My parents always called the brown rubbery thing in the middle of mussels the "froggy" so I thought it was a real frog that got trapped in the shell. One day I was eating a mussel fritter and it had a froggy in it - I could have sworn it jumped out at me (making a break for it's freedom)! It gave me such a fright that I wouldn't eat mussels again as a child.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon
- I used to believe that brown cows reaaly gave chocolate milk. — Michael Pacitti
- I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!— Evil Mom
- From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)