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My great grandma used to make homemade bread. She used to tell us that if you ate the raw dough ( ew but when your a kid you try anything) it would expand till your stomach exploded!

Anon

My sister thought a fruit machine (the gaming device) could turn one item of fruit into another.

Richard Davies

I live near a Mcalister's Deli, and one wall of the building was completely covered in mirrors. Every time I would go there, I believed there was another part to the building (the reflection). I never understood why my mom wouldn't take me there. One day, I ventured over to it to see what it was like.
It was then I saw my own reflection.

I was really disapointed, I thought only special people could sit there.

Brian

When I was little, I thought that when someone said they were 'allergic' to a food that they just didn't like it, and that you could catch allergies like a cold. My best friend was allergic to eggs, so I decided I must be allergic to them too- at least the runny ones.

Danielle

When I was about 5, I asked my mother is Aunt Jemima (Pancake Lady) and Uncle Ben (Rice Guy) were married. I thought it was a good guess seeing as how they were aunt & uncle and both involved in the food business

LMR

Whenever I saw 'dish of the day' written in pubs and restaurants, I thought it just meant everyone's favourite type of plate, and felt sorry for all the poor customers, thinking they were just given a plate without any food on it!

Anon

If you eat too much of something, you will turn into it.

Anon

When I was a child, I used to believe that onions came from tangerines.

Anon

I used to believe that if you ate carrots you’d have night-vision

Anon

i didn't eat very much as a child and so my dad told me that toast only done on one side was 'chinese toast'.
this immediately gave toast a whole new perspective for me. i then ate as much as i could.

shube

the neighbor girl i grew up with told me that "cheese makes you concentrate." (i *think* she meant constipate...)

jen

my mom used to tell me that if I didn't swab my ears out with q-tips every night, then potatoes would grow in them.

robert parker

My wife used to believe that CORNED BEEF was from cows who lived beside the sea

Anon

When i was little i would not eat sweetcorn, so my mum told me it was not sweetcorn but yellow peas

Anon

When I was a kid, my parents used to drive by a local luncheonette which had signs all around the upper floor of the building advertising what they sold. Since there was no grammar on the signs, I was amazed at "Malted Milk...Sandwhiches" and always wondered just what they must have tasted like?

Russ (New Jersey)

my mother told us if you ate carrots your eyes would become pretty and your eye sight would get better. my brother never ate carrots when he was younger and he has glasses and so do my two sisters, i always eat carrots and i have prefect eye sight???

Amanda IL.

I never understood it, but my grandparents used to tell me that if I didn't wash my ears, potatoes would sprout out of them...I still don't get it.

magali

I used to believe that the meat you eat is turning to be your own muscles.

Yossi

I used to believe that if you cut a slice of bread in half and made a sandwich out of it, you only ate half a slice.

Wiebke

I used to believe that if a ate spaghetti mixed into mashed potatos that it would taste like baked beans. I was never very keen on spaghetti.

Ambles