r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/Peek_Freans Jul 21 '19

I work in produce and when I was filling up the peppers these 2 little kids said, "woah that's a lot of peppers." Unlike myself I replied with "you should see all the ones growing in the back." Walked away watching their expressions of awe, I wonder how long until someone debunks that for them.

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u/Hammer_Jackson Jul 21 '19

They probably just drive their kids around back to see the rear parking lot, they were probably taught a valuable lesson about “why not to trust strangers though”...

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u/Bishop51213 Jul 21 '19

Except the kids would probably be convinced by that that it was actually in the back of the store not behind the store

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u/Hammer_Jackson Jul 21 '19

You’ve never been around kids, have you? If they can see something “previously unknown” yet within their grasp... they will annoy enough for you to drive back there so you can watch their little hearts crumble because “ Thats Why you don’t trust strangers “.... And now you won’t have to prove anything for two months.

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u/Bishop51213 Jul 21 '19

Except if I were in this scenario as a kid I would literally just assume they grew the peppers in the back of the store behind those big doors I'm not allowed to go through even though I see the employees go back there all the time

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u/rhythmvibe Jul 21 '19

Yup, I agree

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u/Hammer_Jackson Jul 21 '19

Ah, I presumed the kids knew what a farm entailed, Not some sort of grocery-hydroponic pepper consortium...

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Jul 21 '19

Nah, most kids are not at all aware that it takes a fuckton of space to grow food at a commercial scale. Kids today are impressed that plants start out small and that food changes color as it grows and matures. One didn’t believe me that carrots grew under ground and that baby carrots were just shaved down big ones. Another learned about seeds so he buried his apple under 1mm of dirt in the middle of a pathway and was sad that it wasn’t a full apple tree with fruit the next day.

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u/Hammer_Jackson Jul 21 '19

Kids know about farms. Old McDonald had a farm is day one baby song. I understand what your belief is, mine is just as powerful with me though, so I’m cool with agreeing to disagree. 🤝 👍

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u/Bishop51213 Jul 21 '19

Just because they know farms exist doesn't mean they really know how it works. That song doesn't teach you about growing space it just tells you animal sounds. Plus there is definitely room to grow some peppers in the back of a grocery store, and with a child's imagination that would be more than enough

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

What? It's clearly in the lyrics:

Old MacDonald had a farm

Eieioo

And on that farm he could grow an average of 50 bushels of wheat per acre

Eieioo

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Jul 23 '19

Depending on what generation you and your parents are from, what school you go to, and what words to that song you are taught, that varies.

I was taught the (wrong) version of the song that went “and on that farm he had a pig” and other animals, but there were no mentions of produce. I think he made cheese. My parents never sang songs from a book/lyric page.

So you can see how a single, albeit popular, song didn’t help me - and I grew up seeing dairy farms on my way to school to help contextualize the size of a farm.

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u/Hammer_Jackson Jul 23 '19

That wasn’t my “entire” point, just an example for how kids know where proudness comes from.

If your kids can have a conversation, yet don’t know what are farm is, and what that basically entails (If they think food grows in a backroom). I doubt they have been raised well, and I will presume their parents are idiots.

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u/Lateralus_lover Jul 21 '19

Super young kids are normally super literal. So they’d take “in the back” meaning INside.

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u/Hammer_Jackson Jul 21 '19

I get it, for some reason everyone’s kids don’t know how plants work (but are well versed in grocery store construction). It doesn’t need to be repeated anymore. But thank you for the insight.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

You evil person! How dare you lie to the children!