general

I still belive that if you stick a bean up your nose for a cople of days it will sprout

Leah

When I was younger, my dad would tell me the Heath bars were adult candy, and I believed him. On Halloween I would always give them to him. I thought they were poisonous to children. I believed this until I was around when I saw my neighbor (who was like, 7 at the time) one. I tried them, and I loved them.
I am 11 now, and my dad still tries to pull it off on Halloween, but I know now that he just wanted them for himself!E

Emmy

When I was a kid I used to believe that clouds were made out of a magical cotton candy type substance (which changed flavors as the clouds changed colors at sunset), and I planned on buying a ladder to lean into the clouds which I would climb up and then I'd be able to stuff my face with the delicious cloud candy. I also believed that this ladder would only need to be about 2 or 3 times the height of my favorite big maple climbing tree, and that it wouldn't be scary to climb it.

Miss Lord

When me and my sister were kids, we thought all food had to either be a vegetable or an animal. One day at dinner we had pizza, and got into an arguement over whether it was vegetable or animal.

I said it was a vegetable, and pictured things like watermelons growing on trees, and when you sliced them, that's where pizza came from. But my sister said pizza was an animal. I dont know how she could've thought that, but it's funny to imagine little pizzas on legs running around and people hunting them...

Anon

when i was about 5 my sister told me that kiwis were elephant poop

kelli putnam

I thought chicken's feet were witch's hands

Edward

I thought The moon was made in honey.
Why?
On our french honey pots it said 'lune de miel'
wich means literally moon of honey. (even though I knew bees made honey)
I later realised it meant 'honeymoon'
lol.
(i soo wanted to go on the moon)

Kerridwen

My brother told me that if i planted M&Ms in the ground, I would get and M&M tree and i actually beliebed him until my mom told me otherwise

Anon

My mother in law used to tell my husband when he was a kid while they were at the grocery store to make sure he got all the extra air out of the produce bags that way she didn't have to pay for it. So he would squeeze and twist the bag as much as he could. This went on for a couple years. I am so going to use that one on our kids.

Robyn

I use to think that garlic was green in garlic butter until I found out that is was chopped parsley :)

Kellie

Until I was about 12 or 13 years old, I had never seen an olive anywhere other than in a cocktail. The first time I ate an olive, I was extremely surprised at the absence of a pimento, and the presence of a pit. That's right, I thought pimentos grew inside olives naturally.

Tarkaan

I used to call croutons "concretes" because they were so crunchy, I thought they were made of concrete.

Scary Dream

I used to think that grilled cheese sandwiches were "girl cheese" because mom always offered me them, and that if my dad were ever to get one it would be a "boy cheese"

Lexi

I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.

Karl Goetz

(Not my story) As a child, my mother told me the last bite of food on my plate was the "special bite." This was a clever trick (which worked) and got me to finish my food almost everytime!

WEBBMD

Growing up back east, we often had cold-cut sandwiches of tongue. It was my mother's favorite. One day I asked her, "Mom, why do they call it "tongue" - that's kind of funny, don't you think?" When she told me that it really was sliced tongue from a cow, I stopped eating it. Years later I realized it was because I couldn't bear the thought of tasting something that was tasting me back!

Michael (from Massachusetts)

I used to think that if I mixed my ice cream around until it was liquid and then baked it, it would turn into a cake.

Judy

At a diner when the waiter would say "soup or salad?" i thought he was saying "super salad" and i always wanted to see what a super salad was and how it was different from a regular one.

Anon

When I was little, I believed making things "out of scratch" (such as baked goods) meant you thought really hard about what you wanted and scratched the air and it would appear after awhile. I tried it a couple times too.

Anon

i used to believe that white chocolate was made from lobsters

Anon