One day I was eating a banana.
"Mum, is it OK to eat these stringy bits?"
"No, Philip, they're poisonous"
I believed it for years.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- I used to think that there is another world on the other side of the mirror, where everyone is named Philip.Anon
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg