I used to believe that nobody in the world ate artichokes except for my family. I was practically raised on the things, we'd have them for dinner a lot but I never heard about or saw my friends eating them, so I concluded that my family had discovered artichokes and nobody else knew about them.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think that artichokes were animals because my mother said we were eating artichoke hearts. Anon
- I used to believe anchovies and artichokes were the same thing.— Darren
- I used to believe the "hair" in artichokes was poison.— Dawn
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- I used to think eating raw potatoes would give you "BEZORES".
Our family doctor told me this— Moodycop - My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller