when I was younger, my cousins gran told me that gum was made from horse-hair and I believed her, I always wondered why they didn't put it on the packet and used to look for it in the ingredients every time.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I cut my Barbie doll's hair and wondered why it never grew back.Anon
- I was always told that beer was made from horse pee.— Just me
- my gran tod me that rabbits made a noise that went "map map"— Lise
- My gran told me that if you drank vinegar your brains would dry up!!!— Sam
- My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl
- I use to believe the sound that a car made when it was running low on gas was what they called horse power...— Bianca