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I used to believe that you could always tell who was a "big" kid.
Big kids could always eat the apple all the way around BEFORE it started to turn brown!

karen

I always thought that the Kellogs Special K advert which said, "For grown up people who'd rather not grow anymore.." really meant that it would stop you getting any taller. I loved the stuff but was always wary of stunting my growth. I'm 6'3" tall now (but fat)

Ed

When I was a kid I used to believe that there were 4 tubes or pipes that food went down when you swallowed them. The 4 tubes corresponded to- what was then- the 4 food groups. So when you choked on a piece of food and it "went down the wrong tube" it was because a vegetable must've went down the dairy tube...

HeatherT

When I was little, my parents used to put cucumber cubes in my tuna sandwiches. I didn't like cucumbers so they told me they were sugar cubes. I believed them until the age of 10 when I asked a friend's mom to put sugar cubes in my tuna sandwich.

Rebecca

when i was little, me and my sister used to think that pepperami's were flying food. Whenever we ate one, we would stand on the sofa and 'fly'...i swear one time i actually did stay in the air and nobody is going to convince me otherwise!

olivia

i used to believe that at mcdonald's when my mom ordered "two large fries" i thought she was talking about getting two really big fries in the container.

stephanie

When I was young, I heard someone from Colmans (the UK mustard maker) say on the radio that they made their money from the mustard people left on the side of the plate. For years, I thought that there was a complete network of people collecting up the leftover mustard and sending it back!

Paul in Camberley

i used to think eyeballs were like made of the same material as hardboiled eggs!!!!!!
and then with actual hardboiled eggs i thought when i would open the middle that a baby bird would be sleeping in it. so i was afraid of eating them, or at least the yolk part for that matter.

jessika

When I was about 4 my friend had the chicken pox. I went to her door to see if she could come out and play. She said "no" because she ahd the chicken pox.(I never had the chicken pox, I did not know what they were) At the same time she was eating a bag of chips, and I thought they were called Chicken Pox. I would always look for the chips called "Chicken Pox" when I was in the store. I obviously never found any.

Tiffany

When I was 6 a girl in the school cafeteria told me that I wasn't getting any vitamins from peeled apple slices, because the vitamins were really the dots on the apple peels!

Anonymous

This one time we were camping, and it was windy outside because there was a storm, and my mom told me that there were tomatos under the trailor jumping up and down shaking the trailor... i believed her and though the tomatos were going to hurt me.. (havent ate tomatos since)

Mellisa ButtButt

When i was 5, i thought that bananas were monkey poop.

jade-isabelle

I used to belief that mangoes were blue, because of a children's book where they were painted that colour. i was horrified when I realized that they weren't! I'm still searching, there must be some out there somewhere...

Anon

I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)

Girlfloyd

When I was little, my mother would serve asparagus. My father told me they were hummingbird tongues. Needless to say, I would not eat them. I was practically grown before I knew what they really were! I love asparagus now!

Maryjane

My grandmother used to always eat shredded wheat cereal and so I used to call those huge rolls of hay in the farmers fields "giant shredded wheat"!

mmm shredded wheat

You know how on the coco puffs comercial they would used to jump in the box and go into a chocolatly world? Well I used to make my mom buy the cocoa puffs and i would take the cereal out of the box and stand in the box and nothing would happen. I would get so mad and then my mom would yell at me for ruining the box

Anon

I used to believe that pretzals were made of wood.

Anon

I used to believe that the eggs my mother used to keep in the fridge would hatch if i kept them warm enough. So i used to put them under my pillow or hid them anywhere around the house to find it squashed under my bed or rotting behind the tv the next day or whenever i checked on it.

Alex

When I was a little kid I believed that if I ate enough chicken wings I would be able to fly! Mom was just happy I was eating the wings instead of the "better" pieces.

Kas Quimbe