When i was about six i used to think that milk bottles were filled with my mum's breast milk. The milkman looked after it and then delivered it when i was thirsty. It took me 2 years to realise that the milk was from daddy and then another 10 years to figure it out that it was from a fish.
A childhood belief about milk
others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that milk bottles were filled with milk, directly from the cow's udder.Anon
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- I used to believe I could milk dogs like the cows. This was because I saw a nurse milk his cow.— Laurent and Alexis, French students in eighth grade
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon
- When I was little I thought that black babies who were breast fed got chocoate instead of white milk.— Susan