I was once told that maggots lived in the end of bananas and so I started to stop eating the banana just before the end. Unfortunately although I know that this isn't true I still can't bring myself to eat a banana to the very end.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- 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