We used to cook with green peppers a lot, and I know my parents told me not to eat the seeds. They admit this much. But they deny ever telling me that the seeds were POISONOUS or SO HOT THEY WILL BURN YOUR THROAT. I am *sure* they said one or the other.
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- that the green bit of cucumbers was poisonousAnon
- I used to believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon
- I used to believe...If you ate sunflower seeds you could read somebody's mind...LOLAnon