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When my cousin and I were elementary school age, she tried to convince me to stop eating McDonalds chicken nuggets because they were made out of pumpkin guts. I'm not really sure what pumpkin guts even are, but the thought of it scared me from chicken nuggets for a while.

Anon

I used to believe that there were people who wanted to steal my food, because I was only ever told that there were "people in the world who wanted my food" when I didn't finish all of it, but I was never told why.

Troy

I believed that desserted buildings were full of desserts. Cute little plated pieces of pie Just sitting all over the floor of the building.

ashli

When I was younger, I was convinced that sprinkles (the colored candy put on ice cream and cookies) came from sprinklers.

Anon

I believed that the ice cream truck was actually a music man who sold cassette tapes because that is what my parents told me in order to not have to buy me icecream everytime it came.

Alicia

I always thought that cereal characters were all real people. So I thought serial killers were people that went around killing Captain Crunch and Tony the Tiger.

Anon

i used to think brussels sprouts were tiny baby heads of lettuce

Anon

Around the age of 4, after watching my family sprinkle salt on their food for almost every meal, I came to the conclusion that salt cooled your food down for you. It took a while for my mom to realize why I would pour heaps of salt on my food then sit back and wait.

Alicia W

I was about 3 years old and asked my mum one day "are chips a type of fish". She wasn't listening to me and just said yes. I went for ages believing that chips swam around in the sea.

Clive

When I was little my favorite thing to eat was hotdogs. My mother didn't like them. She told me they were made out of kangaroos. They were no longer my favorite food.

Jessica

One day I was eating spaghetti when all of the sudden, i started sniffling and my eyes got very watery. I pushed my food around my plate and did not want to eat it because I was afraid that the spaghetti had once been alive and was now in pain when I ate it. I was hungry so in the end, I ended up crying harder as I ate my food and I apologized to the spaghetti after each bite and asked it to forgive me. T_T

ghetti girl

When I was little I believed that if I didn't eat all of my scrambled eggs that the "Big Chicken" would come to claim his wasted progeny *shudders*

Brooke

when i was younger i thought that the mcdonalds drive through ordering boxes actually had someone squished inside when you were putting through your order. once, when i was in the back seat and the guy asked "would you like fries with that?" i yelled out "are you ok in there? do you get to have a stretch a now and again?"

Tina

When I was 4, my mom told me not to eat in bed because then we would get ants from the crumbs. I thought crumbs were really ant eggs and that all the food we ate was made of ant eggs.

Anon

I used to believe that chalks are edible. When my teacher writes with the chalk I always imagined how good the chalk tastes. i believed that til I tasted one. It wasn't how I imagined it to be.

ryanne

My mum always used to give me Vitamin C tablets in the morning, but whenever she said it to me, I thought she was saying 'Vitamin SEED tablets', and I thought the tablets were made of loads of really tiny seeds that made little vitamin trees grow inside your body.

Anon

I used to think doner kebabs were called that because the animals donated their meat for it

Jordan