My brother hated the seeds in green peppers. So, to make sure I didn't let any seeds make there way into a salad, he told me they were poisonous and that eating even one would kill you. Sadly, I very cautiously removed all seeds from green peppers until I was about 12!
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- I thought that Dr. Pepper was made out of hot peppers.Anon
- I thought peppermints were made with peppers.— Lucy