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I used to believe that after eating Ready Brek I would glow, but that only adults could see it.

michelle

I used to believe that pink lemons were used to make pink lemonade. I once saw them in an ad for a particular brand of lemonade and believed ever forth that they existed and I just couldn't find them anywhere.

K Mae

When I was in preschool, the class bully told me that peas were actully cow boogers. Still won't eat peas.

Ren

My parents told me that scotch eggs were laid by a Haggis.

sarah c

My parents used to own a Restaurant. I belived the lobsters in the tank were pets.

Ned

i used to hard-boil eggs, and keep them as my children. if one of them cracked or started to smell, i would have a funeral for it in the back yard. each egg had a name and birthday. i also had to feed them and change them. apparently, they woke me up in the nite because they were crying too.....
i was such a weird kid

Krista

I used to think condiments had feelings and they knew when I took one out of the fridge that I liked that one over the others. I felt so guilty I had to use all of them on my sandwiches. Even though I hated mustard, I'd put a tiny dot on my sandwich so it wouldn't feel bad. That goes for having to use Miracle Whip and relish too!

little_person

I used to believe that if a can of tuna had the words "Dolphin Safe" on the label, it meant there were no chunks of dolphin in the tuna.

Jessica Tinch

I used to believe that there was a brand of cake mix called "scratch" because my mom used to tell me she made her cakes from scratch. I always thought there were cake mix boxes with a "scratch" label, like Betty Crocker.

Lisa

when I was about 12 I convinced my 4 year old neighbor that Kix cereal was in fact dog food. This was helped by the fact that the box had clifford the big red dog on it and the fact that she couldn't read.

Joy

I thought french fries were really invented in France (they are Belgian for those who don't know)

Quarm

When I was little, my mom made lots of spaghetti and meatballs. She told me meatballs came from a special place. So for the next few years, I thought that testicles, albeit well-processed, were in my spaghetti. That stuff freaked me out, man.

Cronus

THat Cheesecake was actually made of cheese. I was 18 when I found out it wasn't!

R

I used to think I had to eat two biscuits or two mini choc bars at a time because if I only ate one it would be lonely. Poor little biscuit, getting digested all on its own . . . sniffle.
I do not believe this now, but eating two biscuits at a time has become a habit. No wonder I'm so fat.

Rachel

I used to believe that honey was made from bees' pee when they drank too much water.

Anon

Where I come from you can buy bags of ice cubes from the supermarket. they were called polarbear ice cubes, for years i believed they were little blocks of frozen polar bear.

emily

My mom used to say 'Let me see your eyes' to see if we were too full to eat our vegetables. She said she could tell how many more bites we had room for just by looking at our eyes, and all three of us believed her!

Grayangel77

When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.

Jamie

This is the funniest memory from middle school, 8th grade, that I have:
My best friend and I were goofing around in our history class as usual. We were studying Napoleon (no, not Dynamite! :-P) Bonaparte and after our teacher read us the chapter about him, he told us to work on our packets as usual. Well, we started working on them together when she says to me "I don't see why they named an ice cream after Napoleon. He sounds mean to me." and I said "Yeah I wonder why too! I could never figure it out!" So when our teacher walked past us, we flagged him downn asking "Why does Napoleon have an ice cream named for him?" He looked at us and said "What are you talking about?" and we say "You know! Napoleon ice cream! The kind with the chocolate, strawberry and vanilla in the same box!" (We seriously thought he was messing with us by pretending not to know.) He put his face into his hands, trying not to laugh and said "NO, that's Neopolitan ice cream! Not Napoleon ice cream!" (He was astounded that we had the same thought about that ice cream!) Naturally we couldn't concentrate for the rest of class because we were laughing too hard over the truth of the ice cream. (It still brings us to tears when we think of it!) :-D

Bubbles :-)

Growing up in the southeastern U.S., my first experience with "French fries" and "hush puppies" was at a "fish camp", the kind of rustic seafood reataurant known by that name in that region. Since it was a seafood restaurant, I thought that those things must be two items of seafood. So I spent much time wondering what the sea cretters "French fries" and "hush puppies" looked like when they were alive. Eventually I learned that not everything that is conventionally part of a "seafood dinner" in those parts is really seafood. I was somewhat disillusioned to learn that French fries are actually fried strips of potato and hush puppies are fried balls of cornmeal. My romantic notions of seafood could perhaps have been sustained a bit longer if someone had told me that those two items were actually parts of the same kind of sea monster -- the French fries coming from around the monster's eyes and the hush puppies being pieces of its ears.

Shannon