general

When I was a child, I believed that if I put my left overs in zip lock baggies that they children in third world countried from the commercial would get uncontaminated food.

Danielle

I never wanted to eat tapioca because my dad told me it was made out of fish eggs. I just recently found out that was not true. I'm 19.

Danielle

my dad used to tell me that if I ate in bed that ants would come out at night and eat my eyeballs!

jeps

I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs.

Kayla

I thought that McDonalds were built over underground ketchup deposits, and the little ketchup pumps went underground.

Drew W.

I believed that desserted buildings were full of desserts. Cute little plated pieces of pie Just sitting all over the floor of the building.

ashli

I used to believe a pickle was a smaller version of the cucumber.

Anon

I used to think that artichokes were animals because my mother said we were eating artichoke hearts.

Anon

At my aunt's house, when I was little, I was always messing aroung- touching things, playing with things, even spilling things on the floor.

One day I was playing with neat-looking, push-button salt/pepper dispenser- pushing the black button and making pepper come out all over the floor.

My aunt saw me doing this, and told me to stop. She also said that this would, as she put it, 'make ants.'

By this, I thought that she meant that all the little granules of pepper that were coming out, were going to magically turn into ants if they got left there on the floor.

Anon

When i was little if went shopping say to the Butchers or Grocers (no Supermarkets then) the meat on display or cheese etc had a price on a hefty pin stuck in it and when i watched westerns Gunsmoke or the like and the sheriff said that guys got a price on his head i believed he had a meat pin in or on his head although i never managed to see it lol

Ron marriott

My cousin thought ribs at restaurants were people ribs.

Anon

The moon is full of wotsits.

Anon

I used to believe pretzels were salted wood.

Dan Unknown

I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.

Anon

My grandma used to tell me that if I ate raw sugar I'd get worms in my stomach. My older cousin who I looked up to, even agreed with her.. so I think she got the same story when she was my age.

I guess I didn't care very much, because in order for me to stop eating the sugar, they switched the sugar and salt jars on me. Bleh.. I don't think I've ever eatten raw sugar since. XP

Krista, Pa

I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.

Kent

I used to believe that when you boiled an egg it went soft then hard and if you boiled it to long the yolk went soft again.

Wendy

The first time I heard about people eating frogs legs I was very young and naturally horrified. I thought that all of these frogs had to spend the rest of their lives on crutches!!

Anon

Living in Louisiana, we celebrate Mardi Gras with a King Cake that has a small plastic baby figure placed inside. When I was 8 months pregnant with my third child, I offered a piece of king cake to my two young children. I was explaining to them that the cake had a baby inside of it. Both of them looked confused and refused their piece of cake. Later I realized that there had been lots of discussion about a baby being inside of me, and they were probably thinking the same thing about the cake!

rodene

My nana used to tell me that if i didn't eat all my dinner i would get oliliwogoly-itis where all my toes would turn to marbles, drop off and roll away.

Lizzie