general

when i was a kid i belived that butter came from butterflys(like honey comes from bees)lol!!!

becky

When I was a kid, I used to think that the reason I had to put salt and pepper on food at the table was to cool it down. Imagine my suprise when my Dad showed me how wrong I was by "cooling" down a bunch of mashed potatos with pepper one night!

Steve

When I was a little girl, I believed that poultry grew naturally in such a way that it was split evenly down its back with one half being all white meat and the other half being all dark meat. For example: I thought each bird had one dark drumstick and one white drumstick. The reason I thought this was that whenever there was a family holiday dinner and someone began to carve up the foul they would point the knife to one side and ask "Would you like white meat?" then point the knife to the other half and say "Or would you like dark meat?" When I grew up I realized they were probably pointing to specific parts like the breast or leg, but, as a kid it just looked like half and half to me.

Stephanie

my dad used to tell us that popping sound you hear when you fry an egg was really baby chicks screaming for their lives.

Im not to fond of eggs.....

polly

When McDonalds began selling McFlurries I thought they were named after Calgary Flames player Theron Fleury, and I wondered what they were called in other cities.

Jenn

i used to believe that tastes could cancel eachother out so i always ate my chocolatey desert at lunch first and then cleans my palatte with something else so my chocolate milk wouldnt taste like just milk.

danny boy

When I was younger, we would eat at Fisherman's Wharf. I had always believed that the Hush Puppies were actually a type of chewy fish. Boy was my face red....

Robert

I used to believe that the more milk you added to your cereal bowl, the more cereal you would have. How else would you explain the bowl getting fuller?

Ivy

I used to believe that when my mom would dump the pasta out in the strainer in the sink she was just dumping it in the sink (I wasn't tall enough to see into the sink at that time). Then I woule wonder how she got it back out to put on the table and I wouldn't eat it because it was in the sink.

Melons

There is a resturant/fastfood place here called Whataburger. When I was about 5 or so, I though it was called Waterburger and thougth the burger's were made of water, and never them. My sister thought too and one day we were talking about it in front of my husband and he said he thought that too when he was little. How funny

michelle

I used to believe that cabbage was hot lettuce!!

smell

when I was a kid my sister told me that the tacos in jack in the box were made of ostrich, so i had to decide between my favorite tacos or my favorite bird, i decided they are already dead i might as well eat them, i still love those tacos

Raymundo

I used to believe that elephant ears (the food) where made out of real elephants ears! I was disgusted when my mother offered me one

Anon

with all the conviensc of canned food it never occured to me that my son had never eaten a fresh peach, when the neighbor gave him a giant fresh peach from Georgia it really surprised me when he got to the middle and started gagging,when i ask what was wrong he told me it was still raw in the middle, thinking the red center close to the pit was blood like a rare steak

amon

I was once told that maggots lived in the end of bananas and so I started to stop eating the banana just before the end. Unfortunately although I know that this isn't true I still can't bring myself to eat a banana to the very end.

emma

When I was 6 or so, my friend Caroline and I were in my garage playing "restaurant" at a little table I had in there. My mom kept bringing us food, but she soon stopped because she said we were eating too much and she didn't want us getting sick. I insisted that I was not full yet, but she wouldn't listen. Then I saw a box labeled "Plant Food Spikes" and had an idea. I figured this would be okay to eat, because with my naive logic, since plants ate it, and we eat plants, it'd be fine to eat. Plus, it said "Food" on the box. Food is meant to be eaten, right? Well, I ate one plant food spike (I don't know how I didn't notice the bad taste) and had to be rushed to the emergency room to get my stomach pumped, along with multiple doses of thick, black activated charcoal. Damn plants.

Amanda

When I was small my dad would tell us that eating meat would put hair on my chest. Thinking thats what I really wanted, I would be very proud at having finished my meat at dinner. Needless to say I never realized that having hair on your chest is the last thing a woman wants.

kay

I used to believe there were little people in your stomach stacking the food up: eggs in this pile, bacon in that pile etc.

Rowland

My little sister used to believe Brazil Nuts were called "genie nuts" and if you ate enough a genie would come out and grant your wish. Thanks to her older sister, she went to Jr. High still believing that. :)

Nik

When I was younger, I ate a lot of cheese doodles. I believed that every bag was a family of cheese doodles, and I would eat as many as possible to try and keep the "family" together. There was always this random image of my mind of a cheese doodle family, fully clothed and with hair, sitting in the waiting room that was my stomach. When it was time to be digested, the jumped through this little tube thing and came out the other end.
I still have a vision of this cheese doodle in a dress with big black hair, reading a news paper while hanging out in my stomach.

Anon