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When I was Little, I thought a Pizza Pie was Tomatoe sauce, cheese, and Pepperoni inside of a pie crust....

LarLar

First time I saw brown eggs I was worried but dad told me that they were laid by happy chicken. For ages I refused to eat eggs laid by "unhappy" chicken and I believed him up into my teenage years!

Minnie

I used to believe that the inside of my body was empty, and when you ate something, it went down to the lowest part of your body. So, if your first meal of the day was "salad", you would have "salad" inside your feet.

Carm

I used to believe when I got belly aches when I was little the food inside my belly was fighting. I.E: The cheese fighting the bread.

Chelsey

i used to believe that coffee was a drink only for adults, like beer. and when i was asked if i wanted coffee cake, i thought it was a test to see if i would take something meant only for adults.

eddie

When I was about fifteen I went on a road trip with my parents. We had breakfast at a quaint little restaurant. Our waitress had a fascinating accent I'd never heard before, and she asked me first, "Would you like soup or salad with that?" All I replied was "Yes." She asked again, and again I said yes. When she came back with both soup and salad, I thought, "Wow, this does not look like the SUPER salad I ordered."

Eileen

When I was little, I was CONVINCED that old people with green liver spots had gotten them from touching moldy bread or food. Every time I saw mold, I bolted. If I pulled a slice of molded bread from the loaf, I would throw it and RUN out of the kitchen.

Anon

I remember searching a box of Triscuits for a cracker with elaborate toppings like on cover of the box
(cheese,olive, tomato etc.) and being disappointed that the only ones left inside the box were plain dry crackers.

clayfrk

when i was about 7 at a family barbecue i was really curious o find out what part of the animal a sausage came from. as you can imagine my cousuns told me the "truth" and i refused to eat a cows weiner again.

simon

I never knew that raisins were dried grapes. One day I accidently dropped a grape and it rolled under our microwave. A few months later my parents changed the kitchen around and I wondered why there was a raisin where I'd left a grape.

P

A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).

HA

When I was young (I don't say "when I was a child," for the belief persisted until age 18), I believed that cauliflower was the same vegetable as broccoli, only it had been picked before it "turned green" (just as immature pumpkins are green, then turn orange upon ripening). When disabused of this notion -- in an embarrassing incident during freshman year (college) dining hall -- I realized that my parents had misled me in order to get me to eat my cauliflower, by associating it with a vegetable I already enjoyed.

Edward Poole

i used to belive that "dessert" was a word that my family had made up until one day, at a restaurant, the waiter asked if i wanted dessert. i asked if this man was my uncle. to this day my parents don't know why.

oddgirl

When I was 10 I asked my mom if we could bake an icecream cake. She just sat there and laughed at me while I tried telling her you had to bake the icecream

Anon

I used to think that every time my mom made a cake (even if it was just for us to have for dessert), it was someone's birthday. So every time my mom made a cake, I'd dub it someone's birthday, usually one of the cats or one of my stuffed animals.

Bunny

I used to believe that when you eat food from a different culture than your own, your race will change to the race of people where the food came from. So, for example, if I ate Chinese food, I will physically become Chinese.

MD Caruso

When I was about 5 or 6, I used to believe that when I would put food in the microwave that a little man lived in there and that he would heat my food up. Then one day I was popping popcorn at my friends house, I asked her about the little man that lived in HER microwave. She gave me a weird look and that was when I figured out that MicroWAVES heat the food and not little men.

Janet

I thought that olives grew with that red pimento already in them. Then I somehow rationalized that as they ripen the red pimento became a pit. That's why black olives sometimes have pits.

Kevin the Olive Man

My mom would get me to eat mushrooms by telling me they would make my boobbies grow really big!
Well 26 years later and I'm still eating lots of mushrooms, but I think she meant to say they would make my thighs grow instead.

Kaila

When I was about 6, my dad ate a lot of shredded wheat (you know, that big six inch block of it?). Anyway I thought he was eating hay, so I refused to try it. He said he ate it because it has a lot of fiber. So, for the longest time I thought fiber in food mean long stringy thread-like fibers. I could never figure out where they were in prunes though.

Ann Y.