I used to believe that duck sauce-now called in most chinese restaurants sweet and sour sauce-was made by squeezing ducks

Anon

I used to think that chips were made out of fish. I couldn't understand why we kept eating fish with chips, I mean Why eat fish with a side serving of fish?

Gita

When I was very small, one Thanksgiving, I had to go out on an emergency trip with my dad to buy a gravy boat because ours broke. I asked him what a gravy boat was and he told me it was a little boat that floats in the gravy, and when it goes bad, the boat sinks. I believed that until I was about 12 or 13.

blnkfrnk

My mum used to feed us endless amounts of marrowfat peas. Both my sister and I hated them. I used to think my stomach wouldn't eat them and that they'd pile up to the point where I'd explode and cover evryone in the vicinity with undigested marrowfat peas. To this day my Mum is convinced we liked them.

Paul N

When I was quite young my parents and grandparents would go mushroom hunting every spring. I always thought it was strange that my mother and grandmother only went mushroom hunting and not rabit or feasant hunting like my father an grandfather. I could not imagine my mother or grandmother shooting at anything. I thought it some sort of small animal you hunted and then later ate for dinner.

Tammy

My dad used to tell me ""if i ate too many eggs i would become eggbound and explode"", I later discovered he did it so he could have my wartime ration,because I believed him I always let him have my eggs.

Owen davies of salford

I use to belive that the saying you are what you eat means if you ate alot of you favorate food youd turn in to it

Gregory Honeytoast

Around the age of six I went through a phase of believeing that sausages were the amputated and cooked limbs of a particular animal, a sort of miniature elephant. This really put me off eating them, especially with tomato sauce.

frankie

When I was little my dad told me there were little squirrel like critters that ran through the woods. Whenever someone wanted some pepperoni they would go into the woods and catch these animals, and cut off their tails which were completely pepperoni. but not to worry, it didn't hurt them a bit and their tails grew back within a month.

Joy

When I was really small, about 4 years old, my mother was preparing Thanksgiving dinner. I ran through the kitchen and could see the Turkey cooking in the oven. I asked her what was in the oven and she flippantly replied, "It's Thanksgiving Elephant". I completely believed her and thought for the next several years that we ate elephant on Thanksgiving.

Charla

I used to believe there were square fish (as in fish patties). I figured that fish sticks were the square fish cut up into strips.

Funny that I didn't think cows were round, or that pigs were cylindrical. I would have said, "That's silly!"

Dan

I used to believe you could pour lemonade in a pan, put it in the oven and make lemonade cake.

wumpmugg

I guess because my mom used to say things at the dinner table such as"leave some room" for dessert or whatever, and because we learned about the "different food groups", I thought that my stomach was like a little house with different shaped rooms for the different foods. There was a round room or compartment for the scoop of ice cream.

Stace

When I was little I was eating an apple when my mother asked if I had washed it, I replied no and she went completely nuts yelling DON'T YOU KNOW THE WASH APPLES WITH INSECT POO! For years afterwards I was fanatic about washing fruit. When i was 18 I was telling my boyfriend off for not washing his apple because of the insect poo polishing on the outside, everyone laughed at my stupidity. When I yelled at mum later she denied all knowledge of ever saying they used insect poo as polish!!!

melissa

My dad always used to tell me that the bubbles in pop came from bugs in the bottom of the bottles that were trapped in there at the factory. He also used to say that anchovies(on a pizza) were monkey brains.

Dawn

We used to get a famous brand of butter with picture of a cow on the front, and i used to think the butter was actually made of cows, and would askfor "cow butter" on my sandwiches

Kim

I used to think that when commercials said "Made from scratch" that the food was made from leftover scraps on other people's plates.

Anon

me and my lifelong friend alisha both have older siblings the same age, my sister,and her brother. well anyway,when we were little me and alisha were playing together,when our older siblings came up and told us they knew how to make ice. we were awe-struck and totally amazed that they had aqquired such talent to make ice and we demanded to know the recipe

Anon

Once when I was younger I thought that a mistake was some kind of meat like a porterhouse or a t- bone, so when my parents would say that they made a mistake I thought dinner would be ready soon.

Jonesie

when I was younger my mum told me that tagliatelle came out of italian mens noses, they sat in the corner of a room pulled snot outta their noses and hung on a washing line to dry!! I beleived this 'til high school! The worst thing is i still ate the tagliatelle!

britney