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I used to think that when you went to a party and were supposed to bring a "dish to pass" you were not allowed to enter unless you had a dish. I thought that it was quite silly, but I never questioned it. It wasnt until I was much older that I realized that all it meant was you were supposed to bring food to share.

RRR

I used to believe that green apples were unripened red apples and for years I would never eat green apples. They had as much appeal to me as green tomatoes.

greenhorn girl

For some reason, I always thought baked beans were "bacon beans." I think I just called them that one day, and my family stuck with calling it that, because they thought it was cute. So, when I'd be in the lunch line in school and ask for "bacon beans", I never got what was so funny. It took a very long time for me to realize I was using the wrong word.

Nicci

When you go to the store, you know how to check to see if fruits and vegetables are ripe. Well, my brother (I know, it's not about me) used to believe that an egg, if left on a shelf long enough, could eventually hatch into a chicken. It was not until much later in his life, actually, that he discovered that store-bought eggs could not hatch because they were un-fertilized. All that time, he was afraid he might actually see a beak when cracking an egg open.

Jason L.

When I was little I was having breakfast with my parents. While reading the menu I noticed a small blurb that read "egg beaters, 25 cents extra." I thought it was very strange that they actually allowed people to beat their own eggs in the restaraunt.

Kelly

My older sister told me this once when I was little and I totally believed it: She told me that if children eat Monteray Jack cheese... then Montery Jack will come and eat them in their sleep...

Hollie

my mum used to tell me that the brown bit on banannas was the sugary bit

billy

My nephew, when visiting his grandmother, asked what she ws cooking. The reply was "a hamhock" and he became quite upset, believing she was cooking a hawk who had a preference for pigs.

Mojo!

I thought Golden Crisp cereal was coffee beans for kids. It smelled like coffee, took the coffee bean shape... so therefore it was so. Just "toned down" into whimsical-looking coffee shapes. Mum wasn't very happy when I put some in her coffee maker.

LBoogie1

When I was little, my grandmother told me that each time you ate a vegetable, you would live one minute longer. So, I believe that if you ate 60 vegetables, you would live an hour longer and so on.

Mamochan54

My grandad used to tell me that if i ate tripe, then it would put hairs all over my chest

Anon

I sometimes have trouble hearing so when I was young I always thought that grill cheese sandwiches were called "girl" cheese sandwiches. Since both girls and boys like them, I didn't understand why they called them that.

Marissa

When I was little I thought pancakes were pan-a-cakes because of the pat-a-cake game my mom played with me. (I thought she was saying "pan-a-cake,pan-a-cake, baker's man) I loved pancakes and asked for them all the time calling them "pan-a-cakes". Then when I was about five my grandmother told me they were really called "pancakes" and that sounded so wrong! It took years before it began to sound okay to just say "pancake".

Carrie

I used to believe when i was a young, young child... that planting skittles in dirt will grow into a skittle tree :P

michelle J

I thought those Japanese guys who made food in front of you at restaurants were robots. There was no way any human being could flip knives around like that and make fire appear from their fingers. I think I might have asked one of them if they were once.

Troy

Croutons are called "Salad cookies"

Anon

I believed clouds were vanilla ice cream.

Ichi

When I was in elementary school, I used to attend an after school program called "A Plus", where we, the children, would be watched upon by the "leaders" (adults) until our parents came to pick us up. At the time, I went through the phase of being obsessed with enjoying my afternoon snack of dry, uncooked ramen noodles. After eating them for a couple years, a friend of mines had exclaimed that eating it raw can eventually cause you to end up with worms in your stomach. He said that the reason we cook the saimin was to "kill" the parasites in it, however eating it raw could result in us acquiring these worms in our stomach where they would grow. The sad thing is, I believed it until now, especially since the shape of it was really convincing.

Anon

I used to think that the reason you put crackers in your soup was to cool it off. If you didn't put any crackers in your soup it would just stay hot.

Anon

I used to think potassium came from potatoes.

Anon