As a young child I was told spiders laid their eggs in the bottom of banana peels so I would never eat the last bite. Even to this day I inspect the bottom of the banana carefully before eating.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- For some odd reason I used to think that the little blobs in tapioca pudding came from banana peels.Anon
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- I used to believe that cows laid beef, like the way chickens laid eggsAnon
- i used to believe you could buy banana's that would be cut into slices when you opened them— sophia