When I was a kid my dad told me about mustard gas and I thought he was talking about real mustard, so whenever someone put mustard on something I held my breath
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My mom used to tell me if I ate mustard I would grow mustard.Anon
- the beatles song 'mean mr mustard' says "shes a real go-getter", i was sure it was "shes a real coconut"...— sally
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I held my breath near cemeteries because I thought it would be rude to inhale spirits. Anon
- I used to think that if you held a turd in for more than an hour it would give you bad breath— phil
- I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam