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When I was around 7 one day at my grandma's house I was eating Mc Donalds when I found some Ketchup packets at the bottom They said "Fancy Ketchup" on the front. I wondered why it said "Fancy" Ketchup and after a while of thinking I assumed it was really rare expensive Ketchup that was supposed to taste extra delicious. With that thought planted in my mind I tried it and would stop in between bites to tell my granparents how good the ketchup tasted. When they asked me why I told them

"Because its FANCY ketchup!"

To this day Mc Donalds still serves the Fancy Ketchup and I still laugh when I think about it

Nina [3

Around the age of six, I got a piece of gum stuck in my hair... my mom got it out using peanut butter. This made me jump to the conclusion that peanut butter was NOT a food, but gum-remover. I was shocked to see my best friends eating 'hair remover' sandwiches at lunch the next day...

Jade

i used to believe that girls only liked candy that was colored pink or purple...and boys didn't like the flavor because it was girl colors...so they only ate candy that was blue, green, yellow or orange

kelly

I used to believe that tripe was a kind of fish. Growing up in New England my mother prepared pickled tripe regularly. One day in a restaurant with my parents and a young friend I ordered pickled tripe. My buddy asked what it was and I explained that it was like a trout and that the swam upstream to spawn.

Dave

My mother used to make the same dessert every night, which was crushed pineapple and junket (like opaque jelly). My sister and I would ask her every dinnertime "what's for dessert?" and she would say "Wait and see". I thought that pineapple and junket was called 'wait and see' and that it was similar to 'curds and whey" (which sounded like it would have been similar).

Penny M

i used to think honey came from smashed up bees

Sabrina

When I was younger I used to think that if I broke food in half all the calories would fall out. I wish that was true..

Ali

I used to believe that in the middle of string cheese there was an actual string and I didn't want to eat it. One day I pulled it all apart without eating it. When I didn't find a string I asked my parents where it was and why I couldn't find it.

Anon

My parents used to tell me that eating all my dinner would make me big and strong, and that when you go to the toilet, your body automatically does away with anything that's bad for you. I ate more than anyone else and now I'm a fat biffer.

Jimbo

My dad told me long macaroni grew on bushes and that spagetti was the thing left when you drilled the whole in the macaroni

Eva

When I was little, my mother told me that the black olives on pizza were mushrooms and since I liked mushrooms, I ate them.

Angie, BC, Canada

When I was young my Dad told me that a hagis was a type of hedgehog with 2 legs shorter than the other so they could run ALONG hills in Scotland!

helen.

i used to believe that food that had "best before" printed on it, was a product that they used to make better in the old days. never quite understood why they decided on the decrease in quality, and still being honest enough to print it on the package.

øyvind

If i didn `t eat my dinner I would become ugly when I grew up. My neighbour told me so, and since she was ugly I belived her.

Elin

My father told me that Cheetos were actually "Cheesetoes"-severed, deep fried, and flavored toes from a human...damn yummy, though. I still love them.

Tiffene

I was told as a kid that if I ate my broccoli, a tree would start to grow on the other side of the world. And, because broccoli looks like little trees, I believed it. I still love broccoli.

Meow Kitty

I used to think that my mom had to buy ice cubes from the store and bring them home to fill up the trays.

Shawna

After opening a tin of baked beans, and putting them in a pan, I would always leave 3 or 4 in the bottom of the tin thinking that i was helping them to escape a fate worse than being eaten. I would imagine them jostling in the bottom of the tin so that they would be the ones to be left. Im sure i could hear them cheering as i put the tin in the bin!!

Joan Mitchell

When I was about 8 years old, my brother used to tell me weird storys...
one of the consequence of his storys was that I used to belive that people cry when they cut onion because when they cut the onion they remember the "onion man" that died very young, and they get sad when remembering the story and start crying...

Eyal B

when i was a little kid my mom tried everything to get me to eat egg salad sandwiches. she finally decided to tell me that only older people liked them, and that they were often called "high-school sandwiches" because of their raging popularity among the hig-school kids. needless to say, i was convinced, and eventually grew to love the high-school sandwich. unfortunately, i was quite embarrassed when was informed (in my 20's no less) that the name was merely a ploy used by my mom to get a gullible young boy to eat his food. i was still using the term at the time of my disturbing discovery.

joel