general

Until I was 13, I didn't know that the meat I ate consisted of muscles. I thought that bodies contained muscles, lungs, all the usual internal organs - PLUS meat, which was sort of a filler material.

Martin

Remeber the old Pillsbury Dough Boy commercials? When I was small, my mother called my brothers and I into the kitchen to see the Pillsbury Dough Boy jump from the canister when she wacked it on the edge of the counter (like he did in the commercials...) We stood there, dumbfounded, because he didn't appear. It wasn't until my mother began laughing hysterically that I realized she was playing a joke on us.

kelly from kansas

When i was about 5 my dad told me that if I didn't eat the jelly in pork pies that big dogs would smell it and come and eat me instead.

Sapphire

When i was younger, my dad once told me too peel celery so i could get down to the center. I was peeling fro about a half-hour before i realized he was joking.

katie

We had a charity box at home above our television, we were constantly told in school how we had to send to give generously to all the starving children in the world. Why then was my mum so annoyed to find an array of food squashed in to the box from various meals in the week before?

Steve

when i was a little girl i always loved to steal raw dough from my mother, when she was baking cakes or cookies. one day, i think i was 5 or 6 years old then, me and my father went for a walk. on the streets we saw a very fat man and my father told me that the man was so fat because he must have eaten raw yeast dough, which then has risen inside of him. from that moment on, i was really scared of yeast dough and i never ate a bit of this dangerous stuff. until today i like to nibble at raw dough - but yeast dough? no thanks!

tippse

In pre school some girl that was older than me told me that there were worms inside ham burgers. About a week after that my dad ate a hamburger and I thought that I worm would grow inside of him and kill him. Then I thought that his hair was one giant worm.

~Cucumber~

You know those tops to drinks from fast food restaurants, that have little things you can pop in that say things like "Diet" or "Root Beer"? I thought that if you pushed in the little button and threw the top all the way to the restaurant, they would give you a free one. I never was successful.

Anon

When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black

Mar'ia Elena

i belived that you said grace at dinner time if the food was bad. when I was 4 my grandma asked if I wasnt going to say prayers before dinner? No I replied mums a good cook.

gray

When I visited my grandparents on their farm, I was shown the hen coop and realised that chickens laid eggs. I saw the pigs in their sty, and believed for YEARS that they "laid" sausages in the same way ...

Sue Lopez

My partner's Mum thought that pigs layed sausages just like chickens lay eggs.

Bunny

One thing my older brothers used tell me was that the beans in pork and beans were actually little skins filled with mashed potatoes. That factories had little hooks on assembly lines with the skins hanging and they would be filled with mashed potatoes. I would peel my beans at dinner and it certainly looked like mashed potatoes so it made sense to me.

winkle

I used to believe my farther when he told me that if i didn't wear my shoes and socks all the time, the peas and carrots i had for lunch would come out of my toes!

Anna

I ussed to believe that cows laid meat inthe same way hens lay eggs, was ill for a few days after finding out the truth!

Shelly

When I was a toddler I was terrified of bananas, and would scream if I saw a whole one. I think this was because I grew up in the 60s, and I though they were bombs. They only way I would entertain eating them was sliced up in milk or a sandwich.

Sillyisles

When I was to young to actually grasp the concept of pronounciation, I said "hamburger" as "Ham-booger".
This led me to believe that people working at fast-food restaurants picked their nose constantly to make the products they were selling.

Marshmello Da Strawberry Cow

My mom told me and my brother that if you eat during a movie, you won't be able to hear what the charactors are saying. We believed her and never asked for popcorn or candy at the movies for years. Then I noticed that other people seemed to be able to eat and listen at the same time.

Erin

One day, my family and I were eating peanuts when my brother's friend came over and started staring. "Do you want some?" we asked. "You guys eat those things...I thought they were made for elephants!"

Mary

When I was little, I never ate pesto sauce because I thought if you ate it, it meant you were a pest.

Anon