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my brother onced complained to my mom while eating spaghetti:
"Mommy, the spaghetti left my fork without saying goodbye!"

lol!

pringlez-CAT

The first time I met my Uncle from South Africa he started telling me all about their life in South Africa and he told me that they would often eat lions and zebras. I was really quite horrified, but figured as you could buy crocodile and Emu here in Australia that it was possible that in Africa they would eat Lions and Zebras.
He later told me he was making the whole thing up.
I was 20 at the time.

Anon

i used to believe that shredded wheat was harvested from niagara falls because of the picture on the box

gord

My mom told me that when she was little, she was always excited to open the Pillsbury packets, hoind the doughboy would hop out.

Anon

when i was a kid i thought that a box of cereal was 130 calories. i couldnt measure the amount of food i was consuming so i told myself the box adjusted the calories with how ever much i took.

kelly

When I was young my dad once told me that turkeys were baby elephants that would then make a cocoon and come out as a 'real' elephant. He also said that that because people ate so many turkeys the number of elephants was dwindling. after that my mother could never get me to eat any kind of poultry.

Anon

My sister never ate eggs when she was little. My parents just thought that she just didn't like them. One day they were talking about a friend having a baby and my sister chimed in and asked "How many eggs did she have to eat to get pregnant?" My sister had heard that babies come from eggs and since she didn't want to have a baby, she wouldn't eat any.

John

I've always liked Quaker products... oh so yummy. But when I first moved to the U.S. they called it by another name. I wasn't sure how you pronounced it but I thought it sounded like 'Quacker' like a duck quacking. Until 5th grade I learned how to pronounce it.

Quaker-Quacker Duck

When I was about four, I actually believed that the Mrs. Butterworth Syrup bottle would talk to a little kid, just like on TV. Every morning for weeks, I would make my (long-suffering and very tolerant) mom leave the kitchen so I could have a conversation with her. I never could get her to talk to me, of course.

Billie

for years, I thought that I invented the peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

ChazStillAKid

I used to believe that Haggis grew on trees, cause my dad tied one to a branch in the garden

Lynne

I used to think brown eggs were only for black people, because nobody I knew bought or ate them, I just saw this one black lady in the store with them in her cart.

Brandon Campbell

Mine is similar to another I seen. When I was a kid my older brother told me that the peaches in a can have veins in them. If you look closely, you'll see what I mean. To this day I don't eat much fruit at all beacause I've noticed that a lot of fruit has "Veins."

Andrea V.

My cousin told me once that eating the cheese's plastic-like crust would kill you, after seeing me doing it. I pretended to disbelieve her, but I actually did. Later, in my bed, I was waiting for my life to end. I was so scared that my heartbeats began to rise up, which was the obvious sign of an imminent heart attack... The morning after, I hated my cousin so bad, but I felt so stupid that I couldn't tell my cousin about it!

ZeChandler

Our family travelled from Texas to Ohio a few times a year, and often passed large fields that grew hay. In the fall the hay would be gathered into huge round wheels and wrapped in huge white plastic bags. As we passed fields full of these huge white round things, my dad told us they were marshmallow farms, and I used to wonder how they chopped up those HUGE marshmallows into smaller ones we bought in the store.

Annie

I used to think that pistachios(the kind still in the shell) were actually little clams! I used to have a whole bunch of "pet clams" that I would play with and talk to. It horrified me whenever I saw my dad eating pistachios!

Cybela

When I was about 8, my father returned home (New York) from his childhood home (South Carolina) with some meat. He said it was the best ever. It looked strange to me, so I asked him what kind it was. Knowing me to be a finnecky eater, he told me it was beef and he would make stew with it. He made his stew and as I was chewing on my heeping spoonful, he looked at me with this wry smile and says "so... how do you like that deer?". I immediately spat it out all over him and began to scream and cry "THAT'S BAMBI!!!! I ATE BAMBI!!!" I truly believed my father hunted the cartoon deer down and fed it to me for dinner. Just looking at the VHS case we owned made me cry until I was about 10

Chris

My mom told me that cannoli had earwax in it, so i wouldn't eat all the cannoli when we ate out. This backfired when my brother asked the waiter why there is earwax in cannoli. The waiter said there is no earwax in it and my mom was trying to scare us into not eating it. Then my brother threw canolli at her face and we started eating lots of it.

Anon

My brother and I sent his kids out shopping for snacks - "buffalo chips and sheep dip". The three boys aged 5-10 hopped on their bikes and peddled from store to store. We know because at each store they would call and say the people had said they were out but they should try another store and they wanted permission to go there. We died laughing until their mom got home.

JB

When I was little, my mother told me that navel oranges had navels because people stuck little tubes in them to suck the seeds out. I believed her until I was 12 and read in a book about how navel oranges were grown by grafting.

Anon