Once i asked my dad how people knew what food was edible and what wasnt. He said there are people who check if its edible. So for many years I believed there sat people out in fields eating whatever is grown to see if it was poisonous or not.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- i used to think glitter was so awesome and edible. i liked having shiny teeth.Anon
- My grandpa told me that edible part of the watermelon was blue until you cut them open. Anon
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond - I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny