Although many children believe that butter comes from butterflies, I was never intelligent enough to make that connection. Instead, I reasoned that if bees make honey, butterflies make jam.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"— Mike - I used to think that butterflies made butter— Christophe R.
- I used to think butterflies were made of butter.Anon
- My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.— Linda
- I believed butterflies taste like butterAnon
- When I was little I was absolutly positive that butter was made by butterflies.— Ruth