I believed mustard was a mineral, like salt. On a preschool field trip, one of the parents was talking about a mustard plant. I was very insulted that he thought I would be dopey enough to believe in that. And he wouldn't give in! Yeah, right--and candy canes sprout out of the ground.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My mom used to tell me if I ate mustard I would grow mustard.Anon
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- the beatles song 'mean mr mustard' says "shes a real go-getter", i was sure it was "shes a real coconut"...— sally
- When I was little my sister told me salt was ground up dinosaur bones...I barley ate for a month...— Chandler
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon