April 13, 2026 • 9 mins
Aly just found out that not everyone believed the wives tale "If you eat your crust, then you will get curly hair". What was the one you believed?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Very gullible as a kid.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
What you mean?
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I grew up fully believing because this is what all
the adults in my life told me. Sure, if you
ate the crust on your bread, it would give you
curly hair. And like, my hair is like kind of wavy, you.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Know, so you only ate some of your crust.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I only ate some of my crust.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Did you not like crust? Or was it just that's
what they said?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is just what all the adults said. They were like,
you know, if you eat the crust on your toast,
if you eat the crust on your sandwiches, you'll have
beautiful curly hair. And I was like, say less, fam.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
And I get it too, as like a parrot. I'm like, yeah, God,
we're wasted so much crust. If we could just get
them to eat the crust.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So here I am as a thirty four year old,
uh huh, And I still eat the crust, and I like,
you know, have wavy hair. But I'm still waiting on
the curls.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Do you still eat your crust today?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I do?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Do you eat it off?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I do, because it'll give you curly hair. And I'm
trying to get every last curl that I can out
of this. So I need to know, like what, because
I have talked to other people about this, and no
one seems to be aware of the crust curly hair lore.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I've never heard of the crust thing, no.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Which is wild to me.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I've heard a lot of other food ones, but never
the crust one.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So what did you have one as like a kid
growing up, like an old wives tale or something like
that was that was popular in your family? Because I
didn't realize that this wasn't like a thing for everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, I think a.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Lot of them were, now that I think about it.
We're just like parenting tricks to try.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
To get us to do. But I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Like some of them were like, don't eat the seeds
and watermelons because you'll grow a water melon in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm like, okay, right, So I never.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Did absolutely fine, eat the seeds, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
But they would point to like my uncle who's got
like a big old pop that way, and'd be like, yeah,
he ate all his watermelon seeds, so dirty. Don't swallow.
Don't swallow your gum, you gotta spit your gum out.
Don't swallow because it'll live in your body forever.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, doesn't do anything and like you can't go swimming
for an hour after you eat.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That's another one.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That was another big one, which like I feel like
there are some universal ones that we all know. I
just I thought the crust in the curly hair was
one of the universal ones. I didn't realize that this
was like a niche, very lore heavy old wivestail in
my family.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I've never heard of it, but I liked the idea
behind it because it's like it's getting you to eat
your crust. We try it with veggies all the time,
but there's nothing you could tell a kid to eat.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Vege don't care how many muscles you tell them they're
going to get.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
My dad had a diabolical one for veggies.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Okay, I'll tell you coming up, But I want to
know what were the old wives tales that you grew
up believing? Good morning B ninety three? Who's this and
where are you from?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Megan Landing?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Megan, do you have kind of an unhinged old wives
tale in your family?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I mean, I don't know if it's unhinged, but my grandma,
every every single time we would take a shower or
a bath or whatever. She would tell us we can't
go outside with wet hair or we'll catch a cold.
I used to drive me from nuts.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Is that a real thing?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
No? And then I found myself telling my daughter, don't
go outside with your hairwag. You're gonna get cold, You're
gonna get sick. And I was like, that's not true.
Stop telling her that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
But have we tested this?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You know? I don't know because I don't want to
get this.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I'm saying, like, we just still follow these The
science behind it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You're cold, it breaks down your immune system when you're cold.
That's why you don't want to be cold when you're outside,
because it weakens your immune system and then you get sick.
But I don't think that. I don't think it really
does anything. I don't think the way hair really does
anything so much.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But yeah, I've never tried it because well, you know,
like I said, I don't want to get sick.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So we're eating our crust for curly hair, but we're
not taking that curly hair what outside.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know, I never had curly hair, but I have
heard the crushing curly hair you have.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, all right, I just don't know if it's true.
Oh yeah, that's what we're trying to get to the
bottom of today. Thanks for the call, have a great day.
Bye bye. What was your unhinged old wives tale that
you grew up with? My dad had an absolutely diabolical
(04:17):
one veggies broccoli, specifically, he had three girls, and whenever
we would have broccoli, he would be like, don't eat
the stems of the broccoli, because you'll turn into a boy.
And my mom like the eye roll when he would
say that, and like, it's not.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Even a bad thing to eat either.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I know, Like, what are you doing being any three
morning show? I'm Ali Mac. These conversations sometimes they come
up and you realize we were gullible children.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, well gullible, but also like our parents just had
to throw things out there just to get us to
do things.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I had a realization. We were talking to the boss
and he was talking about his kids and like trying
to get them to eat certain things. And I was like, yeah,
if you eat the crust of your toast and your sandwiches,
you'll have curly hair. And you and our boss Dave
looked at me, and you guys were like what.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I've never heard of that one. I've heard of a
lot of them, but I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That was a thing in my family, like if you
ate the crust on your bread, you'd have curly hair.
No one else. This wasn't a thing for anybody else.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I've had a lot of interesting ones that I don't
I don't think we're at all true. Like if you
step on a crack, it does not effect break your
mom's back at all, so you don't have to worry
about that one.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Better to be safe than sorry, though.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But that's always what it was.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
We had on earlier this morning, Christina said, And like
I was today years old, but like when she was
fishing with her uncle, her uncle would tell her like
if you talk, you'll scare the fish aways. I thought
that that was a legit thing. That's not a thing.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
No, I don't think it. I don't think it is.
I think yeah, it was obviously just to get us
to be quiet.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
My dad also used to tell us as kids, three girls,
me and my sisters that if we ate the stems
on the broccoli, we would all turn into boys. Which
that one is just like so unhinged. I don't know
why he thought that that was funny, but he got
a kick on that.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well. My parents with food a lot too.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
There was a lot of different food things, but one
of them was one that everybody had, and that's if
you eat the seeds in the watermelon, the watermelons are
growing in your stomach. But they would always point to
my uncles that have like these big pop bellies and
they'd be like, see uncle Uncle Rob, he ate all
the seed. He just got a big watermelon in there.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Six one, six two four two ninety three, ninety three, Good.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Morning, Welcome to the B ninety three Morning Show. What's
your name and where are you from?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Good morning, Harley from Hasting Harley.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
What's the wives tale? You've believed your entire life?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So as a child, my grandpa told all of the
kids and grandkids that if you didn't eat all your vegetables,
you would a girl hair on your chest.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Did you work out for you?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Out of all?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So I'm the only kid alling girl out of boys
in my like from my mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So like I was like, oh, like.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
That's they're on their chest. No, that does not that's
not how that works.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But I ate all my vegetables.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I always cleared my plate because that's what my grandpa
told me was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Same girl, I was eating my crust, crossing my fingers
for curly hair.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah. See, I was told that if you shave, like
your face or whatever, it would grow in thicker if
you shave the hair. And I'm still waiting on my
hair at the top of my head to grow in thicker.
I've been shaving my head for years.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Thanks for the call this morning. Have a great day.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Thank you too.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Bye. We are talking about those I guess you'd call
them old wives tales, but they were like, you know,
the warnings or like the things that the adults would
tell the kids when we were grown. And these were
like law to me.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, no, yeah, absolutely, And I don't some of them.
I understand. It was like our parents because a parent.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Now it's our parents' way of like just getting us
to do the thing that we need to do. But
there's no logical reason, like there's sometimes there's just no reason.
The biggest one I think that I can think of
now is like you can't go swimming until thirty minutes
after you eat right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But there's no reason it does nothing.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
They said you could get cramps and you wouldn't be
able to swim, But my parents did it.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Their parents did it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We told our kids at first that and then we
went there's no logical reason for that.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
They just didn't want to move because they just ate.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We streamed the morning show live on social media. On
air Mic and Ali mac on air, if you want
to join us. Somebody on the live stream said, if
you turned like the hazard lights on, like the flashing
lights on in the car, it would turn into a
rocket ship, but only if the kids were sleeping. Six one, six, two, four,
(09:02):
two ninety three, ninety three, Good morning, b ninety three.
Who's this? And where you're from?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Jessica's from Kilma.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Zoo, Jessica. The old wives tale that you so believed
as a kid.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
So when I was younger, my aunt and uncle had
a big like mural wall that looked like an outdoor
river scene, and my uncle had me believing that he
could turn on the water and we could go fishing
in there. But he never would show me where the
button was, so I would get in trouble because I
would be in the closets, looking for the buttons to
(09:33):
turn on the water so we could go fishing from the.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Couch, just instilling chaos.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And he's still I'm forty one years old, and every
time I see him, he'll say, want to go fishing,
Very gullible as a kid.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
What you mean?
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I grew up fully believing because this is what all
the adults in my life told me. Sure, if you
ate the crust on your bread, it would give you
curly hair. And like, my hair is like kind of wavy, you.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Know, so you only ate some of your crust.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I only ate some of my crust.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Did you not like crust? Or was it just that's
what they said?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is just what all the adults said. They were like,
you know, if you eat the crust on your toast,
if you eat the crust on your sandwiches, you'll have
beautiful curly hair. And I was like, say less, fam.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
And I get it too, as like a parrot. I'm like, yeah, God,
we're wasted so much crust. If we could just get
them to eat the crust.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So here I am as a thirty four year old,
uh huh, And I still eat the crust, and I like,
you know, have wavy hair. But I'm still waiting on
the curls.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Do you still eat your crust today?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I do?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Do you eat it off?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I do, because it'll give you curly hair. And I'm
trying to get every last curl that I can out
of this. So I need to know, like what, because
I have talked to other people about this, and no
one seems to be aware of the crust curly hair lore.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I've never heard of the crust thing, no.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Which is wild to me.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I've heard a lot of other food ones, but never
the crust one.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So what did you have one as like a kid
growing up, like an old wives tale or something like
that was that was popular in your family? Because I
didn't realize that this wasn't like a thing for everybody.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, I think a.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Lot of them were, now that I think about it.
We're just like parenting tricks to try.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
To get us to do. But I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Like some of them were like, don't eat the seeds
and watermelons because you'll grow a water melon in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm like, okay, right, So I never.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Did absolutely fine, eat the seeds, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
But they would point to like my uncle who's got
like a big old pop that way, and'd be like, yeah,
he ate all his watermelon seeds, so dirty. Don't swallow.
Don't swallow your gum, you gotta spit your gum out.
Don't swallow because it'll live in your body forever.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, doesn't do anything and like you can't go swimming
for an hour after you eat.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That's another one.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That was another big one, which like I feel like
there are some universal ones that we all know. I
just I thought the crust in the curly hair was
one of the universal ones. I didn't realize that this
was like a niche, very lore heavy old wivestail in
my family.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I've never heard of it, but I liked the idea
behind it because it's like it's getting you to eat
your crust. We try it with veggies all the time,
but there's nothing you could tell a kid to eat.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Vege don't care how many muscles you tell them they're
going to get.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
My dad had a diabolical one for veggies.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Okay, I'll tell you coming up, But I want to
know what were the old wives tales that you grew
up believing? Good morning B ninety three? Who's this and
where are you from?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Megan Landing?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Megan, do you have kind of an unhinged old wives
tale in your family?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I mean, I don't know if it's unhinged, but my grandma,
every every single time we would take a shower or
a bath or whatever. She would tell us we can't
go outside with wet hair or we'll catch a cold.
I used to drive me from nuts.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Is that a real thing?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
No? And then I found myself telling my daughter, don't
go outside with your hairwag. You're gonna get cold, You're
gonna get sick. And I was like, that's not true.
Stop telling her that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
But have we tested this?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You know? I don't know because I don't want to
get this.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I'm saying, like, we just still follow these The
science behind it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You're cold, it breaks down your immune system when you're cold.
That's why you don't want to be cold when you're outside,
because it weakens your immune system and then you get sick.
But I don't think that. I don't think it really
does anything. I don't think the way hair really does
anything so much.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But yeah, I've never tried it because well, you know,
like I said, I don't want to get sick.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So we're eating our crust for curly hair, but we're
not taking that curly hair what outside.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know, I never had curly hair, but I have
heard the crushing curly hair you have.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, all right, I just don't know if it's true.
Oh yeah, that's what we're trying to get to the
bottom of today. Thanks for the call, have a great day.
Bye bye. What was your unhinged old wives tale that
you grew up with? My dad had an absolutely diabolical
(04:17):
one veggies broccoli, specifically, he had three girls, and whenever
we would have broccoli, he would be like, don't eat
the stems of the broccoli, because you'll turn into a boy.
And my mom like the eye roll when he would
say that, and like, it's not.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Even a bad thing to eat either.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I know, Like, what are you doing being any three
morning show? I'm Ali Mac. These conversations sometimes they come
up and you realize we were gullible children.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, well gullible, but also like our parents just had
to throw things out there just to get us to
do things.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I had a realization. We were talking to the boss
and he was talking about his kids and like trying
to get them to eat certain things. And I was like, yeah,
if you eat the crust of your toast and your sandwiches,
you'll have curly hair. And you and our boss Dave
looked at me, and you guys were like what.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I've never heard of that one. I've heard of a
lot of them, but I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That was a thing in my family, like if you
ate the crust on your bread, you'd have curly hair.
No one else. This wasn't a thing for anybody else.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I've had a lot of interesting ones that I don't
I don't think we're at all true. Like if you
step on a crack, it does not effect break your
mom's back at all, so you don't have to worry
about that one.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Better to be safe than sorry, though.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But that's always what it was.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
We had on earlier this morning, Christina said, And like
I was today years old, but like when she was
fishing with her uncle, her uncle would tell her like
if you talk, you'll scare the fish aways. I thought
that that was a legit thing. That's not a thing.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
No, I don't think it. I don't think it is.
I think yeah, it was obviously just to get us
to be quiet.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
My dad also used to tell us as kids, three girls,
me and my sisters that if we ate the stems
on the broccoli, we would all turn into boys. Which
that one is just like so unhinged. I don't know
why he thought that that was funny, but he got
a kick on that.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well. My parents with food a lot too.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
There was a lot of different food things, but one
of them was one that everybody had, and that's if
you eat the seeds in the watermelon, the watermelons are
growing in your stomach. But they would always point to
my uncles that have like these big pop bellies and
they'd be like, see uncle Uncle Rob, he ate all
the seed. He just got a big watermelon in there.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Six one, six two four two ninety three, ninety three, Good.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Morning, Welcome to the B ninety three Morning Show. What's
your name and where are you from?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Good morning, Harley from Hasting Harley.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
What's the wives tale? You've believed your entire life?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So as a child, my grandpa told all of the
kids and grandkids that if you didn't eat all your vegetables,
you would a girl hair on your chest.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Did you work out for you?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Out of all?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So I'm the only kid alling girl out of boys
in my like from my mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So like I was like, oh, like.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
That's they're on their chest. No, that does not that's
not how that works.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But I ate all my vegetables.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I always cleared my plate because that's what my grandpa
told me was gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Same girl, I was eating my crust, crossing my fingers
for curly hair.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah. See, I was told that if you shave, like
your face or whatever, it would grow in thicker if
you shave the hair. And I'm still waiting on my
hair at the top of my head to grow in thicker.
I've been shaving my head for years.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Thanks for the call this morning. Have a great day.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Thank you too.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Bye. We are talking about those I guess you'd call
them old wives tales, but they were like, you know,
the warnings or like the things that the adults would
tell the kids when we were grown. And these were
like law to me.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, no, yeah, absolutely, And I don't some of them.
I understand. It was like our parents because a parent.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Now it's our parents' way of like just getting us
to do the thing that we need to do. But
there's no logical reason, like there's sometimes there's just no reason.
The biggest one I think that I can think of
now is like you can't go swimming until thirty minutes
after you eat right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But there's no reason it does nothing.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
They said you could get cramps and you wouldn't be
able to swim, But my parents did it.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Their parents did it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We told our kids at first that and then we
went there's no logical reason for that.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
They just didn't want to move because they just ate.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We streamed the morning show live on social media. On
air Mic and Ali mac on air, if you want
to join us. Somebody on the live stream said, if
you turned like the hazard lights on, like the flashing
lights on in the car, it would turn into a
rocket ship, but only if the kids were sleeping. Six one, six, two, four,
(09:02):
two ninety three, ninety three, Good morning, b ninety three.
Who's this? And where you're from?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Jessica's from Kilma.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Zoo, Jessica. The old wives tale that you so believed
as a kid.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
So when I was younger, my aunt and uncle had
a big like mural wall that looked like an outdoor
river scene, and my uncle had me believing that he
could turn on the water and we could go fishing
in there. But he never would show me where the
button was, so I would get in trouble because I
would be in the closets, looking for the buttons to
(09:33):
turn on the water so we could go fishing from the.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Couch, just instilling chaos.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And he's still I'm forty one years old, and every
time I see him, he'll say, want to go fishing,
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