When I was younger, we were traveling to visit my grandmother. I saw some low hanging clouds and asked my mother "What's that?" She thought I was looking at the rice fields so she said "Rice." From that day on, I thought rice came from low hanging clouds. I used to wonder how they got the rice in bags when it would fall so freely from the sky. Well, I believed that through all my geography classes and when teachers said rice was grown in fields, I would just say to myself, "Humph, yeah, right. I know it comes from clouds." I thought that for a LONG, LONG time...I dare not say when I learned differently.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy
- I thought rice was just another way to prepare a potato, like mashed or fries.— Me
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- My Nan used to say that if you ate rice pudding every day you would live till 100.— Jayne
- Someone told my that rice was really spider eggs. I still don't look at it the same. Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate rice and water and jumped up and down you would explode. Thanks Dad.— Nina