My Mother told my sister and I age the seeds from bell peppers were a deadly poison. We dutifully helped her clean every seed from the peppers that she was adding to the salad. I remember thinking about how so many people must die needlessly from green pepper seed poisoning...
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- I thought that Dr. Pepper was made out of hot peppers.Anon
- I thought peppermints were made with peppers.— Lucy
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - i believed that carrots with milk was a deadly poison until i was 11.— Jennifer
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat