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When I was a little girl, I asked my dad what the little things in tapioca pudding were. He told me they were fish eyeballs. I was in college before I knew that tapioca was not fish flavored.

Leelluu

I used to believe that chalks are edible. When my teacher writes with the chalk I always imagined how good the chalk tastes. i believed that til I tasted one. It wasn't how I imagined it to be.

ryanne

I was about 3 years old and asked my mum one day "are chips a type of fish". She wasn't listening to me and just said yes. I went for ages believing that chips swam around in the sea.

Clive

I used to believe waffles were honey combs and thats why you would pour honey on it

Gaby

As a youngster I loved Burger King - but there was only one I really attended. So when I was 6, we stopped at a different Burger King, mystified as to how there could be two of them, I told my parents that it wasn't the same and refused to go in it. I think we had to head to the original Burger King (about 30mins drive away) so I would even eat. That burger king has since moved :(

Anon

I used to think mayo was sandwich glue and u had to have it to keep it together

Anon

My Grandpa used to tell me that I should eat Oatmeal because it would "stick to my ribs". So I refused to eat it because I didn't want Oatmeal stuck to my insides.....

Laura

I used to think a serial killer was someone who killed cereal. Like breaking cornflakes or crushing rice bubbles, torturing breakfast foods. One Day I told my mom as I ate my cornflakes "Mom i am a cereal killer" she couldn't stop laughing, i never understood why...

LeRoy

We use to buy "Eggland's Best" eggs that had an "EB" stamped on the side. My dad's initials are EB so I thought that every family got their own personalized eggs.

V

when i was kid my mom told me that the amount of grains of rice i leave in my plate will be the same as the number of children i will have so i used to leave 2 grains of rice in my plate all the time

Anon

Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest

Muddinyori

I used to think that freckles were bug poop, and i would cover my face in the blankets while i slept to prevent freckles.

D

I'm 18 now, but until about 2 years ago I thought pavlova and palaver were the same word... I didn't realise one was a dessert!

thatsaproblemnotadessert

I used to believe that the grated cheese served to cool the dough.

Silvia Spinetti

I used to believe (along with thousands of other kids probably), that if you eat enough Ready Brek you would emit an eerie orange glow.

I eat loads of the stuff and then sat in front of the mirror checking. When no orange glow appeared, I'd just go to the cupboard and make another bowl.

Tetley

i was convinced chips were made of meat (probably because of the taste when they were cooked in dripping) ... my world fell apart when aged about 5 i saw the potatoes being cut ...

p.s. monica beetroot can turn your wee pink ...

tony

When I was younger we had guinea pigs called Bubble and Squeak - hence the reason why I thought for a long time that bubble and squeak was made of guinea pigs!

Hattie

Because of the ad slogan, "there's always room for Jello," I believed it literally; that Jello had a magical power that made it possible to be able eat as much as you wanted to. It was the perfect dessert. Jello is strange so it made perfect sense to me.

Keith L

I believed for years that haggis were real animals who lived on mountains and had 2 long legs and 2 short legs, which meant that they could only face one way on the mountain side, and if they ever turned arount they would fall off.

rob.

I used to believe that cabbage was lettuce that had grown up.

JHR