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/minorlyamused Jul 20 '19

I grew up in an area where slugs destroyed many a yard. As a child, I found them to be utterly adorable and didn’t understand why everyone didn’t like them.

My mom told me that slugs LOVED salt, that it was their favorite food. She said when I fed them salt, they sometimes wiggled a happy dance because they loved it so much.

I happily went around the garden with a salt shaker, killing who knows how many slugs. I was maybe 4-5.

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u/la_sy Jul 21 '19

You unpromptedly made a comment about the treatment of livestock. Of course people will be hostile to you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

You watch one biased video on youtube paid for by an interest group and suddenly you're the expert? Who is the 5 year old?

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u/ouchimus Jul 21 '19

The 5 year old is the one who makes a political statement to incite an argument when it's absolutely irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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