I used to believe pickles grew on bushes, like a lot of other vegetables. I was shocked when my Granny Carter said one day she was going to make pickles. "Make pickles!?" I exclaimed. I was so surprised when she explained to me that you make them from cucumbers. SHE was surprised that I was 12, and had eaten pickles all my life and didn't know that..............
A childhood belief about gherkins
others believed things like this
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- I used to believe that pickles grew on trees and didn't come from cucumbers.Anon
- I used to believe the pickles were the fingers of martians. Because of that, I did not eat pickles.— alexandre, a French student in eighth grade
- so guess what i learned the other day: pickles came from cucumbers. yes indeed.— jenna
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon
- Hasn't everyone, at some point or another, believed that pickles grew on trees? I sure did.— Matt c.