I believed until I was 16, that I was allergic to cream.
My mum used to take us to the bakers, and when my sister and I asked for eclairs, she told us we couldn't have it becuase we were allergic to cream.
It was only when I was in my late teens, when I was at my italian friends house, having pasta in a creamy sauce, and I hadn't dropped down dead or had a reaction, that I realised my mum must have lied, so she didn't have to buy us cakes!
She denies it now - reckons I'm making it up!!
Parents, eh!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- when i was a kid my mother told me that when the ice cream man was playing his music he was out of ice cream— Lynnzea
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - I used to think I was allergic to spoons (what a spoon!)— Sally
- I used to believe that I was allergic to the sun, because whenever I looked at it, I would sneeze.— John 117