When I was young and visited my grandparents, I would use my grandpa's cocktail cherries on my ice cream sundaes. In order to keep me from eating them all, and leaving him cherryless with his evening cocktail, my grandfather told me that the human body couldn't digest maraschino cherries, and if I ate too many my tummy would get full and I would die. When that didn't work, he told me the red dye was poisonous and if I ate more than one per day it would kill me.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My auntie was told by her husband that glacia cherries were made of seaweed, she wouldnt eat them for years. — emma
- i used to believe (untill about a yr ago actually) that glacial cherries were made out of seaweed.— lewis rob
- I used to believe that My grandparents didn't have any other name except grandma and grandpa.— Emelia
- I thought that ice cream trucks were the only vehicles that couldn't kill you if you got hit.
Anon - I used to believe that the dust at the top of doors was highly poisonous and could kill you.Anon
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon