my mum told me that the white stuff around an orange was called pith, but i heard piss, so i thought it was where the orange weed. that put me off oranges for a long time.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- My dad told me that in Florida, snow is orange.— Belle
- that red and orange were different shades of the same color— Larry
- i used to think that farts came out as a little orange cloud.— mh
- I used to believe that if you ate too many carrots your skin and hair would turn orange. — Mariah
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy