My Grandfather told me that oysters were in fact old fisherman's spit. What it was that when they were fishing they use to spit over the side of their boat, it sank to the bottom and fell into shells. I didn't like them until I was about 18 years old.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- I used to believe that if I poked my grandfather in the belly-button he would spit out quarters. — Justin
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- You must break the bottom of egg shells after finishing a boiled egg or witches will use them for boatsAnon
- We were told that if you played with egg shells you would get worts !— GAJ
- I used the scar on my dads leg was a shark bite when in fact he fell off his bike when he was a child— Wendy Murray