when I was a little girl I was always told that if you eat standing up the food would go to your feet and you'd be a skinny child. my family always said that. I think alot of people in Puerto Rico say that.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- My dad used to say that if you ate standing up, then all the food would go to your big toe.Anon
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- I use to believe that all the food you ate went to your feet.— Honz
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.
- When I was a little girl I thought that if you put salt on your food it cooled it off! lol What — Darlene
- I used to believe that since guys peed while standing up, then they must poo while standing up too.— Stupid girl