I used to believe that 'cold sores' were actually called 'coleslaws' and that people got them from eating coleslaw. I never understood why people ate it if they knew they would get these awful things & then complain about them. To this day i have never eaten coleslaw.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)
- that coleslaw was cold slaw. Anon
- I thought cold sores, were really called cole slaw!!— kathryn
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- I used to believe that which ever way you looked it was north, never understood how people got lost :-S— Simon
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio