When I was small, I would never eat anything like jelly babies, animal cookies, gingerbread men or anything that was animal shaped because I used to think they had feelings and I'd hurt them if I ate or bit into them - weird I know!
A childhood belief about sweeties
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I used to believe an artichoke was an animal and we only ate its heart. — Laura
- I used to believe that an oilskin actually came from an animal called an Oil.....— Sally
- I used to believe that if you swallowed your gum that you would crumble up and smell like a dead animal !!!!— jordan
- I used to believe that people that are mascots or in big animal suits were serial killers— Amanda