My dad always told me that eating black pepper would "put hair on my chest." He sure had lots of it, and since the pepper looked enough like hair seeds I had no trouble believing it. So throughout my youth I sprinkled every appropriate food quite liberally with the stuff. Well, guess what--the mirror tells me now that I might have overdone it. DAD--You didn't say anything about my back and bum!
A childhood belief about hair
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Dr. Pepper actually tastes like Black pepper. I'm still afraid to try it.Anon
- I used to think that when somebody farted, little black dots came out that looked like pepper specks.— Jade
- I believed Dr. Pepper was pepper-flavored medicine and was afraid to drink it.Anon
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest— Muddinyori
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon