When I was about 4 or 5 my dad told me that the spice pepper was ground up flies and mosquitoes. I have not used pepper since then.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I believed Dr. Pepper was pepper-flavored medicine and was afraid to drink it.Anon
- I used to believe that Dr. Pepper actually tastes like Black pepper. I'm still afraid to try it.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- haha... i was around six or seven... i thought that mosquitoes grew into flies... weird..— ?!
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- i used to think that you used pepper spray to cook— c-dogg