If you eat your crusts your hair will grow curly!....... and other nonsense

[PopcornPeacock]

LIGHTHEARTED!

Was anyone else ever told this, or any other 'nontruths' just to get you to do something you didn't want to do?

I hated the crusts off the bread. My mum used to buy them 'well done', aka burnt, so I refused to eat them.

Oddly enough, now in my 60's and post menopause, my hair now IS curly. Who knew!

oh ffs i wasn't finished! walking on stone floors in bare feet gives you cystitis. according to my grandmother, long gone now.

If you eat apple pips, a tree will grow in your stomach.
If you swallow chewing gum, it will wind around your heart and kill you.
If you pick your nose, your finger will get stuck.
If you go out with wet hair, you'll catch pneumonia.

One from school - if you sit on a hot radiator, you'll get piles.

Nothing gets a finger out of a kids nose quicker than saying ‘it’ll get stuck’ 🤣

My mum told me once not to put a hot tea bag in the bin because the bin will catch fire.
I'm tempted to try and turn it into a quirky old family saying with my DCs but I think it may be just too ridiculous.

That if you swallow chewing gum it ties itself around your insides....

It wasn't sitting on the radiator that gave me piles. It was my 3rd pregnancy.

@LittleRa

My grandma used to tell me if I picked my nose it would turn into a pig’s snout! 🐽

I never heard that one but maybe that's because I never did it!

@Tallybeebloom

We got told the crusts one. Also got told-

If you swallow bubble gum a bubble gum tree will grow in your stomach

If you try to unscrew your belly button your bum will fall off

Yes to the bubble gum - I was also told that if I ate apple or orange pips a tree would grow out of my head!

@Elieza

If you eat sugar you’ll get worms in your tummy.

Eeeuuwwww!

@OhToBeASeahorse

My mum always chastised me for doing anything that meant my arms were above my head whilst pregnant.

Apparently it wraps the cord around the baby's neck

Yes, now that you've reminded me, I was told that one too - not by mum, but by a very superstitious neighbour. She also told me to eat lots and lots of fried food during my pregnancy to 'grease my passage which would help the baby to be born'!

Well I didn't and I had a 2 hour labour of which I slept for the 1st hour.

@Polkadotties

Too much tv will turn your eyes square

I remember that one too - and though I tested it out by watching far too much, it never did!

And of course eating carrots will help you see in the dark.

@SnowdaySewday

If you eat apple pips, a tree will grow in your stomach. If you swallow chewing gum, it will wind around your heart and kill you. If you pick your nose, your finger will get stuck. If you go out with wet hair, you'll catch pneumonia.

One from school - if you sit on a hot radiator, you'll get piles.

Oh yes, and I wasn't allowed a bath more than once a week, and could only wash my hair when NOT on a period.......'because it WAS BAD FOR ME'. How or why was never explained. [CONFUSED]

I now bathe and wash my hair daily - heaven!

My mum told me when I was going through puberty that public hair is so that it's soft and cosy for the baby when they're being born.

Shaving your legs will cause twice as many hairs to grow back. Or maybe it was that they would grow back twice as quickly!
Eating bread hot from the oven would give you indigestion, but then told to eat pizza before it went cold! Where's the logic there?

Eating bread hot from the oven would give you indigestion, but then told to eat pizza before it went cold! Where's the logic there

You caught them out on that one!!

I always thought the "chewing gum will get wrapped around your heart if you swallow it" line was bollocks. Even as a small child I knew that your stomach wasn't connected to your heart... Idiotic. I will never spout such shite to my DC.

The usual.

Eat crusts and you’ll get curly hair-its true in my case!

Id you chew your nails and swallow them you’ll get appendicitis.

Eat carrots for great vision.

Dont sit on cold stone or you’ll get piles.

My Nan always told me to cut the ends off bananas because they were poisonous. She said it’d take 5-10 minutes before my throat start to close up and I’d stop breathing.

I obviously know this isn’t true now....

But I still cut them off, just incase!

When I was a child my Mum would stew a grim grey mince with bits of oily translucent onion lurking in it. She told me the onion was "Fairy Sparkle", and eating it made you lucky..

I believed her. But looking back it's hard to imagine anything less likely to be Fairy Sparkle, (and I was never terribly lucky either).

When the ice cream man is playing his tune its cos he's run out of ice cream........

@GrannieD

When the ice cream man is playing his tune its cos he's run out of ice cream........

That's brilliant. Must remember that one 😂.

When I shared a bed with my mum once, my grandma said "you shouldn't let her do that, she'll sap your energy."

My mum (and her mum before her) always said that you must never, ever, wash your hair when you had your period. Another poster has mentioned this - always baffled me - just why?
Yes - eating crusts makes your hair curl (always ate mine, and hair is poker straight).
Yes - don't swallow bubble gum - it gets caught on 'your insides.'
Yes - don't swallow apple pips, grape pips, etc., because trees will grow inside you!
Don't sit on hot radiators - you'll get piles.
Don't go out with wet hair - you'll catch a cold.

@Laila747

My Nan always told me to cut the ends off bananas because they were poisonous. She said it’d take 5-10 minutes before my throat start to close up and I’d stop breathing.

I obviously know this isn’t true now....

But I still cut them off, just incase!

Wow! That was a bit harsh wasn't it ..... good to be cautious though, as you say, Just. In. Case!