When I was a kid my dad told me that soy sauce was Japanese people's blood. He doesn't even remember telling me that, but I believed him for quite a while and still think about that whenever I eat soy sauce.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.Anon
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- if you got sprayed by a skunk you had to have a bath in tomarto sauce— rob
- i used to think tabasco sauce was tobacco so i'd always be like "mom! dont put that in our food!!"Anon