Naive child that I was, my mother convinced me that liverwurst was made from apples to get me to eat it (apples - yum; liver - yuck). She teased me for years about fooling me into eating it and I still don't fully trust her anymore... oh well.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- i used to think mashed potatos were made from apples becouse they were the same color(i was a very slow child)— apples and ornges
- i used to associate the word appetite with apples, if you ate apples, you had an appetite. — elly
- Once my mother told me that if i ate 2 apples in a day, i would automatically get diahrreah!Anon
- I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport