When I was a child, my friend told me that if I ate pickles regularly, I would't get the hiccups. I tried one while I had the hiccups, and it worked. Used to think that was the reason.
A childhood belief about gherkins
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that it was possible to die from hiccups :]Anon
- I used to think that hiccups were caused by a frog in my chest who would jump and croak.— Elizabeth
- if you stand on your nose and sing the blues you wont get hiccups for a month.Anon
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- I used to believe the pickles were the fingers of martians. Because of that, I did not eat pickles.— alexandre, a French student in eighth grade