When I was young, I heard someone from Colmans (the UK mustard maker) say on the radio that they made their money from the mustard people left on the side of the plate. For years, I thought that there was a complete network of people collecting up the leftover mustard and sending it back!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My mom used to tell me if I ate mustard I would grow mustard.Anon
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- the beatles song 'mean mr mustard' says "shes a real go-getter", i was sure it was "shes a real coconut"...— sally
- i used to think the pulp mill was a cloud maker and later i thought it was a cheezie maker— boo
- I thought that blackmail meant sending black envelopes to people.Anon
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne