When I was about 6 we had lychees/litchis, out of a tin because they were a bit of a novelty then. My father jokingly told me they were sheep's eyes, that the hole (where the pit was taken out) was where the coloured part of the eye had been scooped away. Although he dropped the story immediately, I just couldn't eat them, and to this day I can only eat fresh ones I've shelled myself, otherwise the image of an eye is too strong. And I am SO relieved to find that other people keep their induced phobias into adulthood, it makes me feel much less pathetic!
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when sheep die, god takes their wool and makes it into clouds— Oded
- I used to think that if I closed my eyes other people couldn't see me.Anon
- I used to believe all black people were named Fresh Prince. — Ashlyn
- i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeletonAnon
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I can remember thinking that is I hid my eyes, and couldn't see anybody that they couldn't see me.Anon