A bunch of friends and I loved eating the wild onions that grow in the yard , We'd collect buckets full and wash them , My mom didn't think this was healthy so she told us that they make rat poison out of wild onions , we stopped eating them in large quantities .
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I loved to eat onion rings, until I realized that they were made with onions.— Beth Pärssinen
- To get me to eat liver and onions, my parents used to tell me it was brown chicken. And I loved it.— Mallory
- When I asked my dad how bees collect honey he told me that they carry around little tiny buckets. — Shana
- When I was a child, I used to believe that onions came from tangerines.Anon
- I used to beleive that liver (as in liver and onions and gravy) was rhinocerous meat.Anon
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon