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I used to believe that they got the lunchmeat bologna from cutting off dead people's butts.

angie

When I was about 7 years old, my family was having a spaghetti dinner. I was noisily slurping my spaghetti in my mouth when my dad stopped eating and put down his fork. He looked at me with a serious look on his face and asked me if I had a license to slurp my spaghetti. I timidly told him no. He told me that if I didn't stop right away that the food police would come arrest me. I never slurped spaghetti again!

Anon

to get me to eat all my food, my mom used to tell me that a little grandma was in my stomach baking cookies and she needs all the ingredients on my plate to make the best chocolate cookies ever!!!!

kelly

When I was younger I always wanted blue eyes like my best friend. I used to believe if I listened to mum and ate my cheese sandwiches my eyes would turn blue! It took about three years for me to work out it wasn't true!

Nousha

This is from an old friend of mine. When her oldest brother was little, he was crying at school all day, and his mom had to come to the school to see what was wrong.

He had seen the "Cream of Wheat" commercial where the cereal stayed with you all day, and a cartoon of the cereal bowl followed you all over.

He was upset because the cereal didn't follow him to school.

Anon

That Fish Fingers came from The Man from Atlantis and my mum said that it was ok to eat them because he had the power of a starfish and so could grow them back again! I think I had figured out the truth when he became Bobby Ewing in Dallas!

Steve O'Grady

When I learned that raisins were dried up grapes, I thought that I could reverse the process, so I put a raisin in a cup of water and waited for it to grow back into a grape.

Molly

When I was a child, my parents used to tell us that if dropped bread or toast landed butter side down, it was lucky! It wasn't until I was a parent myself that I realized this was simply a technique to avoid wasting food.

Anthony Saxton

I used to believe that bananas were made in factories because I didn't think they had seeds. When a classmate told me that he lived near a banana factory I said Wow do they make bananas there? He said No mate, they package them. Bananas grow... @_@

Educated Moron

-I used to beleive that when you ate too muck ketchup, you would start bleeding from your nose.
-I was just 8 years old.....but now i eat all i want and i know ts not true : )

MG

when i was about 7 years old my dad took us for some food to long john silvers. which was odd because we never ate there. he said they had come out with something new. so i went along,never asking what it was. as my father and sister arrived up to the counter, my dad said he wanted an order of butterfly shrimp. well after i heard that i started screaming and crying. thinking it was actually real butterflies.my dad tried to calm me down as my sister and him looked so embarrassed. i think i may have even called my dad a murderer. well i was crying and crying and my dad couldn't calm me down so he just left me alone and sat down and stated eating them, and as he was eating them i cried more and more. i didnt understand for a couple years what actually butterfly shrimp were.

brigitte

somehow this conversation popped up about how senor citizens get discounts at restaurants. well I asked my mom what a senor discount was and she told me that "older people" get food for cheaper because they're retired. So I thought the older you are the cheaper food was at a restaurant.

Well when I went to a buffet my mom told me them I was 4 so I would get in cheaper. I really was 4, but I told them I was 7. She asked me why I would lie about my age, and I replied "dont i get a discount because im retarded?"

Anon

when my dad would cook breakfast for me, he would give me burnt toast and tell me that i had to eat it so that i would get tan like him (he is of mediterranean descent but, apparently, the olive skin gene didn't get transmitted to me). i wanted to be just like him, so i dutifully ate whatever burnt toast he gave me...and started eating burnt toast on my own. it didn't work (i'm still pasty white) and it was only years later that i realized that my dad couldn't cook and just said that so i would eat the things that he burnt!

anon.

i used to believe if you liked the color red the you had to like katchup and if u liked the color yellow then u had 2 like mustard

-me-

when i was little, my parents would sometimes make eggs for me for breakfast. it was ok when my mom did it, but my dad always managed to get little pieces of the shell in it, which i thought were nuts. so i'd ask him each time to please make the eggs without nuts, and of course he had no idea what i was talking about.

Anon

I used to think the reason people cried when they cut onions was because the onions were alive and who ever was cutting them was killing them.

I also thought the reason we praid before a meal (with onions in it) was TO pay our respect to the onions!

anon

when i was eight years old or so, my family and i were at a resturant trying to decide what to eat when i asked my mom "why do they call it girl cheese (grilled cheese) instead of boy cheese?". i never got a response

Cody

My upstairs neighbour as used to bring home bags of runner beans home every week and he used to give some to us. One day i asked him wher he got them from. He said i catch them in the park during the night.

The next week he took me with fishing nets anall and there was i running around the park tring to catch runner beans in my net ... never did catch any

but to this day im still sure i saw some.

mark

My sister and brother in law don't like Salt and Vinegar flavour crisps, so they told their son (my nephew) that they are "special crisps" just for him, and he eats them, leaving his parents to eat the nicer ones like Cheese and Onion.

Pritch

I used to believe that all dessert was birthday cake.

David