My sisters told me that spaghetti grew on trees. The also showed me a picture from the encyclopedia of a "matchbook tree." They explained that the small, fruit-like objects (which were really plums)were picked and each was individually whittled down to make a perfect little red match.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne
- I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- I used to believe if you ate a seed from a fruit, a tree of that fruit would grow inside you — kels
- I used to believe that if I ate any seeds of any fruit, it would grow a tree in my stomach.— Julia
- I used to believe that a tree would grow inside you if you ate the seed of an apple or any other fruit!Anon