My brother told me that if you eat the white bits of pith left when you peel oranges and satsumas, you will die. Even now, it takes me ages to eat an orange as I have to be sure there are no killer white bits.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My brother used to tell me that the squidgy bits in mushroom soup were owl guts!— Kirsten
- I used to belive that if I ate orange peel it would expand in my stomach and blow me up.— Paul
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- I used to think that you could get arrested for having a packet of Rizla's that had bits torn off the top...— Patch
- I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.— jayne
- I used to think raisons were bits of old people and after my granny died I never at them again— rraisonhaterrt