It is well known that tarantulas live in the end of bananas. When you open up the banana you have to discard the first 1/2 inch and the last half inch for obvious reasons of safety and non-ingestion of tarantulas
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I saw a spider on the floor and thought it was a baby tarantula. We don't even get tarantulas where I live.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that people REALLY DID need a pinch to grow an inch.— Marjorie McNaughton
- i used to believe that everytime you hiccupped, your pine shot up an inch; making you taller— adria
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...— Debelouwho
- i used to believe that bananas have feelings too!— Ste Mono