My mum used to think that wasps made marmalade. it's perfectly reasonable, at their house they ate marmalade and honey, honey comes from, bees,and wasps must do something!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"— Mike - I used to think that bees and wasps only stung people on the ears.Anon
My friend used to believe that bees made honey and jam.
— julia- I used to believe that honey was made from bees' pee when they drank too much water.Anon
- Up until the age of nine, I used to think that Marmalade was made out of goldfish.— Sadie
- My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.— Linda