My Granddad told me his favorite jam was boysenberry. I thought he was saying poisonberry, and I was afraid to taste it.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to think that boysenberry was poisonberry and couldn't understand whay anyone would want to eat it.Anon
- I told someone once that my favorite band was the Funkel brothers- Simon and Garth.
(Simon & Garfunkel)— Josie - I believed butterflies taste like butterAnon
- I used to think that adults drank coffee because the bad taste would wake them up.Anon
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- I used to believe that vanilla flavoring would taste as great as it smelled!!
Judy— judy