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i used to believe that dumplings grew in the garden

Anon

My grandpop had a saying that eating raw radishes would "put hair on your chest" I of course took that literally, and thought for ages that I would grow hair on my chest if I ate a raw radish- now wanted since I'm a girl! up until I was in my 20s and someone explained the expression to me.

Stephanie

When I was little, I thought that big puffy clouds in the sky were actually mashed potatoes.

Anon

when i was a kid i didn't eat yellow part of eggs because i used to believe that it would be chicken in my belly!!!!

Yalda

up until this morning i used to believe that "neapolitan" ice cream was "napoleon" ice cream. I'm 15.

Anon

Because of the resemblance to those cookie straw things that you put in ice cream, I thought you were supposed to bite out of a cinnamon stick and eat it. Imagine my surprise when I tried!

Anon

My dad told me that fig newtons were made from dead flies, explaining that the crunchy bits were the legs. He called them 'fly leg cookies,' so that's what i thought they were called too. (That didn't stop me from eating them as i assumed flies were thus a perfectly acceptable ingredient.) My kindergarten teacher was not impressed when i enlightened my classmates at snack time.

Jess

I used to believe that if I didn't eat my dinner the "dinner police" would come for me. My dad used to go outside and pound on the front door until I ate my dinner.

Ana

We were talking at the dinner table about the difference between butter and margarine. I asked what margarine was made out of and my Dad replied, "wolf fat". I beleived this until i was an adult!

Anon

That the plastic supports in pizza boxes were Tiny Pizza tables for my sisters Barbie Dolls. Took a long time to realize they stop the pizza box from touching the Pizza's center.

Jacob G

not my belief, but my younger sister thinks that she is allergic to any kind of food she just learned about. The current one she thinks she is allergic to is vegan food.

Not Fiona from Shrek

I was told that if you put tomatoes in a fruit bowl, they would turn green apples red, and that was the only way you could get red apples! I was ridiculed by my teacher at junior school for that. Evil witch!

Pauliboy

I used to believe that all eggs had chickens in them and that if you cooked them just a little (which the farmer must have done before selling them) the chickens turned into liquid. If you cooked them more, the chickens turned solid as in hard-boiled eggs.

Anon

When I was a kid and my mom wanted me to eat something I didn't like, she would say "It'll put hair on your chest." As if that's such an attractive quality for a girl! Of course, it's taken me nearly 30 years to finally eat some of the things she wanted me to eat!

kp

When I was in nursery school, a girl told me Jello shook because there was turtle inside. I believed her. I knew that it was illogcal but why would she lie to me? I spent two years in nursery school trying to see the turtle. I never saw one. I still check occasionally-- why would a female lie to me?

Jim from Elkins Park

I used to believe treacle came from pigs. This was an unfortunate cross-pollenation of two kitchen conversations I was listening to at the same time: my grandmother telling me that every part of a pig was usable, even the head and cheeks - and that you could get something (I think the real answer was brawn) by boiling down pigs cheeks. This overlapped with my mother muttering something about treacle, and - no pun intended - it stuck. I thought, until I was about 16 actually, that treacle was made by boiling down pigs cheeks.

John H

As a child was told jelly helped your nails grow strong.
I thought you put the jelly on the end of your fingers. Unknown to me you actully eat the jelly.

ruthie roo

My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.

Linda

Until I was 7, I used to think bananas were a dairy product.

Amplexor

When I was younger my sister and I would sometimes stand out on our deck which looked into the woods eating carrots. My sister would eat a carrot and then tell me she could see through the woods to the street about 1/4 mile away and tell me what color car was driving by at the time. She told me to keep eating carrots and it would improve my eyesight so I could see that far too. I have eaten a lot of carrots in my days but still have yet to see through the woods to the other side.

faithful carrot eater