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When I was a kid, my older brother told me that if I touched an uncooked potato, in my sleep I would turn into a giant potato and my family would eat me. That is to say, I never touched a potato or potato product (including fries) till I was about 11.

Crystal I

When I was about 5, my older brother told me that Kiwi fruits were actually cute little animals that were curled up tight like a hedgehog.
When we went to the grocer a while later, I managed to get a hold of a kiwi and tried to pry it open so that I could play with it.
Needless to say, it just broke open...but I was absolutey horrified! I started screaming and shreiking and causing a huge rukus. When my mom came sprinting over to see what had happened, I started sobbing about how I had "killed the poor kiwi".

I was inconsolable for hours!

maddkow

when i was little i thought coco pops were all friends so i had to convince them with my brain not to worry and that they'd all be with their friends when they got to my tummy!

lauren

I used to believe that life preservers and preserves (as in jam) were the same. I asked my mother how could we use the preserves to save a life, and she didn't understand why I made that assumption.

Linda from Los Angeles

In an effort to make me eat sprouts my mum used to tell me they were fairy cabbages. Since I believed in fairies that might have worked, except that I hated cabbage.

Nic

Sometimes, when you order pizza, the pizza makers put something in the middle of the pizza that sort of looks like a little table. To this day I have no idea what it's for, but when I was little, I used to believe it was a table for a dollhouse, and was included with the pizza as the meal's free toy!

Freezair

I used to believe that "Old Dutch" potato chips were called "Old Ouch" because the old-style "D" looked like an "O," and words that have "tch" are pronounced the same as "ch." I never even noticed the T. I believed it until, one day in sixth grade, I was telling my mom something about them, and I said "Old Ouch" and she didn't know what I meant. She still teases me about it sometimes.

Roxxi

I use to believe that if you ate too much grapes, you'd get drunk.

Grace

I was convinced as a child that the Navel station was where you got your belly button checked. (not sure what for). When my parents said that was not what happened there; my sister and I assumed it then must have something to do with oranges.

orangebutton

When I was about 4 or 5, I used to think that if you ate angel-hair pasta, you would turn into an angel. I was terrified.

Kaitlyn

I used to believe that Ham came from Hens, and that Hens were a completely different animal, not related to poultry.

Laura

When I was little, I had asked my Aunt for a glass of water around midnight. She told me that she wouldn't get it, because if she opened the refrigerator door, the light from the fridge would go on, and wake up the food, because it was alive. For the longest time, I really thought that the food was alive, and would refuse to open the fridge at night. Little did I know, that she just didn't want to get up.

Deanna

when i was young i used to eat bananas all the time. Until one day my brother told me they were moldy giant spider legs. I still have trouble looking at bananas the same way.

Anon

When I was little I used to think that when you ate food that it would just keep building up inside your body. Like, when you first ate, it would go to your toes and keep going up to your leg, exc. exc.

...Someone...

I used to belive that if a label said free, like fat "free" or sodium "free" , the company selling the food would pay for all of the fat or sodium in the food. I didnt realize that there was actually no fat in the product and then started to think food companies were cheap telling you they would pay for a portion of the food and not even put it in. I belived this until I was 12.

sammy

When I was small I believed that one Piece of cheese was called a chee. and a group of sheep were called sheeps, and fish fishes ect!!!

samantha

I love beef and broccoli and as a kid to get me to eat it all my mother told me that the white things in it were white carrot slices. In the first few months of dating my now wife I mentioned that there were not a lot of white carrots in a particular beef and broccoli dish, after much laughter she told me they were bamboo shoots not white carrots.

Anon

That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!

Nicole

When i was young, i used to believe that when i ate a stone, a tree would grow in my stomach

-yacine-91-

I used to believe that cookie monster actually ate all of the cookies really fast. When my parents pointed out that he would just break them up and throw them all over, I was crushed.

C is for Cookie