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I used to believe that "pork chops" were called "port chops", and came from the left side of the pig.

Anon

For some number of years, my mother had my brother and I convinced that the preparation of meatloaf required that we clean up all the leaves in the yard and give them to her. No, really. There were little green leaf-looking bits in the red sauce of the meatloaf, and we thought it was due to our diligent efforts.

On becoming a little older, I thought to ask why she needed a whole giant trash bag full of dried-out brown fall leaves just to put a sprinkling of green leaf stuff on the meat. So now we just have it with gravy.

KidK

This doesn't really count as a belief, but reading someone's Roman Coke story, it reminded me of this... You know when you order something at a restaurant and the waitress/waiter asks you if you'd like a soup or salad? Up until I was about 8 or 9 I always thought (s)he was offering a "super salad". I figured it our the day I was asked if I'd like a soup or salad and I simply sad, "yes, please".

Rachel

When I was little, I was sitting with my siblings eating bacon when they began to tell me that bacon came from pigs I became quite distraught and insisted that it came from the grocery store.

Jen

I used to believe that french fries were filled with mashed potatoes.... wonder how they got in there?

Nancy

When I was very small, one Thanksgiving, I had to go out on an emergency trip with my dad to buy a gravy boat because ours broke. I asked him what a gravy boat was and he told me it was a little boat that floats in the gravy, and when it goes bad, the boat sinks. I believed that until I was about 12 or 13.

blnkfrnk

My Dad told me that Lamb was man made in a factory, 'cos I wouldn't eat it if I knew it had ben running around in a field.
I believed this for 3 years.

Anthony

My dad always used to tell me that the bubbles in pop came from bugs in the bottom of the bottles that were trapped in there at the factory. He also used to say that anchovies(on a pizza) were monkey brains.

Dawn

We used to get a famous brand of butter with picture of a cow on the front, and i used to think the butter was actually made of cows, and would askfor "cow butter" on my sandwiches

Kim

My mum used to feed us endless amounts of marrowfat peas. Both my sister and I hated them. I used to think my stomach wouldn't eat them and that they'd pile up to the point where I'd explode and cover evryone in the vicinity with undigested marrowfat peas. To this day my Mum is convinced we liked them.

Paul N

I used to believe that a brothel was where poor people used to go to get free broth.

Rob. UK

My dad used to tell me ""if i ate too many eggs i would become eggbound and explode"", I later discovered he did it so he could have my wartime ration,because I believed him I always let him have my eggs.

Owen davies of salford

My dad told me that kiwi fruits were kiwi birds testicles. They are the right shape and kind of furry

jefnier

Around the age of six I went through a phase of believeing that sausages were the amputated and cooked limbs of a particular animal, a sort of miniature elephant. This really put me off eating them, especially with tomato sauce.

frankie

My parents made me believe that if I ate lamb I would get the wool stuck between my teeth!! Pretty scary when you still believe this when you get older and that is your first meal at your in-laws!!!

Laurie

I used to think that chicken kievs were made from posh russian chickens that had been exclusively fed on a diet of butter and garlic.

I also thought that they would wear little fur hats, becuase it was cold in russia.

Sarah, UK

When I was little my dad told me there were little squirrel like critters that ran through the woods. Whenever someone wanted some pepperoni they would go into the woods and catch these animals, and cut off their tails which were completely pepperoni. but not to worry, it didn't hurt them a bit and their tails grew back within a month.

Joy

I thought that broccoli were just trees that didnt grow all the way

Anon

I used to believe that Haggis (Scottish traditional dish) was in fact a type of animal that ran wild in the Highlands!

Laura

I used to believe that "tentacles", like on a squid, were pronounced "testicles". I mortified my father one night at a restaurant. He was eating Calamari and I loudly asked him, "Dad, don't the testicles get stuck on your teeth?". It was a very crowded restaurant. Several tables around us started laughing and he turned bright red.

Anon