Before I went to school, my mum would tell me that spiders laid their eggs at the very end of the banana, and they were poisonous. Being so old, though, she was immune to the poison, so I should always give her the last bite of my banana!
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I know this isnt a huge funny belief, but I used to think that all spiders were poisonous. I love spiders now!— Sammy
- I used to believe that cows laid beef, like the way chickens laid eggsAnon
- i used to believe you could buy banana's that would be cut into slices when you opened them— sophia
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- For some odd reason I used to think that the little blobs in tapioca pudding came from banana peels.Anon