I believed that the mushy brown bits in bananas were good for you as my mum obviously thought this would encourage me to eat the whole thing without fuss. It wasn't until I heard myself repeating this as fact as an adult that I realised they were just bruises and I'd been duped.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was 6 i used to think that eating Bananas with bruises on was how you actually got bruises!!— Kat
- When I was 6 i used to think that eating Bananas with bruises on was how you actually got bruises!!
— Katy - I used to think Elvis' "I'm All Shook Up" was "A Mushy Cup". How sad of me to confuse the lyrics of a king...— Sad, Sad, Girl
- I always pictured the good Samaritan as a Samurai. Still do, in fact.Anon
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- I used to believe that bruises were mouldy blood. — LLB 91