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My grandmother used to always eat shredded wheat cereal and so I used to call those huge rolls of hay in the farmers fields "giant shredded wheat"!

mmm shredded wheat

My dad always told me that ketchup was made out of beans

Daddy's Little Girl

I used to think mushroom is a room with many rooms!

Deaf258 - Phx, AZ

I used to believe that if I accidentally ate one of the spikes on a pineapple my parents would yell at me for eating too big of a piece of the pineapple.(don't ask where this came from)

yummy spikes!

When I was Little, I thought a Pizza Pie was Tomatoe sauce, cheese, and Pepperoni inside of a pie crust....

LarLar

When i was around 3 i was very smart for my age and my mom basically made me a wierd little kid. She taught me never ever EVER eat dessert before your real food and i thought it was the law and so at my aunts wedding i saw her eating wedding cake and i ran up to her screaming NONONO u cant do that u have to eat real food FIRST and THEN you can have junk food!!! (i did the same thing at lunchtime in kindergarden, no wonder i was unpopular)

T.L.

When I was about 4 years old, my older cousin told me that the little brown spots on tortilla chips and Fritos were actually moles off off old people's butts. I didn't eat them again until I was 11 or 12.

Michelle

I used to think after watching a old 70's ad for Shredded Wheat that I could make it
by picking wheat (or simular) and adding
water in a bowl.

I never ate any thought.

The Fluffster

I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.

Anon

I used to believe that because oranges are called oranges, then bananas are called yellows, and watermelons are called greens. The only thing was I couldn't work out what an apple was called because they come in two different colours; would they be a redgreen?

Lil_Mountain_Girl

I thought that olives grew with that red pimento already in them. Then I somehow rationalized that as they ripen the red pimento became a pit. That's why black olives sometimes have pits.

Kevin the Olive Man

When I was small, I used to eat prunes, including the pits. My brothers told me that I would grow "prune trees" out of my ears.

Brilliant, Really!

When I was little, my mother would serve asparagus. My father told me they were hummingbird tongues. Needless to say, I would not eat them. I was practically grown before I knew what they really were! I love asparagus now!

Maryjane

i used to believe that rainbow ice cream was a whole multitude of flavours in each icecream. I was destroyed when i found out its just caramel flavoured ice cream...

Anon

I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)

Girlfloyd

I used to believe that if you planted a feather in the garden it would grow an egg. Little did I know my dad would sneak out in the middle of the night and put an egg under the feather.

CA

When I was little I ate butter by the sick and then my big brother told me that I would turn into a dragon if I ate too much so I stopped eating all the butter.

The Dragon Not Slayed

Iused to believe when I was very young that peanuts had little elf's in them. You know when you split a peanut open & you have one side that has that little cone shaped end to it.....I thought it was a little elf with a beard & cap sleeping in his peanut bed. I never ate that side of the peanut. Goofy kid I was!

Silly Girl