My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.Anon
- I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.Anon
- if you got sprayed by a skunk you had to have a bath in tomarto sauce— rob
- i used to think tabasco sauce was tobacco so i'd always be like "mom! dont put that in our food!!"Anon