I believed that since vegetables came from the ground it was my duty to wash them, so I put them in with my mums washing. She only knew when she heard them banging around!

P

When we were little my brother loved to eat pork chops because he thought they were called Port Chops and Ports were a very rare and delicious animal because he had never seen one. He didn't learn otherwise until I told him the truth when he was in his late teens. He was rather disappointed.

Prana

I used to believe that ham came from hamsters.

Paul

When I was a child, I had a fear of bagels. I thought they were stale doughnuts.

Anon

As a child I somehow became convinced that an artichoke was some sort of small furry animal, and I was, of course, completely disturbed by the jar of 'artichoke hearts' kept in our refrigerator. To this day, my family still teases me about my genuine concern for those 'poor little artichokes'.

Ellie

I used to believe that spaghetti was called "left-overs" because every time my family said we were having left-overs for dinner it was spaghetti

Anon

I used to think that mushrooms came from where the Smurfs lived and sometimes I'd wonder if anyone had ever picked up a smurf and packed it in a punnet of mushrooms by mistake and used to see if I could find one. I'd look very closely because I knew the smurfs were small!

dippingmytoes

I used to think coconuts were fruit. But one day, I was uncertain. So I walked up to my mother and asked her, "Mom, are coconuts fruits, or vegetables?" She just looked at me and said, "cocoNUTS?" I moment later I put two and two together. The sad thing is, I was 13.

Lil'Lolo

When I was little my mum told me that if I ate lots of satsumas I would get a lot more presents from Santa because satsumas are his favourite fruit.

Melanie

One summer while on a long road trip (Minnesota to Florida) with my family, my Dad bought a bunch of beef jerky as snacks. I was really bored and 14 years old, and I convinced my 6 year old sister that jerky was tree bark. My then 13 year old brother continued the joke, and my little sister spent the better part of 2 weeks trying to rip bark off of trees in florida. She stopped eventually after we (my parents included) told her that it was only certain kinds of trees that had the right bark. It took another 2 or 3 years for her to figure out the truth.

Laura

When I was little I asked my dad what the HOOTERS (the restaurant) was. He told me its where you go see the owls. I found out when I was 17 that was not the case!

Jessica

I used to believe that spagetti grew on trees... coz my mum brought plants back in a box that said spagetti on it...

Sara

i used to think that the round bails in fields that get wrapped in the white plastic were marshmellows and that they were growing there.

Anon

I used to believe that dried cylindrical hay bails in fields was where shredded wheat came from and the frosted kind happened when the cows dropped milk on them.

Anon

When I was younger, my parents would make landscapes on the dinner plates with vegetables and I believed that broccoli were actually tiny trees. When my teacher served us broccoli for lunch one day, I looked her straight in the eye and informed her that I would not eat the little trees.

Anon

That french cut green beans were riendeer food and if you ate enough of them you would be able to fly like Santa's reindeer.

Anon

I beleived that macaroni was made from 'crow knees' - they took the skin off the bird's legs and that was macaroni.

Jason

I Believed that somthing took the bread from the toaster and replaced it with toast.

Shukun

I used to tell my little sister that she had to eat the fortune in her fortune cookie in order for it to come true. That's why it's in a cookie!

Anon

My mom told me that eating meat would make me tan. I belived this for about two years. Then one day I told my friend and she laughed and said that it wasn't true. No wonder I'm so white.

SJ