When I was 4 my two boy cousins told me that if you eat the strings on the inside of a banana you would die. I still throw them away even now when I'm 51.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to think that planes were held up by stringsAnon
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- I used to believe planes flew by being attached by strings like a kite.Anon
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- I used to think that your cousins are your cousins only until they're 21, then they become your aunt,or uncle!— AMILA
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg