This is not my finest moment, but when I was 9, my best friend and I told her little sister that the seeds inside a banana were actually eggs from a banana spider. She was only 6 at the time and completely believed us. She didn't eat bananas for 3 years. Totally cruel!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- The moon was actually either a sugar cookie or a banana, depending on the time of the month. — Jessica Aspra
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- i used to believe you could buy banana's that would be cut into slices when you opened them— sophia