I used to believe that pickles were cucumbers, which they are, only, a pickle had the chicken pox. Therefore, I was terrified of eating pickles because I thought I would get the chicken pox!
A childhood belief about gherkins
others believed things like this
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- so guess what i learned the other day: pickles came from cucumbers. yes indeed.— jenna
- I used to believe that pickles grew on trees and didn't come from cucumbers.Anon
- I used to believe the pickles were the fingers of martians. Because of that, I did not eat pickles.— alexandre, a French student in eighth grade
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG