When eating boiled eggs with my father,
he used to say that eating egg shell was
good for you as the egg shell used to
"cut the cords", my father believed this explanation was more than enough, and I never did find out what "the cords" were !
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.— Chris
- I used to think that eggs were made in a factory. The oval shell made them fit perfectly in the egg cartons.— Sherry
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to believe that the sky is just a very thin blue egg shell— Alan
- I used to think shell macaroni was sea shells.— Don Northrup
- I used to beleive that a mermaid would be singing to you when u listned to a shell. — vprincess