Up until about a month ago I thought that the derogatory term "wally" was another word for gherkin!? (I didn't invent that, a girl down my road who was older and I foolishly thought wiser than me told me that).
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My mum told me that garibaldi biscuits had dead flies in them & toad in a hole was made of real toads - but we still ate them!
I was told not to swallow chewing gum as it would get wrapped around my heart and kill me ... so I swallowed it deliberately!
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During school christmas dinners everyone used to get a chicken drumstick - I remember thinking what a terrible waste of the rest of the chicken it was.
My Dad told me that eating the crusts on my toast made my hair curly.
If you swallowed apple pips, a tree would grow inside you and eventually grow out of your ears.