Since pistachios look vaguely like they could be shriveled up and discolored peanuts, I got the idea, from their name, as a child, that "achios" was another name for peanuts, and that pistachios were peanuts that had gotten shriveled and discolored from someone peeing on them! I wondered how anyone could possibly want to eat peanuts that had been peed on. Not surprisingly it was numerous years before I ever ventured to taste pistachios. When I did I found them to be in a category like anchovies, namely foods with a taste that one can be curiously drawn to even though one wouldn't exactly call it delicious. I'm sure that if I had dared taste them as a child, my thought that they were pissed-on peanuts would have seemed to be affirmed!
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- i thought chickens laid peanuts.
— pikl - I used to believe that peanuts were a daily must to strengthen the memory like elephants — Qb Cheese
- When I was a child, I used to believe that adding sugar would lower the over-salty taste of a meal.— Francois
- I believed butterflies taste like butterAnon
- I used to think that adults drank coffee because the bad taste would wake them up.Anon
- I used to believe that vanilla flavoring would taste as great as it smelled!!
Judy— judy