When I was little, I didn't finish my dinner but wanted my dessert anyway. I told my mom I couldn't finish my dinner because the vegetable sack and the meat sack in my tummy had fallen over. And the reason I could still have dessert was because that sack was okay.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to believe getting the sack involved being put into a cloth sack.— Wangchuk
- At the age of about 5, I thought that any man carrying a bag/sack over his shoulder was a burglar.— Police officer, Ola.
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees - I used to believe that all dessert was birthday cake.— David
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin