Until very recently, I believed that pickles were cucumbers that had gone bad. I'm 22. A few years before that, I thought they were a separate veggie that grew on their own, until a family member corrected me otherwise. My friends and fiance has not let me live it down since!
A childhood belief about gherkins
others believed things like this
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- I used to believe that pickles grew on trees and didn't come from cucumbers.Anon
- so guess what i learned the other day: pickles came from cucumbers. yes indeed.— jenna
- Hasn't everyone, at some point or another, believed that pickles grew on trees? I sure did.— Matt c.
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon
- I used to believe the pickles were the fingers of martians. Because of that, I did not eat pickles.— alexandre, a French student in eighth grade