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When I was 5 my parents told me soy sauce came from kids in china squeezing grass hopper blood into the bottles .... I believed it well into my teens where I argued with a friend about how I was right!! Later googled it ... They lied! Also found out cotton candy is not made of spider webs!

Jennifer

Naturally, growing up in Massachusetts, all of my family had Boston accents. One night, after asking what we were having for dinner, my mother responded "chicken parm". Without the letter "r" it sounded like "chicken palm". I believed that one of my favorite foods was the palm of a chicken.

Virgie

I use to believe that if I felt sick - all I had to do was eat a lifesaver and I would feel better. In my defense, why else would they call it a "life-saver"?

Tia

I used to think the dish Nazi Goreng was something to do with World War 2 Nazi Germany and thought countries like Thailand must have been associated with the war in Wuropw.

Anon

I used to believe that peanuts were a daily must to strengthen the memory like elephants

Qb Cheese

I used to think it was illegal to eat spaghetti if you were not Italian

Anthony

When I was really small, about 4 years old, my mother was preparing Thanksgiving dinner. I ran through the kitchen and could see the Turkey cooking in the oven. I asked her what was in the oven and she flippantly replied, "It's Thanksgiving Elephant". I completely believed her and thought for the next several years that we ate elephant on Thanksgiving.

Charla

I used to believe there were square fish (as in fish patties). I figured that fish sticks were the square fish cut up into strips.

Funny that I didn't think cows were round, or that pigs were cylindrical. I would have said, "That's silly!"

Dan

I guess because my mom used to say things at the dinner table such as"leave some room" for dessert or whatever, and because we learned about the "different food groups", I thought that my stomach was like a little house with different shaped rooms for the different foods. There was a round room or compartment for the scoop of ice cream.

Stace

Grandma told me if I ate while standing up that I would get fat thighs. She was right! She also said that if I ate toothpaste I would go blind and lose my hair. She was only partially right with that one.

Miss Laura

My wife was told by her mother, that men who sold burgers and hotdogs from stands, urinated in the onions as they had no where else to go - she still won't eat a burger to this day - her arguement......where else do they go?!!!

Dazzlin

I used to think chocolate was medicine for my father, thats what he called it "Daddy's medicine" so that he could safely keep it lying on the panty shelf.

Kat

I used to think that when commercials said "Made from scratch" that the food was made from leftover scraps on other people's plates.

Anon

me and my lifelong friend alisha both have older siblings the same age, my sister,and her brother. well anyway,when we were little me and alisha were playing together,when our older siblings came up and told us they knew how to make ice. we were awe-struck and totally amazed that they had aqquired such talent to make ice and we demanded to know the recipe

Anon

Once when I was younger I thought that a mistake was some kind of meat like a porterhouse or a t- bone, so when my parents would say that they made a mistake I thought dinner would be ready soon.

Jonesie

when I was younger my mum told me that tagliatelle came out of italian mens noses, they sat in the corner of a room pulled snot outta their noses and hung on a washing line to dry!! I beleived this 'til high school! The worst thing is i still ate the tagliatelle!

britney

My Dad told me that you make butter by putting a cow in a spin drier. I wrote this in a school exercise and they all laughed and pinned it up on the wall,

Jackie

It is a very common belief held by many in Northern Ireland, including myself, when younger, that corned beef was made from Argentinian horses. For those of you from NI reading this. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I had to explain this to my 25 year old wife just the other day.........

Sam the (Irish) man

I used to think that the unpopped kernels in popcorn were the popcorn "seeds". I didn't know that you had to put popcorn in the microwave, so I thought that if youy planted the popcorn seeds in the ground, it would turn into a popcorn tree.

Anon

i was told that if we made a noise whilst a cake was baking in theoven it wouldn't rise.
it was only when i tried to keep the rest of the cookery class quite during a cake baking lesson that i realised it was my mothers way of keeping myself and my siblings quiet for a while.

jill