when I was 4, my mom once told me that spiders and scorpions and stuff lived in banana trees, so I was scared to eat bananas from stores, because I thought that when I peeled the banana, there might be a scorpion in there. heh.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- 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 you could buy banana's that would be cut into slices when you opened them— sophia
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg