When I was little, I was told that I should finish my plate, because children were starving in China...
Whenever we ate chinese food, I was convinced I was eating a poor starving child's food!
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- I used to think the person who delivered Chinese food came all the way from China to do it.— Savana
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon