Since you always find salt and pepper on the table, I always figured they were opposites and adding one would take away the other. I didn't figure it out until I turned perfectly good chicken soup into a firepit of seawater.
A childhood belief about salt
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that adding salt to food will make it cooler.— Ale Nijamkin
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- I never used to understand why salt was bad for you, but pepper wasn't.— Lara
- I thought vegetarians couldn't read Chicken Soup for the Soul. — Aretia
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon