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I used to believe that we got sausages from pulling them out of pigs bums - all neat and tidy. Mmm

L. Webb

I used to believe eggs were a substitute for a lost bouncy-ball. I would try to bounce the eggs on the living room floor, and when they would crack, I'd assume that egg was "defective" and grab another. Eventually, I figured out that eggs don't bounce but I'd still try it, yknow, 'just in case'.

Jen

I used to think that a head of lettuce was called a head of salad because my mom used to ask me to make the salad for dinner and I thought lettuce was called salad because no one used the word lettuce. I thought this until I was about 11.

Janice

My dad told me that if I eat lots of bananas, I'll be able to whistle. I ate tons of bananas and I totally believed him. I can whistle and my brother still can't! Guess he should have eaten more bananas!!

Lorena

I once asked my mom what the bumps were on potatoes, snd she told me they were called eye's. (Which they are, but my understanding was a bit different...) I actually thought they could see you. Which made me believe everything had eyes, even the vacuum. Wow, what an imagination.

Leanne

My father is 50 years old, and is FIRMLY convinced that raisins and prunes grow on trees. I've tried several times to convince him that they're really dried grapes and plums, but with no success.

Lovely Mira

When I was younger, my dad gave me some barbeque chips and said "there hot so dont eat alot of them!". I took one of them and i ate it and then I said "Wow that is hot!". Then I walked over to the fridge and put them in the freezer. When my dad asked what I was doing I told they were to hot so I was cooling them off...

Shane

When I was younger I was told, by my aunt, that stuffing is the inside of a turkey( heart, liver, ect..). Despite this belief every Thanksgiving I would eat it until I would begin thinking about what it was and get a little nauseous, especially if I had a particularly moist portion. It wasn't until this past thanksgiving which was after my 17th birthday that I was told the truth. But if you think about it thats not to bad because my aunt really thought it was the insides of a turkey and shes 38.

Steped

when my son was younger he would never eat pizza at pizza hut because of those old commercials withe the face on the pizza!he said it hurts the pizzas feelings...and it will kill them.

gerkie

My Mum used to tell me to "eat all my dinner - just think of the starving children in Africa, they'd be very grateful to have your dinner." So I got quite confused when I was told off for not finishing what was on my plate because I thought that what I left would go to the starving children in Africa.

Anon

I used to believe that if you planted a feather in the garden it would grow an egg. Little did I know my dad would sneak out in the middle of the night and put an egg under the feather.

CA

When i was little, i used to think that brocolli were mini trees, so i tried planting one one time.

Stacey

My little brother used to believe that if something was pictured on a bottle, that something was used to make the food (for instance, rabbits were a key ingredient in the molasses brand that had a rabbit pictured on the front). So when he saw a bottle of Grandma's Molasses for the first time with that cute picture of a little old lady... well, he freaked out a little bit.

Brooke

As a self-respecting boy, I refused to order grilled cheese sandwiches, thinking them to be called "girled cheese sandwiches." Hence I always asked the waitress for a "boyed cheese sandwich."

Imran J. Ahmad

i used to belive that if you found a peanut in smooth peanut butter you could sue the peanutbutter company for false advertisment

Anon

My family is Italian and we've always had Italian food in the house. When I was little in the early 70's, some types of food were hard to come by in England or very expensive, at least. Parmesan cheese was one of these expensive items, so, kindly, my parents used to tell my sister and I that if you ate too much Parmesan it gave you worms. I believed it for years and years and years. Ridiculous eh!!!

Fran

When i was a wee kid, i hated sugar (still hate it) and when i complained to my mom that the milk was too sweet, she always told me to mix the milk counterclockwise, making it less sweet...

Panda

I thought that if you ate too many Pringles, you would look like that head on the can. I didn''t want to be bald with a huge mustache so I stopped eating them.

karrie

I used to think that hot dogs were cooked dogs

Im Fat!

When I was 5 my brother convinced me that Shredded Wheat were small furry animals that lived in Scotland. I'm still a bit edgy now when I have them at home.

Rachael