When I was a kid I used to love Burger King fish sandwichs (called the Whaler) with a vanilla milk shake. My mom (from Pakistan) told me I should never drink milk with fish or it would cause me to have huge white spots all over my body. Once we saw a lady with huge white spots and my mom told me she drank milk after eating fish. She said I could drink milk first then eat fish and I would be ok, but never the other way around. I would still drink my milk shake after the fish just waiting for the white spots to appear. They never did. But I figured if ever they did appear, i would just keep drinking milk and eating fish until my whole body turned white. Then I would look ok.
I finally realized this was a Pakistani myth. But my mom still believes it. So do some of my uncles.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- i used to believe the white part in fish meat is because of the fish's milk— Kim
- My Granny said if I drank milk and ate fish at the same time, I would die.Anon
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- I used to believe chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk came from black and white cowsAnon
- i used to think chocolate milk came from brown cows and normal milk came from white cows Anon
- I used to believe that brown cows gave chocolate milk, and that white cows gave white milk.— James