I used to believe, thanks to my older sister, that spaghetti was worms with their blood drained out, to make the sauce. For years I wouldn’t eat spaghetti, and even now I don’t like tomato sauce.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- MY SISTER TOLD ME THAT CANNED SPAGHETTI WERE REALLY WORMS THAT'S WHY THEY WERE SO CHEAP...I BELIEVED— CATHY
- My mum used to tell me that baked beans were just peas covered in tomato sauce.— munky
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - As a child, my twin sister and I used to pronounce `Spaghetti' as `Mastaghetti'. Sounds a bit rude, no? Anon
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat