I used to believe that butter came from buttercup flowers. One day in my backyard I picked up a dandelion since I thought for some reason all yellow flowers were buttercups and that they, like people, looked different from each other. So I ate the dandelion and spit it out immediately. It didn't taste like butter! I ran in to tell my mom about the flower and she told me it was a dandelion, not a buttercup. So, my mom took me back out and showed me some real buttercups. I grabbed a huge handful and swallowed them whole. Imagine my surprise when it tasted like the dandelion. Heh. My mom explained everything and boy did I feel stupid.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- If you held a buttercup under your chin and got a yellow reflection then you liked butter!— Tilly
- If I smelled a dandelion, I would wet the bed.Anon
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- I believed butterflies taste like butterAnon
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha
- I used to think that you could bring dead flowers back to life if you watered them.Anon