When I was a child, I often heard the adage, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." I found this very disturbing and confusing. My father was a doctor and he loved apples. He ate them all the time. I thought maybe he ate the apples so he could stay away at work all the time. I wasn't sure. Maybe if other people ate apples, my father would die. I never developed a taste for that fruit. It gives me the creeps.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- i used to associate the word appetite with apples, if you ate apples, you had an appetite. — elly
- i used to think mashed potatos were made from apples becouse they were the same color(i was a very slow child)— apples and ornges
- I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff
- Once my mother told me that if i ate 2 apples in a day, i would automatically get diahrreah!Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport