I stopped eating bananas for several years because I thought the little black things that were in the middle of the banana when you bit it were a spider's legs sticking up and that there were spiders in every banana.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- I used to believe that old rotten black banana skins were dogs lips!! — T Cross. Bournemouth
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- i used to believe you could buy banana's that would be cut into slices when you opened them— sophia
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon