My mum used to tell me that black fruit pastilles were poisonous to children so every time I ate fruit pastilles she would eat the black ones for me. I believed she was doing me a favour!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My sister thought a fruit machine (the gaming device) could turn one item of fruit into another.— Richard Davies
- When I was 4, I thought that if I ate Fruit Gushers, my head would turn into a fruit. — Joe
- I used to believe if you ate a seed from a fruit, a tree of that fruit would grow inside you — kels
- When I was a kid I believed that if you swallowed a fruit pip that treees would grow from your ears.— Liz Smith
- I used to believe that funerals were a place you went to buy fruit.— Paulette
- I used to believe that gushers would turn my head into fruit— Akrid