My dad told me that fig newtons were made from dead flies, explaining that the crunchy bits were the legs. He called them 'fly leg cookies,' so that's what i thought they were called too. (That didn't stop me from eating them as i assumed flies were thus a perfectly acceptable ingredient.) My kindergarten teacher was not impressed when i enlightened my classmates at snack time.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that flies were called "bloody flies"!— Angelface
- I used to think bogies were made of dead flies which had flown up my nose.— Kate
- I use to believe that dragon flies and fire flies were fairies— lady eberly
- My dad told me that raisins were the dead flies from the windowsill— Kellie
- I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.— Toinette'
- i would never eat biscuits with currants in because someone told me they were flies.— ahab