About the age of 7, whenever my mum drank tea/coffee, i asked her if i could have some and she used to reply
"no, if you drink tea or coffee you will turn black"
Obviously believing this to be true i didn't drink tea or coffee for bout 10 years,
until one day, when i decided to take my chances and made myself some tea!! now i love the stuff!
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- I used to think it was illegal for children to drink coffee— C.W.
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon
- if you drank coffee before your 16th birthday, your skin will turn purple.Anon
- I used to think that adults drank coffee because the bad taste would wake them up.Anon