When I was little, mydad told me 'you are what you eat'. I thought that this meant that eventually, you would turn into the kind of food you eat, and htis was why we ate something different every night for dinner. I guess I thought it would slow the transformation. I also thought that if you were to eat a lot of one thing, then it would quicken the process, and I always wondered why vegetarians weren't all walking vegetables.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I thought vegetarians couldn't read Chicken Soup for the Soul. — Aretia
- I thought if food said it was fat free it meant you could eat as much as you want without getting fat!— Brainhead
- I thought if something was radioactive it meant if you turn on a radio near it it would blow up— Nate
- I thought that exorcise and exercise both meant the same thing— Dobby Bob
- I thought the phrase "At one's disposal" meant you should dispose of the person or thing.— Geirskogul