This belief is now something of a family tradition.
My mother, who was never the greatest of chefs, told me (and all my siblings) when i was small that if i didn't eat all my supper, "the children who eat poo" would come & get me.
The children who eat poo are a bunch of naughty children who also wouldent eat thier supper & now live on the streets with nothing to eat but poo! They were like a gang of poo eating street punks.
as my mother was a self employed courier sometimes when i was in the car with her she would point to dumpsters & say thats where the children who eat poo live.
needless to say, washing the dishes in our house was never a big chore...we practically licked them clean.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.— Buzz
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny
- Our mum told us that the ice-cream van noise was a children's ambulance— moonpants & sausage