My father told me that the reason that we had belly buttons was so that we could put salt in them for eating celery in bed. I believed him until I was about nine years old.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that belly buttons were for putting the salt in while you were eating celery in bed.— David T
- I had an uncle that told me that we had belly buttons for putting salt in while we ate celery in bed.— ainmama2001
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff
- i uses to believe that boys wee'd out of their belly buttons.— boys and toilets