once my maid got scared and looked at me with pity when i started eating sprouts.
she believes that they start germinating in stomach .....such a weird and scary thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was sick of convincing her that nothing happens and infact they are quite nutritious......
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- | believed that liver and brussel sprouts were evil.
I'm OK with liver now, but brussel sprouts...— James - My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- When I was little, I used to think that brussel sprouts were midget lettuce.— Jules
- I believed that Brussel Sprouts were baby cabbages....they are just so cute!— Heather
- I used to believe brussel sprouts were holy because they had a cross marked in the top when mum boiled them!— Ali Brill
- i used to believe that if i looked at trees, the wind would start blowing. Anon