Once when I was seven years old, I was sitting at the kitchen table, pigging out on kiwi fruit. Mom, who apparently wanted one or two for herself, said, "Sean, you know what those are made from, right?"
With my face stuffed with kiwi fruit, I said, "No, what?"
"They're the eggs of kiwi birds that never quite hatched."
My face must have turned as green as kiwi fruit flesh -- I let her have the rest. I found out some time later she was pulling my leg, but even now, 18 years later, I still haven't eaten kiwi fruit. Trauma, I tell you.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- My dad told me that kiwi fruits were kiwi birds testicles. They are the right shape and kind of furry— jefnier
- My sister thought a fruit machine (the gaming device) could turn one item of fruit into another.— Richard Davies
- When I was 4, I thought that if I ate Fruit Gushers, my head would turn into a fruit. — Joe
- I used to believe if you ate a seed from a fruit, a tree of that fruit would grow inside you — kels
- I used to believe that funerals were a place you went to buy fruit.— Paulette
- I used to believe that gushers would turn my head into fruit— Akrid