when I was young, I was told that Cornish Pasties were made so that you could get a whole meal into a small package that you could drop down a Cornish mineshaft. I finally realised it would break when it hit the bottom when I was nineteen.

Richard

I used to think that broccolli was baby trees, and used to hide mine and plant it, in the faint hope that it would grow.

M.C.Collinz

I used to believe that the stuffed green olives happened in this way: At the canning warehouse, women stood at their tables opposite of the red pimento. The green olives were lined up in front of the workers who coaxed with bended finger, "Come one, little pimento, crawl into this lovely olive!" whereby the obedient pimento snuggled right inside the olive and was promptly gathered into jars for packing. lol

Susie

i used to believe that broccoli were actually home to a whole civilization of teeny little people who lived in a whole complicated system of treehouses and walkways. i ate the broccoli, but not happily.

carrie l.

When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.

Karin

One day when I was about 6 or 7, I was at the grocerey store with my mom. After we had paid for the food, I read the receipt (I loved reading them, don't ask why). The food names are abreviated to save space, so instead of seeing "Swanson Chicken Pie" on the receipt, I saw "Swan Chick Pie". Naturally, being the animal lover that I am, I didn't want to eat a pie made out of baby swans! So I declared to my mom, "I'm never eating little swans, and you can't make me!" After she finally figured out what I was talking about, she burst out laughing. I'll never live that one down.

Carrie B.

when i was little, i didn't think that anything mattered in cooking except that the mix/batter/dough be the same color/texture as what you were planning on making. My mom had had a really long day and mentioned something about having to make dinner and dessert. I decided (at 7) that i would save her some work and make a cake for dessert. I took a big plastic rubbermaid container and started to fill it with flour, cocoa, chocolate syrup, mustard, baking soda, eggs, coffee, bread, jam, and anything else i could get my hands on. I mixed the whole thing up, put it in the microwave, and four minutes later....BOOM!....it exploded. Needless to say, I did not lessen my mom's workload that night. To this day i'm still finding pieces of my "cake" on the vents inside my microwave.

rebecca

When I was little, my grandmother used to be a great cook. Anytime I would eat any of her cooking, I always commented on how good it was. She always said "This is from scratch" For years, I thought "scratch" was a person. I always asked who Scratch was. When I was around 6 or 7, I finally realized that she meant scratch was another term for homemade.

Anon

when i was little i believed that leprecauns put the holes in crumpets.

Anon

I thought that "peameal bacon" was actually "female bacon" and that "Hollandaise sauce" was "Holiday sauce" 'cause you only have it on holidays.

e.

That the phrase "two peas in a pod" ment that when you became "best friends" with someone you were incased in a giant pea

Siobhaun

When I was little my sister told me you could only eat dessert with a dessert spoon (which was what we called regular spoons) so I spent 14 years eating everything else with a tea spoon except for my dessert then my boyfriend told me that was nuts

Amy

I believed till I was 8 that eggs grew on plants. It didn't help that dad used to hang his cleaned out eggshells on a plant in the garden.

Anon

My mother told me carrots would improve my eyesight, so I took that to its logical conclusion, which was of course that eating enough carrots would give me X-ray vision. My mom put a stop to that, though, since another thing I've seen on this page -- that your skin turns orange if you eat too many carrots -- is true. It happened to my older sister, and it's really more of a sickly yellow.

Brad

When the toaster would pop up my toast in the morning, my daughter used to call "Dad, your toast is here!" She told me she thought it was delivered each morning through the toaster.

mark

as a kid i thought that rasins were called "O.G's". the reasoning behind that was once i was eating rasins in front of the tv, tossing them all throughout the room when my mom came in and said out loud, "oh jeez".

stagl

When I was a little girl, my brother told me that the pieces of peel in orange marmalade were the chopped up remains of Fred and Freda - my dead goldfish! 20 years later I still won't eat orange marmalade...

KB

I used to think that tassles, for some reason, were edible, until one day at a thrift shop, my mother caught me chewing on the tassles of a used military jacket. I was scolded, and my theory was debunked.

zeitgeist

I believed that my mother invented toast.

Helen

My mother got my siblings and I to eat brocilli by saying they were "fairy trees" and thus making them special. However my elementry school was very big on teaching us the importance of saving your environment, so when I'd see huge bowls full of brocilli I'd start crying - thinking that I was aiding the deforestation in the "Fairy World" and causing their rain forests to be destroyed.

Sage