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Until recently I thought that coffee cakes were supposed to actually taste like coffee.

Anon

I used to believe that the UL symbol on boxes of lightbulbs meant that they were kosher. I obviously had no idea what kosher meant, and the UL must have looked a bit too much like the "circle U" symbol I'd seen on other items in the grocery store.

Kristin

This isn't my belief, but that of the kids I babysit: they think that when one raises their glass to do cheers to something, it has to be to the thing they're raising. I was babysitting them recently and in lieu of glasses, they raised their forks and both promptly announced, "To the forks!"

Cheers

When i was young, i used to believe that is kiwi fruits, black stones were dead buterflies

-yacine-91-

I used to believe that grilled cheese sandwiches were "girl" cheese sandwiches. So that's what I always called them.

Emily

Went I was little we would go out to eat and some places asked if I wanted a "soup or salad" with my meal and I always responded No cause I thought they meant a "super salad"... Which would be to big.

Anon

When I was younger, I was convinced that sprinkles (the colored candy put on ice cream and cookies) came from sprinklers.

Anon

When I was a child, until 6 years old, I used to believe that "polenta" was only for dogs. Polenta is a salted cream made by corn powder and water. I used to believe that because in my home, we used to cook it just for our dogs. But when I started going to school, There was "polenta" for lunch! And so, I founded out that people could eat "polenta" too...

Edna I. M. Delaroza

I used to believe that all fruits were vegetables, and vice versa.

Anon

Banana seeds are spiders eggs

Will

Anyone remember the old "Cookeen" lard ads? I firmly used to believe that if I ate some of this I could actually float. I had all these great fantasies about what I could do if I ate enough of the stuff. I pestered my mum for ages to buy some and couldn't understand why she wouldn't!

Dave S

When I was about three, my older brother would point at the cookie jar and ask if he could have two. I therefore thought that a cookie was called a "two".

Ross

I used to believe that everyone in the world, when making a sandwich, would only butter one piece of bread. I carried this with me (and made sandwiches this way) until I was about 17 when I just happened to be making a sandwich while I was talking to a friend... he asked me.. "why are you only buttering one piece?" to which I replied "what? thats how sandwiches are made!" I thought it was just a strange thing that my nan did that I picked up on... but no. No one I know does or ever did the same thing.
(I still butter one side)

Anon

I used to believe that the picture on the outside of the cereal box was of everything inside... that strawberries came with the cereal - funny thing is, now they finally do!

Christina

When my sisters and I were young and our dad would want us to eat something.. he would say "Eat it, it'll grow hair on your chest".. so we would eat.. it wasn't until much later that I thought about this and realized that hair on my chest wouldn't be a good thing considering I'm a female!

Jo Ann

I used to believe that "popovers" would flip themselves upside down in the oven (like a giant popcorn kernnel) so I when we finally got an oven with a window in it-I sat and watched them cook. I got sad when I realized it wasnt true and never ate them again.

Anna

I used to beileve that eggs over medium were called dip toast eggs. I didn't realize till I went to a resturant and tried to order a dip toast egg, that they weren't called that.

Jai

In church they where all ways mentioning "The bread basket". I imagined and believed in my stomache, the food I ate fell into a bread basket. It then went somehere and dumped the food and liquid out to process it thru my body. I did wonder how the liquid did not drip out, unless there was a liner in the basket.

D. A. TURNER

I used to believe that you only used tomatoe sauce on chips and things if they were hot, ie to cool them down. It wasnt untill i got my first boyfriend and we ordered chips and they were 1/2 cold and he put tomatoe sauce on them, and i growlled him saying they were cold enough! Sure enough he explained to me that people actually like the taste of Watties!

Kerry Price

When i was a kid, my father had me believing in the spaghetti tree, which resembled a willow tree but it was spaghetti that hung down and got cut off at harvest time. This i bought, lock stock and barrel, and was thoroughly confused when we were shown some old faked documentary showing the spaghetti being harvested in the fields in Italy!

Desba Silvers