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Eating food from a different ethnicity will alter your genes so that your race will change to that ethnicity within 24 hours.

MDC

I used to believe that my mother would sometimes cook and serve 'lamb snakes', being mean snakes that ate lambs, that were so mean they deserved to be cooked and eaten. I was about 8 years old when I realized they were 'lamb steaks'.

Teri

I used to order "girl cheese sandwiches" from the local restaurant. It seemed right because they were pretty small, made for little girls like me. I was a bit disappointed to find out they were actually "grilled cheese sandwiches".

Susie Derkins

As a child growing up, our Christmas tradition was Christmas Pudding with money in it. Every year at Christmas i got all excited to see how much money i would get. I grew up and moved out of home, and one day i thought about the pudding and thought i still want to do that. I rang Mum and asked her Where do you buy it from. I was crushed when she said she put the money in it and that you dont buy it like that. I was 19. Talk about naive.

Shelley

I used to believe that whenever I ate something, the food would just stack up in my stomach in neat little stacks until it was ready to come out. When my science teacher explained about the digestive system, I told her my stomach was different and that I didn't have a digestive system. I had a food stacker system.

jasonchic

My mom used to make grilled cheese sandwiches with Velveeta, and when I was young, there was a girl on the Velveeta box. For many years I thought they were "girl cheese sandwiches".

Angie

In 1957 I was 7 years old. I remember seeing a bottle of Heinz 57 sauce and was certain the year was part of the product's name. When Janaury, 1958 rolled around, I was positive that the bottles would say Heinz 58 - when they weren't changed I was VERY disappointed!

Lucy Andris

I used to believe that beef was buffalo meat. I didn't know it was cow. I found out in the tenth grade when my best friend said something about it. I was too embarassed to ask her more so I looked it up in the dictionary. Sure enough, beef is cow, not buffalo.

S.C.

I used to believe believe that the bottle Mrs. Butterworth syrup came in was a real person. I wouldn't let my parents buy any other syrup for years and often talked to her as I ate my pancakes.

Anon

When I first started reading labels on cereal boxes, I was fascinated with everything they had to say, but i was confused as to why many of them said "Sugar Free". I finally decided that the cereal companies had some extra sugar and that we could call them for some. :)

Ben

I used to beleive that if i was eating cheerios or any other kind of cereal that I couldn't leave just one floating in the milk. If there were two or three left I had to scoop them all into my spoon, i thought the last cheerio would be lonely going into my stomach all by himself. To this day, that is still how I eat my cereal (I'm 22)

Anon

I used to think that if I planted enough cheerios in the ground I would eventually have a cheerio tree. I would even plant and fed it milk because I thought it would grow faster and when it's done the milk would be inside the cheerio as well.

Justin

When I was fairly young, I got it into my head that pepperoni was some kind of vegetable. I think I read somewhere that vegetarians kids liked pizza, which of course to an eight year old means pepperoni. I asked my mom about it, and she, being funny, said, "Sure pepperoni grows on trees." I believed her (still not quite sure how I ended up being considered "gifted") I am ashamed to say I was probably about 12 or 13 before I figured it out.

Jeibear

My siblings and I used to believe...

...that broccoli and cauliflower were actually little trees.

...that the "beans" in the middle of green beans were sleeping pills. [I have NO idea where we got that idea!]

...that it was possible to eat so much that you'd become full all the way to the top of your skull. We all claimed to have reached this state on many occasions.

K.H.

I used to think that if you eat pig heart, you could grow another heart and be twice as healthier.

Anon

My friend loved blueberries when he was itty-bity, but then his evil older then his sisters told him thatthe ragged tops of the blueberries were spider legs! He now hates blueberries, and won't eat them unless forced by his mommy! ; )

M*A*S*H GIRL

As a very small child shopping with my mother, I saw my mum put a can of tuna in the shopping trolley with a picture of a dolphin on the side (meaning it was dolphin free tuna). I, however, thought it meant it contained dolphins and went into complete hysterics.

Anon

My mom used to use a ricer to mash potatoes. The potatoes come out in a thin stream, and I thought that you cut the stream in little pieces and that's how you got rice.

Charity :)

It never ocurred to me in my childhood that vanilla and white chocolate are completely different flavors. After all, they're both white...

Anon

I used to think Tomato soup was Lava.

Daniel Green