sweeties

When I was little.. I went to the fun fair with my father, my mother and my sister. The fun fair was funny. But I was afraid of cotton candy because I used to believe they were spider webs and was extremely afraid of spiders. Now I think it's ridiculous because cotton candy is delicious.

Anon

when i was a kid, i thought eating too much chocolate would turn you into one yourself (the billy and mandy show did NOT help with that!)

Anon

I used to believe that "unsavory" meant "sweet".

unsavory

I used to think the gemstone opal was like opal fruits and wanted to eat one.

Anon

I used to think black forest gateau really would be that colour, like blackberries, blackcurrants or black chocolate.

Natasha

There were these candies that said "Believe" on them, and I thought that they'd make you believe everything you heard or read for as long as you sucked them.

Anon

(This one isn't even from childhood, I was about 17 for this...) There's a doughnut shop I go to which sells "sour cream doughnuts" - that is, doughnuts with a little sour cream added to the batter to make it thicker. But apparently no one ever explained this to me; because at some point, after years of frequenting that doughnut shop, I had roughly this conversation with my mom:

ME: Oh no - I think they put sour cream doughnut holes in with the rest of ours!
MOM: So just don't eat them.
ME: But...they're all in the same box. Won't the sour cream rub off on the others?
MOM: ...
That's right - I'd been seeing those doughnuts in the display case and assuming that the standard white sugar glaze on them was, in fact, a light coating of sour cream. For years. I never questioned the idea that people would actually want to eat something like that - I've always been a picky eater, so I just assumed it was one of those food things I didn't "get".

Em

When I was a little girl, I used to believe a snake was born in my belly if I eaten sugar. I was scared ans I didn't want to eat sugar until I was 12 years old.

Anon

I thought that if you ate too much blueberries, you would blow up and turn into a blueberry, like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Anon

I thought Tic-Tacs were medicine until I was 11 years old.

Anon

When Me And My Sister Were Little We Believe That Kodile Bars Were Potsion.
But When We Tired Them They we Good.

Jason

i used to belive that the cotton and the cotton candy were the same things and for this reason i ate both.

tiziana

My grandma told me that the filling inside of fig rolls was mashed up flies! I wouldn't eat them anymore after that.

Bek

I remember watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as a kid, probably about 6 or 7 years old, and they said that the elephants were making people unhappy by destroying "mangroves". I had no idea what those were, so I thought they were saying "Meringue Groves", and therefore I thought that somehow meringue was harvested from African trees that elephants liked to eat.

Wil