A friend told me that his mother put turpentine in her baklava pastries(perhaps to keep me from eating them all?) and if I ate 3, the total amount of turpentine would kill me. I wasn't 100% convinced, so I only ate 2 1/2 of them. I still love baklava, but I won't eat 3 in a sitting for caloric reasons.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- a friend was convinced that his school was an asylum, and couldn't be convinced otherwiseAnon
- I used to think that artichokes were animals because my mother said we were eating artichoke hearts. Anon
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin