I used to believe that whenever you ate hot spicy food and your mouth burned it was because your taste buds were being killed! You're eyes watered automatically because your brain was sad about the death of so many at once; and they'd never grow back.
If you ate enough spicy or hot food you'd kill all the ones in your mouth and never be able to taste anything; when I grew up, everything would be bland! I won't even tell you when I learned the lie of this... but I still moderate how much tabasco sauce and chili peppers I consume. Paybacks are hell, mister!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill
- i used to think tabasco sauce was tobacco so i'd always be like "mom! dont put that in our food!!"Anon
- I used to think "firecrackers" we're some kind of really spicy cracker.— MAG
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - I used to think wall outlets looked like little faces (eyes and mouth), and so I would talk to them sometimes!— EJ
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon