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Until I was 7, I used to think bananas were a dairy product.

Amplexor

I used to believe that pineapples grew on palm trees.

mel

That limes were unripe lemons

Alan

As a 'treat' on holidays, my parents would buy chocolate spread for me to have on my bread. As of this, I made myself think that chocolate spread was sold only during summer.

My mother recently reminded me that early on spring I had expressed how I was looking forward to the summer holidays, when the chocolate spread came back to the supermarket shelves...

Pål, Norway

When I was little, I used to beleive that those white mushrooms you buy at the store would make me grow big like they did Mario in the video games. I knew the ones in the yard weren't good though.

Camille Noire

That when my mother would open the pilsbury dough cans that the pilsbury dough boy would appear and then he would go down the drain. My parents had fun keeping this belief alive for years.

Steve

I used to believe that Firecrackers were Saltines that made a loud bang when lit on fire.

Minogue

People blow on hot food to make it a temperature better suited to their mouths. My teeth are sensitive to cold so for a long time I would blow on ice cream before eating it.

SarGeek

I used to believe that there were two tubes in my neck, one for drinks, and one for food, that lead directly to the very seperate substances that are pee and poo. Sometimes if I drank without being careful, I would accidentally breathe in the liquid... I didn't think about a tube for breathing, but I instead believed the drink had gone down the food tube and caused a massive problem.

so I still laugh to this day when I suck a bit of liquid into my trachea and scream... "IT WENT DOWN THE WRONG TUUUUBE!!!"

bee

When I was little, to get me to eat my, siblings told me there were people partying in my stomach. I had to eat food so they could eat and the party could keep going.

Jonas

After opening a tin of baked beans, and putting them in a pan, I would always leave 3 or 4 in the bottom of the tin thinking that i was helping them to escape a fate worse than being eaten. I would imagine them jostling in the bottom of the tin so that they would be the ones to be left. Im sure i could hear them cheering as i put the tin in the bin!!

Joan Mitchell

When I was about four, I actually believed that the Mrs. Butterworth Syrup bottle would talk to a little kid, just like on TV. Every morning for weeks, I would make my (long-suffering and very tolerant) mom leave the kitchen so I could have a conversation with her. I never could get her to talk to me, of course.

Billie

I used to think that tinned spaghetti was actually worms and refused to eat it. Now in my mid twenties, I still can't bring myself to put it in my mouth!

Debbie Uttley

I used to love Chi-chi's when I was younger, and I loved to eat "fried ice cream". My grampa told me that they had in the back special deep friers that were hotter than normal, and that way they could dip the ice cream in really quick and it wouldn't melt, only develop a crunch coating on the outside. And I believed him!

Linda