My Uncle told me that cooked carrots were poisonous. My sister and I wouldn't eat them into we got into junior high. We didn't want to die.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- Until junior high school, I thought Monty Python was a wrestler.— Jamie
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- My mom told me that if you didn't eat enough carrots, your eyesite would suffer.— Julie Bulie
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon
- I used to believe that if I didn't clean my ears that carrots would grow inside.— Gilian