My grandmother used to say "you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die", and not having any idea of the weight or measurement of a peck I believed that when you reached that limit of a "peck", you just automatically dropped down dead. It was my job to scrub the vegetables before cooking and you better believe I scrubbed the heck out of them.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- i, too, thought my grandma made up the bushel and a peck song. :)— nessa
- When i was little, i use to believe that mountains where actually dead dinosaurs covered in dirt. — Patricia
- I used to believe that everyone lived until they were 100 and you dropped dead on your 100th birthday!— Natalie
- When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school. Anon
- I used to believe that there was a time limit whilst using the loo.— Helen
- I used to believe there was a limit on the numbers you could count — Carmen