nasty food

I believed that hot dogs never left your body. My theory was that they waited around until the next time you barfed, then they came out.

Jm Glass

My grandfather told my mother and her 8 siblings that Soy Sauce was pigeon blood. It wasn't until my mom got married to my dad when she was 25 that she learned the truth.

kat

My friend (he's in his mid twenties and is currently writing his thesis for his PhD) told us that tortilla chips contain sand. After checking a pack of Doritos he changed it to "all tortila chips apart from Doritos contain sand."

A few weeks ago he told me this amazing fact again, but it had changed to "all Mexican food contains sand".

Anon

My mum told me that crackers were made out of bad little boys and girls.. and that the darker crackers were made out of black children.

Chris

My brother (who, believe it or not is now a priest) told me that the tapioca in tapioca pudding was fish eyes! To this day, I still can't eat tapioca pudding because of that!

Michelle

When my brother was little, he would refuse to eat oatmeal. Then my mom told him it was gruel - you know, what Oliver Twist eats and asks for more - and then he never refused it again, even after he found it it wasn't gruel!

Jen B

As a kid I used to love 'Sweetbreads'. It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I found out they were actually Lambs Testicles!!!

Dave

My Mum told me that Parsnips where the same as Bananas . Once they're peeled sliced and boiled/steamed they do look a bit like bananas ( Honest!!) except that they taste crap!

Dave

My mum always used to say that Cod's Roe was made from the "Willies" of little boys who kept playing with them.

Dave

my Grandpa told us that pine cones tassted like ice cream cones. I didn't beleive him, but my cousin took a big bite of one! And promptly spit it back out!

sammich

When I was 5 my brother told me rice was made from Spiders eggs!

M

I used to wonder why grown-ups like to eat food that is nasty. I never saw liver and onions served at any birthday party I went to.

Klayne P.

Someone told me that the red icing on 'Party Rings' was made from beetle's blood....I ate them anyway.

Luce

When looking after me and my sisters for the afternoon, my uncle told my little sister that the sultanas in the teacakes he had toasted for us were burnt bits. To this day she won't eat anything with currants, raisins or sultanas in it, and she's 24 now!

Kazzer

A baby-sitter once told me that peanutbutter really was baby-shit. I never ate peanutbutter again.

Michiel

My brother told me that the jelly in pork pies/tinned meat was made from cow spit. To this day I still gag when I think about eating the stuff.

Mystery Bob

My Grandfather told me that oysters were in fact old fisherman's spit. What it was that when they were fishing they use to spit over the side of their boat, it sank to the bottom and fell into shells. I didn't like them until I was about 18 years old.

mat

One of the dinner ladies at our school had the tips of her fingers missing and were therefore deformed. Rumour had it that school dinner sausages were 'Fingerella's' fingers. Also we wouldn't eat the tinned tomatoes as we thought they were peeled testicles.

Mombydomps