When I was young, I went on a visit to my mother's family in America... I thought the candy called 'nerds' were boogies covered in sugar, and I also thought that 'wax lips' (and other edible wax facsimiles of body parts) were actually parts of dead people that were left over after cremation!
To this day, I refuse to eat those things.
A childhood belief about sweeties
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- I used to believe lepers came from Ireland. Like leprechauns, only with less body parts.Anon
- I used to think that bodily tissues were kleenex sheets that grew in certain parts of your body.Anon
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina