when my dad would cook breakfast for me, he would give me burnt toast and tell me that i had to eat it so that i would get tan like him (he is of mediterranean descent but, apparently, the olive skin gene didn't get transmitted to me). i wanted to be just like him, so i dutifully ate whatever burnt toast he gave me...and started eating burnt toast on my own. it didn't work (i'm still pasty white) and it was only years later that i realized that my dad couldn't cook and just said that so i would eat the things that he burnt!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- my grandma told me not to eat pizza coz the "brown squiggly" stuff there arent burnt cheese but WORMS!
— Mimi - I used to think that the sleep in my eyes at the breakfast table were toast crumbs.— crawford
- My Mum told me if I ate too much toast I would get cancer! I couldn't eat it for years and years...— Pauliboy