When I was little, I overheard my grandfather persuade my cousin to eat spinach by promising him it would put hair on his chest. Being a five year old girl, I was horrified by this notion. I refused to touch the stuff until I was nearly thirty.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty
- Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest— Muddinyori
- I used to think that if I ate spinach I would have a lot of strength (Popeye)— Fernando
- My 5-year old cousin used to believe the garbagemen were stealing their trash.Anon
- I used to think that if you ate spinach that eventually, you would be as big as popeye the sailor man.— Corrine
- My five-year-old cousin thinks that his parents purchased him from Wal-Mart.Anon