nasty food

i used to believe that peas were toes

DJ

i used to think that they killed people and took out their liver to make liver!

Sarah

Just to be cruel, my brother told me that Rice Crispies where dried moth eggs/larva. I didn't eat Rice Crispies for several years.

Sony full of Bologna

I used to believe that tapioca pudding was made from fish eggs. I ate it anyways, even though I hate fish! (Yeah, I'm weird!)

Mojo!

When I was younger my older brother convinced me that cornflakes were made of elephants, which caused me to avoid them like the plague for all of three days, during which time I confined myself to weetabix.

Anon

I used to believe my brother! I used to LOVE lemon meriguine pie, but one day my brother asked me to tell him what it was made out of. I told him lemons and sugar, but he corrected me by saying it was made from vaseline! I still can't eat lemon meriguine pie today!

betsy

I used to believe that chicken skin was actually an edible coating of some kind, like plastic. Imagine my horror when I found out that chicken skin actually was the skin from a chicken.

Moxielu

I was always a picky eater so my diet pretty much consisted on the same contents. Well, my mother used to cook me Mrs. Grass soup in which little green vegetables were cut up in. After studying the soup, I came to the conclusion that those bits of whatever it was floating around in there were dead flies. It took only a few stubborn refusals that my mom asked me what my reasoning was to not eat the soup she had taken the time to fix so I finally confessed that I knew that a small collection of deceased insects were laid to rest in my soup. Needless to say, she had quite the chuckle.

Chassady

My Dad used to call Soya Sauce "Crow's Blood" I believed him for soooooo long. I think until I was like 11. Yikes.

~M

My older brother told me that the reason apple butter is brown is because the farmers who make it spit their tobacco juice in it while it is cooking. I wouldn't eat apple butter for years afterward.

Ross

My boyfriend's 8 year old nephew refused to eat monkey bread, because he "would never eat anything that had monkey's in it!"

lindy

when i was little in about 2nd or 3rd grade,
my friend told me that jelly was little purple slugs and then i wouldn't eat jelly for 3 weeks until i asked my other friend (she was older by about a year) if it was true ,she said it was the dumbest thing she ever heard!

Anon

One time, my dad said that he ate a wrap, as in the kind of sandwich, but my sister thought he said he ate a rat!

Anon

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

Food:

My family used to (and still do, if truth be told) call Garibaldi biscuits 'Dead Fly Biscuits' Like a little fool, I thought they really did contain dead flies - tasty though!

James Thorpe

My sister told me that green smarties (chocolate candies) would turn me into a nerd. I finally realized she just wanted candy.

Maya

i used to believe that the smurfs lived in ordinary mushrooms and i would never eat them!!!

eimear

i used to believe that eggs were unhatched dinosaurs, and that if you eat them they could grow inside you.

Nevaeh

I used to believe that the rice in Tapioca pudding was fish eyes. To this day I cannot eat Tapioca pudding.

Stephanie

My friend next door told me that bologna was made from dog's tongues!
I could never eat another bologna sandwich and my mom could not understand why.

steve j.