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

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

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

My parents made me believe that if I ate lamb I would get the wool stuck between my teeth!! Pretty scary when you still believe this when you get older and that is your first meal at your in-laws!!!

Laurie

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

I thought that broccoli were just trees that didnt grow all the way

Anon

I used to believe that Haggis (Scottish traditional dish) was in fact a type of animal that ran wild in the Highlands!

Laura

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 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

My wife was told by her mother, that men who sold burgers and hotdogs from stands, urinated in the onions as they had no where else to go - she still won't eat a burger to this day - her arguement......where else do they go?!!!

Dazzlin

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

My dad told me that kiwi fruits were kiwi birds testicles. They are the right shape and kind of furry

jefnier

My Dad told me that you make butter by putting a cow in a spin drier. I wrote this in a school exercise and they all laughed and pinned it up on the wall,

Jackie

It is a very common belief held by many in Northern Ireland, including myself, when younger, that corned beef was made from Argentinian horses. For those of you from NI reading this. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I had to explain this to my 25 year old wife just the other day.........

Sam the (Irish) man