My dad told me that Chiclets gum (the kind little kids sell on the streets in Mexico) was made from gum scraped up off the sidewalks. I can't eat Chiclets to this day.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that it rained worms, because the sidewalks were always covered with them after a rainfall.— Miss Naive
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- i used to believe that all of south america was mexico— katie
- I used to believe that Mexico was the capital of Spain— Cadence
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- In first grade I believed that I was from Mexico because I could count to ten in Spanish.— Lara Roy