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i used to belive that kidney beans were bean shaped things that grew in kidneys... untill yesterday

Jokey

i used to believe that spaggetti grew on trees!

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that when my mom put broccolli on my plate that it was a forest and that I was a giant. When I ate the broccolli I thought that i was eating a forest and that I was killing the environment.

Olivia

I used to believe yeast could make bread rise because it really was salt with bubbles inside.

queeneve

When at the grocery store, I used to believe that when an item said "fat free" it meant the fat in it was free of charge!

Anon

My grandfather told me the round green fruit in canned fruit cocktail were "geezleberries." For years, I only had a mild curiosity as to why I never saw any raw (i.e. not canned) geezleberries, and my family always jokingly referred to canned grapes as "geezleberries", ha ha ha. Only I wasn't in on the joke. I was well into my twenties when my younger sister perceived that I really thought they were called geezleberries and convinced me (with some difficulty) that they were grapes.

CG

This belief has to do with my kids and my sister. My kids always loved eating tortilla shells by themselves. When they were very small, they were each eating one while my sister was visiting. I made a sarcastic remark to my sister and she commented back to me "Oh, go hug a bear." (She was making a polite remark to me because my kids were in the room. One day the kids came to me and asked me for a "hugabear." I had no idea what they were talking about. After I had them show me what they were talking about, I realized the connection they had made that day. For years after that, I just let them call tortilla shells hugabears.

Heather

i used to think the "twin" cherries were earrings, and i'd hang them through my actual earrings and walk around like that all day.

vanessa

My grandad had a cockateil and one day we'd gone there for tea. I was about 13 at the time. My mum was talking about sunflower seeds and what they tasted like, so curiosity got the better of me and I took one out of the bird's seed and ate it. Immediately after my parents told me very seriously that I'd turn into a cockateil! I didn't believe them at that moment and shrugged it off.. however, that night when I got home, I was drinking some water from a mug and happened to look at the reflection in the bottom of it. I could see I was forming a beak and my eyes were on the side of my head like a bird. I screamed and dropped the mug and started crying. My alarmed mum asked me what on earth was wrong - I told her and she told me not to be ridiculous and that she was just joking about me turning into a bird. I had to reassure myself by looking in the mirror..

Thankfully, to this day - I'm pretty sure I'm still human.. however, I'm still expecting the day I morph into a bird!

Laura

Yesterday my 12 year old daughter informed me that they now make popsicles for adults only. I told her that popsicles were for everyone, not just kids. Then I realized what she was talking about. The "shards-o-glass" anti tobacco commercial? She thought it was a real commercial for real "adults only" popsicles.

jasonchic

When I was a child I used to think potassium came from potatoes.

Julen Peinado Gomez

I was led to believe that steak was really made of children, and that if I didn't eat it, that I would be turned into steak myself. I'm 23, I still dont eat the stuff. aces to my father and his parenting skills ;)

Milkshake

My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it

Monica

Years ago in the early 70's I believe Ronald McDonald was at every McDonald's in America. I convinced my little brother and sister of this. We went to our very first McDonalds and of course no Ronald. They cried the whole time. I was older but I wanted to cry too.

Derrick

My parents always called the brown rubbery thing in the middle of mussels the "froggy" so I thought it was a real frog that got trapped in the shell. One day I was eating a mussel fritter and it had a froggy in it - I could have sworn it jumped out at me (making a break for it's freedom)! It gave me such a fright that I wouldn't eat mussels again as a child.

Tania

After watching a very tongue and cheek comedy bit made to be a sppof on BBC Documetaries, I thoughyt spaghetti grew on trees until I was 22 years old!

Warren Distler

My Daddy used to tell me that if I ate cooked carrots, it would "put hair on my chest." I said, "Daddy, I don't want hair on my chest. I'm a girl!" To this day, I still don't like cooked carrots.

nancy - fort myers

My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!

John Stees

When I was about 4 years old, my mom and I were making muffins. We mixed the batter and she said, "Okay, now all we have to do is throw them in the oven." I picked up the muffin tray, worked up my strength, and THREW the muffins into the oven, batter spilling everywhere. Mom just shook her head and we started over.

Kathy M.

When I was 4 years old, I was eating breakfast with my brother. We
were having eggs (which I loved), and all of a sudden, he asked me "How
do you like eating that dead chicken?" I was completely horrified. I knew
that chickens had eggs, but I didn't know the eggs would turn into
chickens. I couldn't eat eggs for the longest time, until I learned that the
egg had to be fertilized in order to become a chicken. To tell you the truth,
sometimes I still can't eat eggs!

Teri