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When I was in 3rd grade, we had a birdfeeder on the kitchen window. My dad joked about catching and cooking the birds, so one day my mom made Cornish hens and told my brother and I they were mourning doves. I believed her and even wrote about it in my class journal. At the parent-teacher conference, my teacher told my dad I wrote that we'd had mourning doves for dinner - my dad just said that we had - she didn't know how to respond to that!

Anon

When I was little, my mother told me that navel oranges had navels because people stuck little tubes in them to suck the seeds out. I believed her until I was 12 and read in a book about how navel oranges were grown by grafting.

Anon

When I was really little I used to ask what pepper was made out of. My parents told that they were Pepper Bug's eggs that you grind up...I believed them for years.

*Michellle*

My parents used 2 tell me if I ate lots of carrots I'd be able 2 see in the dark & that rabbits could see in their burrows bcz they ate carrots...well of course I wanted to see in the dark & consumed vast quantities of carrots thereafter. It did the trick though...I still realllllllllllly love carrots! Yum! :P

CrazyCaledonianChick!

i havenb't actually experienced this weird belief but my friend told me that a girl she knew never ate animals. Her brother however managed to convince her that pork and bacon grew on tree's and so she ate this. She didn't find out the truth un till she reached high school. (about 14)

genevieve

My sister had a friend who believed for the longest time that they made rice-pudding with fish eyes
my dad used to tell me that the dark specks in vanilla bean ice-cream were bug feet that had been left behind by bugs who landed on it.

Anon

I used to belive that haggis was a creature in the scottish highlands that had short back legs and long front legs and ran up hills only to fall down again. It was about the size of a rabbit. My history teacher told me this and he also said that there were official haggis-hunting seasons. So sad.

Confoozed

When i was little, my dad told me that it was illegal to eat anything other than a happy meal at mcdonalds. i was so stupid that even when i was 13 i still ordered a happy meal. im 16 now, thank god i sussed!

rach

I used to believe that horseradish
was made from horses.

Dee

When my sister was about 4 years old, and I was 14, I played a mean trick on her...We had just finished our dinner and I went into the kitchen to get the pudding. She came in to find me holding an Arctic Roll. "What's that?" She asked. I said (I really don't know why) "It's a little creature...called a Fuzzy Mammoth. I found it on my way back from school. I'll just go and show mum..." I took the Arctic Roll into the dining room, and my sister came and sat down. Of course, my mum picked up an enormous knife to cut it with, and my sister absoloutely screamed until she realised I'd been playing the trick. She thought my mum was going to slaughter a little innocent animal!

livmin

i used to think mashed potatos were made from apples becouse they were the same color(i was a very slow child)

apples and ornges

This may not fit into the subject, but when I was little, I always wanted to try cartoon pizza (from teenage mutant ninja turtles) cause I thought it would be better than regular pizza. It looks good, doesn't it?

Anon

Split walnuts... i used to think they were dried pig noses!!

SaMmI LaMy

I was a big fan of freezies when I was a child, and would always ask my mother for one when she had a free moment. The thing was, I never really learned what they were called, and instead of my mother telling me what to call them, I made up the name 'bagels' in place of the word 'freezie'. One day, my mother had friends over and I tugged on her sleeve, asking for a 'bagel'. Needless to say, it shocked my mother's friends when she reached into the freezer and pulleed out an icepop instead of an actual bagel. I thought nothing of it, and now to this day, at 20 years old, myself, my mother, my brother and my grandmother all call them bagels.

Lara

My mother told me to eat the peels of the apples because that's where the vitamins are. Apparently other children's mothers have told them this as well. For a long time I believed the tiny spots on apple and pear peels were actual vitamins, akin to a crushed-up children's chewable vitamin somehow embedded in the peel.

Mike

When I was little, my parents used to put cucumber cubes in my tuna sandwiches. I didn't like cucumbers so they told me they were sugar cubes. I believed them until the age of 10 when I asked a friend's mom to put sugar cubes in my tuna sandwich.

Rebecca

My dad told me once that the reason that Kentucky Fried Chicken only had popcorn chicken every once in a while was because they saved up all the leftover chicken parts and breading all year and then made popcorn chicken with them when they got enough. I believed him for years.

christa

I think it was Tom & Jerry, but it may have been some other cartoon with a cat & mouse where the cat always told the mouse he was going to make mince meat out of him. Well, one Christmas my mom said she was going to make mince meat pie. I said "There's no way I'm going to eat a pie made out of mice!"

Anne

when i was a little kid my mom tried everything to get me to eat egg salad sandwiches. she finally decided to tell me that only older people liked them, and that they were often called "high-school sandwiches" because of their raging popularity among the hig-school kids. needless to say, i was convinced, and eventually grew to love the high-school sandwich. unfortunately, i was quite embarrassed when was informed (in my 20's no less) that the name was merely a ploy used by my mom to get a gullible young boy to eat his food. i was still using the term at the time of my disturbing discovery.

joel

I remember when i was in year 3 that my friend told me at dinner time that the school mash was made out spider legs and thats why it was ss lumpy. Never again did i eat school mash even when i found out he was lying.

Adam