I was abut 8 when my Dad was teaching me how to crack and eat walnuts - he told me that you shouldn't eat the membrane bits in between an you should make sure that they get thrown away - I asked him why, and he told me that they were poisonous - I believed this until I was 18 and I still eat walnuts with some trepidation
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- Split walnuts... i used to think they were dried pig noses!!— SaMmI LaMy
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- I used to believe that you shouldn't swallow gum because it would stick to you heart and make it stop beating.Anon
- when i was little someone told me that you died if you put make up on.
they actually believed it— SeZz - I believed God lived in a specific crack in one of the walls of my church — Blake
- When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"— Mike