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Ok, up until I was like 14 or 15 I believed that spam was whale meat. It was only when Mum and I were shopping and we came into the aisle and I said "I don't think they should be allowed to sell whale meat, aren't they protected species?" My mum burst out laughing and didn't stop until we got home, then she told everyone and they still laugh at me if it comes up in conversation.

Anon

At first, I only knew about chocolate truffles, and knew nothing about the mushrooms with the same name until I was about ten. I assumed they were the same thing, and proceeded to ask my dad "How do they turn the mushrooms into chocolate?". I was so embarrased when he burst out laughing!

Jacqui

When i was younger, I went to a friends house for dinner. Her parents made chicken and carrots, and i never ate any vegetables. then her dad told me that vegetables made you run fast. so i ate them and ran around their yard. i thought it was the fastest I'd ever run!

IAmNotInsane

My wifes father had told her as a child that corned beef hash was a traditional dish for (H)Ash Wednesday. It was only when she told me and I nearly crashed the car laughing she realised.

GabronUK

In Massachusetts there used to be an ad on TV by the Farming Association. The jingle went "Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh!"

For years and years I believed that all eggs, everywhere, start out brown, and turn white in transport. Therefore, brown eggs are fresher because you know they came from some chicken closeby and was recently lain.

It wasn't until I got to college in New York and found with disgust that all the available eggs were white, that I realized how deeply this prejudice against white eggs had been ingrained. I was 19 and had to consciously remind myself that white eggs are not, by definition, almost rotten.

Sarah

To get me to eat my veggies, my mom told me that rabbits could see really well in the dark, like night vision, because they ate so many carrots. I would watch my pet rabbit, Ozzy, at night to see if he did anything special with his night vision. His eyes glowed red so I got very excited.
The next day I ate a ton of carrots and stayed up past dark trying to see if my eyes would glow red.

Amber

I used to hang out with this really mean girl who was about 3 years older than me because my parents were friends with her parents, etc. I stayed overnight at her house once, and for breakfast her mom said I could have whatever I wanted. I wanted the cinnamon toast crunch cereal. The girl said that was HER cereal and I couldn't have any because it had medicine in it. From then on, I didn't want to buy cinnamon toast crunch cereal because I thought doctors had to prescribe it!

Jade

When I was little, my science teacher taught us that there are bacteria in the air and water. So, I used to believe that, when I was very hungry, I could just breathe in deep and eat all the bacteria in the air for food.

Mike

When my daughters wre in grade school, they cured hams for a 4-H project. After the judging as the county fair, something was said about hams being pork, from pigs. "Oh, no," my youngest daughter said, "Hams come from ham animals!"
Her belief was that the shank end of the ham was the "ham animal's" neck. To make a ham from a "ham animal" you cut off the head and legs, which left the round, fat body of the animal.

March Warn

one year for halloween, my mom decided to make over our apartment into a "haunted apartment"...she put ketchup on my favorite baby doll and said it was blood...i was convinced ketchup was baby doll's blood and belive it or not, i didn't even eat ketchup again until i was 15!

ariel

When I was little I used to think that the "use by"/"best before" dates on food products were actually the date when the food was made! I thought that a lot of the food had been made in the future somehow...

Sarah W

When I was around 4 - 5 years , I used to eat lots of cookies. My mom fed with my habit told me i will become really really fat if I continue to eat lot of cookies.

One day , I saw a pregnant women and i cried out loudly to her - "I know what u did to get so fat"

Surya S

i thought all meat was chicken. If my mom was cooking some kind of meat for supper, ham, beef, anything, i'd ask "what kind of chicken is that?"

Bee

My mom would get on our case if we left food stains around the house. She would say, "Clean that up or it will draw ants!". For the longest time, I kept thinking that the food stain would somehow form pictures of ants that would come alive.

Anon

I used to think that rice grains were little pieces of pasta, rather than naturally forming grains.

Richard Davies

I thought i had to chew my food 27 times before i could swallow because Stephanie said it on Full House

Anon

when I was a kid, I begged my parents to buy me Kellogg's 'Corn Pops' cereal... I honestly believed that unlike other, boring cereals, they actually popped out of the 'O' just like on the commercial.

I actually cried.

Randi

Aswell as believeing that my toys came to life when I wasn't looking, I also thought the fruit and veg in the fridge did too so I always used to yank the door open quickly to catch them, or I'd spend ages looking in the fridge with the door only slightly open hoping to trick them into coming alive.

Anon

I used to believe that when you pulled up to the box at the fast food window (where the food choices are listed) that inside the box sat a little person taht took everyones order.

TelephoneLady

When I was little, i thought after you were done eating at a resturant the waiters would eat all the food that was left over.

aubree