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I used to believe that pink lemons were used to make pink lemonade. I once saw them in an ad for a particular brand of lemonade and believed ever forth that they existed and I just couldn't find them anywhere.

K Mae

I was told (at age 5) that a 'Haggis' was a 'low flying scottish pig', I held onto that belief until i started highschool and could research the topic myself (age 12) to this day looking for a 'Haggis' in the sky a long standing family joke.

Mandy

I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.

Kent

I used to believe that you only used tomatoe sauce on chips and things if they were hot, ie to cool them down. It wasnt untill i got my first boyfriend and we ordered chips and they were 1/2 cold and he put tomatoe sauce on them, and i growlled him saying they were cold enough! Sure enough he explained to me that people actually like the taste of Watties!

Kerry Price

My mom told me that hamburgers came from cows, but I wasn't so sure. I wanted to know how the big round patties got out of those skinny little utters.

Amanda

In church they where all ways mentioning "The bread basket". I imagined and believed in my stomache, the food I ate fell into a bread basket. It then went somehere and dumped the food and liquid out to process it thru my body. I did wonder how the liquid did not drip out, unless there was a liner in the basket.

D. A. TURNER

When I was little I never understood why strawberries were so sweet. One of my parents informed me that people injected them with sugar and that's why they were so sweet. It was years before I realized they had been pulling my leg.

ranestorm

When I was small, I was a gullible, disturbed child. For instance, I was afraid of eating plain apples. Whenever my mother tried to get me to eat a normal apple, I would start crying until she had it sliced, peeled, and smothered with peanut butter.

It took them a very long time for me to allay my fears. I had constantly seen my mother, father, and two of my brothers eating and apple without doing any of the above. It should be noted that my parents and two of my brothers are brunettes, while myself and my third brother, who preferred his apples sliced, peeled, and smothered with peanut butter, are blondes. I believed that, if I ate an apple any other way, then I would become a brunette, too!

Ellen V. Marie

i thought that the word for vegetables was bigsables

A

As a child was told jelly helped your nails grow strong.
I thought you put the jelly on the end of your fingers. Unknown to me you actully eat the jelly.

ruthie roo

My mum used to tell me that baked beans were just peas covered in tomato sauce.

munky

When I was a little boy I loved peas and I wouldn't touch corn, so my parents told me they were split peas(in danish they are called yellow peas), I had heard of them, but never seen them and since corn was yellow I believed this untill I was 6 years old

Kasper

I used to believe that however old I was, that's how many spoonfuls of sugar I should be allowed to put in my cereal.

I look at that idea very differently now that I'm 37!

Kdees

my mum once told me that Pastrmi was horse meat.

Moe

I came home from school one day and insisted to my Mum that I'd had conkers for lunch. After a few 'phone calls my Mum found out that we had been given prunes for pudding.

phil

My great Aunt used to tell me and my little brother that the withches at the end of the garden would use our empty eggshells (after having boiled egg and soldiers) to mix spells in. To this day I still make a hole in the shell when I finish my egg!

Barry

I used to believe that we got sausages from pulling them out of pigs bums - all neat and tidy. Mmm

L. Webb

A few years ago in the UK, there used to be adverts for a breakfast meal called Ready Brek (a bit like porridge)which used to show kids getting an orange glow after eating. When I used to eat it I was convinced I would have an orange glow afterwards. This was not helped by my parents who used to tell me that I had the glow when asked.

Lou