I used to think that consuming any Carnation product (they make powdered milk and stuff like that) would make you pregnant. I remember that my mom made me some chocolate Carnation instant breakfast once, and after I drank it down, I glimpsed the box from which it came. I was horrified. I was only 6, so the idea of giving birth was daunting. I suffered alone for a day, until that night when my mother tucked me in my bed and I burst out crying, "I don't want to be pregnant!"
She must have been very confused and alarmed, but I told her that I drank the dreaded Carnation and she straightened things out for me.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- I used to believe the milk would get sad if all I ever drank was koolaid.— al
- I used to believe that men drank beer and women drank wine. Anon
- My Granny said if I drank milk and ate fish at the same time, I would die.Anon