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When I was a little girl I used to believe when we ate a cherry stone and then drank we had a cherrytree on our stomach.

Nine years ago, so I was 6 years old, I loved cherries so I ate a lot but one time when I played a game with my brother in the kitchen I ate a cherrystone. I was so afraid and stressful to died during the night. My brother was so bad with me because he said me “ Nina, you will have a cherrytree on your stomach” and “ You will become a cherry tomorrow”. I was so bad and I’m cried in my bed during 2 hours before sleeping. Finally my parents said that’s was a lie. The next day I didn’t have the skin red so I was happy.

Now when kid eat a cherrystone and my family say the same of my brother I smile because I lo longer believe this joke. The memories is funny now but it wasn’t funny and cool before.

nina

I was about 4 when my mom would take me to the cupcake store after school and get me a cupcake. I thought that the wrapper was holding the top up and that there was nothing below the top, so I was always shocked when Mom pulled off the wrapper and ate the bottom after I had eaten the top.

Anon

When I was little I thought I was the only person in the world who eats sliced apples with peanut butter spread on them. I used to ask my mom to make them for me and thought I was so original.

Anon

When i was little i used to think the meat didn’t come from the animals we saw

m.d

My friend believed that chicken stock, or chicken essense was made by getting a bunch of chickens, and boiling them down in a big pot to create "Essense of chicken".

Martin

A family friend said he could wiggle his ears because he ate a lot of carrots. I faitfully ate my carrots but somehow I could never get my ears to move.

Lisa T.

I had my mom buy a box of lucky charms because I thought the little leprechaun would be inside.

Catherine

I used to believe that when I ate a bowl of cereal that had a commercial i had seen, whatever happen in the commercial would happen to me. Like Fruity Loops, i thought a jungle would appear all around me and I would meet tucan sam.

Ben

Like any other little kid, I used to believe that brussels-sprouts were tiny baby cabbages, and I still call them like that. And that chewing gum would glue to your stomach if you swallowed it. And, worst of all, that bowling ball were made out of coconuts, like in Flinstones.

MaFe - Brazil

I believed that Brussel Sprouts were baby cabbages....they are just so cute!

Heather

i used to think 'grilled cheese sandwich', my favourite lunch, was actaully 'girl cheese sandwich' which meant it was only for girls

caits

My dad and I convinced my 11 year old sister that buffalo wings come from baby buffalo, that when they are babies their wings fall off and voila! buffalo wings

Kat

My Nan used to say that if you ate rice pudding every day you would live till 100.

Jayne

In the late 60s a type of artificial sweetener called 'cyclamates' were banned, and one brand of orange squash had 'cyclamate free' printed on the label. I couldn't work out why they were giving away flowering house plants with squash.

ann

As a 'treat' on holidays, my parents would buy chocolate spread for me to have on my bread. As of this, I made myself think that chocolate spread was sold only during summer.

My mother recently reminded me that early on spring I had expressed how I was looking forward to the summer holidays, when the chocolate spread came back to the supermarket shelves...

P�l, Norway

My neice used to believe that it was ok to eat meat so long as it was "the kind that grows in the ground"

Therefore, as long as she could justify to herself that the beef she was eating was grown, so was ok

Neil

When I was really little I used to ask what pepper was made out of. My parents told that they were Pepper Bug's eggs that you grind up...I believed them for years.

*Michellle*

When I was little, I was (and still am) a picky eater. To get me to eat soup he would say. "Lindsay, mom wants to you to take rhis medicine." He would say it was medicine because I took medicine when I was sick if it tasted good or not. So, I would end up eating soup.

Lindsay

I came to my own conclusion that pepper was various kinds of ground up stuff, including radishes to make it spicyhot. (Because, what other vegetable is spicy like that?)

Carrie

I used to believe that 3 witches lived in my stomache and I ate to feed them.

Meara