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My brother and I used to believe (because our mom told us so) that Zoom cereal would make you run faster. We would run up and down the hallway and ask if we were any faster than before. 

Becka 

I used to believe that the big Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket signs on the pole were filled with gravy and they would run a hose into the shop to fill up the gravy containers.
I thinks my big brother told me this once and of course his trusting little brother fell for it.

Alastair

For some odd reason I used to think that the little blobs in tapioca pudding came from banana peels.

Anon

Until I was at my first college, I more or less believed that you had to go to a restaurant to eat Chicken Fried Steak (steak patties fried in batter, then covered in gravy, for non-Texan) and also to eat Mexican food, even if Mother told me there were people who actually made both in their homes! When I was in college, I was invited over to a friend's place for dinner where he and his wife (then girlfriend) made chicken fried steak! I was so excited I called up Momma and told her. "They actually MAKE chicken fried steak?" she asked.

Hilary the Baker

Up until an embarassingly advanced age, I believed that pimentos came from inside olives, and I felt bad for the guy who had to take the pimento out of each olive to fill up those jars of pimentos we bought in the grocery store.

Misty A. Smith

I used to believe that Bleu Cheese made you strong, because my dad mentioned something about its strong flavor. I believed this for far too long.

Eliot Van Buskirk

when I was very young - somewhere between preK and 1st grade, I thought EVERTYONE commonly ate lobster for dinner. My Dad bought out the inventory of a Seafood distributor going out of business, so my family ate lobster for dinner at least twice a month for about a year.

Kim Schumacher

When I was young I thought butter was used to cool food down when it was to hot. Now with a skyrocketing chlosterol count I am aware that temperature control is not butter's primary function.

Rob

i used to believe if you liked the color red the you had to like katchup and if u liked the color yellow then u had 2 like mustard

-me-

I used to believe that all eggs had chickens in them and that if you cooked them just a little (which the farmer must have done before selling them) the chickens turned into liquid. If you cooked them more, the chickens turned solid as in hard-boiled eggs.

Anon

when my dad would cook breakfast for me, he would give me burnt toast and tell me that i had to eat it so that i would get tan like him (he is of mediterranean descent but, apparently, the olive skin gene didn't get transmitted to me). i wanted to be just like him, so i dutifully ate whatever burnt toast he gave me...and started eating burnt toast on my own. it didn't work (i'm still pasty white) and it was only years later that i realized that my dad couldn't cook and just said that so i would eat the things that he burnt!

anon.

Heh, when I was really young I hated mustard sauce, so everytime it came in a fast food sandwich my mom would tell me it was "yellow ketchup" - you know, just so she didn't have to order one without it. Reasonable enough, since you can't even taste it. Still, I believed it until I was about 13 or so.

Robert