When I was about 10, my babysitter and neighbour, who was about 14, told us that if we ate unripe black walnuts, we would get really smart (they look like brains inside). But if you ate the inside, you had to eat the green rind too, because the brains were poisionous and the green was the antidote. She explained that that was why not everyone was eating the "kemosabes", which was what the walnuts were called. They tasted awful. My mom just laughed at us. Nice.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon
- I used to believe that people's brains differed in colours. I always wanted purple brains for some reason.— Katrina
- Split walnuts... i used to think they were dried pig noses!!— SaMmI LaMy
- my mum once told me if you picked your nose your brains came out!!!!— smiley : )
- My gran told me that if you drank vinegar your brains would dry up!!!— Sam
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c.