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I used to believe that the reason why some packs of bacon were saltier than others was because some pigs were more salty naturally.

Anon

My Father used to tell me that if I wanted to grow hair on my chest (like a man); I had to eat lots of Vegemite (Aussie sandwich spread). I had at least one Vegemite Sandwich EVERY DAY; until I was nearly 12 years old.

Anon

When I was little my family would always tell me "eat your food there are starving kids in this world" like most families do. I started to not eat my food at all and sneak it to the garbage can so that the homeless could find it.

Kaylie Becker

My father told me tapioca was frog eggs in pudding. I still can't eat it!

Anon

I remember growing up and my dad eating a special cereal that we were allowed only to eat once in a while. Mom told us the name of the cereal was "Daddy Cereal" because it was only for him. When I got a job in high school, I asked my mom to tell me where to buy it (because I was making my own money). It was simple granola - to which I am pretty much addicted. And I still refer to it as "Daddy Cereal"

Jenn

When I was a child I used to believe that smurfs lived in the mushrooms. So I didn't use to eat.

Ezgi

When I was a kid I never ate the yellow part of eggs coz I used to believe that it will become chicken in my tommy

Yalda

When I was little, I used to think "grilled cheese" was "girl cheese" so only girls could eat it. I was very confused when I saw my dad eating one.

Chloe M.

I used to think that grapefruits contained grapes, and you got grapes by cutting the grapefruit open.

Grapefruit

When people would say some food was made from "scratch", I used to believe that scratch was a kind of food like butter

Ryan

I used to believe that all the soup in the world was made by soup dragons and harvested in a cave, like the Clangers

Anon

when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.

Sabrina in Italy

I used to beleive that liver (as in liver and onions and gravy) was rhinocerous meat.

Anon

I used to think when my mom was offering me a grilled cheese sandwich, she was offering a "girl cheese" sandwich. So I always wondered what my brother would eat - I had never heard of a "boy cheese" sandwich.

Tracy

When my sister was little she planted lolly sticks in the back garden, believing that they would grow into ice lollies.

Stephen from Scotland

when I was a young man my dad convinced me that haggis's were little hairy creatures that lived on Scotish hillsides with legs that were shorter on one side so they could stand on the hill comfortably, how easily we are mislead :0)

Adrian Garden

I once knew a girl who until her earlie 20s beleived that the cherry on an ice cream sundae was actually a red beetle and the pink juice that gets on the whipped cream was its blood. That one was thanks to her older brother.

Rachael

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

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 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