When I was little, I loved pickles. I would eat them all the time. My upstairs neighbor told me that if I ate too many, I would turn bright green. My parents couldn't figure out why I was crying so hard for the longest time, until I got up the courage to tell them I was afraid of turning colors!
A childhood belief about gherkins

others believed things like this
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- my parents used to tell me and my sisters that if we ate our vegtables our eyes would turn green..— alex t
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- I used to believe that noodles that were dyed different colors such as green had been killed.— Tasha
- I used to believe the pickles were the fingers of martians. Because of that, I did not eat pickles.— alexandre, a French student in eighth grade
- I was told that if i didnt wash my hair regularly it would turn green— Mimi Screami