I've been eating poppyseed danishes ever since I was little, and my father used to joke that I was eating a pastry full of ants. I believed him, so whenever someone asked me what I was eating, I declared, "Ants!" I thought I was really brave and cool for eating them.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- Until recently I thought you could only get diabetes from eating too much sugar not just from being overweight— Tooken