I was told by my lying sod of a mother that if I didn't wash behind my ears that cauliflowers and potatoes would start to grow there - I'll never forget the time - after a rather vigorous (and swampy) 5 aside football match, she removed a whole baby cauliflower (what I now realise was a frozen cauliflower floret - the joys of sleight of hand) - and took the credit for preventing my ears from becoming a garden allotment.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- i used to believe that if u didnt wash behind your ears potatos would grow in the dirt— michelle
- I used to believe that if I didn't clean my ears that carrots would grow inside.— Gilian
- I used to believe that if I didnt wash behind my ears, they'd fall off...— Karina
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- When I was a kid I believed that if you swallowed a fruit pip that treees would grow from your ears.— Liz Smith