when I was about 5 my mother told me that sherbet was made out of dead people??!! I was most disturbed by this and after many many years, have only managed to muster the courage to try sherbet again in my late twenties.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to wonder when reading the obituary column how people always managed to die in alphabetical order.— diane
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- I used to believe that when the sky was pink, late at the afternoon, the angels made cookies!— Bella
- I recently very disturbed to learn that Al Jolson was in fact Caucasian.Anon
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim