general

I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.

w.b.

For the first decade or so of my life, I believed that mayo and mayonaise were different foods. I had heard of mayo but not in reference to what it actually is, so I pictured it as brown goop (as opposed to white-ish yellow goop).

Emily

When I was seven, we had what I remember as our first easter egg hunt. We died the eggs the night before and the next morning we did our hunt. After hunting for the eggs, I decided that I wanted to hatch my eggs for baby chicks! So I carefully hid my eggs in the basket under my desk for about a month before my mom noticed the smell and had to explain to me that there were no baby chicks in those eggs!

Linda

When my mother and her siblings got their first horse my grandma told them that if they ate pickles, the horse wouldn't run fast (to keep them from eating pickles that were said at the time to be bad for you). My grandma believes that to this day not only are her children not crazy about pickles, but that they still believe on some level, if you eat pickles, your horse won't run fast!

Meredith

I used to believe that you put the grated cheese on your pasta to make it cool off

R.M.

When we were young, we all wanted to have blue eyes like my dad. We asked him how we could get blue eyes, and he said that we should eat carrots. So we'd eat tons and tons of carrots, but our eyes remained brown.

Bernadette

My brother believed that bacon(his favorite food) was from horses.

Jenn

I used to believe that lemon limes where real. Yellow on one side and green on the other. (from the sprite comercials).

Cameo

Thanks to cereal commercials, I used to think every time I took a bite of Cocoa Puffs I would go "coo coo" like the kids in the commercial. The same thing went for Frosted Flakes when they had commercials showing kids trying to achieve different athletic obstacles. Unfortunately, after all that cereal I was still bad at softball!

B.J.

I used to believe that if you ate the fat on your steak (or other meats), then that is how people became overweight. I always pictured the fat that i cut off just sticking to my stomach if i ate it.

Ryn

I once made sandwichs for my dad and his friend. After I gave the sandwiches I went inside for a bit and then came back out, and noticed that while my dad was still eating, his friend wasn't. I asked where his sandwich was, and my dad told me that he just ate it whole, so he ate it faster, "without chewing?" I asked, and my dad said yes. I then could do nothing but picture a whole sandwich, floating in his stomach, and whenever I saw his friend after that, I always thought that the sandwich was still in his stomach, whole!

Mark

when i was 3 or so, i truly believed that you bought half corn cobs in cans marked "corn kernals". i think that this belief was fuled by the fact that those little 330g cans were the right size to contain a half corn cob standing on end and i thought that "kernals" meant "half". (that had something to do with it having an 'S' on the end.) i was very disappointed when i found out.

corn lover

I used to think that if you ate spinach that eventually, you would be as big as popeye the sailor man.

Corrine

I saw my mom putting thin spikes of something into a pot on the oven , and when I asked she explained the process of making spaghetti. I thought about a large circular thing that could hold water, and connected it to ... yes , the toilet. Later , she found me fishing strands of soggy noodles out of the toilet , proudly saying that I had "boiled" them by flushing it and taking out the pieces that remained.

Ghostibelle

I was told when I was about 5 or 6 years old that if after my grandma put the egg shells in the bin, and I touched the little bit of white left in the cracked egg half, that I would get warts all over my fingers. I am now almost 20, and until a few months ago had avoided empty egg shells incase I caught warts - my fiance, thought I was an idiot.

Emma

I used to beleive that buffalos had wings! My mom was eating buffalo wings and i wanted to no what they were. And that is what she told me. Then my dad freaked me when he told me that people shot buffalo that had wings! i belived it. And when we were redoing my room my dad said do you want unicorns or the jungle or buffalo with wings!!!!! i chose jungle!lol

chelsea #8

I used to believe that the red thing in the middle of a Greek olive was the pit.

Liz

This might seem kind of odd, but when I was like probably 5, and my dad took me to a padres game (the baseball team) there were these to women sitting infront of us eating cheese. Since both of the women had orangeish colored freckles and the cheese was orange I thought that eating cheese makes you get freckles I stopped eating cheese till I was about 14!!!

Kyle

I used to believe that the cracker barrel cheese my mother liked was made with crushed crackers in it.
A way of using up crackers that were broken in manufacturing.

cracker jane

When I was a kid, one of my friends dropped some food, picked it up, dusted it off and said, "You have to eat your peck of dirt before you die." For yeaers after, I believed that there was some counter "up there" somewhere that tallied all of the dirt that you ate, so I became quite careful about any dirt on food.

Dave