My dad told me that eating burnt toast would put hairs on your chest ( just what every eight year old female would want) but because dad said it then that was ok
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- My grandad used to tell me that if i ate tripe, then it would put hairs all over my chest Anon
- Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest— Muddinyori
- I used to believe that nose hairs were the other end of hairs on top of your head.— Walker
- i was told that if i kept biting my nails i would grow hairs on my tongue i was 10 yrs old by the way— charlotte anderson