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As a child, i used to find toothpaste particularly yummy. To prevent me from eating too much of it, my dad always told me tht very soon, id have a 'toothpaste tree' growing in my tummy and out of my mouth. That really did make me apprehensive abt my fav meal.

Salil

I used to believe that peanut butter was the same as butter, and that flour was flour and peanut flour was like wheat flour.

Anon

my mum told me if i used to run like a chicken or eat it i would turn into one and everyone would eat me! i got really scared and cried for hours!

moochy

i work with kids and this one little girl thought that Friday was called Friday because that was the day you were suppose to fry food

Anon

I used to believe that the old tan M&Ms tasted different than all other M&Ms. I would eat M&Ms, but every time I tried a tan one, thinking maybe I'd gotten a bad one last time, I hated it. Needless to say, I was happy when they replaced them with the blue ones.

Jahna

kidney beans in chilli were little people kidneys

nicky

When I was a kid mom would occasionally make grits for breakfast. I hated them with a passion. I asked her what they were made out of, "Pig butts", she replied. I believed it well into my teens.

Endsville

Whenever I got ice cream,( I was about 4) I would always order the "soft" ice cream because I thought the "hard" ice cream was actually hard and it would hurt my teeth if I tried to bite into it.

Anon

My mother told us never to eat popcorn before going to bed, as it was very hard to digest.

Karlita

I used to believe that mutton and beef were animals like chicken and fish...

maryam

when i was younger i used to ask my mum wats for dinner and she would say "Bread and Pull It"
for years i thought there was some sort of food called pullit

Pullit Girl

That a Wiener schnitzel (a German dish which is a bread veal cutlet) was a hotdog, because there is a hotdog place called Wienerschnitzel.

Anon

Duck Sauce from Chinese restaurants... for many years as a child I had belief and refused to eat it, based on the fact that my father told me it was duck..poo.

Jay T.

Wen i woz bowt 4 i woched ghost ship and wen i saw the scene were there eatin beans and they turn into maggots i cudn`t eat beans 4 bowt 3 years
LOL

Anonamous fat bitch

When eating a meal, my mum would check my corners (the little space under your shoulder), there was always space for a pudding!

Beany

I was convinced all through my childhood that the backbone in a sardine was actually its teeth!

Heather

That when my mother would open the pilsbury dough cans that the pilsbury dough boy would appear and then he would go down the drain. My parents had fun keeping this belief alive for years.

Steve

when we were younger my cousin and i were in a fish and chip shop when he asked his mum what a portion was!

Anon

When I was little I didn't understand about digestion and the relationship between food and "poop". I thought that when you were asleep the food would go down your leg and crawl out your feet. I would always think about little grren bean opening a door in my heel and walikng across my bed!

RachaelC.

i used to believe that Latkes were actually buttermilk pancakes.

I was a rather finicky child and refused to eat latkes [potatoe pancakes]

My parents tricked me into eating them by telling my that indeed the Latkes were buttermilk pancakes, and that the buttermilk gave the cakes the odd texture and flavor. It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I discovered that Buttermilk pancakes and Latkes are TWO completely different food items.

Kelly-noodles