food

My mate used to believe that the lids of yoghurt pots were poisonous, and to this day won't ever lick one.

i once believed that the button on mcdonalds soft drink lids, when pressed, added a chemical to the drink that made it a diet...

i ised to love tomatoes until someone told me they turn your ears red I still can't eat a tomato today and I'm in my late twenties

My mum told me that the pips in kiwi fruit were highly poisonous... I loved kiwi fruit, but spent hours on each one picking out the pips....tw*t!!

Further to Debbie's misbelief about wally (gherkin) I can confirm that she was right. In certain parts of the country a gherkin is indeed a "wally",as the article below mentions briefly.

http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/nellie.htm

And also here

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/w.htm

Hope that helps.

I used to believe…

| believed that liver and brussel sprouts were evil.

I'm OK with liver now, but brussel sprouts...

We were told that the bread crust is more healthy than the centre.

I believed Popeye when he said spinach made him strong. Yuk Yuk Yuk

my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.

I used to believe that if I swallowed an apple pip a tree would grow in my stomach....

When having wine with dinner my parents gave me "wine of the earth". This was water but I couldn't believe we were being allowed alcohol!

I thought if you swallowed an apple pip, a tree would grow out of your ears, mouth and nose.

I used to believe if you swallowed chewing gum it would strangle your guts and kill you!

I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.

Belief no. 1 involves "pacers", those green and white striped mints that were around when we were quite young - I can't remember what age. There used to be a TV-ad for them in which people ate pacers and - KAPOW - their clothes turned green and white stripey. I used to believe this was a magic property of the sweets and that if I ate one my clothes would go green and white too!

My friend's mum told him that raw peppers from the chopping board were poisonous and needed to be cooked before he could eat them. He believed this 'til he was 20 and I explained that I would not get ill after stealing the raw peppers from his curry ingredients.