Once, when I was very young, I used to think that all poison was green and smelled putrid, like sewage, and that if you ate anything green, you would die. I was very afraid of anything green until my mother told me otherwise.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- i used to believe that the green arrows on the traffic lights told you which way you had to go to get home.— Helen
- I was told that if i didnt wash my hair regularly it would turn green— Mimi Screami
- I used to believe the sky was green and everybody was colorblind since they said it was blue— IM COW
- that the green bit of cucumbers was poisonousAnon