On April 1st, many years ago, I watched a black and white program with my sister in which Italian woman were shown picking long strands of spaghetti form "spaghetti" trees. We tried in vain to convince our parents that this was a fact, after all we'd seen it on TV.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think it was illegal to eat spaghetti if you were not Italian— Anthony
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- MY SISTER TOLD ME THAT CANNED SPAGHETTI WERE REALLY WORMS THAT'S WHY THEY WERE SO CHEAP...I BELIEVED— CATHY
- As a child, my twin sister and I used to pronounce `Spaghetti' as `Mastaghetti'. Sounds a bit rude, no? Anon
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon