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when i was a little one, i used to beleive that if i refused to eat 'poochandi' (man who kidnaps children)will take me with him.

sasi

My dad told me once that the reason that Kentucky Fried Chicken only had popcorn chicken every once in a while was because they saved up all the leftover chicken parts and breading all year and then made popcorn chicken with them when they got enough. I believed him for years.

christa

I used to call Chinese Spareribs Chinese chicken. (Spareribs to me at the time tasted a lot like chicken) So I thought that chickens in China had really weird "rib-shaped" legs.

Anon

when,i was little my mum would give us tapioca and tell us it was frogspawn,inever would eat it!

jo.t

I was told that Cheetos is what alot of people did when they gambled. Then I found out that it was Cheater.

Chester

i used to believe that sushi was wraped in fish skin

Anon

When I was small, I used to eat prunes, including the pits. My brothers told me that I would grow "prune trees" out of my ears.

Brilliant, Really!

My dad always told me that ketchup was made out of beans

Daddy's Little Girl

I used to think that roast beef was made from alligators, because my parents told me it was alligator meat. Why did they think that would make me want to eat it?

TJ

When I was 3, I was told by my much older neighbor friends that the red pistachios they were eating were medicine and that little kids can't eat them or they would die.

Why do/did they dye the pistachios red in the first place?

Cindy

i always got told that if you ate too many carrots your whole body would turn orange .then i was told that carrots improved your eyesight.so i ate a bunch of carrots and waited for my skin to change colors.

Erin S.

when i was of the age 0-7 i thought broccili were trees....

I ate trees

when I was little my granpa would tell us to eat our green beans because they would grow hair on our chest. I would eat them like crazy because I figured that must be something I wanted. Im glad it didnt work because Im a girl!!

Heather

When I was in third grade our teacher asked all the kids what our favorite dish was to eat. Well I had never heard the word dish used in place of the word food before. Everyone was naming their favorite foods but I was still convinced that they were eating actual dishes and when she came around to me, I said how can you eat a dish?! The teacher thought I was being a smartass and gave me such a mean look along with meaner explanation, she almost spit the words at me. She made me feel like such a fool!

M.J.

When i was little i used to believe that haggis' were real animals and that they were very small, furry and had one leg longer then the other for when it ran around the hill sides and mountains in Scotland!!!

Matt

My friend told me that when she was younger, her older sister told her that cucumbers were really frogs legs.

I used to believe(with the help of my dad)that cucumbers came from the sea. I always thought that, until I got older and realized it was stupid, but still didn't know where they came from. I found out this past month that they grow on vines(i'm now 14)I never told anyone

Ashley

When I was younger my dad told me that if I ate carrots, my eyes would become brighter

Ashley

I thought that cotton candy was made from dryer lint.

I also called macaroni and cheese, black baloney and cheese.

Kelly

I used to believe that the restaurant Wataburger was really spelled and pronounced "Waterburger". That then led me to believe that they used water in the making of their burger patties which made their hamburgers taste really plain. It wasn't until my parents stopped buying me regular hamburgers that I relized my myth wasn't true.

Will

My dad used to give me a piece of dry spaghetti to chew on when he was cooking, and once he told me that if i ate it, it would swell up inside my stomach. I asked him how much it would swell and he indicated that it would grow to an inch in diameter. I believed this until i was about 18 and figured that would be impossible!

Anon