When I was a kid I read that salt was made from a combination of sodium and cloride. I later discovered that both salt and chloride were actually poisonous (that's what the book said anyway). It didn't take me long to conclude (despite all evidence to the contrary) that salt was completely deadly to eat and so i refused to eat anything that had been anywhere near the stuff. I must have spent ages trying to figure out why people didn't keep dropping down dead around the dinner table - A death I imagined to be particullarly disgusting and gruesome... I mean look what it does to slugs.
A childhood belief about salt
others believed things like this
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond - I used to believe that if you put salt on a dead fly it would make the fly come back to life.— Cody
- i used to think salt was made of sand— hibiscus
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony