Until I was about 12 or 13 years old, I had never seen an olive anywhere other than in a cocktail. The first time I ate an olive, I was extremely surprised at the absence of a pimento, and the presence of a pit. That's right, I thought pimentos grew inside olives naturally.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- I used to believe that the red thing in the middle of a Greek olive was the pit.— Liz
- my dad once told my bother and i, that olives with pimento, were fish eyes. — jocelynn
- I thought the Mountain of Olives was made out of Olives— Tanuki
- I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon