One time when I was a kid I asked what a cannibal was and my mom said its someone who eats other people. For some reason it didn't occor to me that they could cut up and cook someone so I imagined they just opened their mouth really wide and swallowed the other person whole!
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- i used to belive that when the doctor opened his mouth and went aaaaaa i thought he was trying to eat me.— matt
- I thought the tip jar at the restaurant was so people could give the chef cooking tips for how to cook better.Anon
- i thought that soft drinks in America would explode in a person's mouth bocause they call it 'pop'.— Aussie!
- I used to believe that the people on tv were really in the tv and if you opened the back they would be there!— Kathleen
- i used to think that you used pepper spray to cook— c-dogg