My grandfather was from Sweden, and some English words were hard for him to understand. So he called skim milk "skinny milk." When I was younger I thought that "skinny milk" would make you lose weight (I was a pudgy child) so I once drank nearly a half gallon and was disappointed the next day to find out that I had not lost any weight!
A childhood belief about milk
others believed things like this
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- I used to beleive that milk bottles were filled with milk, directly from the cow's udder.Anon
- I used to believe I could milk dogs like the cows. This was because I saw a nurse milk his cow.— Laurent and Alexis, French students in eighth grade
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon
- I used to believe the milk would get sad if all I ever drank was koolaid.— al