general

When I was in preschool, the class bully told me that peas were actully cow boogers. Still won't eat peas.

Ren

I used to believe you couldnt leave any peas on your plate otherwise they would be upset at being parted from the ones you ate.

Charlotte

I never knew that raisins were dried grapes. One day I accidently dropped a grape and it rolled under our microwave. A few months later my parents changed the kitchen around and I wondered why there was a raisin where I'd left a grape.

P

I used to think that hotdogs came from charcoal cubes. I think it started when I watched my father set up a barbeque. I never saw the hotdogs placed on the grill. All I remember is seeing the dogs on the grill and the charcoals disintegrated...

Kevin

When I was a child, my Mom told me that carrots had vitamins in them. I tried and tried to see them and was sure if I kept eating them that one day I would find a vitamin tablet inside.

Anon

I used to believe that if you soaked a raisin (or prune) in water, it would turn back into a grape (or plum).

C.C.

When i was little I thought the bruised part of the banana was the healthiest part. That's what my mom told us to get us to eat it.

Tammy

I used to believe anchovies and artichokes were the same thing.

Darren

My friend had me convinced that when you broke a peanut in half, the little thing at the top, bettween the two was a gnome. I would pick that part out.

Emee

My parents had me convinced when I was a child that the cuts of meat we ate for dinner were from dinosaurs. it was the only way they could get me to try anything new.

Andy

My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows

Russ

In the late 60s a type of artificial sweetener called 'cyclamates' were banned, and one brand of orange squash had 'cyclamate free' printed on the label. I couldn't work out why they were giving away flowering house plants with squash.

ann

When I was younger my sister told me that cream eggs were made with real cream (which I didn't like) so that I would give any that I had to her!

Anon

When I was a young child, my parents would have heated discussions regarding the state of their finances. During these converstaions, my mom would often say "I just can't make ends meet." I believed that end's meet was a sort of casserole or lunch meat: end's meat. I didn't understand at all the importance of my mom making end's meat when I was perfectly happy with hotdogs and mac and cheese.

Cyndi

As a child, we always had strawberries and raspberries growing in the garden. During the winter, my mother sometimes bought tinned fruit and, for several years, I believed that the tinned fruits were artificial and made in a factory! You can't blame me because they taste so different to the fresh fruit!

Sigrid

My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.

Linda