Up until about the age of 9, I believed that rice was the product of hail storms. This was encouraged/initiated by my mother who, when it was hailing, would stand outside with a cup, catch some hailstones and then come inside and make a rice pudding, pretending to put the caught hailstones in it.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My Nan used to say that if you ate rice pudding every day you would live till 100.— Jayne
- I used to believe that the rice in Tapioca pudding was fish eyes. To this day I cannot eat Tapioca pudding.— Stephanie
- my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy
- Someone told my that rice was really spider eggs. I still don't look at it the same. Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate rice and water and jumped up and down you would explode. Thanks Dad.— Nina
- I used to believe the Metallica song "Trapped Under Ice" said "I turned down the rice."— Erik Z.