My parents used to tell my siblings and I that we had the "same germs" because we are related. I was a teenager before I realized that they just wanted us to share our food.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all my aunts were related to my mother and all my uncles were related to my father.— Mandy
- That germs came from Germany.— Alicia
- I used to think that germans had germs on them and that's why they were called that— Jessica
- When i was younger i thought germs and bacteria were the same size as me— Tasha
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- My Aunt used to tell me that if I didn't share, I would turn into a crow.— Peter