nasty food

I used to think that the yellow in store-bought eggs was really a baby chick that didn't hatch. To this day I can only eat them scrambled.

Amy

When very young I was stood looking into the window of a butchers with my mum. I pointed at some red meat (I think it was probably liver) and asked my mum what it was. She said Lamb (I don't think she knew which meat I meant). But I heard it as "man" and was convinced from then on that butchers sold human meat!

Nick West

I stopped eating yoghurt when I was a kid, after I found out it was made from milk that had gone off.

hognoxious

When I was young I used to eat worms. Reason for this was cause I thought it was spaghetti and every time I bring my new pals round my parents tell of my dreadful mistake!!!!

Clover

I wouldn't eat brown bread as a child because for some reason I thought it was dirty and therefore boys bread. I belive that came from the old saying little girls are made of surgar and spice and little boys are made of puppy dog tails and snails. Thus snails crawl on the ground I guess making them dirty

JM

my sister used to tell me that peas were caterpillar eggs and when they were coming out of the shell, she used to say they were hatching. needless to say, i didnt eat peas until i was about 12.

jenna

i would never eat biscuits with currants in because someone told me they were flies.

ahab

my dads brother told him that the top part of a boiled egg that you cut of was poisonous and wouldnt eat it for years.

ahab

I will never drink a cup of tea to the bottom, as when I was about seven my younger brother convinced me that the tea leaves were poisonous if swallowed

Anon

I used to think my mum made bread pudding with "mouldy" bread and would never eat it - until I married and made my own. Reason being, when my mum used to have mouldy bread to get rid of she would soak it in water and flush it down the toilet! When making bread pudding she used to soak the bread in milk first - I used to see the bread soaking and thought....... enough said !!

Jean

I didn't eat french fries for 10 years once because a spider fell off the ceiling, bounced off my lip and landed on my plate when I was munching on some fries. I thought the spider came out of the fries.

Pam

My brother, Myles Kidd, was really gullible as a kid. I told him that Tapioca was spawn of the Canadian bullfrog, and that the slightly pink processed cheese we ate was that colour because it had cows blood in it. As we were fed these foods regularly, mealtimes usually ended in tears. (He's still really gullible!)

Tania Bradshaw

During the African famine of 84 and 85, my mum served me up these ice cream things covered with chocolate. I would not eat them as they looked like tits and thought that the tits were cut off from dead women and shipped over here for puddings.

Helen