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I used to think when you see the strawberrys in the cereal like ricecrispys, They really Came in the box. I was so pissed off when I found out. I cried the whole day screaming " WHY! WHY DO THEY LIE! THOSE LOSERS!'' ahh... Good times

Hope

When I was 4 or 5, I loved to read the ingredient lists on the backs of food packages, boxes, wrappers, etc. Something I saw very often was "Red no.1 Lake" or "Blue Lake".

Of course, it made perfect sense to me that they added an entire lake full of red or a lake full of blue.

What else could it mean?

Blowtorch

As a 6 year old, my siblings and I would watch the foghorn leghorn cartoons.I used to love them so much.One day at dinner, we were eating chicken.My sister asked what chicken it was.then out of nowhere my older brother exclamied, We are eating foghorn leghorn.I screamed and started crying.I never wanted to eat my favorite cartoon character, so I didnt eat chicken for a while. 16 years later, I STILL wont eat chicken!

Samara C.

I used to believe that Tabasco was used to punish people who misbehaved by putting it in their food. At one point, I was punished for saying a bad word by having a drop of Tabasco sauce fed to me.

I grew out of it, and am now willing to use hot sauce in nearly everything. Is there a hate-to-love thing going on here? I think there's a connection.

Hot Sauce Lover

When I was very young, I used to believe that salt and sugar were opposites. Once, (maybe more than once), I ate enough sugar to get sick. So I tried to then eat salt as an antidote. It didn't work as well as I anticipated.

Thaddeus

i used to think brussels sprouts were tiny baby heads of lettuce

Anon

I use to think that asparagus was made of buggers.

dara

MY aunt told me if i ate broccoli my boobs would grow

Anon

My parents convinced my sister that haggis was a scottish creature. There were two types of haggis. The low-land haggis was long and thin with short legs so they could hide in rabbit holes when being hunted. The highland haggis was round and fat with the left hand legs longer than the right. The reason for this was so the haggis could stand on the side of hills comfortably and the way you would catch them is by chasing them from in front so that they'd turn around and fall over and two men would be waiting at the bottom of the hill with nets to catch them.

Claire, sister of Sarah

I used to think that the author, Steven Kellogg, who wrote children's books such as "'Pecos Bill", "Jimmy's Boa", and "Applelard and Liverwurst", was in any way related to a certain cereal company of the same name. This also lead me to believe that, maybe, if you bought one of his books, it would come with a coupon for a free box cereal.

Anon

When I was little I used to call pawns "spongey beans" beacuse I thought that they were a kind of bean.

Indy

I was ten before my parents were able to convince me that the restaurants did not, in fact, take the food that people did not finish and serve it to other patrons. Why the hell were all the old people pointing at the bread basket and saying "See? That's how they get ya! They get ya to fill up on bread so you can't finish ya meal!" What was I supposed to think they were doing with unfinished food?

Rob

When I was a kid, I associated everything with food. Toys. Books. Music. Movies. Furniture. You name it.

EVERYthing reminded me of food.

On the show "Captain Kangaroo," I always knew that the one guy's name was "Mr. Green Jeans," but it didn't matter. From the instant I first heard his name, he was "Mr. Green Beans" to me.

Oh, and you know that gentle glow of sunset on a deep green lawn?

That's green beans drenched in butter. Always has been. Always will be.

Dan

When i was a little one i refused to believe that potatoe chips were made from potatoe's. Because if this were true then i was eating a vegetable that tasted good, and that is impossible to believe as a child. I had my parents and brother's telling me on a daily basis but I still didn't believe them until i was about 11 yrs, i'm still not entirerly convinced.

meg

On the peanutbutter stood: expirationdate: see botton.

So I thought when I was 3: If you use the peanutbutter and you scratch with your knife on the bottom (so you could SEE the botton), the peanutbutter wasn't usable anymore.

Leandra

When I was little my mom told me cashews were named after Johnny cash and his shoes. I believed her for awhile and when I asked her years later she told me she had never told me that.

Anon

When I saw a fruit pie labelled "Harvest Fruit Pie", I thought that meant you were only supposed to eat it at Harvest Festival time.

Alan, Sheffield

I thought broccoli came from the tops of carrots because that's what bugs bunny's carrots looked like.

Anon

i used to believe that meat loaf was made of buffalo meat

Anon

I used to believe the girl on the Sunbeam Bread wrapper was the same one on the tv show The Beverly Hill Billies (Donna Douglas).

Charisse