Growing up back east, we often had cold-cut sandwiches of tongue. It was my mother's favorite. One day I asked her, "Mom, why do they call it "tongue" - that's kind of funny, don't you think?" When she told me that it really was sliced tongue from a cow, I stopped eating it. Years later I realized it was because I couldn't bear the thought of tasting something that was tasting me back!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I use to believe that if you told a story/lie you would get a bump on your tongue.Anon
- i was told that if i kept biting my nails i would grow hairs on my tongue i was 10 yrs old by the way— charlotte anderson
- i always thought that people always died with their tongue hanging out— Ernesto Shredder