weren't allowed it.Anon