general

I came home from school one day and insisted to my Mum that I'd had conkers for lunch. After a few 'phone calls my Mum found out that we had been given prunes for pudding.

phil

As a child I loved bananas but not the bruised bits so to get me to stop taking it apart and making a mess my parents convinced me that the bruised bits had actually turned into sugar (and I loved sugar) I still like a bruised banana

smallyamy

i used to believe only catholics used to eat good food ie meat and veges and that non catholics ate fish and chips all the time

Anon

My dad told me that eating burnt toast would put hairs on your chest ( just what every eight year old female would want) but because dad said it then that was ok

JaniceW

When i was about 9, I watched a documentary about rural Italy, in which Spaghetti was seen to be hung on tree branches to dry - For the next 5 years or so I mistakenly believed that Pasta grew on trees...

DJP

I was told by my lying sod of a mother that if I didn't wash behind my ears that cauliflowers and potatoes would start to grow there - I'll never forget the time - after a rather vigorous (and swampy) 5 aside football match, she removed a whole baby cauliflower (what I now realise was a frozen cauliflower floret - the joys of sleight of hand) - and took the credit for preventing my ears from becoming a garden allotment.

Simon

At the age of 3, my mother made me believed that if I ate chicken wings (I personally hated them in the past), I will get to fly when i "grow up". But of course I never did despite eating them obediently.

Lois July Snow

I think it was Tom & Jerry, but it may have been some other cartoon with a cat & mouse where the cat always told the mouse he was going to make mince meat out of him. Well, one Christmas my mom said she was going to make mince meat pie. I said "There's no way I'm going to eat a pie made out of mice!"

Anne

I used to believe that horseradish
was made from horses.

Dee

Until the age of 19, I believed that when you ate meat, that it wasn't the muscle of an animal. Take for instance, a breast of chicken. I was under the impression that there was a special material, called "meat" that was left after they took the breast muscle out of the chicken. Same goes for ribs, loins, etc. A Ham was not the heinie of a pig, but yet the "meat" that was left over after removing the heinie and scraping off the muscle/tissue, etc. My girlfriend at the time, a daughter of a farmer (just my luck) was absolutely dumbfounded by my theory. She corrected my error of 19 years..then said, "Don't ever...ever say that in front of my family....ever."

Andrew

When I was about 3 or 4 , my papa told me that if you planted a plain Cheere-o in the ground, that you would be able to grow a Doughnut Tree. I beleived him until I was about 7, when I tried it and it didn't work.

Sean Patrick

i thought hot dogs were made from real dogs and sum tasted good sum didnt.

Wayne

When I was in first grade, as an excuse to get away from vegetables,I became a meatatarian. Yes, I ate no vegetables. I proclimed that killing vegetables was wrong and cruel, and that they have feelings too. So my parents started fibbing to me. They started saying that deserts all have vegetables in them. After a little while, I gave up on it.

Joy

When I was 4 or 5 my mom told me that if I ate a peach, there would be a prize at the center for me. At that time I was a picky eater and she claims that I only liked sweets. So she handed me a peach, left for where ever she went, I ate that peach right down to that dirty pit. I still remember my disappointment that I didn't get a prize and I had to eat something I didn't like.

Anon

We used to always eat fish on Fridays, my dad would call it Cod Steak Day. I used to think Cod Steak Day (Fridays) were special just like the Holy Day (Sundays). I thought it was like a law or something that on Fridays you were suppose to eat fish for dinner, just like you had to go Church and have a Sunday lunch on Sundays. Weird thing is I never thought anything of it when we stopped both. Only reason I remember this is because my Mum and sister started talking about Cod Steak Day.

Moi

i used to think that when you ate things like liver and brains it would add to your own, the little bits after being chewed would move to corresponding organ in your body. if u ate more liver your liver would grow.

e

when i was in 2nd grade someone told me that if you ate those hard pretzels with cheese inside you would turn into a dog and i believed it so i neevr ate them. Then someone else told me that Pistacios made you pregnant. lol i believed that too.

trish

I used to believe that because oranges are called oranges, then bananas are called yellows, and watermelons are called greens. The only thing was I couldn't work out what an apple was called because they come in two different colours; would they be a redgreen?

Lil_Mountain_Girl

When i was little my mum told me that broccli were magic trees and little fairies gave up there home so we could eat wholesome food, and if we didnt eat it the fairies died! how cruel was that!and the more we ate the stronger the fairies became.,,,,,,,,?

aj

Around age 6 or 7, my little brother was absolutely convinced that spaghetti grew on trees, like a willow tree but spaghetti noodles. He was 9 before I convinced him otherwise by reading the ingredients on the box.

Jen, MI, USA