When I was 10 or so my dad told me that freezer burn on ice cream gave you cancer. I never questioned this belief and held onto it subconsciously until I was 17. Whenever I saw freezer burn on ice cream I'd either a) eat around it or b) put it back in the freezer, never thinking that maybe I should either not eat around cancer or maybe even throw it out. It was when I wondered "why don't we throw it out, then?" that I realized maybe he had been joking.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I got a pet penguin it could live in the freezer.— Dippingmytoes
- That if you wet a sweet wrap and put it in the freezer overnight, you'd get chewing gum.— Roxie van Renbsurg
- i used to think a small man named homer lived in my grandmother's freezer and made ice. — ana
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- when i was a kid my mother told me that when the ice cream man was playing his music he was out of ice cream— Lynnzea