When I was little I heard my grandmother tell someone a story about a child who ate raisins and they swelled up and caused his stomach to burst and he had to have surgery to fix it. I was terrified of eating raisins for years after that until I found out it wasn't true.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- i used to think raisins were inside out flies. i still can't eat them to this day. :)— booga
- Until I was about 6, I used to believe that flys were raisins with wings.Anon
- I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.— Toinette'
- My dad told me that raisins were the dead flies from the windowsill— Kellie
- I used to look for raisins in the ocean when mum told me to be careful of the currents— Karina
- i thought raisins were made out of jelly in a factory like gummy bears, i though this until i was 16!!!— jen