I had a friend who used to believe if you put too much salt on your food, you could use the pepper to "neutralize" the salt-taste (as if the pepper cancelled out the salt). He must have ruined a lot of meals!
A childhood belief about salt
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- I never used to understand why salt was bad for you, but pepper wasn't.— Lara
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon