My grandpa used to tell me that eating pickles would make me grow hair on my chest. I am a girl, but I loved pickles so much I couldn't help myself! After eating a few, I would always run to the bathroom to see if I had grown any hair.
A childhood belief about gherkins

others believed things like this
- Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest— Muddinyori
- 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
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to believe eating the crusts from sandwiches would make my hair curly.Anon
- I used to believe that after I cut my barbie's hair, they will grow again. They've never grown :(— Duda