food

when bananas first became available after the war, i was told that eating more than two at once would kill you. i realise that this is patently untrue but to this day i have never eaten more than two at a time.

When I was little I believed that salt made food cool down. After all, every time
I told my mum that my food was too hot, she'd put salt on it. I still don't know why
she did this.

There was an advert on British TV about invisible beings called Humphreys, that used to steal your milk and drink it - trying to encourage children to drink more milk. Instead, I felt bad for them and made my dad put out a glass of milk every night for the poor Humphreys to drink. He had years of drinking a glass of milk while I slept to sustain my belief!

My whole family would always get together at my Grandmother's house in the country to celebrate 4th of July. One year when my cousin Tommy was about 6 years old, he suddenly started crying and totally freaking out. My older cousin and I finally got him to calm down enough to speak. He was upset because he had swallowed a watermelon seed. One of the kids at his school had told him that if he swallowed a seed it would grow roots in his belly and branches all up inside of his brain.

When I was 3 years old my best friend and I would sit in the grass behind his house, overlooking a pasture with grazing cows, and drink from our juice bottles. He told me that the foam resulting from our shaking the bottles was cow dung that somehow magically transported itself into the bottle. I don't know about him but I believed it. Oddly enough, it didn't discourage me from drinking it. On the contrary, we both thought it was really cool!

I thought swiss cheese came from the moon.

I remember being over at my best friend's house when I was in kindergarten, and we were eating sandwiches. I got her mom to cut the crusts off for me, and Kymberly (my friend) tried to convince me to eat them by telling me that crusts made you whistle good. Being not able to whistle, I thought it was because I didn't eay my crusts. So I started eating them...but to this day, I can barely whistle.

My mother told me carrots would improve my eyesight, so I took that to its logical conclusion, which was of course that eating enough carrots would give me X-ray vision. My mom put a stop to that, though, since another thing I've seen on this page -- that your skin turns orange if you eat too many carrots -- is true. It happened to my older sister, and it's really more of a sickly yellow.

When I was young, I hated salmon with a passion. So every time mum cooked it, she told me it was scottish chicken that our cousins had given us. I found out the truth 3 years later!

My mother convinced me that if I swallowed a pit, especially a lichii pit, it would be caught in the appendix and give me appendicitis.

When I was very young I used to love sardine sandwiches until an aunt was so kind as to inform me that they had bums.

My mom put a warm soda in the freezer for me to get it cold quick. My sister told me to watch out because if you left it in too long it would explode. I ran for my life out of the house, thinking that the can would explode and kill us all.

My mother told me that chocolate milk came from brown cows!!! Well when I had my own kids I told them the same thing! LOL

When i was about 8 we had a next door neighbor girl that was a little older who tried to pull the wool over our eyes. She told my two sisters and I that she was an indian, and that because of that she knew some things in nature you could eat. She convinced my sisters that each chunck of those dried, cracked mud holes tasted diffrent. I still remember watching them eat little pieces of it.

My uncle told me that eating bread crust would put hair on my chest. Being a girl, hair on the chest was NOT a desirable trait. I refused to eat another crust of bread.

I used to believe my dad when he told me that eating the crust of my sandwich would cause hair to grow on my chest. Not an attractive prospect for a young girl!