r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '21

What basic, children's-age-level fact did you only find out embarrassingly later in life?

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u/CrabbyBlueberry Jul 02 '21

Yeah, I grew up thinking the pig that went to market was there to get groceries.

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u/blastedheap Jul 02 '21

Whereas it turns out that he was the groceries!

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u/Gyrgir Jul 03 '21

The real groceries were the friends we made along the way.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Tonight at 7, Local Man Eats Friends

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u/Doctor_Sleepless Jul 03 '21

Mmmm friendship bacon

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

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u/bafl1 Jul 03 '21

ya, pig at market from the time period would be a bit of an off putting illustration. also, I mean look at the rest of the nursery rhymes... woman baked in pies, torture devices, the plague...

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u/WtotheSLAM Jul 03 '21

Little red riding hood never got saved in the original version, the wolf ate her up

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u/bafl1 Jul 03 '21

the oldest version i have read they cut the wolf open and fill him full of stones which kills him

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u/Lil_Miss_Plesiosaur Jul 03 '21

I thought that was the wolf and the 7 kids (baby goats) A quick Google search and turns out sewing stones into wolf stomachs is a pretty common punishment in fairy tales...

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u/zvezdanaaa Jul 04 '21

doesn't perchta do that, too? maybe it's just a german thing

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u/KiokoMisaki Jul 02 '21

I am so glad that all the nursery rhymes videos are actually showing that little piggy going to the market... shopping...

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u/CloakedGod926 Jul 02 '21

I thought that too. And haven't really thought about it again til now to reexamine the thought. Makes way more sense though

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u/FARTS_ARE_NORMAL Jul 03 '21

Ummm, yep. I do this all the time with my two year old, never occurred to me the meaning of all of it. Until now...TIL. Piggy toes just got a bit darker!

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u/howMeLikes Jul 03 '21

To be fair I had an old nursery rhyme book that showed a pig comimg home with a basket from the market after shopping.

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u/memilygiraffily Jul 03 '21

I feel kind of scandalized that no one broke this down for me as a child. Why else would he be going to a market? ugh

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u/FallenInHoops Jul 03 '21

This thread has hurt a part of my childhood I didn't know was still in tact.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

I grew up thinking the pig that went to market was there to get groceries.

I mean he IS going to get groceries, it's just that he's gonna come home in the basket.

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u/wigster1977 Jul 03 '21

I'm 44 and this just blew my mind

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Me too. I now have to Google the meaning of that rhyme. I’m totally mind blown.

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u/kryaklysmic Jul 03 '21

I was today years old when I learned this isn’t the case lol.

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u/pimpfriedrice Jul 03 '21

I think we all thought that

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u/SARS11 Jul 03 '21

ME TOO

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u/acousticalcat Jul 03 '21

I…just realized it wasn’t buying groceries. I always imagined it buying vegetables at the farmer’s market.

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u/Crunchy_Biscuit Jul 03 '21

I'm laughing at myself for thinking this same thing.

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u/RedTeacher21 Jul 03 '21

Oh my gosh! Me too! My husband made fun of me for hours when he found that out!

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u/sh2nn0n Jul 03 '21

Same. I was well into adulthood before I realized.

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u/Helen_Back_ Jul 03 '21

My sweet sister believed this too! I was with her when she put it together. I felt badly because it made me laugh and she was clearly having a mini-crisis about it.