My Papa convinced me that the ridges under the cap of a mushroom would pinch you if you touched them. I didn't eat mushrooms until high school. I'm still a bit weirded out by them.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that there were lobsters in the toilet and if I didn't look they would come up and pinch me.— Traumatized
- When I was a child I used to believe that smurfs lived in the mushrooms. So I didn't use to eat.— Ezgi
- I used to believe that if you stepped on a mushroom it would rain. Anon
- I used to think if a tornado sucked up a poisonous mushroom, it would die.— Will
- a friend was convinced that his school was an asylum, and couldn't be convinced otherwiseAnon
- My brother used to tell me that the squidgy bits in mushroom soup were owl guts!— Kirsten