general

when i was younger i thought that the mcdonalds drive through ordering boxes actually had someone squished inside when you were putting through your order. once, when i was in the back seat and the guy asked "would you like fries with that?" i yelled out "are you ok in there? do you get to have a stretch a now and again?"

Tina

I used to think doner kebabs were called that because the animals donated their meat for it

Jordan

My mum always used to give me Vitamin C tablets in the morning, but whenever she said it to me, I thought she was saying 'Vitamin SEED tablets', and I thought the tablets were made of loads of really tiny seeds that made little vitamin trees grow inside your body.

Anon

When I was 4, my mom told me not to eat in bed because then we would get ants from the crumbs. I thought crumbs were really ant eggs and that all the food we ate was made of ant eggs.

Anon

When my cousin and I were elementary school age, she tried to convince me to stop eating McDonalds chicken nuggets because they were made out of pumpkin guts. I'm not really sure what pumpkin guts even are, but the thought of it scared me from chicken nuggets for a while.

Anon

When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.

Jake

When I was 6, the ice cream truck was nearby and this boy and I wanted to get some. A friend told us that she didn't eat ice cream from the ice cream truck because none of the ice cream truck drivers wash their hands.

I didn't buy ice cream from the ice cream truck till I was 18.

Anon

Whenever we ate shepherd's pie for dinner my mam would tell me that there was a shepherd in every shepherd's pie so that I'd eat it, since I didn't like the dish. When I was finished but hadn't found the shepherd, my dad would say that he'd eaten it by mistake. This fooled me for years.

MD

I used to think that hummus was made out of eggs because I heard that hummus was made out of chickpeas and I assumed thay were eggs.

Anon

That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!

Anon

I used to think a brothel was another word for a soup kitchen.

Anon

When I was a child, I used to believe that garbagemen ate the food that we threw away. If I couldn't finish my food I would say that I was "leaving it for the garbageman".

Anon

When I was three I was always too busy playing to eat, so my mom told me there was a tiger in my tummy growling to be fed, and if I didn't feed it it would run away.

Anon

I used to think tree-nuts (especially almonds) were made of wood.

Josh

My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...

Trusting little brother

I used to believe that grilled cheese was called 'girl cheese,' and only girls could eat it.

Paige

My sister thought that soy sauce was called soil sauce because it was made out of soil. She still ate it though. In fact she loved it.

Catherine

i used to believe that if i didn't eat all my vegetables that those thrown away would get lonely. if i didn't eat them all, i would leave an even number, so each would have a companion if they got split up.

leslie

When I was in secondary school studying home economics ("food technology" to more 'modern day' students or just plain 'cookery' to older ones), we had to prepare a full breakfast. I got the mistaken belief that I somehow invented hot buttered toast.

Well, I had never seen it before and therefore it was a 'new invention' for a 12 year old... But I am *so* glad now that I didn't actually reveal it to anyone...

Richy C.

I used to believe that if you didn't eat all of your veggies that the ones left on the plate would miss their friends who had gone into your stomach. Because I couldn't bear to think of them being sad I always cleaned my plate. Actually I still feel terrible tossing out left overs...

Not as fat as I could be