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I used to believe bananas came from yellow monkeys

Anon

I used to eat my meals more slowly than my brothers and cousins so they would all be out playing while i was stuck at the table until i finished eating. I would rather be out playing of course, so i would tell my mom that i was full and that she had given me too much food. She would then tell me to open my mouth as wide as i could and then make a big show of looking down my throat and inspecting the inside of my stomach. She'd say, "I see plenty of room down there." I believed her and grudgingly finished eating before i went out to play.

Stephie

My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.

Chalky

when I was younger my sister & her friend told me & my friend that if we ate dandelion stems we would be beautiful...
Needless to say, we ended up pissing our pants due to the diuretic effect of eating said plants.
My question is how my sister knew that would happen, she was only 7.

Ellen

At school, when I was 6 or 7, we used to get a whole kiwi in our lunch and I would be the only one out of my friends to eat it, so what my friends told me was if I keep eating them I would get hair on my chest.

Terdlicker

I'm not a very hairy person, and when I was 17 a friend told me that if I rubbed raw garlics on my face, it would help me grow a thick, strong beard and moustache.

And there I was, with my face all red and swollen, and smelling for a couple days, and of course, no beard and moustache.

Sammy B

Sliced bread. I used to think that the when sliced horizontally (for sandwiches etc) the top half with the curved 'shoulders' was female and the square bottom half was male.

Stephen

When I was very young,on Thanksgiving, my parents would always give the "butt" part of the turkey, but tell me that it was the "turkey's nose" and that it was given to only special people. And I was all excited. It would be a couple years later that I would "put two and two together" and remember that turkeys have beaks and get their heads cut off before it's cooked. So it couldn't have been a "nose"...and my brother cheerfully told me I was eating TURKEY BUTT...and I was all upset.

JILL

When I was really little, I used to belive that french fries were made of fish. It made sense to me because, like the sole mom often made them with for dinner, they were white inside.

Shadsie

For some odd reason I used to think that the little blobs in tapioca pudding came from banana peels.

Anon

I saw the signs that said "beer on tap" and thought adults just needed to walk in and tap their fingers on the bar to get a beer.

Len

As a youngster during winter I was told that when I ate my bowl of 'Readybrek'(porridge to the less fortunate)you would glow orange like the guy on the packet. When I asked my mum why none of my fiends could see I was told this is because only adults could see it. After a 20 minute car ride to school I was always told that it had worn off so none of the teachers could see it either so don't ask. Got me for years, obviously my siblings will be told this one too.

Jay Wilson

I used to think that if I ate a Wunderbar chocolate bar, I could spin around and become Wonder Woman.

Miss Naive

A few years ago in the UK, there used to be adverts for a breakfast meal called Ready Brek (a bit like porridge)which used to show kids getting an orange glow after eating. When I used to eat it I was convinced I would have an orange glow afterwards. This was not helped by my parents who used to tell me that I had the glow when asked.

Lou

When I was a little boy I loved peas and I wouldn't touch corn, so my parents told me they were split peas(in danish they are called yellow peas), I had heard of them, but never seen them and since corn was yellow I believed this untill I was 6 years old

Kasper

I used to believ that that a cheese burger was a burger made out of cheese - and so regarded the dripping brown sizzlers for the first nine years of my life.

M.C. Collinz

Having grown up in Wisconsin (a cold northern state), I thought that limes were lemons picked early. Now living in California, I have made friends here who also believe that ... STILL ... and they are natives!

kobekko

My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows

Russ

My friend had me convinced that when you broke a peanut in half, the little thing at the top, bettween the two was a gnome. I would pick that part out.

Emee

I used to believe that noodles that were dyed different colors such as green had been killed.

Tasha