Food Superstitions Are A Real Thing & Your Jaw Will Drop At What Some People Actually Believe In!

We knew about some of these food superstitions, but a few others really surprised us. Giving someone oranges to make them fall in love with you? Well, it's worth a shot, we guess…

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Garlic
Everyone knows that garlic wards off vampires. It can also ward off the curse of the evil eye.

Eggs & Egg Shells
Eggs symbolize fertility, so farmers would scatter broken eggs into their fields hoping they would bring forth an abundant crop. Also, if you break open an egg and find two yolks, that means someone you know will be getting married or having twins. And when you're cracking your egg, make sure to crush the eggshell afterward: otherwise, legend has it, a witch will gather up the pieces, set sail, and cause terrible storms at sea.

Salt
If you spill salt, you'll get bad luck. To remedy your misfortune, throw salt over your left shoulder with your right hand to blind the devil and keep him from taking your soul. Risky business, using salt.

Bread
If you cut open a loaf of bread and see a hole (a.k.a. a large air bubble), that means somebody will die soon. The hole in the bread represents a coffin (spooky!). You should also cut a cross into the top of your loaf before baking, otherwise the devil will sit on it and ruin your loaf. Now “hot cross buns” makes more sense.

Noodles
In China, long noodles symbolize a long life. So you should never cut your noodles—that means you're cutting life short. Instead, you should slurp up long noodles up without breaking them.

Tea
Tea, also used in divination (we won't get into that), has lots of superstitions connected to it. For instance, you should never put milk in your tea before the sugar, or you may never get married. Seemingly contradictory, undissolved sugar at the bottom of your cup means someone is in love with you. Spilling your tea means a stranger is about to visit you. And let only one person pour the tea—it's bad luck if the duty is shared.

Coffee
If there are bubbles in your coffee, you should catch them on your spoon and eat them—you'll unexpectedly come into money. Or, we guess, unexpectedly, since you caught the bubbles, right?

Oranges
Giving somebody an orange makes them fall in love with you. (We've tried. It hasn't worked. Yet.)

Finished!

What do you think of these food superstitions — is there anything to them, or are they are just old tales that are better ignored? We laughed at some of these, but we have to say, we're also a little intrigued.

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Article Source: Huffington Post