When I was 3, I was told by my much older neighbor friends that the red pistachios they were eating were medicine and that little kids can't eat them or they would die.
Why do/did they dye the pistachios red in the first place?
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I don't know why but when i was 5 i used to think the place where you kneel to pray was were kids sat.Anon
- I used to believe that school was a place kids go to get turned into adults.— Samantha
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- when I was a kid my neighbor told me if I picked my nose I would poke out my eye. I believe him. — Jane
- When I was 3, my neighbor told me she was a witch and she said Godzilla was going to step on my house.— Grayson
- My neighbor told me that the insides of acorns tasted like chocolate. They don't. They're really bitter.— Dial Zero