When I was about seven (i'm now 84), the grandfather of one of my friends not to eat the ends of bananas because that's where deadly spiders lived, waiting to bite you. Of coutse, I found out much later, he was confused with tarantulas that sometimes are found when bananas bunches are first harvested and are fumigated before the bananas reach the market. Een knoing the truth, to this day, I still cut off both tips.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that bananas have feelings too!— Ste Mono
- Until I was 7, I used to think bananas were a dairy product.— Amplexor
- i used to beleive that bananas were evil— bob
- I used to believe bananas came from yellow monkeysAnon
- When i was 5, i thought that bananas were monkey poop.— jade-isabelle
- When I was 6 i used to think that eating Bananas with bruises on was how you actually got bruises!!— Kat