When I was younger, I was told that the black hairlike bits in the end of the banana were poisonous, so, since then, I have always made sure to break off the last inch or so of the banana before I ate it. Even today I cannot eat a whole banana, end to end!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that old rotten black banana skins were dogs lips!! — T Cross. Bournemouth
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- 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
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon