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When I was a kid I was a dinosaur-finatic. My parents used to call chicken legs "dinosaur legs" for me to eat them.

Krista

I used to believe that french fries were made of bread.

tendersoul

When I was small, I was a gullible, disturbed child. For instance, I was afraid of eating plain apples. Whenever my mother tried to get me to eat a normal apple, I would start crying until she had it sliced, peeled, and smothered with peanut butter.

It took them a very long time for me to allay my fears. I had constantly seen my mother, father, and two of my brothers eating and apple without doing any of the above. It should be noted that my parents and two of my brothers are brunettes, while myself and my third brother, who preferred his apples sliced, peeled, and smothered with peanut butter, are blondes. I believed that, if I ate an apple any other way, then I would become a brunette, too!

Ellen V. Marie

I was told (at age 5) that a 'Haggis' was a 'low flying scottish pig', I held onto that belief until i started highschool and could research the topic myself (age 12) to this day looking for a 'Haggis' in the sky a long standing family joke.

Mandy

Up until I was 16 I never ate mince pies at Christmas because I believed they were made of beef mince meat! I could never understand why people would want to eat meat pies with sugar on top!!

Becky

When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil

Anthony P.

My mother-in-law used to tell my daughter that if she ate dry stuffing mix her tummy would swell up and she would explode.

dobbo

My whole family have persuaded my niece of 4 1/2 that brussel sproats are green sweets and yorkshire puddings are "pudding"! Well...she eats all her sunday lunch!!!

Abby

I used to believe that if you soaked a raisin (or prune) in water, it would turn back into a grape (or plum).

C.C.

I used to think that hotdogs came from charcoal cubes. I think it started when I watched my father set up a barbeque. I never saw the hotdogs placed on the grill. All I remember is seeing the dogs on the grill and the charcoals disintegrated...

Kevin

When I was about eight, my nine year old sister and I were sent to the store to buy some baloney for sandwiches. We returned after an hour's round trip walk, empty-handed, to tell our mom we could find balogna which looked like baloney but was spelled wrong.

Anon

I remember when i was in year 3 that my friend told me at dinner time that the school mash was made out spider legs and thats why it was ss lumpy. Never again did i eat school mash even when i found out he was lying.

Adam

My mother told me to eat the peels of the apples because that's where the vitamins are. Apparently other children's mothers have told them this as well. For a long time I believed the tiny spots on apple and pear peels were actual vitamins, akin to a crushed-up children's chewable vitamin somehow embedded in the peel.

Mike

Split walnuts... i used to think they were dried pig noses!!

SaMmI LaMy

I used to think that cantelupes were called "jump ropes" and my mom never understood me when I said "I want to eat a jump rope."

Sylvia

I used to believe that cheesecake was made out of stilton.........I thought it for a very long time until some kind people told me it wasn't! I've never eaten it and don't think I ever will now!

Anon

I told my little sister when she was about 4 that broccoli was really shrunken trees, and she believed me absolutely for years.

fiona

Until about last week or so, I believed that Pineapple's grew on trees! :o I kept telling my friend that she was lying, even my mom wouldn't believe me. My surprised when she showed me some pictures. o_o;

Anon

My sister and i were on a plane coming home, when the stewardess gave us swiss cheese. My sister wanted mine, so she told me about her friend who turned into a mouse when she was 7, like me. and she told me that you can only eat it is you were 12 or over. I now hate cheese

Anna

My Dad had me believe - for YEARS - that Lamb meat was man made.

Anthony