When I was a kid, I used to think that the reason I had to put salt and pepper on food at the table was to cool it down. Imagine my suprise when my Dad showed me how wrong I was by "cooling" down a bunch of mashed potatos with pepper one night!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I believed Dr. Pepper was pepper-flavored medicine and was afraid to drink it.Anon
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- I used to believe that Dr. Pepper actually tastes like Black pepper. I'm still afraid to try it.Anon
- I never used to understand why salt was bad for you, but pepper wasn't.— Lara