My mum told me that black fruit pastilles or really any black jelly sweet were deadly to children and that I should give her them if I found them in my packet. It was many years before I found out that in fact they are her favourite so she told me that to get them all.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I thought jelly fish were made out of fruit jelly. — Kevin
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena
- I used to believe that black people were black because they had so many frecles that they merged together.Anon
- When I was little I used to believe that black people saw in black and white. — Chelsea
- i used to think that black people had black skeleatons.Anon