When I was a child, I found out that opium was derived from poppy seeds. When our neighbor invited us over for lunch and served sandwiches on poppy seed rolls, I was horrified that she would be so blatantly attempting to drug us. I carefully brushed every one of those poppy seeds off my roll before eating it.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - When i was little my poppy said he had to go to miami and then i told my dad poppy is going to his ami.— Billy Bob Joe
- I used to believe that the mole in my belly button was a poppy seed from a muffin I ate.Anon
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- When I was a child I used to believe that the the babies were born from the seeds. — Rosimeire
- when I was a child I used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds of the fruit they would spring up on you.— Gabriely Cinthia Schittler