It's not just myths that are misleading or downright wrong. Just look at the food "facts" handed down to us mere mortals on a plate by the scientists and politicians over the years. What was good and healthy one minute, is almost poisonous the next, and then back again. If I have one regret in my eating life, it is believing the myth that butter was bad for you. 30 years I have eaten that god knows what chemical concoction called margarine. I'm ashamed I fell for it. No more. I'm back on butter.
One other "myth" always irritated me as it presented itself as a fact, but what a pointless fact .... ie .. take the tea pot to the kettle, not the reverse. Purleeeease, as if it makes 0.001% of a difference in reality to your cuppa.
Outside of misleading technicalities, I happen to really quite like myths in general social life and out in the wild, and have always been in to starting one or two myself. They add colour, mystery and long forgotten direction to our lives. Somebody has to start them.
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Maybe this fruit myth was started by a Frigidaire salesman in the 1920s.