My uncle used to warn me about eating strawberries straight from the vine because he said that they were covered with snake spit.
I always wondered why snakes didn't have anything else better to do than go around licking every strawberry in sight. It didn't stop me from eating them, though.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- after my mom told me I had strawberry blonde hair - I used to look for the strawberries after I got a haircut— pearpod
- i used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)— cady
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon