My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - Salt is bad tasting sugar.— cobra
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth
- my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.Anon