When looking after me and my sisters for the afternoon, my uncle told my little sister that the sultanas in the teacakes he had toasted for us were burnt bits. To this day she won't eat anything with currants, raisins or sultanas in it, and she's 24 now!
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- i would never eat biscuits with currants in because someone told me they were flies.— ahab
- My dad told me that raisins were the dead flies from the windowsill— Kellie
- I used to look for raisins in the ocean when mum told me to be careful of the currents— Karina
- my grandma told me not to eat pizza coz the "brown squiggly" stuff there arent burnt cheese but WORMS!
— Mimi - i used to think raisins were inside out flies. i still can't eat them to this day. :)— booga
- Until I was about 6, I used to believe that flys were raisins with wings.Anon