I loved bananas as a child (and still do). My mother told me that if I ate more than one banana a day I would turn into a monkey. I believed her for a long time!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- When i was 5, i thought that bananas were monkey poop.— jade-isabelle
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J
- i used to believe that if you watched TV for a long time, your eyes would turn into squares.Anon