general

I disliked onions. My mum used to buy special 'turnip onions' and for years I believed this was a real type of vegetable!

Emma D

My father never liked onions so we never ate them. Conesquently whenever we ate at McDonald's and I had my Juniorburger I thought the little pieces of onion were rice.

Emma

Once, when I was about 8 years old, my mom allowed me to make a batch of brownies from a box mix. The directions said, "Stir by hand" so that is what I did: I stuck my hand in the bowl of batter to stir. My mom and I both got a good laugh out of that one.

juner

My brother and I used to believe (because our mom told us so) that Zoom cereal would make you run faster. We would run up and down the hallway and ask if we were any faster than before. 

Becka 

'Girl Cheese Sandwich'. Sadly, it wasn't until I was 20 years old looking at a restaurant menu that I saw the printing 'Grilled Cheese Sandwich' and let out a big "Ohhhhhhhhhh".

KC

One time we went to a restaurant, and my dad took my sister (who was about 4) to see the lobster tank. She asked him how the restaurant could tell the girl lobsters from the boy lobsters. THinking fast, my dad said that the boy lobsters had blue rubber bands and the girl lobsters had pink ones.

She announced this to her class at school the next day. And she believe it well until she got into high school.

Jim Thomason...

1) that jingle from the ice-cream van means they've run out.

2) I have a pudding stomach (I convinced my kids of this) because even when I'm full up and I can't eat anymore main course, I can always eat a pudding.

3) based in how it is when it melts, my step daughter told the waitress that the sorbet she was eating was 'slug spit'.

binz

I used to believe that joints of beef were cylindrical, not realising that they were rolled. When my mother asked me how I thought they got that shape of meat out of a cow I said 'with a hole-puncher'. I then had a dream about cows on a conveyor belt with these massive hole-punchers rising and falling.

Paul.

As a child, we always had strawberries and raspberries growing in the garden. During the winter, my mother sometimes bought tinned fruit and, for several years, I believed that the tinned fruits were artificial and made in a factory! You can't blame me because they taste so different to the fresh fruit!

Sigrid

When I was a child, my Mom told me that carrots had vitamins in them. I tried and tried to see them and was sure if I kept eating them that one day I would find a vitamin tablet inside.

Anon

When I was 8 or so, I misheard my aunt ordering dumplings at a Chinese restaurant. I thought she said "Duckings."

I wouldn't eat dumplings until I was 15, when one of my friends managed to convince me that they weren't actually made from baby ducks.

jeni

I used to think that if I held the cold drink in my glass above the hot food on my plate, it would effectively cool down the food.

Matt

When I was little, to get me to eat my, siblings told me there were people partying in my stomach. I had to eat food so they could eat and the party could keep going.

Jonas

When I was little, I used to beleive that those white mushrooms you buy at the store would make me grow big like they did Mario in the video games. I knew the ones in the yard weren't good though.

Camille Noire

I used to believe that pineapples grew on palm trees.

mel

when i was little i thought that grilled cheese sandwiches were called 'girl cheese sndwiches', so i would always scream "No, i want boy cheese sandwiches!" when my dad asked me if i wanted some grilled cheese sandwiches.

James

I used to belive that haggis was a creature in the scottish highlands that had short back legs and long front legs and ran up hills only to fall down again. It was about the size of a rabbit. My history teacher told me this and he also said that there were official haggis-hunting seasons. So sad.

Confoozed

My sister had a friend who believed for the longest time that they made rice-pudding with fish eyes
my dad used to tell me that the dark specks in vanilla bean ice-cream were bug feet that had been left behind by bugs who landed on it.

Anon

I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.

Toinette'

i used to think that stepping on a banana peel could make you do a backflip. i absolutely HATED bananas, but i would open one, eat one bite, and hide the rest somewhere around the house. then, i would put the banana peel down on the floor (carpet, take a running start, and jump on the peel. it never worked, and i always ended up grinding slimy banana peel into the carpet. i never gave up, though.

kate